Ethics & Regulation
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York became the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, citing concerns about the AI-driven...
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Other Companies
Startups & Funding
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI, a 2024-founded startup developing open source AI technology, has secured a $1 billion compute deal with...
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LLM
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO argues that the AI race is shifting from frontier models to open models, as enterprises increasingly...
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Personal Assistants
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is launching a new AI-powered conversational assistant for Premium subscribers that enables users to discover...
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Personal Assistants
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman has released a new AI-powered auto-draft feature for email that generates replies requiring minimal editing....
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Startups & Funding
PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another winner
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has achieved a $2 billion valuation following an extended Series C funding...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
The article discusses ELIZA, a pioneering chatbot created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s, and how it...
Wired AI
AI Agents
How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
The article provides guidance on managing AI investments during the agentic era by focusing on measuring productivity...
OpenAI Blog
Ethics & Regulation
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
DOGE used AI for housing policy decisions, but HUD has refused to release documents detailing how the AI was used,...
Wired AI
Coding Co-pilot
Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Hayden Bleasel released Blume, an open-source documentation framework that converts Markdown/MDX folders into AI-ready...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
Successful tech entrepreneurs are re-engaging with their ventures, driven by the fear of missing out on AI's...
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AI Agents
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber's Chief Product Officer discusses the company's expansion into financial services, autonomous vehicles through its...
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Startups & Funding
Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439M in funding, bringing its valuation to over $2B. The company plans to...
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Startups & Funding
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Nous Research, maker of the Hermes AI agent, is raising at least $75 million in new funding led by Robot Ventures and...
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Research & Papers
Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity
Skyfall AI has released MORPHEUS, a persistent enterprise simulation benchmark platform designed for continual...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
How Enterprises Should Respond to Economists’ AI Risk Letter
Economists have written a letter raising concerns about AI risks, which may prompt policy changes. Enterprises should...
AI Business
AI Agents
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
SceneSmith is an AI system that uses collaborative AI agents to generate realistic 3D virtual environments such as...
MIT News AI
AI Agents
Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks
This tutorial reconstructs the VideoAgent workflow as a multi-agent pipeline with intent parsing, graph planning, and...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Chinese Tech Vendors Converge on Humanoid Robotics and Embodied AI
Chinese technology vendors are increasingly focusing on humanoid robotics and embodied AI as the sector experiences...
AI Business