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Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administ

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I bui

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the P

Podcast producer Caloroga Media has launched Linnet, a production studio that runs in a web browser with an artificial intelligence assistant built in. The company developed it from the workflow behin

AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shif

OpenAI released 719 mathematics manuscripts on October 6, 2026 that were generated by an internal frontier model (not publicly available), covering 372 topic families—including a solution to the Navie

Alteryx One Live Query and Google Cloud BigQuery redefine how enterprises handle complex, unstructured data at scale by reducing reliance on disconnected tools, minimizing data movement, and enabling

Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get 'thorough, periodic secur

Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch

Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage po

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th

AI costs don’t always scale predictably with traffic. A retry loop, oversized context window, or unnecessarily expensive model can make a small number of traces disproportionately expensive. The post

Fraud prevention startup Darwinium UK Ltd. today launched two new capabilities that make intent intelligence the foundation of its platform. Journey Transition Probability flags unusual changes in the

Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici

Google LLC’s Cloud division today introduced Gemini agent, a unified artificial intelligence assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across any device, including web, mobi

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models — Google is un

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April

Google is launching a 'universal' Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within

Public research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institu

Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free

In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and grow

Classification is one of the oldest problems in machine learning. Unlike modern decoding transformers, most classification models were non-autoregressive by nature. Before Jev, the common approaches w

Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new wa

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from 0.20 to 0.10 and adds monthly API credits: 100 for Max 5x, 200 for Max 20x, up to 500 shared by Team users — The model start

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at 0.10/1M input and 0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and 0.50 and 2.50 above, vs. 1 and 5 for Haiku 4.5 — Anthropic

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is ha

On 15 September, TypeSafe released Jev, and within a few weeks about 10 companies had shipped something that works the same way. OpenAI, Liquid, Cloudflare, AWS and PostHog all launched one, and an op

Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that Spac

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is

As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-v

In capital markets, operational success is built on predictable performance and low latency, where even tiny variations in packet timing alter queue priority and trade execution. At the same time, bot

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc. today launched Autoloop, an optimization engine for the AI agents that customers build on its Kore.ai Agent Platform. Businesses set th

After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version o

Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction — T

For modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for semantic context, and full-text search (FTS) for keyword precis

Co-authors:Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, GoogleAnubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox v1.0, we're thrilled to announce that the MCP Tool

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program with 45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack, a 1,000 API credit, and a year of Claude Team — Anthropic on Tuesday

Anthropic: Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models — We're launching a new, expand

Reuters: Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei made 18M in 2025, ranking in the middle of top tech executives, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, made 16.4M — Dario Amodei made $18 million l

Developers now have a much cheaper way to access cutting-edge artificial intelligence inference capabilities with the launch of Antseed today. It’s a new peer-to-peer marketplace that makes it possibl