Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago
Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.
Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out
British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.
StepFun AI Introduce Step-DeepResearch: A Cost-Effective Deep Research Agent Model Built Around Atomic Capabilities
StepFun has introduced Step-DeepResearch, a 32B parameter end to end deep research agent that aims to turn web search into actual research workflows with long horizon reasoning, tool use and structured reporting. The model is built on Qwen2.5 32B-Base and is trained to act as a single agent that pla...
A Coding Implementation to Automating LLM Quality Assurance with DeepEval, Custom Retrievers, and LLM-as-a-Judge Metrics
We initiate this tutorial by configuring a high-performance evaluation environment, specifically focused on integrating the DeepEval framework to bring unit-testing rigor to our LLM applications. By bridging the gap between raw retrieval and final generation, we implement a system that treats model ...
Quiet Revolutions in AI: Unsung Innovators Building Practical, Local Solutions Beyond Silicon Valley
Small teams, community labs, and regionally focused platforms are quietly building practical, deployable AI that solves everyday problems—health screening, local‑language NLP, supply‑chain reliability and farm mechanization—yet these advances rarely make global headlines. This article spotlights tho...
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.
GitHub Releases Copilot-SDK to Embed Its Agentic Runtime in Any App
GitHub has opened up the internal agent runtime that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and exposed it as a programmable SDK. The GitHub Copilot-SDK, now in technical preview, lets you embed the same agentic execution loop into any application so the agent can plan, invoke tools, edit files, and run commands...
How an AI Agent Chooses What to Do Under Tokens, Latency, and Tool-Call Budget Constraints?
In this tutorial, we build a cost-aware planning agent that deliberately balances output quality against real-world constraints such as token usage, latency, and tool-call budgets. We design the agent to generate multiple candidate actions, estimate their expected costs and benefits, and then select...
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t ...
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t ...
Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter launches Diploid Genomics, Inc.
Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, joins as a co-founder and sole external investor in seed round Diploid Genomics, Inc. (DGI), an AI-driven advanced genomics analytics company, launches in partnership with Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, un...
StuffThatWorks Appoints Julie A. Ross as CEO and President
StuffThatWorks today announced that Julie A. Ross, former CEO of global CRO Advanced Clinical, has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and President, effective immediately. Ross will lead the company’s next phase of growth as it scales its proprietary patient-derived AI model designed to a...
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
New Relic Launches Observability Solution for Visibility into ChatGPT Apps
Innovative engineering teams building ChatGPT apps can now eliminate the ‘black box’ of embedded AI to optimize this new sales channel and drive additional revenue streams Monitoring for ChatGPT apps empowers businesses to confidently integrate their offerings into AI prompt answers New Relic, the I...
TriNetX Unveils Conversational AI Interface and Enhanced API Capabilities
Success achieved in reducing trial costs and timelines drives 2026 platform enhancements designed to democratize clinical research analytics. TriNetX, driven by its vision of a connected world where data and intelligence power improved human health, today announced results demonstrating its TriNetX ...
Boardwalktech Launches Verity, the Intelligent Controls Platform
An AI‑Driven Platform for Continuous Controls Automation, Testing & Monitoring Across Financial Institutions and Large Enterprises (TSXV: BWLK, OTCQB: BWLKF) Boardwalktech Software Corp. (“Boardwalktech” or the “Company”), a provider of patented digital‑ledger and AI‑enabled enterprise software sol...
Dam Secure Raises $4M to Secure AI-Generated Code for Enterprises
AI security startup Dam Secure has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Washington, D.C.-based cyber and AI investor, Paladin Capital Group, to solve for the security risks created by AI-generated code entering production at scale. Founded by Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff, Dam Secure...
Milestone reinforces Cobalt commitment to transparent cloud security practices and continuous pentesting that supports customer compliance and third-party risk requirements Cobalt, the pioneer of Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and a leading provider of human-led, AI-powered offensive secur...
Omnilogy Launches i-Rays, First Observability Tool Built for IBM i
Software empowers technology and business leaders to get deep insights and reduce risk Omnilogy, a global technology developer focused on the IBM i environment, today launched i-Rays, the first observability platform designed to help CIOs, IT Operations/Infrastructure Leaders, and IBM i Administrato...
Furl Raises $10M Seed Round to Bring Agentic AI to Security Remediation
Ten Eleven Ventures leads the round as Furl helps IT security teams close the gap between finding vulnerabilities and actually fixing them Furl, a security remediation startup, today announced a $10 million Seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and Op...
WhaleFlux Signals Shift to Architecting Enterprise AI in 2026
As enterprise AI adoption moves beyond experimentation and into production, the industry is entering a new phase where system reliability, governance, and long-term operability matter more than model performance alone. WhaleFlux today announced its positioning as an AI system builder, reflecting a b...
eHub, the category leader in Carrier Orchestration and Fulfillment Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Thomas Leishman as Chief AI Officer (CAIO). In this role, Thomas will spearhead eHub’s AI strategy, driving innovation across product, operations, customer experience, and revenue grow...
Misuse of AI chatbots tops annual list of health technology hazards
Report also sounds the alarm on insufficient planning for systems outages, substandard medical products, missed recalls of home diabetes management devices, and more Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots in healthcare top the 2026 list of the most significant health technology hazards. The report is...