Startups & Funding
Moonshot AI targets a $30 billion valuation, more than six times its late-2025 worth
Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi chatbot, is seeking a valuation of up to $30 billion in a new funding...
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Other Companies
Startups & Funding
How Bigger ACVs Are Bringing Direct Sales Back To Vertical AI
Vertical AI startups are shifting their go-to-market strategies toward direct sales channels like private equity...
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AI Agents
Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores
Weis Markets is deploying Instacart's AI-powered Caper Carts to select Pennsylvania stores, featuring cameras, scales,...
AI News
Startups & Funding
Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?
Major AI companies are planning to go public, which is expected to result in increased prices across the industry. The...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption
Notion experienced a service disruption affecting access to Anthropic's services, which the company has now restored....
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LLM
Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation
This tutorial demonstrates using GEPA, a reflective prompt-evolution framework, to optimize how small language models...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot
AI-generated content creators and influencers are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human creators on...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Perplexity's "Search as Code" lets AI models write their own search pipelines instead of calling fixed APIs
Perplexity introduces 'Search as Code,' allowing AI models to write their own search routines in Python instead of...
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AI Agents
Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026
This guide reviews 21 low-code and no-code AI tools that enable users to convert prompts into functional applications,...
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Research & Papers
Researchers pinpoint why larger language models pick up skills that small ones miss
Researchers discovered that small language models fail at rare tasks because frequent tasks overwrite their learned...
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AI Agents
Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b
UIUC and Chroma have developed Harness-1, a 20B retrieval subagent trained with reinforcement learning that achieves...
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Ethics & Regulation
NVIDIA garak Tutorial: Build a Complete Defensive LLM Red-Teaming Workflow with Custom Probes and Detectors
NVIDIA's garak tutorial demonstrates an end-to-end framework for defensive red-teaming of large language models,...
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Ethics & Regulation
Sriram Krishnan is leaving his role as White House AI advisor
Sriram Krishnan is departing from his position as White House AI advisor. He is establishing a new institution to...
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Startups & Funding
Sakana AI bets AI that improves itself can break the compute arms race of frontier labs
Sakana AI, co-founded by Transformer co-author Llion Jones, has launched a research lab focused on recursive...
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LLM
New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent
A new open-source voice model called Audio Interaction enables continuous listening and can decide every 0.4 seconds...
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Healthcare AI
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Chinese peptide research laboratories funded by cryptocurrency are experiencing rapid growth, leveraging digital assets...
Wired AI
AI Agents
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi Code CLI: A Terminal AI Coding Agent Built in TypeScript for Next-Gen Agents
Moonshot AI has released Kimi Code CLI, an open-source terminal coding agent written in TypeScript that features...
MarkTechPost
LLM
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 ASR, a 600M-parameter streaming model capable of transcribing 40 language-locales in real...
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AI Agents
Qwen3.7-Plus is Alibaba's bid to turn multimodal AI into a full-blown autonomous agent
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal agent model capable of visual perception, GUI operation, and...
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