DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source tool for running models as coding agents, on August 13, 2026, alongside the DeepSeek V4-Pro API. The repository quickly gained about 169,000 st…
TrueFoundry, founded by Nikunj Bajaj, Abhishek Choudhary, and Anuraag Gutgutia, has open-sourced TrueForge, an MIT-licensed runtime for building and operating AI agents, claiming 30-75% cheaper task c…
VentureBeat has hired its first analyst, Strechay, to lead research on enterprise AI infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering, with a focus on providing empirical data to enterprise builders an…
VentureBeat has named Rob Strechay, former managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, as its first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research, expanding its enterpri…
GitHub suffered a widespread service degradation on August 17 that disrupted its web interface, API, Actions, pull requests, webhooks and Copilot, with BleepingComputer reporting error rates of about …
A VentureBeat Pulse survey published in July 2026 found that 68% of enterprises traced at least one confident-but-wrong AI agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context over the prior six m…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, on August 14, marking the largest acquisition of a VC-backed startup ever and the largest deal in AI developer toolin…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent framework under an MIT license, on August 13, 2026, the same day it declared V4-Pro generally available. The framework, which powers DeepSeek's…
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, at half the standard price through the end of 2026, while its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed past 67 days. The model improved coding bench…
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, its latest AI model focused on coding and agentic workflows, with API prices temporarily cut by 50% through the end of 2026: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 …
LTX released LTX-2.5, an open-weight video and world model, on August 11, with native availability in ComfyUI and downloadable weights on Hugging Face. The model adds a diffusion video decoder, native…
Hark founder Brett Adcock announced Handoff on August 5, 2026, the company's first public product, an AI agent that operates a virtual computer to complete multi-step tasks such as recruiting, booking…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30, an open-weight AI model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, roughly one-quarter the size of its pr…
Capital One released VulnHunter as an open-source agentic AI code-security tool on July 16, designed to analyze source code from an attacker perspective, map potential exploit paths, and propose targe…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 at $5 and $25 per million input and output tokens, featuring a new mechanism that decouples tool declaration from runtime tool availability via tool_ad…
A June 2026 survey of 145 enterprises by VentureBeat found two-thirds had already adopted a diversified AI strategy before Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown, with 90% of enterprise model spend going to thr…
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched July 8, places fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index but costs roughly $2.49 per coding task versus $10 or more for Claude Opus 4.8, a gap wide enough to reshape …
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft launched seven proprietary MAI models including its first in-house reasoning system MAI-Thinking-1, cutting inference costs by up to 89% versus OpenAI equivalents an…
Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous AI agent compromised its production infrastructure, gaining unauthorized access to internal datasets and credentials. The attacker, an AI agent run…
More than half of enterprises have experienced an AI agent security incident or near-miss, according to a VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 107 organizations with over 100 employees, which found a …