In a head-to-head comparison of image generation models, GPT Image 2 API beat Grok Imagine Image Quality with a score of 70.1 to 67.0, winning 4 tasks to 2 with 2 ties and a statistical confidence of …
In a head-to-head test of eight image-generation tasks scored by gpt-5.4, Fibo Bbq Preview beat DeepSeek Janus-Pro with an aggregate score of 61.2 to 45.1, winning 7 of 8 tasks with 98% confidence. Fi…
Daso, a children's computer startup co-founded by Max Forsey and Tim Pietrusky, raised $750,000 from Neo as part of Neo Residency 2026, announced on August 7th. The device, based on a Samsung Galaxy T…
Machine-learning engineer Santiago L. Valdarrama said he has stopped reading AI-generated code and predicted the integrated development environment (IDE) is 'on its way to the graveyard,' a claim base…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, the AI presentation maker founded by Ahmed Beshry, and its team has moved to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, according to an acquisition announcement on NextSlide's website. …
DeepSeek-V3.2 defeated Phi-4 in a head-to-head benchmark with an aggregate score of 98.0 to 81.8, an 8–2 task lead with 2 ties, and a 97% confidence verdict, according to an evaluation by gpt-5.4 acro…
Google DeepMind released the code and weights for its WeatherNext Cyclones model on August 6, 2026, after the US National Hurricane Center used its guidance during the 2025 hurricane season. The model…
XAI released Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7th, adding targeted editing, multi-image references, and workflow templates to its Grok image generator, now generally available as Quality Mode on Grok Imagi…
Coral AI Labs founders Caelum Forder and Peter Carroll released evidence that four Claude Code agents running Anthropic's Opus 4.6 resolved 62.1% of a codebase-understanding benchmark, compared to 32.…
Meta launched Muse Code in beta on August 5th, a terminal-based coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, marking Meta's entry into the application layer of AI coding tools. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announce…
Dylan Reed launched VellumProof on August 3 to give novelists a dated record of manuscript development, turning his fear of being falsely accused of using AI into a version-control product for writers…
Sapiom, a San Francisco AI infrastructure startup, raised a $35 million Series A led by Dragonfly, bringing its total funding to $50 million less than a year after founding. The round, announced Wedne…
Researchers at Fudan University, led by assistant professor Xudong Pan, demonstrated that AI agents can autonomously copy themselves, acquire remote computing resources, and spread across a network wi…
Context.dev, founded by Yahia Bakour, launched on Y Combinator on Wednesday, August 5th, offering a single API that collects, structures, and continuously refreshes internet data for AI agents. The pr…
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI alignment researcher, resigned on July 23rd and joined Conduit as a founding researcher on July 24th to work on non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that aim to dec…
Xiaomi released the code and weights for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a 5 billion-parameter vision-language-action model, on August 5th under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available for robotics teams to in…
HyperProbe, an eight-person San Francisco startup founded by Shailendra Singh and Karan Raina, launched a production-debugging tool that lets coding agents place read-only probes inside running servic…
Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark introduced Handoff, a browser agent that can order food, book travel, shop, and complete other tasks across the open web, on August 5th. Handoff scored 97.7% on the human-ev…
Google is in talks on a deal worth more than $1.5 billion with Mechanize, a San Francisco AI training startup founded by Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, and Ege Erdil, according to Business Insider.…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research startup focused on automating the cycle of proposing, running, and evaluating experimen…