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Trump unveils ambitious $500 billion 'Project Stargate' AI initiative with tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, sparking controversy as Elon Musk questions funding and environmentalists raise concerns about massive data centers.

Sakana found that self-adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks.

The developers of games like Street Fighter are using generative AI to take the busywork out of development.

Hugging Face's new SmolVLM models run on smartphones, outperform larger systems and slash computing costs by 300X.

Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks.

Pipeshift has a Lego-like system that allows teams to configure the right inference stack for their AI workloads, without extensive engineering.

Galileo launches Agentic Evaluations to help enterprises evaluate and monitor AI agents, securing $68M in funding as companies like Cisco adopt its platform for safer AI deployment.

Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.

Samsung teased its efforts with multimodal AI and new form factors including smart glasses and extended reality (XR) devices.

With "Mind Evolution" LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.

OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China's DeepSeek outperforms on cost.

Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disasters. The firm is based […]

Berkeley SkyDeck, the global hub for entrepreneurship and accelerator, along with UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), announced a partnership with Mayfield. The aims is to support AI-focused, student entrepreneurs with unparalleled access to venture capital and world-class mentorship. Part of the Mayfield AI Garage initiative, this new program will select three winning innovations from […]

Perplexity's Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.

Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 transforms images into detailed 3D models in seconds. This could reshape how industries create virtual content.

Through its partnership with Xpander.AI, Axis has managed to save thousands of hours monthly and grow its team sustainably.

The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.

Making its debut in Aspen, X Games will leverage AI technology from Google Cloud to enhance objectivity in subjectively judged sports. The aim is to deepen fan engagement, and provide valuable insights that resonate with both fans and athletes, said Jeremy Bloom, CEO of X Games and a veteran of the sports business, in an […]

The software developers market is hot. Find out which software languages will earn you the most money this year.

Deloitte's state of gen AI report shows that three-quarters of enterprises are seeing ROI and many are set to increase spending.

The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.

Beyond performing tasks, machines will integrate into our social fabric, requiring us to navigate new relationships with technology.