Google Home Speaker ships June 29th, slightly delayed from spring. Designed for Gemini for Home, it costs $99, features four colors, and serves as a Matter controller and Thread border router.

The Partner Well-Architected Framework (PWAF) provides AI-ready architecture guidance, technical standards, and best practices for partners building on Databricks. Since its February launch, new additions include the AI Partner Dev Kit, expanded architecture patterns, and the open-source Firefly reference application, helping partners accelerate development and adopt proven design patterns. PWAF continues to evolve with the Databricks platform and AI market, enabling partners to build differentiated products, measure adoption impact, and unlock growth opportunities.

Databricks is expanding its Free Edition with five new products—Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer—to provide a complete toolkit for building data and AI projects. Over 500,000 users have already used Free Edition, and the new additions enable end-to-end development from data engineering to AI agents.

Databricks expands its partner ecosystem with new Marketplace, Apps, OpenSharing, and Genie Agent capabilities that help partners build, distribute, share, and monetize solutions on the platform.

Learn how to design professional, on-brand dashboards in Databricks AI/BI using themes, layout strategies, font selection, color theory, and accessible visualization palettes.

Genie Code is Databricks' specialized agent for data and ML work. Over the past year, Genie products have grown over 10x and are used by 90% of customers. New updates include a full-page command center for managing complex multi-threaded work, agentic ML workflows with native integration into MLflow, Model Serving, and compute awareness, scheduled tasks for autonomous work, and Genie ZeroOps for production operations.

At Data + AI Summit 2026, Databricks announced new security and compliance capabilities including Automatic Identity Management (AIM) for Entra ID and Okta, Context-Based Ingress, Private Network Gateway, expanded Private Link for Lakebase, and new compliance certifications such as HITRUST, ISMAP, and upcoming FedRAMP High on Azure Commercial.

As LLM token prices plummet, enterprise AI spending is skyrocketing because agentic workloads consume 50× more tokens than a chat prompt. Uber blew through its annual AI budget in four months and imposed a $1,500/month hard cap per employee. This article analyzes token pricing economics and suggests converting variable costs to fixed infrastructure for better budget control.

I tried the new Siri on my Mac, and although it's off to a promising start, Apple still has more work to do.

Deep Work Plan is an open-source methodology that transforms any repository into a spec-driven harness for AI coding agents, enabling precise, resumable long-horizon tasks via reasoning-based onboarding and agent-agnostic design.

This article investigates how coding agents like Claude Code and Codex autonomously apply engineering practices such as failure mode analysis and ad-hoc evaluations to improve AI agents without specialized tooling. The experiment across five applications shows they can ship improvements by analyzing baseline traces, abstracting failure patterns, and creating prompt variants.

This article introduces five fun projects built with OpenAI Codex, ranging from simple apps to full-stack clones, showcasing Codex's versatility and usefulness in software development.

An open-source project offering two AI agent skills to audit, optimize documentation, generate demos, and get included in awesome lists and directories, all with an ethical growth policy.

MCP360 is a universal MCP gateway connecting AI agents like Claude and Cursor to 100+ production-ready tools. It features a custom MCP builder, no-code API integration, and one-click setup, supporting tools like Google Search, web scraping, Amazon Product Search, and more, backed by security compliance.

Government ministries are deploying Google Cloud generative AI across municipal agencies to automate council planning operations, aiming to cut decision times by 50%. Tools include Extract for unstructured data and the Augmented Planning Decisions (APD) prototype.

Encord launches Merlin, an agentic intelligence layer for its multimodal data platform, enabling users to manage AI data infrastructure through conversational interfaces. It supports building projects from prompts, on-demand metrics and coverage gap analysis, and issue fixing. Currently in beta via MCP on Claude, Codex, and other agentic coding platforms, with Slack integration coming soon.

Google DeepMind has released DiffusionGemma, a text-diffusion model that challenges traditional transformer architectures by not generating text left-to-right token by token.

Amazon is slashing its smart home prices ahead of Prime Day, and these deals on Echo, Ring, Blink, and other devices are actually worth your money.

OpenAI Academy has introduced three free AI courses covering AI fundamentals, applied AI, and agents & workflows. Each course offers a free certificate upon completion, catering to professionals at different skill levels.

The UK Government Office for Science has released an updated set of AI 2030 scenarios, built from six critical uncertainties and five contrasting futures. The report highlights continued AI capability growth, potential for major benefits and severe harms, significant labor market impacts, and concentrated global competition.

AI lets the people who understand a workflow build the tools that run it. The hard part is keeping them alive. What makes an internal tool durable, and how dForge approaches it.

Clawd is a context-aware browser pet that uses on-device AI (Gemini Nano and ONNX Runtime) to analyze website sentiment and react accordingly. It features voice-enabled chat, custom personas, over 140 animations, and is completely offline for privacy.

AWS's open-source SDK Strands Robots integrates LeRobot, enabling developers to train from Hub datasets and deploy policies on simulated or real robots through a single Agent workflow. This post walks through five steps with a runnable example on a laptop.

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’

Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risks. Stuart Russell warns that recent signs of recursive self-improvement at Anthropic could lead to an intelligence explosion and calls for regulation before it's too late.

OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.

Databricks announces the Unity AI Gateway partner ecosystem at Data + AI Summit 2026, integrating security, identity, and governance vendors to help enterprises monitor, secure, and govern AI interactions at runtime.

French startup Genesis AI unveils Eno, a robot designed around human capability rather than appearance. Eno may lack a head and legs, uses a wheeled base, and folds like a deck chair, but features hands that match human anatomy. Production is planned by end of 2026, targeting manufacturing, logistics, and more.

High cost of intensive AI use sees companies reining in AI spending

Spaturzu is an open-source SDK that wraps existing LLM clients (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) with a single import change to enable per-agent cost attribution, budget enforcement, and cross-provider fallback, without altering call sites.