Token Bloat, Not Model IQ
Ardour Analytics founder building FundlyMart, a WhatsApp B2B pharmacy commerce bot, identifies token bloat—not model intelligence—as the primary cost driver in agentic AI systems, with conversation context growing from 1…
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Ardour Analytics founder building FundlyMart, a WhatsApp B2B pharmacy commerce bot, identifies token bloat—not model intelligence—as the primary cost driver in agentic AI systems, with conversation context growing from 1…
A developer explains how Knowledge Distillation (KD) enables high-performance AI on Android by transferring 'dark knowledge' from large Teacher models to compact Student models. The technique uses soft targets and temper…
Neurotech startup Aleph published a silent-speech prototype that uses submental ultrasound to image tongue motion and convert it into text, achieving a 15.6% word error rate on an open-vocabulary test. The system, traine…
A new survey from Employment Hero finds that 51% of Gen Z workers feel guilty using AI at work, yet employers now rank AI skills above a university degree in hiring criteria. The report, based on 8,744 respondents across…
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told Fortune at the UN's AI for Good Summit that software engineers must become 'Renaissance developers' who combine deep technical skills with the ability to review AI-generated code, as AI codi…
Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project released Plan A, a policy roadmap for navigating the AI transition, proposing a joint US-China regulatory regime to prevent a poorly-controlled intelligence explosion. The plan…
Business veteran Bruce Rockowitz sees artificial intelligence as a strategic growth engine for his wellness, dining, and media businesses, including The Pure Group, food-and-beverage operators, and magazine publishers. H…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of AlphaEvolve, an AI-powered code optimization and discovery agent built on Gemini, designed to solve complex algorithmic problems in logistics, semiconductors, genomics, …
Aidoptation has received the first Level 4 autonomous driving permit in the European Union, allowing it to test a fully self-driving Maserati GranTurismo Folgore at 120 km/h on Belgian highways. The company's EdgeDrive s…
IBM Research introduced CoFrGeNets (Continued Fraction Generative Networks), a new model architecture that replaces transformer components with structures derived from continued fractions, enabling competitive performanc…
Cognition released SWE-1.7, an AI model that nearly matches the software engineering capabilities of frontier models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost, challenging the notion of a post-training c…
Mercor, a startup that supplies domain experts to train AI models, is in talks for a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth from eight months ago. The company, founded in 2022 by three college dropouts, projects annua…
Databricks' internal benchmark of AI agents on its multi-million-line codebase reveals that token costs are misleading, agent harness design significantly impacts performance, and open-source models like GLM 5.2 rival pr…
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who dismissed AI as 'garbage' in January, now predicts a 'golden age of entrepreneurial activity' powered by the technology, signaling a shift in institutional capital flows toward AI-…
Chatto, a lightweight self-hosted chat platform, launched as open-source version 0.4, sparking debate over its heavy use of AI-assisted development or "vibe coding." The app packages frontend and backend into a single ex…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is transforming business operations by converting unstructured text into actionable data, with the global NLP market valued at $59.7 billion in 2024. Key capabilities include sentiment a…
A GPTZero investigation found that 40 of 45 citations in a KPMG report on agentic AI and customer experience were fake or hallucinated, with only five accurately pointing to real sources. The report, published in October…
Colossal, before pivoting to agentic commerce, built a mobile beat-discovery app that required beat-aligned, artifact-free audio switching under mobile constraints. The system stores one encoded MP3 per beat, fetches pri…
NVIDIA and Microsoft are jointly developing the DGX Station for Windows, a system designed to run hundreds of AI agents securely within enterprise Windows environments, targeting Japan's industrial sectors that rely on l…
Recruitment firms like Randstad are pivoting to specialized AI roles as generative AI automates routine hiring tasks, with demand for AI solutions leads up 226% and process automation specialists up 196%. The industry be…