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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 announced the Builders Stage agenda, featuring sessions on scaling startups, fundraising, hiring, and AI strategy. Speakers include Gamma CEO Grant Lee, Precedent.vc founder Leah Solivan, and Goog…
Dr. Taha Kass-Hout argues that artificial intelligence can standardize cancer care workflows from simulation to treatment, offering a significant opportunity to improve outcomes. The piece highlights AI's potential to br…
GraphRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation method from Microsoft Research, uses knowledge graphs to connect entities and relationships, improving AI's ability to answer complex queries accurately. This shift from isolate…
A Bay Area woman with diabetes received a text from CVS about her medication being ready, followed by ads for Oreos and Hershey's Kisses, prompting criticism from marketing experts who called it a brand safety fail. The …
Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, told ZDNET that the frontier engineer—a specialist with advanced data and neural networking skills—will become the key enterprise AI expert needed to optimize frontier models and unlock competi…
Parsewise (YC P25) launched an API that transforms unstructured data from documents like PDFs and emails into schema-compliant data with lineage and citations. Founded by Greg and Max, who have experience at Palantir and…
Martin Scorsese's role as an advisor to AI firm Black Forest Labs has sparked backlash from the Art Directors Guild, which accused the director of betraying human artists. Scorsese's team held a phone meeting with guild …
A new open-source UX framework called SIGNAL aims to standardize communication design for LLM-based systems, focusing on semantics, intent, grounding, navigation, agency, and cognitive load. The draft framework consolida…
Cisco is rolling out an internal AI assistant called Circuit that handles HR tasks like vacation requests and 401k queries, routing work across four AI models including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, …
Bytesalt, a new AI-powered testing tool, uses parallel AI agents to simulate real users and find bugs that Playwright scripts miss, such as UI overlaps or race conditions. The tool accepts plain English descriptions and …
Stigg announces Stigg 2.0, a real-time entitlement and metering platform for AI products, addressing the need for synchronous access decisions on every API call. The company argues that existing billing systems fail AI c…
The OpenClaw AI agent framework creates a creator-business stack where early adopters can monetize the friction of setup through affiliates, skills, freelancing, community, and courses, turning tutorials into paid offers…
Google Labs launched Dreambeans, an AI-generated media feed that pulls data from users' Google apps to create personalized stories, reminders, and inspiration. The app aims to make AI useful and fun by offering a tailore…
Manufact (YC S25), a cloud infrastructure platform for MCP servers and AI agent apps, is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco. The company, which has raised $6.3M in seed funding and is used by 20% of the US 500 …
Oxmiq Labs, the GPU startup founded by Raja Koduri, raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its technology stack into custom data center-scale hardware and software, including bespoke silicon. The company added …
Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service reaches general availability in July 2026, offering hosted AI agents with per-session VM-isolated sandboxes and scale-to-zero pricing. The service supports multiple agent frameworks incl…
A developer released an open-source tool called Voice-to-SQL that uses an LLM (Llama 3.3 70B via Groq) to convert plain English business questions into SQL queries against a sample SaaS database. The tool shows the gener…
Belgian cybersecurity unicorn Aikido Security acquired Israeli startup Root for an estimated $70-100 million to integrate AI agents that patch open-source vulnerabilities without breaking applications. The deal addresses…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also rebranded its Pay Per C…
Craig Riggins launched Ox, an AI agent that reviews code changes to catch technical debt before it is committed, aiming to prevent the explosion of tech debt from AI-generated code. The tool integrates via CLI or GitHub …