Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently announced that the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025, citing a “30% productivity increase on engineering” due to AI, it sent ripples through the tech industry. Headlines…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI is advancing at a rapid clip for businesses, and that’s especially true of speech and voice AI models. Case in point: Today, ElevenLabs, the well-funded voice and AI sound effects startup founded by former Palantir…

EnCharge AI, an AI chip startup that raised $144 million to date, announced the EnCharge EN100, an AI accelerator built on precise and scalable analog in-memory computing. Designed to bring advanced AI capabilities to laptops, workstations, and edge devices, EN100leverages transformational efficiency to deliver 200-plus TOPS (a measure of AI performance) of total compute power…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More New York-based AI startup Hume has unveiled its latest Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) conversational AI model, EVI 3 (pronounced “Evee” Three, like the Pokémon character), targeting everything from powering customer support systems and health coaching to…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup founded by the creators of the popular Stable Diffusion model, has launched a new image generation model called FLUX.1 Kontext. This model not only generates and edits photos, but also…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More With demand for enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on the rise, the opportunity is ripe for model providers to offer their take on embedding models.  French AI company Mistral threw its hat into the ring with…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have introduced s3, an open-source framework designed to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems more efficiently than current methods.  s3 can benefit developers creating real-world large language model (LLM) applications, as…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The recent takedown of DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for infecting over 300,000 systems and causing more than $50 million in damage, highlights how agentic AI is redefining cybersecurity operations. According to a recent Lumen…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers from Meta’s FAIR team and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that forcing large language models to “think” less actually improves their performance on complex reasoning tasks. The study released today found that shorter…