NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the…
Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new…
AI Agents Will Transform Travel Before Travelers Notice
AI travel agents have improved rapidly over the past two years. KAYAK launched AI Mode in 2025 and expanded it with Ask AI in 2026. Booking.com has…
OpenAI’s first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It’s…
How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion…
Control agent behaviors and cost beyond a single action: new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn about new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: temporal policies powered by Dogwood, a new open source policy language for AI agents, and rate…
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel
Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a coding and research harness built on two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model, which turns sub-agent…
The Minimal AI Engineer Toolkit for 2026
Discover the six essential tools AI engineers need in 2026 to build and deploy production-grade autonomous systems.
Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
ChatGPT Ads Arrive in Brazil as OpenAI Adds Conversion Tools and Carousels
OpenAI’s advertising build-out has crossed into Latin America. The company’s Ads Manager availability page, updated on August 6, 2026, now lists Brazil as…
AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to…
Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower…
Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock
A regulated customer needed all Claude Code inference processed in a single AWS Region (London), not just in-geography. This post shows two ways to pin…
Meta AI Releases Muse Code (Beta): A Terminal Coding Agent Powered by the New Muse Spark 1.2 Model
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Code, a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Muse Code plans changes,…
Turn Any CSV into an Executive Report with Python and AI
Learn to implement a repeatable pipeline that cleans a CSV, finds the story, and writes it up.
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter – Interview Series
Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning the…
China’s Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That’s three times the size of Moonshot’s Kimi K3,…