AI Business & Enterprise

Anysphere, the startup powering the viral AI coding assistant Cursor, is finalizing a massive new funding round that will catapult its valuation to approximately $9 billion — more than tripling its worth in just months and underscoring the continued frenzy for AI startups despite broader market uncertainties. The round, reportedly raising “hundreds of millions,” is

The battle for AI supremacy has found a new metric: the percentage of code being generated by AI tools within major tech companies. Both Microsoft and Google are now claiming roughly 30% of their codebases involve AI assistance, but industry experts warn these headline-grabbing figures deserve scrutiny. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed during a fireside

Microsoft is giving its ambitious but troubled Recall feature a second chance, rolling it out through an optional preview update (KB5055627) with significantly enhanced security measures and a strict opt-in model. The move represents a dramatic about-face from the company’s initial approach that security researchers had labeled a “privacy nightmare.” For the uninitiated, Recall is

The warehouse robotics revolution isn’t just coming — it’s already here and accelerating at a breathtaking pace. Locus Robotics just announced it has surpassed the 5 billion units picked milestone across its customers worldwide, and what’s truly eye-opening is the velocity: the company needed just 24 weeks to add its latest billion picks — the

Adobe just dropped a bombshell on the AI creative landscape. The company has not only supercharged its homegrown Firefly models but, in a surprising twist, transformed its web app into what amounts to an AI model marketplace — featuring tools from direct competitors like Google and OpenAI. The move positions Firefly as the potential go-to

The AI agent race just got a lot more interesting. ByteDance has officially entered the ring with UI-TARS-1.5, an open-source multimodal AI agent that’s making OpenAI and Anthropic sweat. Not only is ByteDance claiming state-of-the-art results across multiple GUI benchmarks, but they’ve got the receipts to prove it — UI-TARS-1.5 is handily outperforming both OpenAI’s

Facebook’s parent company is betting that the future of AI isn’t just about smarter machines, but more social ones. Meta AI has just unveiled CoRaL (Collaborative Reasoner), a framework designed to turn lone-wolf language models into team players. The company claims its CoRaL-boosted Llama 3 models can now outshine competitors like OpenAI’s GPT-4o in tasks

Enterprise AI has a garbage-in, garbage-out problem. Companies have spent years accumulating mountains of unstructured data that’s too messy for conventional AI to digest properly. This is particularly painful for RAG systems that need to retrieve accurate information before an LLM can do its thing. Cohere thinks it has an answer. The AI startup just

Apple is attempting to thread an increasingly difficult needle: boost its struggling AI capabilities while maintaining its privacy-first brand. After months of lackluster reviews for its Apple Intelligence features, the company has revealed a clever technical sleight-of-hand that it hopes will satisfy both imperatives without forcing it to abandon its core principles. The tech giant

In recent weeks, OpenAI has found itself at the center of the tech world’s attention as its GPT-4o model unleashed a viral wave of “Ghibli-style” AI-generated images. This success story, however, reveals much more than just a popular feature. Combined with CEO Sam Altman’s cryptic hints about forthcoming innovations, it exposes the profound challenges facing

In a significant development shaping the AI landscape, Alphabet and Nvidia have made strategic investments in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The company has reached a remarkable $32 billion valuation just months after its formation, highlighting the tech industry’s growing commitment to addressing AI safety concerns

In a groundbreaking collaboration announced by Google, the tech giant is partnering with PJM Interconnection—North America’s largest grid operator—and Alphabet’s Tapestry technology to address one of the most pressing challenges facing our energy future. This partnership represents what Google calls its “biggest step yet” in applying artificial intelligence to strengthen the electricity grid. By tackling