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After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI. 

Translate is also getting new live capabilities to make it easier to communicate in real time with a person speaking a different language.

With an interactive library that includes tongue twisters, breathing exercises, and advice on gestures, Vocal Image is also leaning more and more into AI to give automated feedback and personalized tips.

The 'Delethink' environment trains LLMs to reason in fixed-size chunks, breaking the quadratic scaling problem that has made long-chain-of-thought tasks prohibitively expensive.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers near-Opus AI performance for coding, computer use, and agents at Sonnet pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), reshaping enterprise automation economics with a 1M-token context window and stronger reliability.

Google releases tiny FunctionGemma edge model that can control mobile devices

Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.5 AI model beats human engineers on coding tests, slashes prices by 67%, and intensifies the race with OpenAI and Google.

Phi-4 proves that a 'data-first' SFT methodology is the new differentiator

The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts.

Founded by former Google Japan leaders, InfiniMind is building enterprise AI to turn vast, unused video archives into searchable, actionable business intelligence.

Upwork study reveals AI agents struggle to complete real-world tasks alone but excel by 70% when paired with human experts, reshaping the future of work.

JP Morgan’s AI adoption hit 50% of employees. The secret? A connectivity-first architecture

Mistral AI launches OCR 3 at $2 per 1,000 pages, arguing that document digitization — not chatbots — is the critical first step enterprises must take before AI adoption pays off.

VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by Flybridge.

The pressure to deploy AI is immense, but layering intelligent agents on top of unintelligent architecture is a waste of time and resources.

In an attempt to alleviate rising electricity prices, the White House wants grid operator PJM to hold an auction for new generating capacity, and it wants tech companies to bid.

AI's GPU problem is actually a data delivery problem

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Smarsh's solution wasn’t just more automation. It was a single, intelligent entry point into support.

This environment allows models to maintain persistent context, memory, and identity. Rather than a series of disconnected calls, the stateful environment enables AI coworkers to handle ongoing projects.

With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.

If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.

Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.

Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst's question about Apple on the company's earnings call.

The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

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Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

Startup Runway has raised a $315 million round at a $5.3 billion valuation, funds it will use to expand beyond AI video generation and into world models.

Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced before.

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.

Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026, with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more.

Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company's four-month update cycle.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

There is a lot of talk around AI agents taking over business processes and claiming that "SaaS is dead." While these predictions have moved SaaS stocks at times, they haven't really come true.

OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.

A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York's Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.

Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.

Offshore wind developer Aikido will deploy a small data center beneath a floating offshore wind turbine later this year.

GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."

Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.