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Toast, a Calgary-based talent acquisition company, launched an AI-powered recruitment platform called Toast Talent Marketplace to help employers hire women for tech roles. The platform uses semantic AI search and integra…
Ancestry has deployed machine learning to accelerate its record digitization pipeline from nine months to under nine days, with its corpus now exceeding 71 billion records. The company adds about 10 million records daily…
Anthropic released a beta version of its Claude Desktop app for Linux, expanding the AI assistant beyond Windows and macOS. The app includes Chat, Cowork, and Code interfaces, with official support for Ubuntu 22.04+ and …
US finance app SoFi acquired Toronto-based FinTech startup Composer to add AI-powered investing strategies. The new tool allows SoFi's 14 million members to build, test, and automate investment strategies using natural l…
XAI launched an autonomous goal mode in Grok Build on June 22, 2026, allowing AI coding agents to execute bounded objectives without human supervision. The mode uses a two-model pipeline with a Composer planning model an…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launched a neural headband…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail sites nearly doubled…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC co-designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aiming for 50% lower inference cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. Production is planned for 2027, with broader deploymen…
NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano Super is being used to self-host a local text-to-speech app called StreamTTS, which serves audio via durable streams instead of traditional request-response APIs. The setup allows users to share…
Anthropic released a beta version of the Claude Desktop app for Linux, supporting Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 12+ on x86_64 and arm64. The beta includes Chat, Cowork, and Code tabs but lacks Computer Use, dictation, and sup…
X launched a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on June 30, 2026, exposing over 200 API endpoints to AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok, enabling AI agents to natively interact with the platform. The move pos…
NoimosAI launched a Creative Agent that generates brand-ready assets by analyzing competitor output, top-performing creatives, and a brand's past results, aiming to replace guesswork with data-driven patterns. The tool s…
ChatbotX, an open-source omnichannel AI marketing platform, launches as an alternative to ManyChat and Chatfuel, supporting platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Built with Node.js, TypeScript, and Ne…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient image model, and made Gemini Omni Flash available to developers for video generation and editing. The models are accessible via Google AI Studio, Ge…
LiteLLM Agent Platform shipped the inline harness, a shared OpenCode harness that eliminates the need for per-agent pods, reducing infrastructure overhead for teams running 5–15 agents. This feature allows production tea…
A developer recounts pushing an agent into production that failed after a CRM dropdown change, highlighting the inadequacy of model-level evaluation for agent systems. The article argues that agents must be evaluated as …
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of coding models that learn to build their own task scaffolds, moving intelligence from the surrounding harness into the model itself. The models, ranging from 9B …
Google announced Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient image generation model, and previewed Gemini Omni Flash for video generation. NotebookLM will use Nano Banana 2 Lite to create 60-second short vide…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of Nano Banana 2 Lite and the public preview of Gemini Omni Flash on its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, offering cost-efficient image generation and conversational video…
Google Cloud launched AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable version of its AlloyDB for PostgreSQL database, designed to help financial services firms modernize legacy systems, maintain data sovereignty, and support real-time AI w…