Startups & Funding
The AI Startup Funding Boom Is Not A Global Phenomenon
U.S. AI startups have captured nearly 80% of global seed through growth-stage funding in 2026, a significant shift from...
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AI Agents
HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China
Huawei launched HarmonyOS 7, positioning it as the beginning of the agent era and capitalizing on Apple's decision not...
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AI Agents
Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents
Accenture's 2026 Consumer Pulse Research survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries found that 74% of respondents...
AI News
Research & Papers
Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs
Flash-KMeans is an open-source, IO-aware GPU implementation of k-means clustering that achieves significant performance...
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Ethics & Regulation
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
As AI companies conduct mass layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers, a small group of AI insiders is...
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LLM
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, featuring a 1-million-token context window and two thinking-effort levels...
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Startups & Funding
Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers
Orbio announced a $21 million Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital to support its platform that automates hiring...
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Research & Papers
A Coding Hands-On on FineWeb for Streaming, Filtering, Deduplication, Tokenization, and Large-Scale Web Corpus Analytics
This tutorial provides a hands-on guide to working with the FineWeb dataset, demonstrating how to stream and analyze...
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Startups & Funding
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
AI startups are attempting to capitalize on the momentum of high-profile IPOs, with companies looking to go public as...
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Ethics & Regulation
KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption
KPMG published a report on AI adoption containing fabricated case studies involving UBS, the NHS, and other...
The Decoder
AI Agents
Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent: A Meta-Harness That Composes, Governs, and Shares AI Agents Across Claude Code, Codex, and Pi
Databricks has open-sourced Omnigent, a meta-harness platform that enables composition, governance, and sharing of AI...
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LLM
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
KPMG retracted a report on AI usage after discovering it contained hallucinations generated by AI tools. The incident...
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AI Agents
How to Build a QwenPaw Agent Workspace with Custom Skills, Model Providers, Console Access, and Streaming API Testing
This tutorial guides users through building a QwenPaw agent workspace with custom skills, model provider integration,...
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Research & Papers
New AI model called "Count Anything" does exactly what it says, and that's harder than it sounds
"Count Anything" is a new AI model that can count objects in any type of image using text prompts, cutting error rates...
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LLM
Open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights trillion-parameter model for programming that costs up to 12x less...
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Coding Co-pilot
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 Over K2.6
Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused model built on Kimi K2.6 with a 256K context window and...
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Research & Papers
A Coding Implementation on Spatial Graph Neural Networks for Urban Function Inference Using city2graph, OSMnx, and PyTorch Geometric
The article presents an end-to-end spatial graph learning pipeline using city2graph, OSMnx, and PyTorch Geometric to...
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Startups & Funding
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are among the companies heading to public markets in a significant IPO wave, with the...
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Startups & Funding
It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe
The IPO market is experiencing a resurgence with a new wave of AI-related companies leading the charge under the MANGOS...
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