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New Moonshot AI Coding Model Promises Efficiency Gains—But Real-World Results May Lag Claims Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update claiming to cut reasoning overhead by 30% while delivering double-digit performance improvements. The model uses the same underlying trillion-parameter architecture as its predecessor but is
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Jeff Bezos-Backed AI Startup Raises $12B to Automate Complex Engineering Work Prometheus, a physical AI startup founded with backing from Jeff Bezos, just closed a $12 billion funding round that values the company at $41 billion. The company is building what it calls an "artificial general engineer"—AI
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Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei Now Has Just One Direct Report—Here's What That Means Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic (the AI company behind Claude), has restructured his leadership team so that only one person reports directly to him. This unusual organizational move signals a major
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How One Investor Deployed $500M Into AI Startups Without Raising a Traditional Fund Justin Ernest, founder of Sabertooth VC, invested nearly half a billion dollars into hot startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX without spending a year building a formal venture capital fund. Instead, he tapped into a ready-made network
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Sam Altman's Identity Verification Company Lays Off Staff as Revenue Struggles Tools for Humanity, the identity verification startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is cutting its workforce as the company struggles to generate meaningful revenue. The move comes as parent company OpenAI prepares for a major IPO
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Notion Restores Access to Anthropic After Brief Service Outage Notion, the popular workspace and notes app, experienced a temporary disruption that cut off access to Anthropic's Claude AI. The company quickly restored service, but the incident sparked widespread conversation on social media. Notion's head of product
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White House AI Advisor Steps Down—What It Means for Your Business Sriram Krishnan, who served as White House AI advisor under the Trump administration, is leaving his official role to start a new institution focused on shaping AI policy. According to reporting from TechCrunch, Krishnan plans to continue influencing
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Google's Massive Deal with SpaceX Signals the Real Cost of AI Demand Google just committed to paying SpaceX $920 million per month for computing power. That's over $11 billion a year. The search giant says the deal stems from unexpectedly high demand for its new AI
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Airbnb's CEO Is Building His Own AI Lab—Here's Why That Matters to You Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is launching a dedicated AI lab to develop custom artificial intelligence tools for the company. Chesky previously said Airbnb had avoided partnering with existing AI providers because the
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Alphabet's $85B AI Investment Shows Money Is Flooding Into AI—Here's What That Means for You Alphabet just raised $85 billion through a stock sale—a record for the company—with investors clearly betting big that Google's AI business will keep growing. This massive
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Microsoft Releases Free Tool to Test AI Behavior—Here's Why You Should Care Microsoft released a new open-source framework called Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing on Tuesday. The tool lets developers describe what they want their AI systems to do using plain English, then automatically
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Nvidia's New AI Agent PCs Could Change How Small Businesses Work Nvidia is pushing into a major market by partnering with Microsoft, Dell, and HP to build AI agent computers that can handle tasks on their own. These new PCs would run AI assistants that work like employees—
