The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a token count, and a field that reads “model”: “claude-opus-4-8”. Nothing errored. Nothing retried. The request was classified before generation began, matched a sensitive category, and was...
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of...
The first expensive agent run doesn’t look like a governance problem. It looks like a billing problem. A team opens its first agent invoice after the meter turns on, sorts the runs by cost, and finds one that cost 40 times the median. The provider meter shows tokens and a total. The application logs...
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
StrongestLayer Raises $9.3M Total Seed to Combat AI Email Attacks
New round led by Inovia Capital backs a reasoning-based architecture designed for attacks that bypass traditional email security StrongestLayer, the AI-native email security company, today announced it has raised $4.1 million in new funding, bringing total seed funding to $9.3 million. The round was...
This continued expansion has increased the regional customer base 72% year-over-year Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced strong growth across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), driven by the rising enterprise demand for API and AI connecti...
EMeRG Announced the Launch of Hospital Intel Suite™
One of the world’s largest hospital intelligence platforms, powered by AI and predictive analytics. EMeRG today announced the launch of its advanced SaaS intelligence platform, built with a mission to make every hospital visible and every MedTech innovation more accessible. Commercial teams often la...
West Monroe Research Reveals AI Transformation Gap
Research identifies three imperatives for building an AI-native enterprise based on a survey of 417 U.S. business leaders West Monroe, an AI-native global consulting firm, today released Building the AI-Native Enterprise, new research examining how organizations are progressing from AI adoption to e...
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered pro...
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of a repository from inside an existing Claude Code session, then turns the findings you select into patch files that you review and apply yourself. Anthropic emphasized the to...
Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system classifies each request on query, context, task complexity and domain, then routes it to the most suitable model. Cursor reports frontier-quality output at 60% savings in online A/B tests, and 30–50% savings...
Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics
In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task categories, runtime environments, and interaction-time budgets. We begin by downloading the dataset snapshot from Hugging Face, parsing the released task specifications, and examinin...
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sha...
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
The following originally appeared on Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The conversation around harness engineering is dominated by problems from coding and personal agents such as OpenClaw, but most agents are simpler. Buil...
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.