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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging

Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic...

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agen...

Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.

Startup Raises $50 Million to Develop Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Sovereign AI has been flourishing around the world, but usually with infrastructure built by U.S. tech giants.

Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.

AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio

Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a feature that helps independent software vendors and consulti...

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.

Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Perplexity AI Introduces Space Sandbox for Agents

The platform shows how the search vendor is evolving its strategy.

Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M

Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding.  Khosla Ventures led the Series B investment. Monumental stated in its funding announcement today that existing backers Plural and Hummingbird chipped in as well. Monumental uses robots ...

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

FCC chairman claims power to repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.

In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

The actor, who starred in 1993's Jurassic Park, died Monday in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 78.

SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.