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Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform

Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.

Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis

The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip des…

Capsem – a Rust hypervisor sandboxing AI agents in air-gapped Linux VMs

Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can…

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents

A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix

McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wal…

CedarDB wants one database to handle both transactions and analytics, as AI agents raise the stakes

Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance with the rise of agentic…

Ambani’s Jio seeks to raise $3.2B in what could be India’s biggest IPO

Jio plans to use most of its IPO proceeds to repay debt as it expands beyond telecom.

Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsu…

Colossal Biosciences announces new AI platform to help accelerate de-extinction efforts

Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

Requests, Promises, Assertions, and Declarations: Rewriting Our AI Agent Workflow as a 1986 'Committed Speech' Machine

Why do 200-line agent prompts, Asimov's Three Laws, and sequential pre-landing checklists all fail the same way? How Fernando Flores's 1986 Committed Speech, Nuel Belnap's 1977 4-Valued Logic, and Ton…

The AI race is back on

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind,…

Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?

New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy procee…

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

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