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New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work
A new benchmark demonstrates that even the most advanced AI models perform poorly on realistic knowledge work tasks,...
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The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees
The CEO of Allbirds has launched a new AI business with significant funding but currently operates as a sole founder...
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Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages
Liquid AI has introduced LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M, two retrieval models combining dense bi-encoder...
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e2e-assure introduces Cumulo, the U.K.’s only sovereign, AI-driven, zero-day SOC platform to secure IT and OT environments
e2e-assure launched Cumulo, the U.K.'s sovereign AI-driven SOC platform designed to secure IT and OT environments using...
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Coding Co-pilot
Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks
This tutorial demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen, a Python function generation model from...
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Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
Elastic has agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, an AI startup founded three years ago that uses artificial intelligence to...
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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly raising $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, capitalizing on the growing...
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Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs
Snap is spinning off its AI video development team into a new independent company called Dotmo. Current Snap employees...
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AI Agents
Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
Perplexity has launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent that tracks the agent's work...
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Personal Assistants
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
A Match survey reveals that 47% of US singles view AI negatively in dating contexts, though many are open to AI...
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Startups & Funding
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower Week For Large Deals
This week saw a slower pace of major funding rounds, with Odyssey, a world-model startup, leading the way with a $310M...
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Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
Amazon Web Services is pursuing direct competition with Nvidia by selling its custom AI chips to other data centers, a...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) mandated that grid operators prioritize data center interconnections to...
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Personal Assistants
‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone
Karamo Brown from Netflix's 'Queer Eye' has launched Kē, a wellness app powered by an AI digital clone of himself. The...
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Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains
Computer vision technology is being deployed in retail stores to automate shelf tracking and improve inventory...
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General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
General Intuition is in talks to raise $300M at a $2B valuation to develop embodied AI and world models. The company...
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Ethics & Regulation
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
A tech worker-backed PAC called Guardrails is launching a political movement funded by small donations from AI industry...
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Stellantis, Wayve and Uber to Develop Global Robotaxi
Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber are collaborating to develop autonomous robotaxi technology for global deployment. The...
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Healthcare AI
AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well
Two new studies published in Nature demonstrate that specialized AI systems can diagnose diseases and make treatment...
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