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Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric
Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partner
London robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M Series A, with Bosch set to manufacture its wheeled robots at scale
London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bo
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure a
Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters
Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnin
Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova
In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Distilled Reasoning (S
Humanoid raises $152M at $1.35B valuation to bring human-like robots into factories
London-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm SKL Robotics Ltd., doing business as Humanoid, today announced it raised $152 million in funding, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.35 billion. The r
Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill.
Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs
Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environm
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shi
Exclusive: Speakeasy service tracks enterprise-wide AI agent spending
Speakeasy Development Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence cost-management service intended to give companies a consolidated view of spending across coding agents and other AI tools. The startup’s AI Cost Con
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lowest Token Cost for Partners Worldwide
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it’s going gigascale. Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Spanning 350-plus fa
90,000 Flock cameras have quietly gone up in the US: What they track and how to check your city
Flock cameras are everywhere - even in my small town, quietly using AI to identify your car and surveil your movements. But did you consent? Probably not.
Whop releases command-line interface to let business owners and their AI agents access digital commerce
Whop Inc., an e-commerce platform with a social marketplace that allows businesses to monetize digital products and services, today announced a new command-line interface that allows developers and artificial intelligenc
Google expands Gemini with cheaper models and a bug-hunter it keeps on a leash
Google LLC today launched three new Gemini Flash models and moved its CodeMender code-security agent into preview, part of a push to run artificial intelligence agents more cheaply and to automate the finding and fixing
Box adds security controls to govern AI agents working with enterprise content
Box Inc. today introduced security controls aimed at the artificial intelligence agents now working across enterprise content. The controls apply to agents built in Box and to outside tools connected to it, including Ant
Built for Vera Rubin, NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Arrives in Gigascale AI Factories
AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at unprecedented