Introducing GPT‑Live
Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the abil
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Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the abil
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a 25M Series A led by IN Venture — The AI agent platform fou
A federal judge rejected Kalshi's request to block New York from enforcing gambling laws against the prediction market platform, ruling that state gambling regulations are not preempted by federal com
Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec
Corbin Bolies / Variety: Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs — Kaon AI, a st
A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man, Harry Tiffany IV, was arrested for allegedly using xAI's Grok AI tool to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) , which he uploaded or shared through Grok between Ap
Jamf AI Governance is a capability within Jamf for Mac that enables IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting, providing com
Startups are at the forefront of tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges, especially in cybersecurity, where new ideas and adaptability are always needed. These companies are embracing AI
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct — Meta's AI expansion is
Meta Platforms Inc. today debuted an image generation model that can write code and search the web. Muse Image is the second algorithm released to date by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s ar
Miami-based City Labs launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard SpaceX Transporter-17 on July 7, 2026. The mission demonstrat
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts — Mistral A
This entry covers the integration of vLLM, a high-performance inference engine, with Hugging Face's transformers library to enable faster language model inference. The native-speed backend allows user
This guide provides strategies and best practices for migrating data analytics workloads from Azure Synapse to the Databricks platform, covering technical considerations and transition planning. It li
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely already done the hard work to prove your qualifications with a Google Cloud certification. And good for you — research shows that’ll help you get ahead. Certified
Phoebe Liu / The Information: Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals — Nvidia has a pl
Bloomberg: Nvidia lost ~1T in market value in less than two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019 — After losing roughly 1 trill
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents h
A newly deployed seafloor observatory at the Southeast Indian Ridge captured the first in situ measurement of oceanic crust being created between tectonic plates . Rather than occurring gradually, sea
Provisioned Throughput gives you reserved inference capacity for frontier open models like MiniMax M3 and GLM-5.2. Token-based pricing, a 99% uptime SLA, and up to 90% lower cost than proprietary APIs
OpenAI: OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time — A new generation of voice models for natura
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-Live, a family of artificial intelligence models optimized to process spoken instructions. The model series will power ChatGPT’s voice mode. Additionally, OpenAI
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users — While native
OpenAI: OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark — Through a detailed audit, we
Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or
OpenAI outlines its strategy for collaborating with government agencies and national security institutions, likely covering principles for responsible AI deployment in defense and security contexts. T
David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion — Paris-
In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generative AI. With this approach, you can acce
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a 130M Series A at a 1B valuation — Prime Intelle
TL;DR Elastic recently published a benchmark claiming that their proprietary, disk-based index (dubbed “DiskBBQ”) delivers up to 7x higher throughput than Qdrant when deployed on nodes with network-at
Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised 300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the ne
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to
Artificial intelligence optimization startup Refiant Inc. today launched Protea, a suite of long-context AI models led by a 10 million-token context window that the company says ranks among the larges
Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it
Salesforce Inc. today announced new updates for Slackbot, the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent in Slack, giving it full access to every part of the Salesforce ecosystem. “Slackbot can
This post shows you two architecture patterns that address this problem. Both use an internet-facing ALB with AWS WAF and route traffic through a VPC Interface Endpoint to AgentCore Runtime. Pattern 1
This OpenAI article discusses methods for distinguishing meaningful performance indicators from random variation when evaluating AI coding capabilities. It likely covers evaluation methodologies, stat
The shift from model training to agentic inference is forcing a fundamental rethink of how artificial intelligence infrastructure is built and which components carry the most strategic weight. What wa
Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months — China pl
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zucke
Bloomberg: Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~750M in two phases, at valuations of 3.5B in the first tranche and ~5B in the second — AI chip startup Positron is in talk
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks — SpaceXAI has un
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Corp. has released a new model called Grok 4.5, in what is its first major launch since it went public a few weeks earlier. In a blog post earlier today, the company said Grok 4.5
Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, today announced the launch of Docs, a product that enables multiple users to collaborate on writing using artificial intelligence. Docs contai
SUSE, NVIDIA, and Vultr have partnered to create a streamlined solution for deploying AI applications from pilot phase to production environments. The collaboration leverages SUSE's AI Factory framewo
A Brown University professor discovered widespread AI cheating when 40 out of 86 students scored perfect 100s on a take-home midterm exam with an average of 96 , while some answers contained unusual p
The race to serve AI inference faster and cheaper is exposing the hard limits of conventional chip architecture. As demand for real-time AI responses accelerates, the industry’s standard response — st
WorkOS founder Michael Grinich explains why the next era of AI engineering depends on the systems around agents: identity, permissions, evals, memory, and feedback loops that keep autonomous software
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. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution
Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more th
Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro — The OpenAI Deplo
Two 15-year-old boys were detained after they were caught drinking and shooting water beads from a toy gun while riding in a San Mateo driverless Waymo, which remotely halted and locked the doors afte
The Vercel CLI now allows developers to update project settings directly from the command line, eliminating the need to navigate the web dashboard for configuration changes. This feature streamlines t
The U.S. operates only one active rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, which produced approximately 45,000 tons of rare earth oxide concentrate in 2024, but the ore is still mostly shipped to
The US military has lost dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones worth more than $1 billion during operations over Iran, prompting the Pentagon to seek large numbers of cheaper alternatives expected to survive p
Eve's Chat SDK now supports multiple adapter options, allowing developers to integrate various chat platforms and services without being locked into a single solution. This flexibility enables teams t
Vercel Agent is an AI agent tool designed by Vercel that is safe and reliable enough for production environments. The agent likely combines Vercel's infrastructure expertise with AI capabilities to au
Vercel has implemented configuration validation checks for its Microfrontends feature to detect and alert users about missing or incomplete configuration settings. This enhancement helps prevent deplo
IBM Quantum's Q2 2026 updates likely showcase advancements in quantum computing hardware, software, or services, including new processor capabilities, improved error correction, expanded cloud access,
This article discusses how AI infrastructure needs to adapt to support autonomous agents effectively, with insights from Modal's CTO on the technical and architectural requirements for agent deploymen