The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech...
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a...
With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard — which means rank no longer decides anything. This roundup compares 16...
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised. As far as we are...
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system classifies each request on query, context, task complexity and domain, then routes it to the most suitable model. Cursor reports frontier-quality output at 60% savings in online A/B tests, and 30–50%...
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the...
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post...
San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in Musée Mécanique. And because most people are bad at allocating their funds you may well be the ONLY person activating the Orchestrions, which means you...
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of a poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.