Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the No Priors and Latent Space podcasts for a live crossover episode at Microsoft Build, where he discussed the company's strategy as a "Frontier Intelligence Platfo…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company relea…
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle detailed how the platform is adapting to a 1,400% surge in code shipped by AI agents in 2026, which is straining infrastructure originally built for human-paced development. Dai…
NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3, a family of open-weight omnimodal world models using a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture, alongside the Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B open-weight LLM at Computex in Taiwan. The Co…
Ethan He, an engineer at xAI who built Grok Imagine in three months, argued that video models derive their intelligence primarily from large language models rather than video training data, and predic…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which independent benchmarks show as an incremental improvement with mixed results — better efficiency and less over-agentic behavior in coding, but regressions in …
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…