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Scality and OVHcloud have expanded their technology partnership with a joint storage platform aimed at organizations requiring sovereign infrastructure for AI and mission-critical data. The combined solution is designed to keep sensitive data under customer control while supporti

Google’s NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. Google’s Noteb

For fusion startups, the hard part is over: Thanks to a groundbreaking experiment in 2022, we know that controlled nuclear fusion reactions can generate more power than they consume. But now companies need to prove their reactors can make enough electricity to be profitable. One

Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the newest version of its in-house AI video and image generator. This version is significantly faster and more affordable than its previous release, the company claims. The model has much lower latency and can produce images in four

The Department of Justice and 17 state attorneys general reached a $3.3 million settlement with three of the nation's largest egg producers for alleged price manipulation that "artificially increased" egg prices for consumers and retailers, federal and state officials said Monday

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced it is investing $1 billion in a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will help its customers build and roll out artificial intelligence systems. A forward deployed engineer, or an FDE, is an employee who is embedded directly within a

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced it is investing $1 billion in a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will help its customers build and roll out artificial intelligence systems. A forward deployed engineer, or an FDE, is an employee who is embedded directly within a

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Sonnet model Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5 is the fir

There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the G

Clicks Technology, a startup that’s preparing to launch its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, is showing off what it has in store in a new video, released today. The device, known as the Clicks Communicator, was introduced at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stacked another federal advisory panel with allies, advancing his efforts to force the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its stance on a dozen popular but unproven injectable peptide drugs. While FDA scientists determi

Off the Wire Press Releases June 30, 2026 — Hypersonic flight exposes materials to brutal conditions. Once a vehicle is screaming through the atmosphere above Mach 5, it’s wrapped in a sheath of superheated gas that can reach temperatures hot enough to melt many metals and chemic

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the right to citizenship for people born in the United States, rejecting an executive order by President Donald Trump that sought to undo that long-standing constitutional principle for children born to many immigrants. "Children born in the Un

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for its product: full systems powered by those chips. Etched is currently in

American Airlines is planning to open a new grab-and-go lounge at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport by the end of this year, its first new facility at the airport in more than four years as it continues its fight for high-paying customers to close a profit gap with

As shipping agentic capabilities becomes table stakes among foundation model companies, Anthropic is releasing Claude Sonnet 5, a more powerful and agentic version of the lab’s midsize model. “It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a lev

Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone Vasiya Krishnan Product Lead Jiaxun Wu Senior Engineering Manager Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving u

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A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can also take actions on your beh

Off the Wire Press Releases SHENZHEN, China, June 30, 2026 — SpinQ, a leading quantum computing company in China, has completed a RMB 1 billion (~US$147 million) Series D financing round, bringing its total funding raised over the past six months to RMB 2 billion. The round was b

GPU-accelerated query engines are often constrained by memory and I/O bandwidth. NVIDIA hardware advances—including high bandwidth memory (HBM), NVIDIA NVLink-C2C, and dedicated decompression engines featured in NVIDIA GB200 NVL4—help remove these bottlenecks by increasing effect

China’s crackdown on offshore securities trading hit one of the biggest US trading firms to the tune of $70 million — and shows that (alleged) insider trading hasn’t moved entirely to prediction markets. Susquehanna Investment Group sued 100 unnamed defendants who it says placed

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka’s The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not som

Liz’s view “Content is king,” Sumner Redstone said as technological shifts upended the media industry in the 1980s. That was the principle ho-hum distributors followed as they joined up with the creative engines of their industries, hoping to capture their glitz, IP, and stock-pr

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, microservices and domain-specific tools — to help researchers run more sophisticated

Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, sparing them the hassle of bouncing between databases, pipelines, and tools. To be clear, Anthropic says Claude Science is “not a new AI model and n

Meta’s Threads is adding new capabilities to its recently launched Live Chats feature while expanding access to more users, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates include support for translations, new tools for chat hosts, and more. With support for translations, conversat

President Donald Trump’s plan to “fill the digital potholes” and use AI to quickly redesign every government website isn’t going very well. Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the pre

The Trump administration's crackdown on Anthropic's leading artificial intelligence models is looking like a gift to the country's top adversary in the AI race: China After a two-week shutdown due to an export control directive, Anthropic was allowed by the White House on Friday

AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks Zen 6LP incoming? AMD has submitted Linux kernel patches including support for its new low-power CPU cores that will likely emerge in its

Artificial Intelligence Build generative UI for AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the AG-UI protocol AI agents can do more than chat. With the right protocol, an agent can render an interactive chart inline in your conversation, update a shared canvas in real time, or pa

Artificial Intelligence Simplify multi-account access to Amazon Bedrock models with managed entitlements Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates a dilemma. Either you grant AWS Marketplace permissions broadly, risking governance issues, or you m

Microsoft's flagship Windows PC lineup will drop reportedly drop budget options — firm prunes Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go No plans for refreshes of aging, out of stock devices. Microsoft is further shrinking its Surface lineup of flagship Windows devices. According to a repo

Artificial Intelligence Implementing resilience patterns with Amazon Bedrock and LLM gateway Implementing resilience patterns for large language model (LLM) inference is critical as generative AI workloads move from experimentation to production at scale. With LLM powered apps no

Artificial Intelligence How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects This post was co-written with Tim Chauncey and Dheeraj Bhadani of Outpost VFX. AI model training for visual effects (VFX) can take weeks, creating bottlenecks in production timelin

Artificial Intelligence Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock IBS Software’s Cargo system processes thousands of bilingual cargo logistics email messages daily. The system extracts critical information such as air waybill (AWB) numbers, flight details, we