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Wispr banks $280M to push voice AI into meetings
Wispr raised $280M led by Menlo Ventures to grow its voice AI business beyond dictation into meetings.
MiniMax ships open music model that writes full songs in one pass
MiniMax released open weights for a music model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes in…
Trained by reinforcement learning, ByteDance kernels outrun torch.compile
ByteDance's CUDA Agent trained a model to write GPU kernels that beat torch.compile on nearly every task.
Trust deficit, not dire warnings, drives AI backlash, Amodei says
Anthropic's CEO argues public distrust of tech, not his own risk warnings, explains the AI backlash.
Kog bets software unlocks 30x faster inference on stock GPUs
The French startup says its software can push 30x faster decoding out of the GPUs enterprises already own.
Dyna-2 robot model learns from 170 years of human video
Dyna Robotics says its new world-action model learned manipulation from 170 years of human video.
Needle 2 squeezes tool calling into a 14MB model binary
Cactus Compute's new model packs tool calling into 45M parameters and a 14MB binary.
Claude Code bills for blank thinking blocks users never see
Developers report Claude Code returning empty thinking blocks while reasoning charges still apply.
Ransomware operators put Claude Code inside live hacks
A new report shows AI agents helping attackers navigate live intrusions, including one Claude Code user.
New $300M fund backs AI for hospitality and venues
EMERGING and Promethean launch a $300M vehicle for AI built around restaurants and venues.
DeepSeek hikes V4 prices as Flash flubs complex agent jobs
DeepSeek's V4 Flash tops leaderboards but passes barely half its agent tasks as API prices jump.
Gas price tripling forecast clouds hyperscaler power plans
A new forecast warns gas prices could triple as hyperscaler demand meets falling supply growth.
Liquid AI’s 3B vision model brings screen agents to laptops
The open-weights edge model adds tool calling and strong screen grounding to the LFM family.
Okta trims agent token bills by hiding unneeded MCP tools
Permission filters cut the tool schemas an agent sees on every turn by more than 90 percent.
Samsung trains wearable health models that learn from biosignals
Two foundation models map PPG and ECG data for on-device health insights with minimal sensors.