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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…
Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues that AI agents represent a new form of software distinct from traditional web applications, citing their dynamic interaction and unpredictable outputs. Qu led the development of …
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from under 5% in 2025, while over 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to be canceled by end of 2027 due to inadequate d…
OpenMontage, an open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 52 tools, has surpassed 31,000 stars on GitHub. The system automates the entire video creation workflow from script to final render using …
A comprehensive guide to AI meeting notes explains how tools automatically transcribe, summarize, and extract tasks from meetings, saving users about 4 hours per week according to a 2026 Laxis report. However, 73% of com…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) fixes the knowledge cutoff, lack of private data access, and hallucination problems of large language models by using an embedding model to retrieve relevant documents and feed them i…
A community-built fine-tune of Google's Gemma 4 31B model has beaten the base model by 290 Elo points on the EqBench3 benchmark for marketing copy, according to a Reddit post. The fine-tune leverages Gemma 4's Apache 2.0…
Granola introduces a bot-free AI notepad that enhances rough meeting notes with real-time transcript context, helping venture capital partners capture founder insights without disrupting rapport. The tool addresses the d…
Granola, an AI notepad, helps sales and investment professionals capture high-quality leads at networking events by converting rough shorthand into structured CRM records without interrupting conversations. The tool uses…
Venture capital partners can now use Granola, a bot-free AI notepad that captures device audio and transcribes in real time, to track every founder commitment without disrupting conversations. The tool enhances rough not…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, confirmed via official access on April 23, 2026. The model achieves a score of 96.6 on the Agentic#2 benchmark and 1474.62 on LM Arena, while Meta's rival model Watermelon reportedly matches …
The White House is controlling access to GPT-5.6 by rationing throughput, the speed of pattern recognition, rather than the information itself. This mirrors historical priest-class tactics of controlling the tempo of und…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 offers a 1-million-token context window at standard pricing with no long-context tax, but the cost of filling it remains significant. Whole-repo Q&A with caching costs about $1.17 for eight qu…
Automated cold email outreach has overwhelmed Gmail inboxes by 2026, with tools like Apollo.io and Instantly sending tens of thousands of personalized messages that bypass traditional spam filters. Gmail's built-in filte…
Ekorbia released versions 0.4 and 0.5, adding guided setup, an in-app model manager, Spaces for bundling context, and fully offline UI in v0.4, followed by on-device voice dictation via whisper.cpp in v0.5. The updates e…