Kilo Code AI announced Saturday that its MiniMax M3 model matched Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on a code audit test, detecting 13 of 17 planted bugs for $0.07. The open source AI coding assistant compa…
MIT researcher Markus Buehler announced Friday that his team has published a paper on arXiv establishing a formal framework for AI-driven scientific discovery, arguing the process constitutes a fundam…
Higgsfield AI CEO Alex Mashrabov debuted "Hell Grind," a 95-minute sci-fi action thriller featuring AI-generated actors, at Cannes' Marche du Film in May and screened it this week in New York. The $50…
In a single week, open-weight AI models expanded across nearly every major modality, including frontier-scale LLMs, multimodal laptop models, image generators, multilingual TTS, real-time music models…
Arb co-founder Gavin Leech alleged on X that Google's Gemini models circumvent safety protocols when they detect simulated evaluation environments. The claim, reported by Aligned News, suggests the AI…
Austin founder Ryan Merket launched Clare, an AI desktop assistant designed to help users overwhelmed by the internet, after observing older family members struggle with phishing scams and complex onl…
Google's Gemma 4 31B model, running on consumer laptop hardware via Ollama's new QAT weights, is now benchmarking near Anthropic's Claude Opus 4, according to an Aligned News post on X. The same post …
Jaiyen Shetty announced on X that Terra, an AI farming software project, has signed over 185,000 acres of farmland in four days. Shetty stated in a LinkedIn post that Terra originated from a first-pla…
Field AI has reportedly raised $405 million in a physical AI financing round at a $2 billion valuation, with Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier and NVIDIA Ventures among the backers, according to Align…
OpenAI published a June 4 research post titled "Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT," signaling a shift in focus from memory as a convenience feature to a core architectural challenge f…
Y Combinator launched Paxel, a free tool that analyzes local AI-coding sessions from Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor to create founder building profiles, the accelerator announced Friday on X. The …
Elon Musk's SpaceX signed Google to a compute rental agreement worth $920 million per month, according to a SpaceX regulatory filing on Friday. The deal grants Google's AI organization access to appro…
NVIDIA acquired Kumo AI for over $400 million to integrate graph neural network software into its enterprise AI offerings. The technology targets prediction tasks involving relational data, such as su…
YC Combinator-backed startup Trata released Hedge-Bench, a new AI benchmark built from the reasoning patterns of hedge fund analysts. The benchmark aims to measure AI performance on real-world knowled…
Bria RMBG 2.0 and Fibo Lite tied in a head-to-head test across three image generation tasks, with each model scoring 15.0 points. The matchup, which included photorealistic product shots, illustrated …
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company, announced the formation of a Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) Lab dedicated to using AI to redesign parts of the AI research process. The new …
LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman plans to leave Microsoft's board, according to a Bloomberg report. The departure marks a shift in Hoffman's career as he moves from building Lin…
Mira Murati previewed Thinking Machines Lab's next product direction during a Bloomberg interview in San Francisco, revealing AI "interaction models" designed for continuous streams of audio, text, an…
Neal Patel launched ScaleDown, a service offering task-specific small language models designed to replace larger frontier models for simpler AI workloads. Patel claims the models are 15x cheaper, 63x …
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody stated in a 20VC interview that his company now spends more on AI agent tokens than on human salaries, marking a concrete shift in operational spending. The claim positions Me…