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IBM and Red Hat launched Project Lightwell last week with a $5 billion commitment and 20,000 engineers to secure open-source software, while Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc announced a $50 million, 100-engineer effort to build…
Cognition launched Devin Desktop on Tuesday, transforming its Windsurf IDE into an "Agent Command Center" that lets developers manage local and cloud coding agents from a single editor. The new app defaults to a Kanban-s…
Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET, published a critique on June 2 opposing government ownership of AI companies, arguing that nationalization would concentrate power and stifle innovation. Goertzel instead …
A Swedish farm developer has ordered a single PIR motion sensor as the first component of FenceGuard, an open-source early warning system for livestock predators. The project deliberately starts with minimal hardware—a P…
Martin Scorsese has joined Black Forest Labs, a generative AI firm, as an advisor and is using its text-to-image and video tools for storyboarding on his next film. The director, who previously expressed cautious optimis…
Versant Media, the media company spun off from NBCUniversal that owns MS NOW and CNBC, has invested in microdrama streaming platform GammaTime as part of a Series A funding round. The partnership will develop original co…
AI has disrupted the job market by enabling widespread cheating on applications and interviews, making it difficult for employers to distinguish genuine candidates from those using AI-generated resumes and chatbots. The …
Xint, an AI-powered penetration testing tool, discovered an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability in a healthcare client's system that exposed patients' protected health information. The vulnerability byp…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said his startup now spends more on AI tokens for internal agents than on employee salaries, marking a shift in corporate spending priorities. The $10 billion company, which helps train AI models…
Microsoft employee Omar Shahine built a personal AI assistant called Lobster in his spare time using OpenClaw technology, which he later presented to Microsoft's AI Accelerator group, landing him a new role leading "Proj…
Public.com is adding dynamic bank transfer capabilities to its AI Agents, allowing the automated investment tools to manage cash flow by moving money between bank accounts and the platform. The New York-based investing p…
Perplexity AI announced a platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI inference between PCs and cloud servers in real time, acting as an "air-traffic controller" for AI tasks. The chip-agnostic system targets the cos…
Rudus, an AI platform developed by YC-backed founders Rishi and Sahil, automates material quantity takeoffs for concrete subcontractors by using computer vision to analyze structural PDFs and generate detailed line items…
Goodfire AI announced it raised $150 million in Series B funding at a $1.25 billion valuation to scale its work on making large language model internals auditable. The company said the investment marks a shift from testi…
Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, using the technology solely for storyboarding to communicate his vision more efficiently. The Oscar-winning directo…
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has joined AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser and is using its generative AI technology to storyboard his upcoming films. Scorsese said the tools allow him to share his visual …
TinyFish released BigSet, an open-source multi-agent system that builds structured, exportable datasets from plain-English descriptions. The system infers schemas, dispatches agents to gather live web data, deduplicates …
DuckDuckGo recorded its highest single-day search traffic ever on June 1, driven by a surge in iPhone installs following Google's AI-heavy search overhaul announced at Google I/O. US iOS installs over the past week ran 9…
Atana Elements, a US exploration company, is using AI to identify lithium deposits beneath 1.5 million acres surrounding major battery manufacturing hubs in Salzgitter, Germany and Wroclaw, Poland. The startup aims to re…
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle detailed how the platform is adapting to a 1,400% surge in code shipped by AI agents in 2026, which is straining infrastructure originally built for human-paced development. Daigle addressed challe…