OpenAI announced 55 new partnerships with American school districts on Wednesday, roughly doubling the reach of its ChatGPT for Teachers product, which now serves more than 300,000 staffers and 2 million students across …
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its most precise speech-to-text model, available via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The model achieves a 4.0% word error rate for streami…
A developer breaks down four core AI design patterns for building agentic systems: the Pipeline, Router, Planner-Executor, and Adversarial Loop. The post emphasizes modular, maintainable agent logic and 'context engineer…
Insurance companies are voiding coverage for losses arising from AI due to vague clauses released by ISO in January, creating a nightmare for frontier tech companies. Risklytics, a YC S26 startup, is building a specializ…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) closed its biggest fiscal year with annual revenue of $331 billion, up 18%, and Azure revenue surpassing $100 billion, up 41%, yet shares trade at $491.71, up just 2.32% year-to-date. The c…
Anthropic is set to lease a data center from NScale in a deal valued at $45 billion, adding to its total compute commitments that have surpassed $150 billion as of mid-2026. The Claude maker has also signed a roughly $19…
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. The new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe model can remove f…
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its most precise speech-to-text model, which achieves a 4.0% word error rate for streaming and 2.6% for non-streaming use-cases, and is now powering Gboard Rambler on Android, the…
Developer and product creator John Doe reports that using a harness—a structured workflow combining planning, execution, critique, and promotion—has reduced his usage of Anthropic's Fable model by 75% even in intensive c…
Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop, enabling users to connect Anthropic's app to open-weight models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi, after its first effort stalled. The integration allows Claude …
Gatik AI Inc. has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless commercial freight operations across Fortune 50 retail, consumer packaged goods, and grocery supply chains. The company, which has more t…
MiniMax's revenue nearly quadrupled to $116.6 million in the first half of 2026, up 283.1% from $30.4 million a year earlier, but its adjusted net loss widened 111.2% to $293 million. The Shanghai-based AI lab, founded i…
Applied Materials Inc. reported $9.12 billion in fiscal Q3 2026 revenue, up 25% year-over-year, but projected a $600 million revenue hit from tightened US export controls, with China's share of sales falling to 28% from …
Cigna Healthcare projects $200 million in medical cost reductions over the next three years from expanding its AI-enabled predictive tools across care management programs, with engaged customers saving an estimated $2,00…
Apple Support's phone line 1-800-APL-CARE in the U.S. and Canada now uses a generative AI-powered voice assistant that can answer questions and troubleshoot issues, transferring callers to human advisors when needed. The…
Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is no AI shortcut to self-driving, countering rivals like Tesla, Wayve, and Waabi that pursue end-to-end AI systems. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo…
A new slang term, "meat proxies," coined by developer Niklas Gruhn, describes coworkers who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without editing, reflecting growing frustration over cognitive offloading to AI. Gruhn urge…
Bill Gates, Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist, warned in a nearly 6,000-word essay published Wednesday that humanity cannot afford to move slowly on AI, calling the transition to the new AI era 'one of t…
The AI industry is shifting focus from model capabilities to the 'harness'—the interface and scaffolding around AI subscriptions, including projects, memory, connectors, and skills. OpenAI recently added iMessage integra…
Vanguard, the world's second-largest asset manager, has acquired wealth-management platform Altruist for approximately $4 billion, according to Reuters, sending shares of Charles Schwab and Robinhood lower. The deal, whi…