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 Infinite Reality is paying $500 million for Touchcast, an agentic AI startup with 70 people. That's the AI boom for ya.

Not all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.

At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, revealing new details about OpenAI’s explosive growth and future plans.

Anthropic launches autonomous "agentic" research capability for Claude AI and Google Workspace integration, challenging OpenAI with faster results and enterprise-grade security for knowledge workers.

Moveworks said its AI Agent Marketplace will make it easier for organizations to think of new agentic use cases.

Cohere updated its model Embed 4 so enterprises can make embeddings from multimodal data sources and even longer documents.

Kore.ai announced a strategic partnership with Inception, a division of UAE-based G42, to jointly develop AI-powered products for the enterprise.

Amex GBT CISO David Levin is accelerating AI security, cutting false positives and speeding SOC response to anticipate and shut down threats.

OpenAI slashes GPT-4.1 API prices by up to 75% while offering superior coding performance and million-token context windows, triggering an industry-wide AI pricing war with Anthropic, Google, and xAI.

OpenAI launched a new family of AI models this morning that significantly improve coding abilities while cutting costs, responding directly to growing competition in the enterprise AI market. The San Francisco-based AI company introduced three models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano — all available immediately through its API. The new lineup performs better […]

Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has raised $6 million.

Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to build factories that will produce AI supercomputers in the U.S.

Salesforce reveals how AI now writes 20% of its code but developers aren't vanishing — they're evolving into strategic architects who orchestrate AI systems while focusing on customer needs and business value.

GUEST: Intelligence is pervasive, yet its measurement seems subjective. At best, we approximate its measure through tests and benchmarks. Think of college entrance exams: Every year, countless students sign up, memorize test-prep tricks and sometimes walk away with perfect scores. Does a single number, say a 100%, mean those who got it share the same intelligence […]

Are we unlocking new frontiers in AI reasoning, or simply stretching the limits of token memory without meaningful improvements?

Reacting to continuing stock market woes and perhaps tech industry lobbyin, Trump backed off on tariffs for electronics late last night.

It achieved an 8.0% higher win rate over DeepSeek R1, suggesting that its strengths generalize beyond just logic or math-heavy challenges.

Get ready. GamesBeat Summit 2025 will take place on May 19 to May 20 at the Marriott Marina del Rey in Los Angeles.

DeepCoder-14B competes with frontier models like o3 and o1—and the weights, code, and optimization platform are open source.

Ai2's new open-source OLMoTrace tool allows enterprises to directly trace LLM outputs back to original training data, bringing transparency to AI decision-making and addressing trust barriers.

Writer unveils AI HQ platform to transform enterprise work with autonomous agents that execute complex workflows across systems, potentially reducing workforce needs while delivering measurable ROI on AI investments.

NTT Research announced at an event that it has started a new AI basic research group, dubbed the Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group.

Sophisticated attacks must be tracked and contained in a business's core security infrastructure, managed from its SOC.