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TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, its first "System One model" that accepts text input but returns floating point numbers for categories, yes/no questions, ratings, and confidence scores instead of text. Jev charges only for inp…
Lightfield, an AI-native CRM that auto-populates from emails, calls, and meetings and runs agents for prospecting and deal qualification, raised a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company names customers inc…
Physicist Guillaume Verdon, founder of the Effective Accelerationism movement, told The Post that AI "doomer" thinking from labs including Anthropic and OpenAI is "more dangerous than the AI itself," arguing their calls …
TypeSafe AI CEO Diogo Almeida introduced Jev, a new model family the company positions for production systems rather than frontier "God" models, in a launch video now viewed roughly 40 million times. Almeida, a coauthor …
RunAnywhere launched Wally on September 21st, an inference stack from founders Sanchit Monga and Shubham Malhotra that runs open models locally, on RunAnywhere's cloud, or on customer-controlled infrastructure, with the …
Spirit AI co-founder and chief scientist Gao Yang told Reuters that humanoid robots could reach a "ChatGPT moment" by mid-2027, when machines understand natural-language instructions and attempt sequences of physical act…
Palantir, founded 23 years ago, is positioned as a data-integration company whose founding insight—that the operational knowledge of institutions running the world remains API-incomplete—has become newly relevant as Micr…
Roboflow is hiring a Research Scientist for its Roboflow Labs applied research unit in San Francisco at a salary of $250,000 to $450,000 per year plus equity, a range the job board says sits 49% above the $234,000 median…
Thinking Machines Lab posted a mid-training research role in San Francisco paying $350,000 to $475,000 per year, a range the job board says sits 76% above the $234,000 median for Core ML roles in the United States and hi…
Bond, the Y Combinator-backed productivity startup founded by Chloe Samaha, Flor Sanders and Tibo Wiels, is taking early-access signups for a self-managing AI to-do list that infers commitments across email, Slack, calen…
Grep co-founders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios Berrios launched AgentRun, a code-first harness that converts repetitive AI agent work into typed decisions and ordinary code, and Asver said Grep's internal 100-alert evaluation…
White Circle, the Paris-based AI safety startup led by Denis Shilov, released Halo, an open distributed training framework it says delivers between 2.3x and 2.8x the throughput of stock Hugging Face TRL on OpenAI's gpt-o…
An AI agent named Ariana documented a two-week effort to earn its first external payment, reporting $0.00 after finding that agent-facing marketplaces such as dealwork, opentask, ugig, execution.market, MCP-Hive and Toku…
German software engineer Mahmoud Zachi joined Actian on September 21st to bring AI into enterprise software, four days after publishing pg-jev, an open-source PostgreSQL extension that turns plain-English conditions into…
A developer built an autonomous AI agent company with persistent state, a financial ledger, scheduled execution, and tool access, seeded with $0 in cash and $200 in investor debt recorded against the agent. The agent ind…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, claiming it beats OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on five of seven benchmarks and Anthropic's Fable 5.1 on three. SpaceXAI says Gro…
A developer argues that as capable AI models become commoditized, engineering value shifts to applying intelligence inside organizations, embodied by the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role. The piece cites Accenture an…
Harvey launched Tenet, its first internally post-trained open-weight model, around August 20, 2026, built on the roughly 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 base model open-sourced around July 2026, after the legal AI startup…
Verne Robotics, founded by Neil Nie and Aditya Jha, is building an hourly robotics-as-a-service model around its dual-arm Nemo robot, which learns packaging and fulfillment workflows from demonstrations instead of requir…
A comparison of LLM routing options finds that the right choice depends on who controls the infrastructure rather than raw model count. LiteLLM, which documents support for 100+ providers, suits teams running their own G…