Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor predicted consumers will prefer businesses using AI phone agents over traditional call centers within three to four years, setting a 2029-2030 deadline for a major labor …
In a head-to-head comparison of AI image generation models, Juggernaut Flux Lightning scored 23.0 to Bagel's 16.7 across three tasks, winning for better adherence to prompt specifics and scene structu…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if…
Fika Jobs raised $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Luminar Ventures to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates and create searchable profiles, aiming to surface tr…
Cadence, a startup using AI to manage chronic disease, raised $100 million in a Series E round led by Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The company claims its platform saves Medicare…
France has ordered 5,000 drones from Harmattan AI, a Dassault-backed startup, marking a major test of whether startup speed can scale to military procurement. The order follows Dassault's participatio…
ByteDance confirmed Seedance 2.5, its next AI video generation model, for an early July launch with native 30-second single-shot video output, 50 full-modal reference materials, and enhanced controlla…
Moderne co-founders Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich will present their AI code-migration platform at the Open Source in Finance Forum London on June 25, 2026, pitching a deterministic approach to…
University of Michigan researchers released AFUN, a new affordance model that predicts both where a robot should touch an object and how it should move after contact, aiming to bridge robot perception…
The Air Force Research Laboratory unveiled Flyer, a $20 million supercomputer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, on June 18. The HPE Cray XD system delivers 8.7 petaFLOPS and includes 64 Nvidia H100 …
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 ranked as the top open-weight model and No. 3 overall on Artificial Analysis' GDPval-AA benchmark with a 1524 Elo score, placing it alongside proprietary frontier systems in multi-turn …
Unsloth released a guide on June 18 to run Z.ai's 744-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model on local hardware using aggressive quantization, compressing the model from 1.51 TB to as low as 217 GB. The tooli…
PSYONIC, led by Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, is repurposing its Ability Hand prosthetic as a data source for robot dexterity training, partnering with NVIDIA and ABB Robotics. The hand, worn by over 300 patient…
Samsung Electronics is deploying OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in Korea and its global Device eXperience division, marking one of OpenAI's largest enterprise rollouts. The too…
Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned that frontier AI labs face a bubble burst due to unsustainable investor subsidies, citing xAI's $2.5 billion quarterly loss. LeCun, who left Meta…
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent model API that coordinates a pool of agents behind a single interface, positioning it as a hedge against single-provider dependency after the U.S. government dir…
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues that AI agents will drive 100 times more software usage than humans, transforming enterprise SaaS into high-volume infrastructure requiring new guardrails for data access, p…
Humble Robotics emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round and a prototype for a cabless, battery-electric autonomous freight hauler. The round was led by Eclipse with participation from Energ…
Bernini-R Edit Video defeated Wan v2.6 Image to Video 16.2 to 9.8 in a head-to-head test of video editing and image-to-video generation, with Bernini-R demonstrating superior prompt adherence and temp…
Andrew Curran claimed Sunday that a more capable version of Anthropic's Mythos-class model has emerged from training, nine days after the US government forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5…