Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Wo…
Cognition co-founder Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray discussed the rise of "async agents" — AI coding tools that operate in the background rather than requiring constant developer oversight —…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a $15 billion valuation round, while Baseten is raising an $11 billion round, marking a rapid progression from unicorn to decacorn status in the AI inference infrastr…
All major AI model labs are pivoting to agent-focused products, with OpenAI's Greg Brockman reversing the industry's previous stance that the model alone is the product. AI21 has shuttered its model t…
Exa raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in a Series C round, Modal raised $355 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in a Series C round, and Turbopuffer reached $100 million in annual recur…
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin announced the company's pivot from human development environments to AI sandboxes, positioning its infrastructure as the "end of localhost" for AI agents. The company now prov…
OpenAI's GPT-next model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős planar unit distance problem in under 32 hours at a cost of less than $1,000, marking the first instance of a general-purpose AI solving a well-…
Railway founder Jake Cooper is building a new cloud infrastructure platform designed for an agent-native world, moving the majority of workloads onto the company's own bare metal data centers with 70%…
At Google I/O 2026, the company announced Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available, positioning it as its strongest model for agentic and coding workloads with 1M-token context and four thinking le…
Vlad Feinberg published a guide on how to land a job at a frontier AI lab focused on pretraining, emphasizing kernel-level performance work as the most direct path into the labs. The guide recommends …
Ukrainian tech founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, who transitioned from building PetCube to founding AI-guided drone company The Fourth Law, told Noah Smith that Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones last year…
Cerebras completed its IPO this week, with shares closing at $280 for a $60 billion market capitalization, following a pulled S-1 filing and a major partnership with OpenAI. The company’s CFO Bob Komi…
GitHub announced a new GitHub App designed for agent-first workflows, joining a growing ecosystem of coding tools converging on a similar "conductor" form factor. The move validates Conductor, which p…
Abridge, the AI-native healthcare company founded in 2018, is projected to support over 80 million patient-clinician conversations this year across 250 U.S. health systems, saving doctors 10–20 hours …
Anthropic has changed its Claude subscription model to include a monthly credit of API tokens equal to the dollar amount of the plan, effectively metering programmatic usage of the model outside its o…
OpenAI deprecated its finetuning APIs, signaling a broader industry shift away from the technique as Anthropic nears a higher valuation than OpenAI for the first time. The move makes finetuning the la…
Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters, advancing real-time voice interaction by processing audio and images in under 20…
Anthropic is now valued at $1-1.2 trillion after reporting 80x annualized growth in Q1, making it the 11th to 15th most valuable company in the world and overtaking OpenAI in valuation. Meanwhile, Blo…
OpenAI launched three new streaming audio models in its Realtime API: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. GPT-Realtime-2 brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice a…