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Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-end artificial intelligence so cheap you might stop worrying about the bill entirely. It's also said to be "open source," though the weights (settings) and code haven't been posted yet, nor has the exact license type or terms. But that's almost beside the point given how cheap

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI.

YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro

When Apple Vision Pro first came out two years ago, YouTube hesitated to release a dedicated app. Today is the day they officially launch one.

Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website

Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act

The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.

Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.

Freshell – Contributing to Open Source

Dan Shapiro just open-sourced Freshell — a browser-based terminal multiplexer for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding CLIs that lets you detach and reattach sessions, browse your coding history, and access everything from your phone. The tagline is “What if tmux and Claude fell in love?” which is about right. It can be pronounced multiple ways: Free-shell, Fresh-hell, fresh-shell. I’ve been thinking of it as Fresh-hell, which amuses me.As part of my exploration into AI coding, I decided to star

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 15x faster code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significant inference partnership outside its traditional Nvidia-dominated infrastructure. The model runs on hardware from Cerebras Systems, a Sunnyvale-based chipmaker whose wafer-scale processors specialize in low-latency AI workloads.The partnership arrives at a pivotal moment for OpenAI. The company finds itself navigating a frayed r

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

Aurora’s driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers

CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.

More US investors sue South Korean government over handling of Coupang data breach

Coupang’s massive data breach has sparked U.S. investor lawsuits against the South Korean government over alleged discrimination.

Google Chrome ships WebMCP in early preview, turning every website into a structured tool for AI agents

When an AI agent visits a website, it’s essentially a tourist who doesn’t speak the local language. Whether built on LangChain, Claude Code, or the increasingly popular OpenClaw framework, the agent is reduced to guessing which buttons to press: scraping raw HTML, firing off screenshots to multimodal models, and burning through thousands of tokens just to figure out where a search bar is.That era may be ending. Earlier this week, the Google Chrome team launched WebMCP — Web Model Context Protoco

AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell — but hardware is only half the equation

Lowering the cost of inference is typically a combination of hardware and software. A new analysis released Thursday by Nvidia details how four leading inference providers are reporting 4x to 10x reductions in cost per token.The dramatic cost reductions were achieved using Nvidia's Blackwell platform with open-source models. Production deployment data from Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI shows significant cost improvements across healthcare, gaming, agentic chat, and custom

Elon Musk says senior executives' exits are reorganisation, not crisis

Elon Musk is pushing back against talk of turmoil at xAI after a wave of senior departures, including two more co-founders ...

Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours

Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.

Elon Musk says SpaceX to shift focus from colonizing Mars to moon

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building ...

Stop talking to AI, let them talk to each other: The A2A protocol

Have you ever asked Alexa to remind you to send a WhatsApp message at a determined hour? And then you just wonder, ‘Why can’t Alexa just send the message herself? Or the incredible frustration when you use an app to plan a trip, only to have to jump to your calendar/booking website/tour/bank account instead of your AI assistant doing it all? Well, exactly this gap between AI automation and human action is what the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol aims to address. With the introduction of AI Agents,

Swedish pet insurtech Lassie raises $75M Series C after hitting $100M ARR

Imagine the moment you bring a new dog or cat into your life. That mix of excitement and responsibility. Vet visits, vaccines, learning what food suits them, managing check-ups, and always wondering how to keep them healthy as they grow. Most pet insurance only steps in after a costly accident or illness. It doesn’t help you avoid the situation in the first place. Lassie’s product is built around a different insight: giving owners the tools to look after their pets every day, not just when somet