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AMD Announces Production Ramp of Next-Generation AMD EPYC Processor “Venice” on TSMC 2nm Process Technology
News Summary: AMD has begun production ramp of its 6th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” marking a major milestone for the AMD and TSMC collaboration on 2nm technology“Venice” is the first HPC product in the industry to achieve production ramp on TSMC advanced 2nm technologyCritical milestone achieved as agentic AI workloads drive demand for accelerated AI infrastructure deploymentsAMD continues to drive 2nm product expansion with “Verano” a follow on to “Venice” with industry leading inte
AMD Announces More Than $10 Billion in Taiwan Ecosystem Investments to Accelerate AI Infrastructure
Nike Taps Google AI To Test New Path For Margin Recovery
Models & Gen AI
Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia
The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+
Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store for enterprise builders around the globe: today, the firm co-founded by former Googler and "Attention Is All You Need" co-author Aidan Gomez unveiled Command A+, a highly optimized, 218-billion-parameter language model engineered specifically for complex reasoning, multimodal document processing, and agentic workflows. The most significant aspect of the release is not just the model’s capabilities; it is its accessibility. By releasing the model weights free on the popular AI code sharing repository Hugging Face under a highly permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license — a first for the company, according to a post by Gomez, now Cohere's CEO, on X — Cohere is making a calculated bet on "sovereign AI"—the thesis that enterprises, governments, and developers should have the ability to run, control, and adapt frontier-grade AI entirely within their own se
Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ‘AI-native bank’ Catena Labs
Sean Neville’s startup aims to build banking tools especially designed for AI agents.
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he's joining Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla's AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 that he's joining rival lab Anthropic. As Karpathy posted from his account on the social network X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." Anthropic's current Head of Pretraining, Nicholas Joseph, also a former OpenAI alumnus, added more context to Karpathy's new role at Anthropic in a post of his own on X, writing: "Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together!" An Anthropic spokespe
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash follows Anthropic and OpenAI in making newer AI models significantly pricier
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is a big step up from its predecessor, but in benchmark testing, it costs 5.5 times as much to run. On agent tasks, total costs even exceed the pricier Gemini 3.1 Pro by 75 percent because the model needs more interaction steps than any rival tested. Google isn't alone here: AI is getting more expensive across the board as the massive investments need to pay off. The article Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash follows Anthropic and OpenAI in making newer AI models significantly pricier appeared first on The Decoder.
Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework
Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line into an issue body, an email, or […] The post Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework appeared first on Microsoft Agent Framework.
Google’s new AI agent can draft your emails, monitor your inbox and eventually spend your money
Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to work around the clock — drafting emails, assembling documents, monitoring inboxes, and eventually making purchases — even when a user's laptop is closed and their phone is locked. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026, is the company's most ambitious attempt yet to transform its AI assistant from a tool that answers questions into one that autonomously completes tasks. It also arrives at a moment of extraordinary competition, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Apple all race to build AI systems that don't merely converse but act — completing multi-step workflows with decreasing human supervision. "We are in that part of the cycle where people want to see real value in the products they use on a day-to-day basis," Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said during a press briefing ahead of the keynote address. With Spark, he argued, that value comes from an agent that never stops working. It operates arou
Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni
Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage at I/O 2026. | Screenshot: YouTube Google's I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura smart glasses. If you weren't able to tune into the event's livestream today or follow along with our live blog, you can catch up on everything you missed in our roundup below. Gemini 3.5 Google launched updated AI models at I/O, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash, with Gemini 3.5 Pro following next month. Starting today, Gemini 3.5 Flash will be the default model for the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Google says the new model is significantly … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google Pics is a new app that tries to fix AI image editing
Google is launching a new AI image generation app to Workspace that it's calling Pics, and it has a new feature to try and reduce the hassle of iterating on AI images: Instead of having to write an entire prompt just to change one small aspect of an image, you'll be able to click on what you want to change and leave a note about what you want to see, almost like leaving a comment in a Google Doc. Pics is powered by a mix of Gemini and Google's Nano Banana 2 image model. In a demo shown to reporters, a Google employee working on an invite for a child's birthday party wanted to tweak individual parts of the invite. She clicked on an image of … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever
Google Search is entering the next phase of its AI evolution. During Google I/O 2026, the company showed off a reimagined search box that makes it easier to flow between AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results, and AI Mode, Google's chatbot-like search experience. Powered by the new Gemini 3.5 Flash model, Google's updated search box expands for longer queries, while offering a new AI-powered autocomplete feature to build on your question. Robby Stein, Google's vice president of product for Search, told The Verge you'll "reliably" see AI Overviews if you ask a natural-language question. Asking follo … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.
Nvidia releases highly anticipated quarterly results
The company’s earnings are a key measure of the AI boom. Clare Duffy breaks down the numbers.
NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead
NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running directly on a computer, NanoClaw runs sandboxed in a container.
Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs
Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed
Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.
Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3.0 with up to six-minute tracks and open weights
Stability AI has unveiled Stable Audio 3.0, a new generation of audio models - three of which ship with open weights. The models generate music tracks up to six minutes long and were trained entirely on licensed data, according to the company. The article Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3.0 with up to six-minute tracks and open weights appeared first on The Decoder.
The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah
Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Stratos Project: a 40,000-acre data center stretching across the county's Hansel Valley. It's supposed to establish American AI dominance, but potentially at the expense of environmental damage and a strain on already overtaxed water supplies. The Stratos Project, backed by Shark Tank investor and venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary, is projected to be more than twice the size of Manhattan and consume 9GW of power - almost double the state's peak ele … Read the full story at The Verge.
Stop talking to new college grads about AI
Frustration with AI is building for the Class of 2026, so here are some suggestions on what to discuss at commencement speeches instead.
A senior comms exec says your AI notetaker could be your company’s biggest liability
Arielle Patrick, a managing partner at Upland Workshop, told Fortune AI notetakers risk leaking confidential information—or even getting the facts wrong.
Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven conversation starter that can accept text, images, PDFs, videos, and even open Chrome tabs as inputs. The company is also merging its AI Overviews and AI Mode features into a single, seamless search flow, eliminating the friction that previously forced users to choose between a traditional results page and an AI-forward experience. Liz Reid, Google's vice president and head of Search, called it "the biggest upgrade to our iconic search box since its debut over 25 years ago" during a press briefing on Mo
Research
Corti's new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI
Today, Copenhagen-based healthcare AI Corti is launching Symphony for Speech-to-Text, a new generation of clinical-grade speech recognition models engineered specifically for real-time dictation, conversational transcription, and batch audio processing — and their accuracy rate is the highest for this specific use case yet recorded. "We are focused on ensuring our AI scribes can be trusted by physicians, medical practitioners and patients...the entire healthcare system," said Andreas Cleve, co-founder and CEO of Corti, in an exclusive video call interview with VentureBeat. The performance data the company is bringing to the table paints a stark picture of the current state of enterprise AI: when it comes to highly regulated, specialized industries, domain-specific models can beat out the foundation model providers. In a newly published research paper, Corti revealed that its new clinical-grade speech models reduced word error rates (WER) by up to 93% when compared against leading gen
Shyld AI raises $13.4 million to expand ‘active’ AI across US hospitals
Shyld AI, a healthcare technology company pioneering “active intelligence” for healthcare facilities, has raised a $13.4 million seed round, one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector. The round was led by Aulis Capital and will fund expansion across US health systems. Founded by brothers Mohammad and Morteza Noshad, the company is […]
Robotics
Under the Ice: New SYOS Underwater Drone Targets Maritime Security and Antarctic Exploration
SYOS Introduces SU10 Underwater Drone for Multi-Domain Operations New uncrewed underwater vehicle expands company portfolio from air, land, and sea to subsurface missions UK and New Zealand-based autonomous systems company SYOS has introduced the SU10 uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV), expanding its multi-domain autonomous systems portfolio into subsurface operations. The company announced the new platform at […] The post Under the Ice: New SYOS Underwater Drone Targets Maritime Security and Antarctic Exploration appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Locus Robotics acquires Nexera Robotics
Locus Robotics, a warehouse automation company, has announced the acquisition of Nexera Robotics, a Vancouver, Canada-based robotics company specializing in advanced robotic grasping. The integration of Nexera’s proprietary NeuraGrasp end-effector technology into the Locus Robotics physical AI platform significantly expands the company’s autonomous mobile manipulation capabilities and broadens what Locus Array can handle across end-to-end […]
Business & Industry
FIDO Alliance Announces Digital Identity and Authentication-Focused Agenda Themes for Authenticate APAC 2026 Conference
SINGAPORE, May 21, 2026--The FIDO Alliance today announced agenda themes and program highlights for Authenticate APAC 2026, taking place June 2–3 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. Bringing together global and regional leaders in authentication and digital identity, the event will explore how evolving standards, regulations, AI-driven capabilities and real-world deployments are shaping the future of trusted digital interactions across APAC and beyond.