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Anthropic's Labs team, a rotating group of about 20 employees led by cofounder Ben Mann, has driven the AI company's growth by quickly killing bad ideas and developing hits like Claude Code, which became the definitive A…
Coding agents are evolving as harnesses get absorbed into models, with specialized agents rising to fill gaps where baseline models lack data, according to an industry analysis. The commoditization of models shifts value…
Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 59th cohort of winners, including 15-year-old Maximilian Kornstein from the Atlanta area, who is building AI agents…
Simile AI co-founder Joon Sung Park discussed the company's focus on behavioral scaling and social simulation as the next frontier for AI, moving beyond static next-token prediction to model human behavior for complex so…
David Sacks, former White House AI and crypto adviser, warned that Effective Altruism networks have funneled over $1 billion into AI-risk advocacy, and that Anthropic's potential IPO, with private valuation at $965 billi…
Snowflake Ventures announced investments in Dust and Gray Swan, two startups building enterprise AI infrastructure for security, governance, and agent platforms. The investments aim to address the infrastructure gaps tha…
Polign, a new vector database that separates index storage from compute, stores all 12.5 million English Wikipedia passages (81.7 GiB) in an S3 bucket for $2.28 per month, and a $55 spot instance handles a dozen searches…
China's three ministries issued the "Implementation Opinions on Regulated Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents" on May 8, 2026, followed by Document 414 on August 31, 2026, establishing a two-laye…
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber Technologies Co. Ltd., is reportedly returning to the ride-hailing market by developing robotaxi technology at his new startup Atoms, according to a Financial Times report on Sunda…
In a recent AI product-building competition, 66% of the 13,400 participants were non-professional developers, over 80% were solo teams, and more than half built products in under 30 hours for less than $70, according to …
Reported critical vulnerabilities across 21 of the largest software companies, including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, jumped past 600 per month this spring after never exceeding 100 per month for four straight year…
AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil has joined Subsense, a neurotechnology startup that plans to use a nasal spray of charged nanoparticles to connect computers to brains without surgery, as an alternative to Neuralink. Subsense has…
Sierra, an AI customer experience company co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, is hiring a Norwegian-speaking Strategist, Agent Development in London with a salary of £150k–245k/yr. The role involves owning the Agen…
Investor and writer Paul Graham-style pitch critic observes that many startup pitches, particularly new AI-driven software for tradespeople like plumbers, are actually "3 side hustles in a trench coat" — a single company…
Comma AI is promoting its comma four windshield-mounted computer, which runs the open-source openpilot software to provide hands-free driving for more than 325 vehicles across 27 brands, without requiring a subscription.…
Instinct, a personal AI agent that operates via text or call with no app, reached a $2.5 billion valuation just one week after launch, matching Linear's valuation that took years to achieve. The company has raised $350 m…
Replit, the agentic software creation platform, has opened applications for Cohort 0, a paid internship in Foster City, CA, for students with strong mathematical backgrounds to work on AI Research, Strategic Finance, or …
Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) announced $980,000 in federal funding for ASI Engineering, a Regina-based engineering consultancy, to integrate AI into its asset management platform ASI Software. The f…
AIR Security raised $50 million in two seed rounds—$10 million led by Sequoia Capital and $40 million led by Greenoaks Capital—to secure the tools and add-ons used by AI agents in enterprises. The startup, founded by Uni…
Hugging Face subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units of its $399 Microduck robot within days of its August 27 pre-order launch, powered by Rockchip's Chinese RK3566 chip. The 25-centimeter, 800-gram bi…