Formula E will finally debut its fast-charging pit stops this weekend

After announcing initial plans two years ago, Formula E is finally ready to deploy its fast-charging pit stops in an official race. At the Jeddah E-Prix in Saudi Arabia this weekend, the all-electric [...]

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]

Agents think in milliseconds, legacy infrastructure doesn't. LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk shared how they closed the gap at VB Transform 2026

Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk [...]

Nvidia locks in SK Hynix for the AI memory race as the chip industry’s “toughest bottleneck” gets its own multi-year deal

Nvidia and SK Hynix have signed a multi-year agreement covering both the design and manufacture of next-generation memory chips for AI. The deal, announced on Sunday during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang� [...]

Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck

Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line.The San F [...]

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering effort. A new framework from researchers at SII-GAIR aims to close that bottle [...]

New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss

Enterprise AI applications that handle large documents or long-horizon tasks face a severe memory bottleneck. As the context grows longer, so does the KV cache, the area where the model’s working me [...]

Google's 'Watch & Learn' framework cracks the data bottleneck for training computer-use agents

A new framework developed by researchers at Google Cloud and DeepMind aims to address one of the key challenges of developing computer use agents (CUAs): Gathering high-quality training examples at sc [...]

AI’s medical skills are stuck behind a human bottleneck, according to new Oxford research

Large language models excel at medical exams but fall short with real patients, Oxford study finds.<br /> The article AI’s medical skills are stuck behind a human bottleneck, according to new [...]