Kong names Bruce Felt as chief financial officer
A developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, Kong, has announced that Bruce Felt has joined it as CFO. Felt is a seasoned finance leader who brings experience guiding enterprise software companies through their growth phases, including several IPOs, acquisitions, and global expansions. Mr. F
Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space
Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.
JPMorgan begins tracking how employees use AI at work
Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools. That use may also influence performance reviews. The report states employees
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Salesforce AI Research Releases VoiceAgentRAG: A Dual-Agent Memory Router that Cuts Voice RAG Retrieval Latency by 316x
In the world of voice AI, the difference between a helpful assistant and an awkward interaction is measured in milliseconds. While text-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems can afford a few seconds of ‘thinking’ time, voice agents must respond within a 200ms budget to maintain a natura
Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three inve
Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
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Agent-Infra Releases AIO Sandbox: An All-in-One Runtime for AI Agents with Browser, Shell, Shared Filesystem, and MCP
In the development of autonomous agents, the technical bottleneck is shifting from model reasoning to the execution environment. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate code and multi-step plans, providing a functional and isolated environment for that code to run remains a significant infra
How to Build Advanced Cybersecurity AI Agents with CAI Using Tools, Guardrails, Handoffs, and Multi-Agent Workflows
In this tutorial, we build and explore the CAI Cybersecurity AI Framework step by step in Colab using an OpenAI-compatible model. We begin by setting up the environment, securely loading the API key, and creating a base agent. We gradually move into more advanced capabilities such as custom function
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Meet A-Evolve: The PyTorch Moment For Agentic AI Systems Replacing Manual Tuning With Automated State Mutation And Self-Correction
A team of researchers associated with Amazon has released A-Evolve, a universal infrastructure designed to automate the development of autonomous AI agents. The framework aims to replace the ‘manual harness engineering’ that currently defines agent development with a systematic, automated evolution
Sora’s shutdown could be a reality check moment for AI video
Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?
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Chroma Releases Context-1: A 20B Agentic Search Model for Multi-Hop Retrieval, Context Management, and Scalable Synthetic Task Generation
In the current AI landscape, the ‘context window’ has become a blunt instrument. We’ve been told that if we simply expand the memory of a frontier model, the retrieval problem disappears. But as any AI professionals building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems knows, stuffing a million toke
Google-Agent vs Googlebot: Google Defines the Technical Boundary Between User Triggered AI Access and Search Crawling Systems Today
As Google integrates AI capabilities across its product suite, a new technical entity has surfaced in server logs: Google-Agent. For software devs, understanding this entity is critical for distinguishing between automated indexers and real-time, user-initiated requests. Unlike the autonomous crawle
A Coding Guide to Exploring nanobot’s Full Agent Pipeline, from Wiring Up Tools and Memory to Skills, Subagents, and Cron Scheduling
In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into nanobot, the ultra-lightweight personal AI agent framework from HKUDS that packs full agent capabilities into roughly 4,000 lines of Python. Rather than simply installing and running it out of the box, we crack open the hood and manually recreate each of it
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
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Mistral AI Releases Voxtral TTS: A 4B Open-Weight Streaming Speech Model for Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Generation
Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model that marks the company’s first major move into audio generation. Following the release of its transcription and language models, Mistral is now providing the final ‘output layer’ of the audio stack, positioning itself as a dire
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.
A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time
“Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is essentially a metal box on wheels. Standing at around a meter in height, it reminds me of a stainless-steel counter in a restaurant kitchen. It is covered in flexible plastic tubing—which act as veins and arteries—connecting a
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NVIDIA AI Unveils ProRL Agent: A Decoupled Rollout-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Turn LLM Agents at Scale
NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting a ‘Rollout-as-a-Service’ philosophy, the system decouples agentic rollout orchestration from the training loop. This architectural shift addres