Google and the Pentagon sign classified deal to give the Department of Defense unfettered access to its AI models

Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." This is according to a report by The Information, which also notes [...]

This weird-looking open-sourced computer mouse has four buttons plus a point stick which reminds me of IBM's legendary red nipple joystick

Ploopy introduces standalone pointing stick controller using magnetic sensors, open source firmware, and fully programmable hardware components. [...]

Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'

Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat?Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio [...]

MCP solved tool calling. A2A solved coordination. What solves transport?

The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remo [...]

'We have maybe 20 months' to rebuild for AI agents, Meta's infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026

Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI.Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how [...]

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable. [...]

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source. [...]

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks

Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work th [...]

Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant's retrieval gap didn't take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.

Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI re [...]