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A new analysis argues that Peter Thiel's military-AI companies Palantir and Anduril, named after artifacts from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, fundamentally contradict the author's ethical framework. The piece compares t…
GitHub announced a new GitHub App designed for agent-first workflows, joining a growing ecosystem of coding tools converging on a similar "conductor" form factor. The move validates Conductor, which pioneered the approac…
Together AI and Pearl Research Labs have partnered to launch a new AI inference endpoint for the Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl model, offering over 25% discounts by offsetting costs through cryptocurrency mining. The Pearl Networ…
AI inference has become the fastest-growing market in technology, projected to reach $250 billion within seven years, surpassing the database market. Companies like Anthropic, Google Cloud, Datadog, and Twilio are benefi…
On May 10, 2026, an AI agent deployed a pull request containing 81 lines of raw git conflict markers to tabiji.ai's production HTML for four hours. Google cut the site's organic search traffic by approximately 95 percent…
Elon Musk skipped the closing arguments of his own trial against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on Thursday, traveling to Beijing on Air Force One while his attorney apologized to the jury for his absenc…
Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in February 2025, capturing the zeitgeist around AI-assisted programming, but Steve Yegge, a longtime Amazon and Google developer, is the true prophet of the movement. Yegge …
Abridge, the AI-native healthcare company founded in 2018, is projected to support over 80 million patient-clinician conversations this year across 250 U.S. health systems, saving doctors 10–20 hours per week on clinical…
Kimi K2.6, the open-weight trillion-parameter model from Moonshot AI, now uses TiDB Cloud to power its agent website builder, supporting millions of agent-created tenants without per-tenant database instances. Moonshot A…
Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, as part of a broader wave of tech industry cuts driven by AI adoption. Oracle eliminated an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 positions globally, with 12,000 worke…
A new generation of enterprise software companies is shifting focus from owning the "system of record" to building "systems of intelligence," according to analysts. These systems sit above databases like CRM platforms, u…
Anthropic and OpenAI have acquired package manager companies Bun and Astral respectively, signaling growing interest from frontier AI labs in these software development tools. Package managers are programs that handle th…
Neon and Databricks Lakebase are redesigning their cloud infrastructure to handle the surge in agent-driven workloads, which are creating databases and scaling compute at rates far exceeding human operators. The companie…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading Stitch's Series A funding round, marking its first investment in Saudi Arabia. Stitch provides an API-first operating system for financial institutions, including a general ledger, co…
A state-of-the-art AI email solution would cost between $22 and $130 per month in raw model expenses, with a software company likely charging around $500 per year for a fully agentic product. That price is roughly double…
A small startup called Pangram Labs has developed an AI detection tool that achieves a near-zero false positive rate, claiming only 1 in 10,000 test documents are incorrectly flagged as AI-generated. The company's approa…
Cerebras Systems has secured a 750MW compute deal with OpenAI, positioning the company for its upcoming IPO as demand for fast token generation surges. The wafer-scale chip maker's speed advantages, previously overlooked…
The first in-person Agentics meetup in New York City drew 1,100 RSVPs for a venue that could only hold 200 people, forcing organizers to turn attendees away at the door. The event, focused on learning how to use and depl…
Alyx, an AI agent designed to help teams improve their own AI agents, is being used by its developers at Cursor to build and debug itself. The team built the Alyx Trace Debugger to search across dense traces containing h…
A Granola and Claude Pro subscription stack costing $38 per month can replace $78,000 per year of manual work by capturing, organizing, and making meeting context searchable. The setup, which takes 10 minutes to build, a…