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314 articlesNvidia Nears $12.9 Billion Deal to Buy Hugging Face
The chipmaker would own the main distribution hub for open-source AI models
OpenAI Says Its Own Models Helped Tape Out Jalapeño in Nine Months
At Hot Chips, the Broadcom-built accelerator got its first public numbers, and an unusual story about who wrote the code
Apple Puts Its First 2nm Chip in a Mac mini Built for Local AI
M6 and the quad-die M5 Ultra push desktop Macs toward on-device inference, at noticeably higher prices
Stability AI Raises $76M From the Music Industry That Once Feared It
Universal, Sony, Warner and Electronic Arts join a Series B that pushes total funding to $232 million
IBM Bets Against the Architecture Crowd With Granite 4.2 Reasoning Models
Three dense, decoder-only models under Apache 2.0, a 512K context window, and an agentic reinforcement learning stage for the larger sizes
Perplexity's New Agent Runs on Your Own GPU and Bills You Nothing to Do It
Portable Computer, built with Nvidia, keeps the model and your files on the machine and asks before escalating a step to the cloud
Anthropic Gives Claude and Cowork a Single Shared Memory
The unified store removes the need to rebrief an agent that already knows the answer, but it cannot be split back apart
Thomson Reuters Built Its Own Frontier Model for $40 Million
A 175-year-old information company now owns the intelligence layer, not just the content beneath it
Headlong Keeps AI Agents Thinking When Nobody Is Talking to Them
Laude Institute's open source microharness is under 10,000 lines of Bash and never puts the agent to sleep
Nvidia Puts Its $20 Billion Groq Bet Into Full Production
The LPX rack targets decode latency, the bottleneck that makes AI agents feel slow
Cloudflare Cut Astro's Open Issues by 85% With Four Agents That Refuse to Share Context
The triage workflow that took Astro from 200+ open issues to about 30 became a GitHub Action and an open-source framework
AWS Open-Sourced an Agent Benchmark That Spins Up Real Cloud Accounts — and Published No Scores
aws-bench provisions live infrastructure in disposable accounts, but arrives without a baseline or a leaderboard
Starcloud Raised $250M for Orbital AI Compute. Its Hardest Problem Is Booking a Rocket.
Nvidia and Cisco joined a round that values the 25-person satellite company at $2.3 billion
A Poisoned Rust Crate Was Live for 86 Minutes. It Had 245 Million Downloads.
Attackers hijacked a maintainer account, added a typosquatted dependency, and let Cargo build scripts do the rest
MCP's New Roadmap Is Really One Admission: Agents Broke the Request-Response Model
Five priority areas, and nearly all of them exist because callers stopped being humans clicking approve and started being processes that run for hours.
OpenAI Asks California to Regulate It Harder Than SB 53 Currently Does
A short LinkedIn post reverses the company's position on the frontier AI law and endorses states as the drafting floor for a future national standard.
Inherent's Faraday Agent Replicates Research Papers on a 27B Model
The London lab, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its agent beat far larger frontier systems at reproducing published findings.
Prime Intellect Ran 153 Autonomous Jobs on 18 Models. The Cheapest Winner Used 3% of the Tokens
A public leaderboard for the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun turns agent efficiency into something you can actually price.
Anthropic's Browser Use Tool Hands Claude the Page, Not the Pixels
The new Claude API toolset targets elements by reference through the accessibility tree — but developers still supply the browser
Anthropic Unlocks Its Withheld Mythos 5 Model for Defenders, With $35M for Open Source
The Defender Advantage Fund arrives alongside Mythos-powered vulnerability scanning and a looser Cyber Verification Program
Nvidia's AVO Harness Takes Claude Opus 5 From 30% to a Perfect ARC-AGI-3 Run
The scaffolding around the model delivered the jump — but the perfect score covers only the benchmark's public game set
Slack's New Channel Type Can Only Be Created by a Coding Agent
Slack Code gives agents a temporary, archivable space for plans, diffs and live previews — free on every plan, and open to four rival vendors.
New Method Turns Raw Screen Recordings Into Reusable Task Models
Task Model Induction separates interleaved work from passive screenshots and clicks, lifting held-out agent accuracy by 30%.
New Benchmark Finds AI Agents Barely Improve Training Algorithms
Two arXiv papers posted the same day measure recursive self-improvement — and how easily its gains get miscounted.
Nvidia Nears $12.9 Billion Deal to Buy Hugging Face
The chipmaker would own the main distribution hub for open-source AI models
OpenAI Says Its Own Models Helped Tape Out Jalapeño in Nine Months
At Hot Chips, the Broadcom-built accelerator got its first public numbers, and an unusual story about who wrote the code
Apple Puts Its First 2nm Chip in a Mac mini Built for Local AI
M6 and the quad-die M5 Ultra push desktop Macs toward on-device inference, at noticeably higher prices
Stability AI Raises $76M From the Music Industry That Once Feared It
Universal, Sony, Warner and Electronic Arts join a Series B that pushes total funding to $232 million
IBM Bets Against the Architecture Crowd With Granite 4.2 Reasoning Models
Three dense, decoder-only models under Apache 2.0, a 512K context window, and an agentic reinforcement learning stage for the larger sizes
Perplexity's New Agent Runs on Your Own GPU and Bills You Nothing to Do It
Portable Computer, built with Nvidia, keeps the model and your files on the machine and asks before escalating a step to the cloud
Anthropic Gives Claude and Cowork a Single Shared Memory
The unified store removes the need to rebrief an agent that already knows the answer, but it cannot be split back apart
Thomson Reuters Built Its Own Frontier Model for $40 Million
A 175-year-old information company now owns the intelligence layer, not just the content beneath it
Headlong Keeps AI Agents Thinking When Nobody Is Talking to Them
Laude Institute's open source microharness is under 10,000 lines of Bash and never puts the agent to sleep
Nvidia Puts Its $20 Billion Groq Bet Into Full Production
The LPX rack targets decode latency, the bottleneck that makes AI agents feel slow
Cloudflare Cut Astro's Open Issues by 85% With Four Agents That Refuse to Share Context
The triage workflow that took Astro from 200+ open issues to about 30 became a GitHub Action and an open-source framework
AWS Open-Sourced an Agent Benchmark That Spins Up Real Cloud Accounts — and Published No Scores
aws-bench provisions live infrastructure in disposable accounts, but arrives without a baseline or a leaderboard
Starcloud Raised $250M for Orbital AI Compute. Its Hardest Problem Is Booking a Rocket.
Nvidia and Cisco joined a round that values the 25-person satellite company at $2.3 billion
A Poisoned Rust Crate Was Live for 86 Minutes. It Had 245 Million Downloads.
Attackers hijacked a maintainer account, added a typosquatted dependency, and let Cargo build scripts do the rest
MCP's New Roadmap Is Really One Admission: Agents Broke the Request-Response Model
Five priority areas, and nearly all of them exist because callers stopped being humans clicking approve and started being processes that run for hours.
OpenAI Asks California to Regulate It Harder Than SB 53 Currently Does
A short LinkedIn post reverses the company's position on the frontier AI law and endorses states as the drafting floor for a future national standard.
Inherent's Faraday Agent Replicates Research Papers on a 27B Model
The London lab, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its agent beat far larger frontier systems at reproducing published findings.
Prime Intellect Ran 153 Autonomous Jobs on 18 Models. The Cheapest Winner Used 3% of the Tokens
A public leaderboard for the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun turns agent efficiency into something you can actually price.
Anthropic's Browser Use Tool Hands Claude the Page, Not the Pixels
The new Claude API toolset targets elements by reference through the accessibility tree — but developers still supply the browser
Anthropic Unlocks Its Withheld Mythos 5 Model for Defenders, With $35M for Open Source
The Defender Advantage Fund arrives alongside Mythos-powered vulnerability scanning and a looser Cyber Verification Program
Nvidia's AVO Harness Takes Claude Opus 5 From 30% to a Perfect ARC-AGI-3 Run
The scaffolding around the model delivered the jump — but the perfect score covers only the benchmark's public game set
Slack's New Channel Type Can Only Be Created by a Coding Agent
Slack Code gives agents a temporary, archivable space for plans, diffs and live previews — free on every plan, and open to four rival vendors.
New Method Turns Raw Screen Recordings Into Reusable Task Models
Task Model Induction separates interleaved work from passive screenshots and clicks, lifting held-out agent accuracy by 30%.
New Benchmark Finds AI Agents Barely Improve Training Algorithms
Two arXiv papers posted the same day measure recursive self-improvement — and how easily its gains get miscounted.