CMF's first clip-style open earbuds are here with a tempting price tag and, thankfully, none of Nothing's flagship surveillance tech

If the Nothing sub-brand's inaugural clip-style open earbuds can ace the ‘three point fit’ idea, I predict a class-leading set of LDAC-toting buds —especially for this crazy low price [...]

Microsoft Opens 26 Open Models to Startups Through Fireworks AI on Foundry

Microsoft is pushing its newly generally available Fireworks AI integration at the startup segment, publishing a deployment blueprint on August 4, 2026 that pairs a reference architecture for running [...]

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a [...]

Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science a [...]

River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models

River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further mone [...]

I can’t recommend Shokz open-style headphones enough for running, cycling and even work — and they’re now up to 36% off for a limited time

Amazon is discounting Shokz’s popular OpenRun, OpenFit and OpenComm open-ear headphones, with prices starting at AU$109. [...]

Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and atten [...]

A Republican senator is urging Trump to incentivize U.S. open-weight AI development

Jim Banks wants the Trump administration to limit U.S. reliance on Chinese open-weight AI and restrict those firms' access to American chips [...]

I’ve been testing these cheap open earbuds for weeks, and they have me wondering why you’d spend more on expensive rivals from Shokz and Bose

The Baseus Bowie MC2 undercut most rival open-style earbuds, but don't miss out on any major features. [...]