China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking claim about Meituan’s new artificial intelligence model…

Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla

He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in avillage the world had not yet heard of.The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your firstlife began in a storm, under open sky.One winter night you ran your hand alon…

Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care
Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Code…

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t
Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising, especially for an industry navigating volatile fertilizer costs, unpredictable weather, and margins that leave little room for error. Research shows AI-enabled predictive models can improve crop…

Hypefy AI raises $7.2M Series A to automate global influencer campaigns

Founded in Croatia, Hypefy AI, a platformthat uses AI to automate influencer marketing campaign execution, has raised$7.2 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by AYMO Ventures,with p…

Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no
Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no

Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says “Doctor ChatGPT” is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, strongly disagree. Andreessen made the remark on Joe Roga…

OpenClaw lands on Android and iOS, turning your phone into a control hub for your AI agent

OpenClaw, the open source AI agent, just launched native iOS and Android apps that pair with your own self hosted gateway.

Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company
Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in. The Series A was revealed first by Axios. It takes…

Chrome is putting things on your computer you never agreed to
Chrome is putting things on your computer you never agreed to

Your browser has been busy on your behalf. This week brought two reminders that Chrome can put things on your machine you never agreed to. One came from Google. One came from an impostor. Both used the same quiet machinery. Chrome runs on billions of d…