Category: AI & Automation


  • Raleigh Opens Final Round of Facade Rehabilitation Grants for 2025

    The City of Raleigh has opened the fourth and final application cycle for its 2025 Facade Rehabilitation Grant Program, a long-standing initiative designed to support exterior improvements to commercial properties across the city. Applications for this round opened on Thursday, April 3, and will be accepted through Sunday, April 27. Award notifications are expected by…

  • Midjourney v7 launches with voice prompting and faster draft mode — why is it getting mixed reviews?

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Midjourney, the boot-strapped startup viewed by many AI power users as the “gold standard” of AI image generation since its launch in 2022, has now introduced the much-anticipated, most advanced version of its generator model, Midjourney…

  • DeepSeek jolts AI industry: Why AI’s next leap may not come from more data, but more compute at inference

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with recent developments challenging established paradigms. Early in 2025, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek unveiled a new model that sent shockwaves through the AI industry and resulted…

  • Meta’s answer to DeepSeek is here: Llama 4 launches with long context Scout and Maverick models, and 2T parameter Behemoth on the way!

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The entire AI landscape shifted back in January 2025 after a then little-known Chinese AI startup DeepSeek (a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management) launched its powerful open source language reasoning…

  • Raleigh Opens Application Window for Building Up-fit Grant Program

    The City of Raleigh has opened the fourth and final application window for its 2024–2025 Building Up-fit Grant program. The current cycle began on Thursday, April 3, and runs through Sunday, April 27. Award notifications are expected by Friday, May 16. The Building Up-fit Grant is a matching reimbursement initiative that assists small business owners…

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available without limits and for cheaper than Claude, GPT-4o

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, which the company calls its most intelligent model ever, quietly took the developer world by storm.  After seeing strong developer interest, Google announced it would increase rate limits for Gemini 2.5 Pro…

  • Vibe coding at enterprise scale: AI tools now tackle the full development lifecycle

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The vibe coding phenomenon—where developers increasingly rely on AI to generate and assist with code—has rapidly evolved from a niche concept to a mainstream development approach.  With tools like GitHub Copilot normalizing AI-assisted coding, the next…

  • Cisco Warns: Fine-tuning turns LLMs into threat vectors

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Weaponized large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned with offensive tradecraft are reshaping cyberattacks, forcing CISOs to rewrite their playbooks. They’ve proven capable of automating reconnaissance, impersonating identities and evading real-time detection, accelerating large-scale social engineering attacks. Models,…

  • Genspark’s Super Agent ups the ante in the general AI agent race

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The general-purpose AI agent landscape is suddenly much more crowded and ambitious. This week, Palo Alto-based startup Genspark released what it calls Super Agent, a fast-moving autonomous system designed to handle real-world tasks across a wide…

  • Nimble Launches Email Marketing and Template Editor to Support Scalable Campaigns

    Nimble, a CRM platform tailored to small businesses and marketing professionals, has introduced its new Email Marketing feature, enabling users to conduct large-scale, HTML-powered, and trackable email campaigns directly from within the platform. The feature, announced on April 3, 2025, is designed to support outreach efforts such as newsletters, webinars, and promotional messages. According to…