Powering tax donations with AI powered personalized recommendations
TRUSTBANK partnered with Recursive to build Choice AI using OpenAI models, delivering personalized, conversational recommendations that simplify Furusato Nozei gift discovery. A multi-agent system helps donors navigate thousands of options and find gifts that match their preferences.
AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale. The New York-based...
Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference
Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and wit...
NVIDIA Revolutionizes Climate Tech with ‘Earth-2’: The World’s First Fully Open Accelerated AI Weather Stack
For decades, predicting the weather has been the exclusive domain of massive government supercomputers running complex physics-based equations. NVIDIA has shattered that barrier with the release of the Earth-2 family of open models and tools for AI weather and climate prediction accessible to virtua...
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...
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...