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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

Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering reality is incredibly complex. Where do

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate using standardized open protocols such a

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is on the critical path for reasoning, respo

This article from Latent Space provides an overview of Fable, covering its capabilities, architecture, or use cases as an AI model or framework. The guide likely serves as a reference resource for dev

New York Times: Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business — The Chinese company's models have won ov

Amazon.com Inc. is back in the bond market, this time to raise at least 25 billion for its artificial intelligence buildout, according to Bloomberg. The offering is split into eight parts, senior unse