Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness [...]

Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a di [...]

Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code

For most of the history of software, planning was sacred. You had to plan before anyone touched a keyboard, because the cost of building the wrong thing could be so punishing, especially for startups, [...]

Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent

The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator [...]

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 [...]

Eli Lilly is acquiring three vaccine startups as it makes a push into infectious disease

The deals give Lilly vaccines targeting shingles, bacterial pathogens, and Epstein-Barr virus as it expands beyond weight loss drugs [...]

Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are backing a new clean-tech push for data centers

Nonprofit investor Elemental Impact will deploy up to $5 million per project in as many as 10 startups through 2027 [...]

AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT la [...]

AI just changed everything about how we forecast the weather

Nvidia, Google, and a growing list of startups are using AI to make weather reports more accurate—and show the world how powerful the technology is. [...]