Google releases FunctionGemma: a tiny edge model that can control mobile devices with natural language

While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter [...]

AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic and OpenAI take almost all of it

Anthropic and OpenAI now capture 89 percent of revenue among top AI startups, according to an analysis by The Information.<br /> The article AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic an [...]

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already [...]

New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a yea [...]

Skello raises €200M and its founders end up owning more of the company

Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised €200m l [...]

Big Pharma poured billions into AI drug discovery. It could soon pay off

Optimism for AI-powered drug discovery is rising as industry giants, startups, and even Sam Altman step up investments [...]

Agents don't replace vector search - they make it harder to get right

What's the role of vector databases in the agentic AI world? That's a question that organizations have been coming to terms with in recent months.<br /> <br /> The narrative had [...]

The European Union has put €700 million into NanoIC

The European Union has formally inaugurated NanoIC, a semiconductor pilot line backed by a €700 million investment under the European Chips Act. The facility aims to accelerate the development of ad [...]

TII’s Falcon H1R 7B can out-reason models up to 7x its size — and it’s (mostly) open

For the last two years, the prevailing logic in generative AI has been one of brute force: if you want better reasoning, you need a bigger model. While "small" models (under 10 billion param [...]