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Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion investment in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, to help enterprise customers adopt AI tools and demonstrate return on investment. The unit will employ 6,000 forward-deployed engi…
Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen joins Ryan to discuss what makes an AI application good or bad, balancing qualitative signals with quantitative metrics in AI evaluation, and how open-source protocols and community eff…
Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years—Kairos, NEST, and BlueDot—are spinouts from the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), suggesting that small independent teams may be better suited to h…
Google released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative UI that lets AI agents declare interface intent and render natively across platforms. The update shifts to a prompt-first schema, adds an Agent SDK,…
Emre Sokullu released WebBrain, a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox that reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks, with the option to run entirely on a local model for privacy. The …
Kioxia Holdings has begun shipping samples of its next-generation 332-layer 3D flash memory chips to AI data center operators, aiming to capture a larger share of the growing market. The new chips offer 59% more storage …
SAP is limiting hiring and travel spending to fund its AI transformation, shaking up executive ranks, and pushing customers toward cloud migrations with AI incentives. The company unveiled its "Autonomous Enterprise" vis…
The AI Engineer World's Fair concluded with a debate on the viability of autonomous software factories, pitting advocates like Geoffrey Huntley and Ian Livingstone against skeptics Dex Horthy and Greg Pstrucha. Anthropic…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's layoffs and restructuring to focus on AI agents have been ineffective, with AI development not accelerating as expected. The admission comes after Meta fired thousands…
SwitchBot launched a new outdoor security camera with 3K resolution and AI event descriptions, including wildlife recognition down to the species level. The camera costs $80 with optional cloud storage starting at $5 per…
OpenAI released the GPT-OSS-20B model on Hugging Face under the Apache-2.0 license, a 38.5 GB text-generation model with over 7 million downloads. The model requires large hardware such as multi-GPU or high-RAM machines …
Digi International launched DANI, an AI network operations agent embedded in its Digi Remote Manager platform, to automate network diagnostics and device management. The product was among the week's notable infosec relea…
Interfaze, a Y Combinator-backed startup, open-sourced diffusion-gemma-asr-small, the first multilingual diffusion-based ASR model. The model transcribes six languages using a single 42M-parameter adapter on top of Googl…
Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early a…
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall that the company's unreleased model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks, giving CEO Mark Zuckerberg a talking point fo…
Microsoft launched the Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business focused on AI engineering, with a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts to co-design and deploy AI systems for customers. The company aims to help cus…
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services announced multibillion-dollar investments in Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) services, embedding thousands of AI experts directly into customer teams to help build and deploy AI systems.…
Caveman Studio released a mid-season content update for Contractors Showdown: ExfilZone, adding new DLC, mission lines, and quality-of-life features without a wipe, allowing players to keep their gear and progress. The u…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule. The project, produ…