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 …
AnimateDiff Turbo scored 7.7 in a head-to-head comparison against Marey Realism V1.5, which scored 16.3, as Marey Realism V1.5 demonstrated superior understanding of temporal coherence and event progr…
Cohere launched North Mini Code, its first developer-focused coding model, targeting developers who want controllable AI that runs on their own infrastructure. The release extends Cohere's enterprise …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg brought Alexandr Wang into the company last year to lead an AI reset, and the focus has now shifted to commercializing Wang's work, with the first major product, Muse Spark, r…
Pearl Research Labs claims to have built a live GPU-secured blockchain without proving the work is useful AI computation, facing a 112 MW usefulness test. A preprint estimates Pearl's network runs at …
UC Berkeley doctoral student Yichuan Wang and collaborators from UC Berkeley, Princeton, EPFL and Databricks published PixelRAG, a research system that bypasses text parsing by rendering web pages as …