Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.
Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world
To help generative AI models create durable, real-world accessories and decor, the PhysiOpt system runs physics simulations and makes subtle tweaks to its 3D blueprints.
See the whole picture and find the look with Circle to Search
Google Search interface featuring AI-powered tools including an "AI Overview" that breaks down an outfit's components and a virtual "Try it on" button that visualizes apparel on diverse body types.
Seemplicity Introduces Seema for Conversational Exposure Intelligence
Seema transforms how security teams interact with exposure data by converting complex questions into real-time answers based on live operational insight Seemplicity today announced the launch of Seema, an AI-powered conversational assistant that makes it easier for cybersecurity teams to gain clarit...
Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates the Path to Scalable Production AI
New co-engineered offering combines Red Hat AI Enterprise and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing software to provide a unified foundation for building, deploying, and scaling AI-enabled applications Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the Red Hat AI Factory wi...
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Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.
Lumen Doubles NaaS Customers Amid Shift to Programmable Net
Expanded off-net reach and multi-cloud simplicity drive more than 2,000 enterprises to adopt Lumen’s programmable network platform for Cloud 2.0 and AI workloads Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced the company has doubled its network-as-a-service (NaaS) customer base to more than 2,000 b...
OTAVA®, a leader in secure and compliant multi-cloud solutions, today announced that it has been named by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, to the Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category for 2026. CRN’s annual MSP 500 list is a comprehensive guide to the leading MSPs ...
SoundHound AI Launches Sales Assist Agent at MWC 2026
SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice and conversational AI, today announced the launch of Sales Assist, a new voice-powered AI agent for retail which will debut at Mobile World Congress 2026 (Hall 7, Booth 7E40). The revolutionary in-store agent builds on SoundHound’s existin...
Axelera AI Secures More Than $250 Mn Funding on Global Commercial Growth
European AI semiconductor leader earns backing from funds managed by Innovation Industries and SiteGround Capital along with EU institutions; edge-first architecture addresses AI’s critical energy and cooling constraints Axelera AI, the European leader in AI acceleration hardware, announced its late...
Research: Identity Now Top Entry Point for Cyberattacks
With identity-based vectors the most common entry point for cyberattacks, security leaders turn to agentic AI to both secure and manage identities at scale Lumos, the industry’s first Autonomous Identity Platform, today announced the release of its AI, Automation, and Risk in 2026: Identity at a Bre...
Liquid AI’s New LFM2-24B-A2B Hybrid Architecture Blends Attention with Convolutions to Solve the Scaling Bottlenecks of Modern LLMs
The generative AI race has long been a game of ‘bigger is better.’ But as the industry hits the limits of power consumption and memory bottlenecks, the conversation is shifting from raw parameter counts to architectural efficiency. Liquid AI team is leading this charge with the release of LFM2-24B-A...
Evoke Security Raises $4M Pre-Seed Round to Secure the Agentic Workforce
Crosspoint Capital Partners leads investment to give security teams visibility and control over AI agents operating across the enterprise Evoke Security, a cybersecurity startup securing the agentic workforce, today announced $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, LP (Cro...
Company unveils new Agentic AI capabilities in Invoice Lifecycle Management Platform, paving way to autonomous AP The future of finance is intelligent, and Basware, the global leader in Invoice Lifecycle Management is delivering it today. The pioneer and leader in accounts payable unveiled new AI a...
Meta AI Open Sources GCM for Better GPU Cluster Monitoring to Ensure High Performance AI Training and Hardware Reliability
While the tech folks obsesses over the latest Llama checkpoints, a much grittier battle is being fought in the basements of data centers. As AI models scale to trillions of parameters, the clusters required to train them have become some of the most complex—and fragile—machines on the planet. Meta A...
Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.
A Coding Implementation to Simulate Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Asyncio, Malicious Nodes, and Latency Analysis
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) simulator using asyncio. We model a realistic distributed network with asynchronous message passing, configurable delays, and Byzantine nodes that intentionally deviate from the protocol. By explicitly implementi...
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.