Spreadsheets have been the backbone of data work for decades, yet most of us still fight with formulas, hidden errors, and manual cleanup.

Left idle, thirteen AI agents on a virtual island didn't just wait for instructions.

Astana will see robotaxis on its streets by the first half of 2027.

A new patent lawsuit from Oura is blocking Ultrahuman's Ring Pro from re-entering the US market, alleging infringement on two of its patents.

Chris Dixon's digital asset unit at a16z is no longer just about blockchain.

OpenAI is opening its decision model to everyone, directly challenging Jev's early lead in this space.

Warhound, the genetically engineered canine venture from Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has emerged from stealth with Anduril-backed military gear.

Microsoft's AI diagnostic system outperformed generalist doctors on hard cases, a new study in *Science* confirms.

Your AI agents can now log in for you without ever seeing your password.

Canva has opened its custom image model to all users, making better, more affordable creation accessible to everyone.

Meta is restructuring its stock to give Mark Zuckerberg more flexibility if California's proposed "billionaire's tax" becomes law.

A $1.25 trillion valuation would make OpenAI the most valuable private company ever. That is a staggering number, even for a firm reshaping how we work with data. This funding round signals confidence in AI-native tools…

Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, Warp Science's human chemists are training robots to perform lab tasks by example.

Rivian's acquisition of Third Dimension's world model AI signals a serious bet on simulation.

Early sales aren't the shortcut to fast startup growth, according to top founders speaking at Disrupt this year.

Arc Browser sunsets in December, and that's a real loss for the enthusiasts who made it their own.

If you're training a text-to-ASMR model on 126,000 recordings, you need every clip tagged with its sounds.

A recent Harvard study of 718 firms reveals a sobering truth: more AI-generated code does not mean more progress.

Three AI employees worked through the night so you didn't have to.

Elon Musk's billion-dollar bet gives Skydance a serious strategic lift, injecting capital when the company needs to cut costs and raise its stock price.

Tesla is bringing its gold Cybercab robotaxis to more U.S. cities this year, yet the company remains quiet about how many paid rides the autonomous vehicles have actually completed. That silence matters. A robotaxi…

From the hundreds exhibiting at Startup Battlefield 200, a handful of companies are demonstrating what an AI-native approach to data actually looks like.

AI isn't some distant, complex technology reserved for specialists.

Zeolite crystallization is notoriously hard to track in real time.

Spotify insists its new QR code verification for Family Plan members is a routine improvement, not a crackdown.

Planted a wrong answer in front of 200 exam questions and watched a small AI model's reasoning shift to accommodate it.

Carbon-X puts a 14.8B parameter model on a single GPU that speaks both DNA and English in the same chat, using a shared token stream of 6-mer sequences. That alone is impressive, but the real value is making sequence…

When AI agents search for evidence, they still lose papers a plain search finds.

Raising a Series A today demands more than a polished pitch deck, it requires a smarter, more strategic approach to how you present your business.

A single breach at ConnectWise spiraled into thousands of compromised customers, and Microsoft attributes the speed of that escalation to China-aligned hackers wielding AI agents.

Uber is moving 30,000 employees to an AI-native workspace, scaling from a small ChatGPT Work pilot to a company-wide deployment of an enterprise agent.

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström argues that the rise of AI agents could work in the streaming service's favor, positioning it as the natural default partner for music curation.

DeepSeek just raised $15 billion in what appears to be China's largest AI funding round, a move that lands with particular weight given the U.S. order to remove its technology from federal agencies. This isn't a company…

Helion just secured another $225 million to push its first fusion power plant toward a 2028 delivery date for Microsoft.

Railway has told every customer to revoke and rotate their private keys after hackers managed to decrypt some secrets.

Loading a large JSON file in Python shouldn't turn 43 MB into 808 MB of memory, but it does, and that spike reveals a hidden cost in how most tools handle data.

Anthropic is opening its Duet app to Pro and Max users through a waitlist, inviting them into agent-driven data work.

Nirva has secured $33 million to ship an AI pendant that listens only to you, a $249 ambient device arriving by year's end.

Manju Rajashekhar argues that the actor model, borrowed from distributed systems, is the missing piece for production AI agents.

A visa denial days before EMNLP, after a year of work, is the kind of setback that makes you question the entire system.

Docker's Harbor framework now isolates each agent evaluation in its own microVM, a meaningful upgrade for anyone who has felt the drag of shared containers.

Eight systems share the top score on the Agent Memory Leaderboard's coding board, but the real insight is how tightly clustered the entire field has become.

A sparse-recovery decoder that finds stuck cells in an analog AI tile with as few as four reads, versus 256 for a full readout, sounds like a clear win, until you see the fine print.

Vercel Labs just released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig, and it's built to embed almost anywhere, CLI, script component, or WebAssembly library.

A single sentence like "the Siamese cat ate the mouse then died" hides a rich structure of relationships.

Finding the CVPR 2027 author kit shouldn't be a scavenger hunt.

Teaching foundation models new skills without breaking what they already know is one of the hardest challenges in AI.

A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build open-source replacements for seven Adobe applications, promoting them on Reddit with a projection of near-complete parity within a month. Then told Hacker News the project was…

Google's Harness² lets AI agents sharpen themselves through two recursive loops, improving their prompts, tools, memory, and scripts, without ever retraining the model.

When a data engine starts producing facts you can't fully trace back to their source, you've hit a signal worth heeding.