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OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser said the AI company's agreement on Tuesday to make its models available on Amazon had nothing to do with an announcement a day earlier that the startup had restructured its relationship with Microsoft for a second time in six months. "The two a

Artificial Intelligence Organizing Agents’ memory at scale: Namespace design patterns in AgentCore Memory When building AI agents, developers struggle with organizing memory across sessions, which leads to irrelevant context retrieval and security vulnerabilities. AI agents that

Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can exp

Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder for the FCC to take away a broadcast license, even when it’s up for

PayPal CEO Enrique Lores has this week told managers that he is reorganizing the firm's reporting lines to separate Venmo, the popular mobile payments app, from the company's other operations, CNBC has learned exclusively. Venmo will soon be its own standalone segment within PayP

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user

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Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connection

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, and T

Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, w

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI — and from before the AI lab even

Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and doesn’t have commercials. In an announcement today,

In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch attempt to give himself a MAGA makeover that the Trump administra

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options. The Fedora Project is the community-

Canonical’s plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for “a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features,” while others say they’ll stick with older versions of the Linux distro or even switch to a different one. After Canonical’s announcement earlier thi

A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to rethink a trillion-dollar plan to bui

Elea Founder: Brazil Expansion to Accelerate After I Squared Deal The acquisition of Elea Data Centers by I Squared Capital will fuel the Brazilian digital infrastructure operator’s expansion plans, according to the company’s founder. Investment firm I Squared Capital announced y

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to p

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI cha

Motorola is crazy about foldables. With each passing year, the company has beefed up its folding phone lineup, and in 2026, there will be four devices launching on May 21. At the top end is the company’s first tablet-style foldable, the Razr Fold. Below that, Motorola will again

Meta's multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure — the industry signals a shift to Agentic inference workloads, pushing demand Supply chains can’t keep up. Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Servi

Google Photos on Wednesday announced a new AI-powered feature that will soon turn photos of your clothes into a digital closet where you can create new outfit ideas, and even virtually try on your creations. Yes, the idea takes obvious inspiration from Cher’s iconic virtual wardr

Uber is breaking into the travel industry. The company on Wednesday announced several new products at its annual Go-Get event in New York as it looks to attract more users to its platform and push to differentiate beyond its mainstay ride-hailing business. Rather than focusing on

The next wave of enterprise productivity is being built on AI factories. As organizations deploy agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, automation, and real-time decision-making at scale, competitive advantage increasingly depends on the infrastructure that supports them. Succe

Google announced on Wednesday a new wave of AI-powered features coming to Google TV, alongside a dedicated short-form video feed that brings YouTube Shorts directly to the home screen. At the center of this update are more Gemini capabilities. Within the Gemini tab, a “Create” bu

Ferveret CEO on Cooling, Power Pains, and ‘Waterless’ Compute Gains Ferveret says fanless, waterless cooling can unlock more compute from fixed power, but deployments remain in pilot stage. Cooling has emerged as one of the defining challenges of the AI infrastructure buildout, a

Mike Vichich grew up in Michigan. His family, he recalls, dedicated their lives to public service. His parents were teachers, his uncle was in the FBI, while both sets of grandparents served in the Army. “Growing up, public service was always a really admirable way to spend one’s

Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for just $249 — act fast and don't miss Woot's blowout sale Use code TWENTYOFFPC for an extra $20 off the $269 list price Update - April 29 - 12:22 ET: This deal is now showing sold out at Woot.com - but it has come back into stock on one oc

NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment

Whether you’re a gamer trying to play recent AAA titles at high resolutions and maxed-out settings or an AI enthusiast trying to run models locally, we’ve reached the point where a GPU with 8GB of video memory is a pretty limiting bottleneck. But because of ongoing memory shortag

OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term It seems that building and owning its own infrastructure is too expensive for OpenAI. In early 2025, Ope

Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual “wardrobe,” allowing you to mix and match outfits, save the looks you like, and share them with friends. Go

UKG unlocks real-time workforce intelligence at scale with the Agentic Data Cloud Radhi Chagarlamudi Group Vice President, Product Engineering, UKG Heather White Cloud Data Architect, Google Cloud At UKG, we’ve spent years building and expanding our human capital management (HCM)

The founder’s AI foundation: The top announcements for startups from Next ‘26 Darren Mowry VP, Global Startups and Investor Ecosystem, Google The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragment