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Genebench-Pro appears to be a case study or tool from OpenAI focused on benchmarking or evaluating genetic/genomic analysis capabilities, likely demonstrating how OpenAI's models or tools can be appli

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVI

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5 is the first Sonnet model of

GeneBench-Pro is a comprehensive benchmarking tool or dataset introduced by OpenAI designed to evaluate AI model performance on genomic and gene-related tasks. It likely provides standardized metrics

TabFM is a foundation model designed for tabular data classification and regression that eliminates the need for manual model training, hyperparameter tuning, and complex feature engineering by framin

Vercel Container Registry (VCR) is a new container image registry service introduced by Vercel for storing and managing Docker container images. This offering enables developers to host and deploy con

Secure business communications startup LeapXpert Inc. said today it has bagged 180 million in a growth round of funding to build out its artificial intelligence capabilities and generate valuable inte

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. 'AI is the new frontier for us,' sa

Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for

Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a to

Reuters: Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Me

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writer

The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that ver

Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the 'fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale'. I use

Vercel has announced the availability of Nano Banana 2 Lite, a lightweight image variant featuring Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash model, through its AI Gateway service. This release likely provides develop

NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of a nuclear-powered Mars rover for the moon's south polar region in a mission called PROMISE ('Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fict

AI browsers can be manipulated through prompt injection or memory poisoning to create false operational contexts where they bypass security guardrails, treating harmful actions as game logic rather th

Amazon Web Services Inc.‘s next-generation silicon is working its way deeper into the company’s cloud compute infrastructure offerings with the debut of the new Amazon EC2 C9g and EC2 C9gd instances t

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, micro

Data center coolant monitoring startup Omen AI Inc. is trying to fix one of the most pressing yet little-known challenges in the artificial intelligence industry after raising 31 million in Series A f

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a 31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to 41.5M — The AI-driven

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl

Perforce Software Inc. today expanded its Perforce Intelligence lineup with an agentic gateway for managing artificial intelligence agents, an autonomous testing platform driven by natural language an

Lisa Bonos / Inc: Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past yea

Pie Tech Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to provide growth tools for small businesses, today officially launched with an announcement that it has raised 19.5 million in new funding to ex

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily — A.I.

Agentic AI is driving key technology providers to rethink the computing architecture required to run rapidly expanding autonomous systems. In response to this challenge, two leading tech companies hav

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Ari

Queue, a company building an autonomous “robotic” pharmacy kiosk that dispenses medication, today announced that it has raised 12.6 million in seed funding led by AlleyCorp. The company is launching t

Ray Data 2.56 introduces reliability improvements for AI data pipelines, likely including enhancements to data processing, fault tolerance, and stability features within the Ray distributed computing

Reddit is implementing a requirement for users to log in to access old.reddit.com, the legacy version of the platform. This change is part of Reddit's broader effort to increase user registration and

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimenta

Vercel announced support for running any Dockerfile on their platform, allowing developers to deploy custom containerized applications beyond the traditional Node.js, Python, and Go runtimes. This fea

Vercel Services allows developers to run multiple web frameworks within a single project, enabling polyglot architecture patterns and flexible technology choices. This feature likely simplifies managi

ScarfBench is a benchmarking framework designed to evaluate AI agents' capabilities in migrating enterprise Java applications to modern frameworks. The benchmark likely assesses how well AI systems ca

French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a 3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to

Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supr

shot-scraper is a command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites . It is designed primarily for documentation but also has scraping applications . The 1.10 release likely includes u

In this post, we show you how to use managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock to subscribe once from a central account and distribute model access across your organization. This approach removes the ne

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavio

Israeli startup Arato Software Ltd. is developing tools for developers to test and evaluate their artificial intelligence applications, and it has just gotten 10 million in seed funding to pursue that

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma