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09:19 PM
How a Scalable Intelligence Layer Turns Enterprise Data Into Production a

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graph delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI model into reliable production systems.

Source:SiliconANGLE
09:16 PM
Discover What's Next for AI, From the SaaS Reckoning to the Agent Security Gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Source:TechCrunch AI
09:08 PM
CommonThread AI Targets Connected, Trusted Data as the Foundation for Enterprise AI

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence.

Source:SiliconANGLE
09:07 PM
Thinking Machines Co-founder Lilian Weng Left the Company Citing Health Reasons, Then Joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

Source:TechCrunch AI
09:00 PM
GlobalFoundries to Receive $300M in Federal Funding for Silicon Photonics Research

The U.S. government will provide GlobalFoundries with $300 million in funding to support its silicon photonics research. The U.S. Commerce Department committed to providing the capital in a letter of intent that was announced today.

Source:SiliconANGLE
08:40 PM
At Waymo, an AI Project Isn't Ready Until Its Evals Are - Not When the Model Performs Well

Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo , the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google.

Source:VentureBeat
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07:44 PM
The Hugging Face AI Break-in, as Told Through an Increasingly Committed Bear Metaphor

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite.

Source:TechCrunch AI
07:33 PM
Comcast Store Punished Low Sales by Smashing Pies in Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims

Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.

Source:Ars Technica
06:45 PM
Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked with Running a Vending Machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

Source:TechCrunch AI+1 more
06:30 PM
It's Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Source:Wired
06:08 PM
Google Begins Global Rollout of Age Verification API in Google Play

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

Source:Ars Technica
05:58 PM
Elon Musk's XAI Is Trying to Sue Its Way Out of a Grok Reckoning

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

Source:Ars Technica
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05:32 PM
Nimble Claims Its New, Domain-specialized Web Search Agents Cut Token Costs in Half While Boosting Retrieval Accuracy

Nimble , a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI.

Source:VentureBeat
05:24 PM
Actually, Starliner Might Fly Into Space This Year

"We're feeling pretty good about that," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.

Source:Ars Technica
05:20 PM
Pangram Labs Raises $9M to Launch More Accurate AI Detection for Text and Images

Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised $9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text detection and expand into other media, starting with images.

Source:SiliconANGLE
04:53 PM
HPE Advances Its Self-driving Networking Strategy for the AI Era

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making networking central to its AI infrastructure strategy, with a vision for self-driving networks that can anticipate problems, automate operations and reduce the complexity facing enterprise IT teams.

Source:SiliconANGLE
04:23 PM
Target SVP Says Its Real AI Moat Isn't the Models - It's Everything Built Around Them

Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney says the AI model her company runs aren't what gives Target its edge - everything built around them is.

Source:VentureBeat
04:20 PM
Authenticate with Private Key JWT Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

This post explains how Private Key JWT client authentication works in AgentCore Identity and reviews the supported grant flows.

Source:AWS ML Blog
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04:02 PM
'If This Isn't Addiction, I Don't Know What Is': Light's Founders Get Real About Screen Time

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering.

Source:TechCrunch Startups
04:00 PM
Why AI Factories Need Proof Before Production

A production AI factory is a lifecycle, not a handoff. Part one: how NVIDIA and CoreWeave co-design an integrated and optimized tech stack and validate it before customers deploy.

Source:CoreWeave
03:52 PM
Anthropic Is Finding Bugs Faster Than Microsoft Can Fix Them

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

Source:Ars Technica
03:35 PM
Hint, a New AI Startup Co-founded by Martha Stewart, Offers an AI Assistant for Homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an "AI for your home," combining property records, maintenance schedules, home.

Source:TechCrunch AI
03:34 PM
Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous, cross-system business intelligence through configuration rather than custom code.

Source:AWS ML Blog
02:41 PM
Encore AI Raises $30M to Build AI Agents That Learn From Customer Calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agent.

Source:TechCrunch AI
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02:00 PM
'No One's Making a Phone Like This': Light's Co-founders on Building for the Anti-smartphone Generation

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering.

Source:TechCrunch Startups
01:47 PM
X Says Australia's Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering with Foreign Law

Elon Musk's platform attacked the country's "invasive" information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children.

Source:Wired
01:30 PM
Optical Interconnect Startup Eliyan Raises $145M in Funding to Solve the AI Chip Cluster Connectivity Crunch

Silicon Valley-based chip interconnect startup Eliyan Corp.'s valuation has increased to $1 billion after it closed on a $145 million Series C funding round today. Seligman Ventures led the round, with Cisco Ventures and Lumentum also backing the newly minted unicorn.

Source:SiliconANGLE
01:23 PM
What Happens When You Put AI to Work Deciphering Lost Languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

Source:Ars Technica
01:00 PM
Sweet Security Debuts Agentic AI Blocking to Stop Rogue Agents in Real Time

Israeli runtime security startup Sweet Security Ltd. today unveiled Agentic AI Blocking, a capability that stops artificial intelligence agents mid-action in production when they do something they were not built to do.

Source:SiliconANGLE
01:00 PM
Nimble Launches Web Search Agents to Cut AI Research Token Costs

Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer's domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too blunt for production agents.

Source:SiliconANGLE
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01:00 PM
SnapLogic Transforms SnapGPT Into a High-powered Agentic Assistant for the Entire Integration Lifecycle

Enterprise data integration and automation firm SnapLogic Inc. today announced a significant update to SnapGPT, the company's artificial intelligence copilot for enterprise data automation, transforming it into an agentic assistant.

Source:SiliconANGLE
01:00 PM
Bright Machines Says Its New Hybrid Robot Cell Could Help Solve a Major AI Infrastructure Bottleneck

Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being.

Source:VentureBeat
12:52 PM
Graphs Move From Niche Database to Enterprise Knowledge Layer for AI Systems

As generative AI matures beyond its early experimentation phase, enterprises are converging on a shared architecture for grounding large language models in trustworthy data: the enterprise knowledge layer.

Source:SiliconANGLE
12:10 PM
The Download: a Chip Talent Battle, and Deflating AI Hype

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Samsung's chip.

Source:MIT Tech Review
11:00 AM
Google's SynthID Watermark Is Hard to Break, but It Doesn't Solve AI Misinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

Source:Ars Technica
11:00 AM
The Sweet Science: Why the AI Era Belongs to Middleweights

The biggest long-term gains from AI will not flow to heavyweight incumbents or many AI-native startups but to scrappy middle-market technology companies, the.

Source:Crunchbase News
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11:00 AM
Mac Mini Availability: Long Waits and Higher Prices

Thanks to the surge in local AI processing and the ongoing memory shortage, it's incredibly difficult to buy a Mac Mini.

Source:Wired
11:00 AM
Your Kubernetes Health Checks Are Accidentally Waking Your Services. Here's the Fix.

Scale-to-zero breaks when health checks scale you back up. Learn how KubeElasti's ProbeResponse lets Kubernetes services stay genuinely idle - while keeping load balancers and uptime monitors happy. Scale-to-zero sounds perfect on paper. Idle service.

Source:CNCF Blog
11:00 AM
As AI Content Floods the Internet, Pangram Raises $9M to Detect It

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software.

Source:TechCrunch AI
10:30 AM
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI 'Literary Counterculture'

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

Source:Wired