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Meta unveiled Business Agent, an AI system for customer service and transactions on WhatsApp, at its Conversations conference in London. The global market for agentic AI is projected to grow from $10.9 billion in 2026 to…
Montreal-based surgical AI company Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech 2026 in Paris. The company uses Raman spectroscopy to analyze tissue molecular signatures during surger…
GLM-5.2, developed by Z.ai, has achieved the top rank on Design Arena's single-turn HTML Web Design evaluation, surpassing Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.6, and Opus 4.7. The model, which is MIT-licensed and has 744 billion para…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B-parameter open-weights model under MIT license, on June 16, 2026, challenging Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. Opus leads most benchmarks, especially on multi-hour software engineering tasks, bu…
Databricks launched CustomerLake on June 16, 2026 at its Data + AI Summit, an agentic Customer Data Platform natively embedded in its lakehouse that eliminates the need to copy customer data into a separate CDP. The plat…
Nobel Prize-winning chemist John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, as reported by Reuters on June 19, 2026. Jumper, known for leading the AlphaFold project that predicted protein structures, joins Anthropi…
Both U.S. and Chinese AI firms are expanding in Singapore, positioning the city-state as a potential neutral AI hub. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Tencent have established operations there, attracted by its reg…
Canadian medical AI startup Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech in Paris, beating dozens of international competitors. The company's AI platform uses Raman spectroscopy to an…
Nobel laureate John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. The departure follows Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leavin…
ABC News traced Sydney startup Coreflow to OurDream, one of the largest AI pornography sites, and found images that appear to depict people under 16 years old, with experts describing some material as child abuse materia…
Rising AI compute costs are driving enterprises to adopt cheaper Chinese models like DeepSeek, with U.S. developers reporting costs of $10 per hour on Claude versus under $0.50 on DeepSeek. Companies are implementing usa…
John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-led the development of AlphaFold at Google DeepMind, announced he is leaving the company to join Anthropic. The move highlights a broader trend of senior AI researchers…
John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president and Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind AlphaFold, is leaving the company to join Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant. His departure signals a major talent shi…
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI models. Bank of America…
StoryLab launches an AI-powered brand positioning platform that analyzes business concepts across six cognitive dimensions—psychology, cognition, market intelligence, narrative, risk, and execution—to deliver comprehensi…
Multiple major tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are struggling with their AI strategies, wasting billions of dollars without clear vision or execution. Meta's AI research lab is described…
John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and computer scientist known for leading Google DeepMind's AlphaFold team, announced Friday he is leaving the company to join AI startup Anthropic. Jumper's departure follows a …
Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' months after Amazon expanded its partnership with OpenAI, including a $50 billion investment. The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the…
Subquadratic, a Miami AI startup, claims to have broken through the transformer attention bottleneck that limits large language models, introducing Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) to enable efficient long-context pro…
Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years, following the departures of Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and AlphaGo researcher David Silver to start his own comp…