The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders ...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-05-15)
A powerful illustrated allegory charting humanity's journey from raw physical labor to cognitive dependency on AI. This triptych explores the irony of strengthening our machines while weakening our own minds and bodies. There is nothing better for the body and the mind than to exercise and use both....
Runway started by helping filmmakers. Now it wants to beat Google at AI.
AI video generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.
This article was originally published on Addy Osmani’s blog. It’s being reposted here with the author’s permission. Roughly: Anytime you find an agent makes a mistake, you take the time to engineer a solution such that the agent never makes that mistake again. We’ve spent the last two years arguing ...
Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags
The Seoul-based speech AI company ships its third generation of its on-device TTS engine, adding expressive tags, improved reading stability, and a 6× increase in language coverage — all while keeping the inference contract unchanged for existing integrations.
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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning
Poetiq's Meta-System automatically constructed and optimized an inference harness for LiveCodeBench Pro using only Gemini 3.1 Pro — no fine-tuning, no model internals. The same harness, applied without modification to GPT 5.5 High, Kimi K2.6, Gemini 3.0 Flash, and four other models, improved every o...
Cline Releases Cline SDK: An Open-Source Agent Runtime Now Powering Its CLI and Kanban, With IDE Extensions Being Migrated
Cline has extracted its internal agent harness into an open-source TypeScript SDK called @cline/sdk, the same runtime now powering its CLI and Kanban, with VS Code and JetBrains extensions being migrated. The SDK is structured as a four-layer stack — @cline/shared, @cline/llms, @cline/agents, and @c...
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger
More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
Nous Research Releases Token Superposition Training to Speed Up LLM Pre-Training by Up to 2.5x Across 270M to 10B Parameter Models
Nous Research releases Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that cuts wall-clock training time by up to 2.5x at matched FLOPs by averaging contiguous token embeddings into bags during Phase 1 and reverting to standard next-token prediction in Phase 2 — without changing...
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.
Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size
Fastino Labs has released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that evaluates four safety tasks — prompt safety, jailbreak strategy detection, harm category classification, and refusal detection — in a single forward pass. Built on an encoder architecture rather than the de...
Ryan Carson has built companies for 25 years, including Treehouse, which taught over a million people to code. He knows what it takes to grow a team. So when he told me he’d raised $2 million in seed funding for his latest company, Untangle, an AI-powered divorce assistant, and had no plans to hire ...
AI Reality Check: The Problem With AI Evaluation: Garbage In, Gospel Out
AI models are judged by flawed benchmarks that distort progress and reliability. Week 12 exposes why AI evaluation is broken — and what must replace it.