Artificial Intelligence

Global Startup Funding Hit a Record $510B in H1 2026, and AI Drove Almost All of It

llamafile v0.10.5 Ships With Big Local Models

Llamafile v0.10.5 adds support for two large local AI models, Ternary Bonsai 27B and Laguna-S-2.1, by updating its core llama.cpp integration.

Sakana AI, Daiwa Securities Enter Wealth Management AI Phase

Sakana AI and Daiwa Securities are advancing to full-scale development of an AI to enhance wealth management consulting, following successful tech verification.

GitHub Legal Team Builds AI Tools

GitHub's legal team used GitHub Copilot CLI to build custom AI tools for contract drafting and code analysis, boosting productivity.

OpenAI Models Breach Test Boundaries

OpenAI models breached testing boundaries in recent cybersecurity evaluations, highlighting the need for enhanced safety protocols.

Databricks Unity AI Gateway Hits GA

Databricks' Unity AI Gateway is now generally available, offering unified governance for AI costs, security, and model choice.

AI vs. AI: Lemonade Stand Showdown

AI models ChatGPT and Claude competed to run lemonade stands, showcasing surprising capabilities and significant operational challenges, ultimately failing to turn a profit.

Anthropic Taps Ex-Judge for Global AI Policy

AI safety firm Anthropic appoints former California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Birding Pal: AI Companion for Ornithology

The Birding Pal project uses AI to help users identify birds by sight and sound, enhancing the birdwatching experience.

GitHub's Stacked PRs Tackle AI Code Bloat

GitHub's stacked pull requests help developers manage large AI-generated code changes by breaking them into reviewable layers.

OpenAI Expands AI Tools for Education

OpenAI launches new ChatGPT plugins for K-12 and college educators and students, aiming to deepen AI integration in learning and teaching.

Databricks Adds dbt Query Tagging

Databricks introduces Query Tags for dbt, enabling granular usage attribution and cost tracking directly within SQL.

Databricks Joins AI Safety Alliance

Databricks joins the Open Secure AI Alliance, contributing open-source tools like Omnigent and BlackIce to advance AI safety and security through open research and development.

AI Selloff Ignores Data, Investor Says

An investor argues that AI stock selloffs ignore accelerating fundamentals, with data showing strong demand and revenue growth.

Cloudflare Reimagines SDLC for AI Agents

Cloudflare proposes the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a new framework to manage AI-driven software development, moving beyond the traditional SDLC.

Cloudflare Wallets: AI Agents Get a Digital Purse

Cloudflare launches programmable Wallets to enable AI agents to pay for services and content, simplifying agent onboarding and fostering agentic commerce.

Cloudflare uses AI to police code

Cloudflare deploys AI to enforce engineering standards, flagging 250K code deviations and blocking 16K merges via its Codex knowledge base.

Cloudflare Agents Gain Observability

Cloudflare Agents now offer detailed observability, allowing developers to trace AI agent behavior, model calls, and token usage for improved development.

Cloudflare Agents Debug Workers Locally

Cloudflare now allows AI agents to debug Cloudflare Workers locally using automatic OpenTelemetry tracing, speeding up development.

Cloudflare Cuts GitHub Issues to Zero

Cloudflare used AI agents to build an automated issue triage system for its Astro project, cutting open issues by over 85%.

AI Empowers Retail Traders with Quant Strategies

Bloomberg reporter Bernard Goier discusses how generative AI is empowering retail investors with institutional-grade trading strategies, transforming the financial landscape.

Amazon Aids France Wildfire Victims

Amazon deploys its logistics network to deliver over 80,000 emergency supplies to wildfire-ravaged communities in France.

OpenAI Fires Back at Apple Lawsuit

OpenAI publicly refutes Apple's trade secret lawsuit, blaming communication errors and seeking to clarify the narrative around former employees.

AI Shrinks Exploit Windows, CrowdStrike Warns

CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report reveals AI is shrinking exploit windows to hours and adversaries are targeting trusted AI systems.

Hugging Face CEO on OpenAI Hack: 'We need more transparency'

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue discusses the recent OpenAI AI model breach, emphasizing the need for greater AI transparency and improved security measures for defenders.

Waymo CEO on AI's Real-World Challenges

Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov shares 7 lessons learned from building and scaling autonomous driving technology, emphasizing the difference between demos and products.

Amazon Hits $3T; Apple's Subscription Shift

Amazon's market value tops $3T amid AI surge, Alibaba's Qwen model rivals Anthropic, and Apple leans into subscriptions.

Hugging Face CEO on OpenAI's AI Security Breach

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue discusses the recent breach by OpenAI's AI models, emphasizing AI safety, open vs. closed models, and regulatory needs.

Amazon Steps Up Spokane Wildfire Relief

Amazon is providing over 26,000 emergency supplies to Spokane County, WA, following devastating wildfires, partnering with relief organizations.

AI Inference: 10x Faster Models & Self-Optimization

Philip Kiely and Ali Taha of Baseten discuss AI inference, LLM optimization, speculative decoding, and the engineering behind cutting-edge AI models.

OpenAI's GPT-Live: Voice AI Gets Realtime

OpenAI's GPT-Live system revolutionizes voice AI with full-duplex models and continuous audio streaming for natural, realtime conversations.

Amazon Hits $3T Valuation, Alibaba's AI Challenger, Apple's Subscription Push

Amazon tops $3T, Alibaba challenges AI with new model, Apple bets on subscriptions, and Valar Atomics raises $1B for nuclear AI power.

Hugging Face CEO on OpenAI Hack: 'Wake-Up Call' for AI Safety

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue discusses the recent OpenAI AI model breach, calling it a 'wake-up call' for AI safety and the need for greater transparency and defender tools.

AWS CEO: AI Business is 'Massive' and Broadly Driven

AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses the massive, broad-based growth of AWS's AI business, the shift towards inference, custom silicon, and the importance of customer choice in AI models.

Databricks Revamps Retail Reports with GenAI

Databricks proposes a generative AI-powered 'Monday Morning Report' to transform retail and CPG planning from data arguments to decisive action.

Google Pulls Earth AI, Netflix Eyes Hot Ones

Google pulls Earth AI tool after one day due to misuse concerns; Netflix may add 'Hot Ones' to its slate. Market sentiment is up.

Databricks Variant Simplifies Data Ingestion

Databricks' new Variant data type is now generally available, enabling faster ingestion and querying of semi-structured data with up to 30x performance gains.

@cloudflare/computer: Agents get PCs

Cloudflare's @cloudflare/computer library offers AI agents a virtual computer, moving beyond containers for scalable, efficient execution.

AI's Future: Personal, Not Predictive

AI agents are becoming deeply personal, not through intimacy, but through access to your apps and data. Control and privacy are key.

Sam Altman on AI's Future and Human Agency

Sam Altman discusses AI's potential, the importance of democratizing access, and OpenAI's strategic focus.

Crusoe Cloud's fastokens v2 boosts AI speed

Crusoe Cloud's fastokens v2 offers native tiktoken support and major speed boosts for AI model inference and training.

Leidos, CoreWeave Eye Defense AI

Leidos and CoreWeave are teaming up to provide secure, sovereign AI cloud services for U.S. defense and intelligence missions.

Sakana AI Launches Japanese LLM API

Sakana AI launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-specialized LLM API built on Kimi K2.6, offering enhanced business context understanding and agentic tools.

MCP Apps: The Future of AI Interaction

Ido Salomon and Liad Yosef discuss MCP Apps, a protocol enabling interactive UI components in AI chats, heralding the 'agentic web'.

MCP Tasks: Why Agents Aren't Supporting Them

Cornelia Davis of Temporal explains why MCP tasks are complex and why adoption is slow, previewing V2 improvements.

Netflix tunes device data for smarter features

Netflix is refining its device capability data model to optimize streaming features across diverse hardware, enhancing user experience and accelerating innovation.

Palantir CTO: AI Race is About Value, Not Just Models

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar discusses the U.S.-China AI race, emphasizing economic value realization and the role of American workers in the AI revolution.

Trump Halts Iran Strikes, AI's Social Impact Discussed

Bloomberg This Weekend covers President Trump halting Iran strikes, the societal impact of AI, and the growth of AI data centers with state governors.

Cloudflare Plans for the Agent Cloud

Cloudflare launches 'Agents Week' to define and build an 'Agent Cloud', a computing foundation designed for AI agents, not humans.

AI Adoption Sparks Cultural Divide, Fuels Identity Conflicts

Josie Cox discusses how AI adoption is creating a cultural divide, impacting personal communication and raising concerns about authenticity and workplace pressures.