Startups & Funding
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
Monday.com is reducing its workforce by 20% (approximately 630 employees) to streamline operations and focus on its AI...
TechCrunch AI
Other Companies
Research & Papers
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, a highly influential computer scientist known for his clear writing and...
MIT News AI
Ethics & Regulation
Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...
The Decoder
LLM
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models specifically designed for cybersecurity that detect approximately...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots
Microagi, a German startup, is collaborating with Google Cloud and Nvidia to develop task-specific embodied AI models...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Agibot Expands Embodied AI Portfolio With Four New Products
Chinese robotics company Agibot has expanded its embodied AI product portfolio with four new offerings, targeting...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up
SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project in partnership with nearly 20 companies to scale domestic AI chip...
AI News
Startups & Funding
This Time Is Different: Why AI Is Unlike Any Wave I Have Seen In 40 Years Of Financial Services
AI will fundamentally transform the financial services industry by reducing marginal operating costs to near-zero and...
Crunchbase News
Ethics & Regulation
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
Nearly 200 US utility companies and data center developers have signed President Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge'...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow, a cybersecurity startup, has emerged from stealth with a $1.2B valuation to address endpoint security risks...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
This article compares four open-source LLM fine-tuning frameworks—Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory—analyzing...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive training platform where employees practice workplace...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases
Cisco Foundation AI released Antares, a family of small language models (350M and 1B parameters) designed to identify...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive acquisition activities in 2026 have sparked rumors on social media about a potential...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model that achieves performance...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
Director Neill Blomkamp launched Barley Studios, an AI startup/production company, and debuted a 13-minute sci-fi short...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Jack Dorsey is launching Buzz, a group chat platform designed for workplace teams that integrates human users with AI...
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