DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
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DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

DeepL has acquired Mixhalo to enhance its live-event audio streaming and translation capabilities. The acquisition...

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I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t
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I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t

An angel investor shares insights from selling his AI startup before generating revenue, discussing why deep technical...

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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that enables users to discover products...

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Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations
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Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations

Google Cloud is deploying generative AI to automate council planning operations across UK municipal agencies, helping...

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Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone
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Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone

Major hyperscalers including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are spending on AI infrastructure at 70%...

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A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

OpenAI and Molecule.one demonstrated how a near-autonomous AI chemist powered by GPT-5.4 successfully improved a key...

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The next humanoid robot might not look human at all
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The next humanoid robot might not look human at all

Genesis AI, a French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has unveiled Eno, a new general-purpose humanoid...

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MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget
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MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget

MiniMax released MSA, a sparse attention mechanism built on Grouped Query Attention that reduces per-token attention...

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OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls
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OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls

OpenAI introduced Deployment Simulation, a method that replays past conversations through candidate models before...

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Could AI tell you where you left your keys?
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Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

Researchers have developed a new spatial memory system for robots that efficiently captures and recalls details about...

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How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
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How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention

This article demonstrates how to implement xFormers, a toolkit for building memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs...

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Introducing LifeSciBench

LifeSciBench is a new expert-authored and expert-reviewed benchmark designed to evaluate how AI systems perform on...

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Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business
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Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business

Databricks launched Genie One, an agentic AI tool designed to help business teams automate workflows and orchestrate...

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The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents
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The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents

Databricks released a new Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing architecture designed to support AI agents in...

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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's business popularity is growing significantly among enterprise users despite recent tensions with the Trump...

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Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
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Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls

Bland, a voice AI startup founded in 2023, has raised $50 million in funding to expand its AI agents that handle phone...

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Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
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Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

The UK government has partnered with Google DeepMind to develop an AI-powered prototype designed to accelerate housing...

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SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B
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SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B

SpaceX announced plans to acquire Cursor, a popular AI coding platform, for $60 billion in stock, with closing expected...

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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek
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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek

Microsoft is transitioning Copilot Cowork to usage-based billing instead of flat-rate pricing and considering...

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