As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…

Democrats are demanding answers about Palantir and other surveillance firms powering Trump’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…

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Retail giant Express was publicly spilling customer information to the open web. The bug is now fixed after TechCrunch alerted Express, but the company would not say if it plans to notify customers.

Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse  —  The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.

Cloud migration becomes much harder when teams are not moving workloads, but also trying to make every environment reproducible and deployment-ready through Infrastructure as Code. The challenge is not limited to copying applications from one platform to another. It includes validating architecture decisions, controlling drift, enforcing policies, coordinating approvals, and making sure deployment logic can […] The post 5 top cloud migration software for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) appeared first on AI News.

Antioch raised a $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders.

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Bobby Allyn / NPR: Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others  —  In the final hours of President Biden's term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden's last-minute pardons …

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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram  Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a banking app on his phone. It asks for a photo linked to the…

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The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intelligence. It is now an…

Machine learning models can be confident even when they shouldn't be. This article introduces Deep Evidential Regression (DER), a method that lets neural networks rapidly express what they don't know. The post Introduction to Deep Evidential Regression for Uncertainty Quantification appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Emily Zemler / The Wrap: A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M  —  “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film

BigDATAwire unveiled its BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2026. This feature highlights key community members who are poised to drive the industry forward in the coming year. For the past 11 […] The post BigDATAwire Unveils 2026 People to Watch appeared first on BigDATAwire.

OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows with controlled risk. Teams taking systems from prototype to production have faced difficult architectural compromises regarding where their operations occurred. Using model-agnostic frameworks offered initial flexibility but failed to fully utilise the capabilities of frontier models. Model-provider SDKs remained closer to […] The post OpenAI Agents SDK improves governance with sandbox execution appeared first on AI News.

US and Chinese landers could be operating in close proximity on the Moon later this year.

In the first quarter of 2026, a handful of large, well-funded AI companies, almost all based in the U.S., captured the vast majority of venture dollars, even as global startup deal count fell, Crunchbase data shows.