Buildkite, a 13-year-old Australian startup, is experiencing a surge in demand from companies like Airbnb and Shopify as developers seek CI/CD tools to manage the increased code output from AI coding agents. The tool all…
Flex, an AI-native private bank for high-net-worth business owners, raised $70 million in Series B1 funding led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing total equity to $180 million. The company plans to use the funds to expa…
Next Net and Sundial Media & Technology Group launched SAIL, a framework that tracks AI use of publisher content and ensures AI outputs reflect editorial and cultural standards. The system compensates publishers per quer…
Profound launched FactCheck, a tool that compares AI-generated outputs about brands against their own knowledge bases to flag inaccuracies. The tool aims to help brands manage reputation risks as consumers increasingly r…
Annapurna Interactive's D-topia, a puzzle game from Japanese studio Marumittu Games, explores ethical questions about AI as players help inhabitants of a seemingly perfect community. The game contrasts a utopian facade w…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI company of trade secret theft related to its metal-finishing techniques. The suit alleges that OpenAI used confidential Apple information to approach a manu…
AI film studio Fountain 0 and director Ash Koosha are releasing 'Odysseus: The Fall,' a 135-minute AI-generated adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey,' available this summer. The film, created using AI video generator Kling…
A new study by Edison Research commissioned by AI audiobook company Spoken found that 61% of listeners rated AI-generated multi-voice audiobooks favorably, compared to 53% for human-narrated versions, with higher marks f…
Spotify launched a beta feature called 'Talk to Spotify' that lets Premium users control the app with voice or text commands to create playlists, learn about songs, and explore listening history. The feature is rolling o…
Meta open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive brain-computer interface that decodes sentences from EEG or MEG signals with 61% word accuracy, nearly doubling the performance of its predecessor. The system uses a three…
Spotify is rolling out a new AI assistant feature in its mobile app that allows users to ask contextual questions about music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The feature, currently in beta for eligible Premium users in the US…
Apple announced watchOS 27 with new features including Siri AI with a dedicated app, a dynamic app grid, enhanced Workout Buddy, improved health tracking, a new tap gesture, and expanded Smart Stack widgets. The update b…
Fractl's research, using SparkToro data, found that niche publishers have 1.7 times higher audience affinity than major media outlets despite 130 times less traffic, suggesting digital PR teams should prioritize entity a…
A new audit of distributional reinforcement learning agents (QR-DQN, C51, IQN) on MinAtar and Atari games finds that 40-95% of the strongest claimed risk trade-offs are refuted at 95% confidence, with the learned "risk" …
Vrbo has developed a new AI-based candidate generation pipeline using a large language model to boost visibility for lesser-known vacation rental properties. The system generates diverse semantic queries for each propert…
Varonis has extended its Atlas AI Security Platform to cover the entire Claude enterprise suite, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, making it one of the few platforms to secure Anthropic's full agentic portfolio. T…
GitHub released a public preview of the /security-review slash command in the GitHub Copilot app, enabling developers to run AI-driven vulnerability scans on in-flight code changes directly from their coding environment.…
Databricks researchers Nishith Sinha and Matei Zaharia demonstrated a slow-burn prompt injection attack that breaks data theft into individually harmless steps, bypassing per-action guardrails. They introduced contextual…
A developer built and open-sourced an AI agent that uses reinforcement learning to train smaller language models via reinforcement learning, achieving a peak reward of 0.63 over 54 training steps and transferring to a he…
AI startup Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion computing deal with cloud provider Nebius Group NV to secure NVIDIA's GB300 AI chips through 2029. The agreement underscores the industry's race for processing power and h…