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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 
Startups & Funding

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 

Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, has achieved a $10.3B valuation with backing from prominent...

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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Personal AssistantsGoogle

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Google's Gemini AI assistant has reached over 750 million monthly users in February, approaching a billion-user...

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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an 'AI Kill Switch Act' that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security...

The Verge AI
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Startups & FundingOpenAI

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Apple has filed a major trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees at OpenAI targeted...

The Verge AI
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size
LLM

Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size

Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a compact coding model that outperforms larger competitors by using training techniques...

The Decoder
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
Ethics & Regulation

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

Right-wing residents in Florida are protesting the expansion of AI data centers in their community, seeking a permanent...

The Verge AI
Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem
Healthcare AI

Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

Nvidia has introduced a Medical Physics Simulation framework that treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems...

AI News
Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"
LLMGoogle

Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini's next advancement requires building significantly larger base models,...

The Decoder
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
LLMDeepSeek

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

Experts dispute claims that Anthropic's Fable model was used to distill Kimi K3, suggesting the Chinese model's rapid...

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AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal
Startups & FundingAnthropic

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a major infrastructure deal covering tens of billions...

AI News
Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Research & Papers

Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared

Open speech recognition models have diversified beyond Whisper dominance in 2026, with Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite...

MarkTechPost
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
Personal Assistants

Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

iKairos, a successor to Jibo backed by the original founders, is a wearable or desk-mounted AI journal that...

Wired AI
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Research & Papers

Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers

Gigatoken is a Rust-based BPE tokenizer that achieves 24.53 GB/s encoding speed on GPT-2 tokenization, significantly...

MarkTechPost
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Coding Co-pilotAnthropic

Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal

Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta, which performs multi-agent vulnerability...

MarkTechPost
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
Startups & Funding

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow is investing $40 million in BusinessNext, an Indian banking software specialist, to expand its financial...

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Healthcare AIOpenAI

Launching Health in ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched a Health feature in ChatGPT that allows eligible U.S. users to securely connect their medical...

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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
AI Agents

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

IBM's stock declined after the company reported weak mainframe sales, which the CEO attributed to AI temporarily...

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Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Coding Co-pilot

Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost

Cursor has launched Cursor Router, a request-level classifier that intelligently routes coding tasks to the most...

MarkTechPost
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Startups & FundingGoogle

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is experiencing significant growth driven by enterprise adoption of AI and AI infrastructure...

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