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To contextualize DeepSeek’s disruption, let's consider the broader shift in AI being driven by the scarcity of training data.

This week, Palo Alto-based startup Genspark released what it calls Super Agent, a fast-moving autonomous system designed to handle real-world tasks across a wide range of domains – including some that raise eyebrows, like making phone calls to restaurants using a realistic synthetic voice.

Cisco warns LLMs fine-tuned for business are now being weaponized. Guardrails aren't failing. They're being engineered around.

Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro publicly with higher rate limits and for a lower price than Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's models.

While most Midjourney releases were met with overwhelming excitement and adulation, the initial reception to v7 is decidedly more mixed.

The structure of the game business has changed. And one of the essential new kinds of companies in that structure is Keywords.

Articul8's specialized models tackle complex industrial sequences where timing and order matter, challenging the one-size-fits-all approach to enterprise AI.

Genies, the avatar and game technology company, is revealing its user-generated content tools that let anyone create custom AI avatars.

This open source framework matches the performance of Perplexity and ChatGPT Search with greater transparency and control.

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Plus to college students just before finals week, escalating competition with Anthropic's Claude as tech giants battle for dominance in the $80 billion education AI market.

Oumi's open-source HallOumi tool helps enterprises combat AI hallucinations through sentence-level verification that provides confidence scores, citations and human-readable explanations.

Devin attracted interest from enterprise customers seeking to incorporate autonomous coding agents into their software development processes.

Hugging Face warned that Yourbench is compute intensive but this might be a price enterprises are willing to pay to evaluate models on their data.

CoTools uses hidden states and in-context learning to enable LLMs to use more than 1,000 tools very efficiently.

An experimental developer kit for building AI agents that can navigate the web and complete tasks autonomously, powered by Amazon Nova.

Amex has more than 70 AI use cases in production, including an IT chatbot that solves issues on its own and a travel counselor assistant.

Anthropic launches Claude for Education with Learning Mode that teaches critical thinking rather than providing answers, partnering with top universities to transform AI's role in education.

Uplimit launches AI learning agents that help enterprises boost employee skills with 94% completion rates while reducing training admin time by 75%, addressing the growing AI-driven skills gap.

Zencoder launches powerful AI coding agents with "Coffee Mode" that outperform competitors on benchmarks while integrating with existing developer environments, allowing programmers to be more productive without abandoning their favorite tools.

Augment Code launches AI technology that outperforms GitHub Copilot by 70% through real-time context understanding of massive codebases, securing $270M funding and achieving the highest score on SWE-bench verified.

The new system is literally a no code, natural language, AI-powered multi-agent builder, and it works in real time.