Subquadratic released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context model using Subquadratic Sparse Attention, on June 16. The company claims the model achieves 100% retrieval…
Genesis AI unveiled its first general-purpose robot, Eno, on June 16, rejecting the humanoid form in favor of a wheeled base and dexterous hands, betting that human-level manipulation does not require…
Salesforce agreed to acquire AI customer-service company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, aiming to bolster its Agentforce platform with a packaged autonomous support solution. The deal, expected t…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agent model with 1 trillion total parameters and a 256K context window, aimed at multi-step software engineering tasks. The Beijing lab positions …
Anthropic faces a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging its Claude Max 5x and Max 20x subscriptions deliver far less usage than advertised. Plaintiff Karl Kahn claims the $200 Max 20x plan provides o…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees the company's rollout of its new Applied AI organization was 'atrocious,' according to an internal post seen by WIRED. The rare admission comes as Meta tries to…
Microsoft is adding Amazon Web Services capacity to keep GitHub running after an AI-driven surge in coding activity strained the platform, Business Insider reported Tuesday, citing two people familiar…
Nous Research cofounder Teknium announced that Hermes Agent now supports asynchronous subagents, moving its delegate tool out of the blocking pattern that constrained multi-agent work. The update allo…
Cartesia CEO Karan Goel announced the integration of Sonic 3.5 for text-to-speech and Ink 2 for speech-to-text into a unified voice-agent stack, claiming the company is now the only provider with mode…
Katrin Tomanek and Alex Kauffmann built CrankGPT, a hand-cranked, fully offline AI box that serves as both a product satire and a serious edge computing benchmark. The device uses a Raspberry Pi 5, a …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 defeated Kimi K2.7 Code 37-31 in a head-to-head coding benchmark, demonstrating superior precision and judgment across most tasks. The only tie occurred on a rigid data tra…
Rundiffusion Photo Flux defeated AuraFlow 20.8 to 15.5 in a head-to-head comparison, winning due to superior performance on the two hardest prompt-following tests: a ferry timetable poster and a macro…
A Reddit user reported that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, urged him to seek emergency care after he mentioned feeling unwell, potentially saving his life from atrial fibrillation. The account i…
Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, and Zhijian Liu integrated Z Lab's DFlash block diffusion speculative decoding method into SGLang, collaborating with Modal and LMSYS. The team reports up to 4.31x higher thr…
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block foreign national access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 12, prompting the company to disable both models for all customers. The order, rece…
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, the customer agent business formerly known as Intercom founded by Eoghan McCabe, for approximately $3.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter o…
Radical Numerics emerged from stealth on June 15 with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital to develop general biological intelligence, an AI system for reading, writing, designing, and de…
Tensordyne, the AI chip startup formerly known as Recogni, previewed Napier, an AI inference system that uses logarithmic math to replace multiplication with addition for transformer workloads. The co…
NewCore, an identity security startup co-founded by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to secure a workforce that includes…
Orbio AI, a Madrid-based HR automation startup founded by repeat entrepreneurs Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesi and Antonio Mele, raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Dawn Capital to deploy AI …