A new analysis from Lightcast, a labor market data company, predicts the largest labor shortage in U.S. history amid a demographic drought, while Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Wo…
A new breed of executive, the Forward Deployed Executive (FDX), is emerging to close the gap between AI adoption and actual business value, as evidenced by a case where a non-technical colleague's dev…
Wienerdog, an open-source project released on GitHub under the MIT license, provides a one-line installation (npx wienerdog@latest init) that adds persistent memory, self-improving skills, and automat…
Adi Prasad, cofounder and CEO of AI manufacturing startup Matter, said in an as-told-to essay that working with Elon Musk at Tesla and Travis Kalanick at CloudKitchens taught him first-principles thin…
Andi Peng left humans& on July 29th, roughly six months after the frontier AI lab emerged with a $480 million seed round and a $4.48 billion valuation. Peng co-founded humans& with Eric Zelikman, Yuch…
Lamina Labs, a two-person San Francisco AI-video startup founded by MIT graduates Sudip Rokaya and Kartikesh Mishra, has raised $4.8 million to turn AI answers into narrated whiteboard-style explainer…
The AI industry has abandoned two of its most valuable ideas—durable object orientation and reinforcement learning—not because they failed but because architectural shifts and incentive changes pushed…
A new University of Southern California research study, funded by the National Science Foundation, will monitor brain activity of doctors, journalists, and software engineers using electroencephalogra…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on the podcast 'Invest Like the Best' that the biggest unaddressed risk of artificial intelligence is 'cognitive atrophy,' where people stop thinking for themselves as the…
DSPy shipped dspy.RLM, a Recursive Language Model module in version 3.1.2, to address context rot — the tendency of models to lose performance on long inputs before reaching their advertised context w…
MIT-trained engineers Dimitris Koutentakis and Emile Germonpre have launched Atomarine, a Boston startup proposing floating data-center campuses powered initially by natural gas and later by marine re…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on the "Invest Like the Best" podcast that cognitive atrophy is an overlooked risk of the AI era, asking how people will avoid letting AI weaken their own thinking. Altman…
A developer built an autonomous, vision-capable crypto trading bot using Python 3.13 after studying 77 academic papers. The bot uses Google Gemini 3.6 Flash for visual chart analysis, a custom JIT-com…
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importanc…
Polar Browser raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona to develop an AI browser that automates hours-long research, recruiting, sales and operations tasks inside users' existing web accounts. T…
OpenAI is providing free access to its most advanced AI models to 100,000 academic researchers through the end of 2027, the company announced Wednesday. The program targets scientists, mathematicians,…
UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg argued in a talk at MIT that data alone will not solve robotics, citing a 100,000-year data gap between robotics and language models and pointing to Tesla's…
Kevin Jiang, a former Perplexity employee who worked on the Comet browser, launched Polar, an AI browser for knowledge work, and raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. Polar operates inside …
Extropic, a startup founded by physicist Guillaume Verdon, published a case for thermodynamic computing on July 29th, arguing that AI scaling will eventually be constrained by electricity and cooling …
Developer Mikky A. released AgentBoard, a free, open-source macOS app that lets users manage multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode) from a single spatial board, with each con…