Coding Co-pilot
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
Cursor is raising over $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, with a16z and Thrive leading the funding round. The...
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Other Companies
Coding Co-pilot
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
The article discusses how developers using AI coding assistants are generating more code that is more expensive to...
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LLM
Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks
Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, which uses mixture-of-experts to activate only 3 of its 35 billion...
The Decoder
LLM
ChatGPT bleeds market share as Claude posts explosive monthly growth
Claude has doubled its market share in a single month, surpassing DeepSeek and Grok, while ChatGPT maintains market...
The Decoder
Personal Assistants
This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
The Poetry Camera is a creative gadget that uses AI to generate poems instead of taking traditional photos, printing...
The Verge AI
Ethics & Regulation
The Real AI Shift Isn’t New Models. It’s Control.
The article argues that as AI adoption accelerates, the focus is shifting from developing new AI models to managing and...
AI Business
AI Agents
Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus
Dairy Queen is deploying an AI chatbot from Presto in its drive-thrus across the US and Canada to improve service speed...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
The article discusses concerns about AI-assisted writing tools being adopted in newsrooms under the banner of...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
Allbirds, a shoe company, rebranded itself as an AI company and saw its stock price surge sevenfold, exemplifying what...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions
Loop, a San Francisco startup building AI for supply chain disruption prediction, closed a $95M Series C funding round...
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Startups & Funding
SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news
SaySo is a new short-form video app that addresses user concerns about misinformation and AI-generated content by...
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Startups & Funding
Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?
The article examines the widening gap between AI insiders and the general public, highlighting major spending and...
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Startups & Funding
Physical Intelligence shows robot model with LLM-like generalization, flaws included
Physical Intelligence, a US start-up, has introduced π0.7, a robot foundation model that demonstrates compositional...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Sector Snapshot: Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples In 2026 To Hit Record Amount
Autonomous vehicle funding surged in Q1 2026 with multiple multibillion-dollar deals, reflecting investor confidence in...
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LLM
Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities
Qwen Team has open-sourced Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) vision-language model that uses only 3...
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Healthcare AI
Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere
OpenProtein.AI, founded by Tristan Bepler and Tim Lu, provides open-source AI models and tools for protein engineering...
MIT News AI
Startups & Funding
Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
A three-year-old startup focused on AI coding tools for enterprises has reached a $1.5B valuation after raising $150M...
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AI Agents
Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
Luma launches an AI-powered production studio in partnership with the Wonder Project to create faith-focused content,...
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Research & Papers
Building Transformer-Based NQS for Frustrated Spin Systems with NetKet
This article describes a technical guide for building Neural Quantum States using Transformer architectures combined...
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