Billionaire Tequila CEO Purchases Stake in Los Angeles Football Club
Juan Domingo Beckmann, the billionaire CEO behind Jose Cuervo, Maestro Dobel and Gran Coramino, has joined the Los Angeles Football Club’s ownership group.
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Eagles’ $90,000 gamble was a long shot. Now he’s a breakout candidate: ‘I’m going to be a dog’
Eagles' former long shot is balling out during training camp.
California lost 1.3M Joshua trees in 2020 Dome Fire; new software aids recovery
California scientists developed digital tools to map fire damage in the Mojave National Preserve. These new software programs help park managers focus restoration work on vulnerable desert plants.
Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones
Sony might turn back the clock and revive an older model to save potential buyers some cash.
Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain
Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise…
Meta’s new coding agent is cheap (but it’ll cost you your data).
Meta this week announced Muse Code, its first coding agent designed to tackle complex software engineering tasks, like planning changes, The post Meta’s new coding agent is cheap (but it’ll cost you…
Coinbase, Shopify and Ramp all built their own coding agents. All three still pay Anthropic.
Enterprise engineering teams are converging on a common architecture for AI-assisted software development. Coinbase, Shopify, and Ramp have each built The post Coinbase, Shopify and Ramp all built their own coding agents. All three still pay Anthropic. appeared first on The New Stack .
Google doesn't need the LLM crown
Whoever stands atop the AI race podium isn’t the main point anymore.
Meta: Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Meta AI: We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable…
- Meta AI introduces Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent on Muse Spark 1.2.
- Muse Code uses multiple persistent subagents to resolve complex software engineering tasks.
AI avatars enter the job interview
For some job candidates, using AI in the application process is a reaction to a system that’s grown more machine than human.
The creatures born from code: Generative AI threatens to upend citizen science records
You need to tread carefully among the leaf litter of the Indonesian scrubland and its tropical rainforests. The dead leaves might seem caught in a gentle breeze, but there's more here than meets the…
Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs
Suno says it will begin watermarking and fingerprinting AI-generated songs, tighten download policies to curb mass distribution, and explicitly prohibit deceptive audio and unauthorized voice or…
AI short film shows 'Lionara' under zombie attack with National Day Parade as backdrop
The studio acknowledged that its "creative choices" were likely to polarise viewers.
Disney Plus tries a new AI-powered search
Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations.
Firmus Raises $2B To Expand AI Infrastructure Across Asia-Pacific
AI Infrastructure Expansion Gains Investor Support Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure company Firmus raised $2 billion through new equity funding for regional expansion initiatives.
Some adults use AI for financial advice, but trust is still low, Gallup poll finds
Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it’s far from the most trusted source of advice, according to a new Gallup survey conducted in partnership with Edward…
Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a 'holy %{*#^' moment in AI
OpenAI revealed that, ahead of the Hugging Face breach, agents repeatedly created their own message boards to communicate with one another.
Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (The Information)
Legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise at least $500 million at a $15.5 billion valuation including the investment, a 40% premium to its last valuation five months ago.
E.W. Scripps to Become an ‘AI-Powered Broadcast Journalism Company’ After Sweeping Layoffs
“We are not wavering on our commitment to quality journalism,” CEO Adam Symson says The post E.W. Scripps to Become an ‘AI-Powered Broadcast Journalism Company’ After Sweeping Layoffs appeared first…
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026 , James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier isn't a single, more capable agent, it's tens of thousands…
Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads
What if your AI agent suddenly turned rogue and sent all your passwords to a hacker?
Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature a day after its rollout after users made no-no images
Google’s “Nano Banana” AI allowed users to generate any images they wanted from Google Earth—and Google didn’t measure the consequences.
AI method reveals hidden patterns in microbial communities in the Warnow Estuary
Microbial communities are highly sensitive to environmental changes, yet their enormous diversity makes it difficult to identify ecological patterns. A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has shown that an AI method originally developed for text analysis can be successfully applied to…
I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device
We have fresh rumors on OpenAI's AI hardware, but what do they really mean? We turned to Gemini and ChatGPT for fresh perspective, renders, and have new thoughts about why the gadget still won't work for us.
Reddit decides who AI recommends: what I found measuring 241 software categories
Buyers have started asking ChatGPT and Gemini which software to use instead of opening ten tabs. So over the last few weeks I ran a simple experiment 241 times: for each software category, I asked the assistants the questions a buyer actually types, wrote down every product they named, and wrote down every web page the answer was built…
Tyga Admits to Making New Album $tarface With AI: “I Don’t Care”
“It’s no different than when Auto-Tune came out,” he said in a recent interview
China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s | Letters
Responding to an article by China’s ambassador to the UK, Prof Paul H Cleverley advocates shared openness standards, while Dr Claire Jenkins says British AI can offer a distinctive path Ambassador…
The secret ingredients powering AI chatbots
Some US companies are disclosing they use a cocktail of AI, including some Chinese open-source models, to build custom consumer-facing tools.
What Recent Multibillion Industrial AI Deals Tell Us About The Market
The global energy and industrial AI segment is seeing accelerated consolidation and strategic partnerships pointing to a survival of the cleverest.
Crypto’s infrastructure era arrives, with AI agents poised to reshape demand
Crypto companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into the next wave of users.
Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to…
OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker
We’ve got a new vision for the next great piece of AI hardware —and it (allegedly) is going to look a lot like a donut. Details about OpenAI’s first piece of hardware, designed by Jony Ive’s LoveFrom…
Chesky says Airbnb will spend ‘a lot more’ on AI as earnings beat and stock surges 15%
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wasn’t sure AI would help the company, but a year later, he says it’s the reason growth is back.
How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore Gateway…
The AI Arms Race Is Distracting Businesses From the Real Problem
Most companies now use AI, but few have scaled it across the business and even fewer are seeing clear financial returns.
BlackRock’s Rieder Sees AI Helping Buoy GDP Even as Hiring Slows
BlackRock Inc.’s Rick Rieder said last month’s surprise contraction in payrolls reflects a “productivity revolution” rather than economic weakness, arguing that the US economy remains on track for 6%…
Some US adults are using AI for financial guidance but few trust it, Gallup poll finds
Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it's far from the most trusted source of advice, according to a new Gallup survey conducted in partnership with Edward…
Newer AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine
Flinders University researchers have evaluated two next-generation reasoning large language models (LLMs)—o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1—and found that when asked to describe fictional patients with common…
Energy Vault Announces Strategic Agreement to Deploy 1.25 GW of Integrated Power Infrastructure for Hyperscaler AI Data Center with Leading Power Generation EPC Deploying Caterpillar Gensets
Partnership combines Energy Vault’s FEOC-compliant BESS, grid-forming PCS, and AI infrastructure control software with partner’s turnkey power generation, Caterpillar gensets and EPC capabilities…
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from…
The HP EliteBook X G2i is an AI-powered laptop that can keep up with your business needs
From AI power to portability, the HP EliteBook X G2i is an ideal laptop for the business on the go.
The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions
The compute cost of the investment is staggering, according to a talk the company gave at a security conference this week.
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks…
Grindr CEO says AI is doing work that would have required hiring 200 additional engineers
Grindr CEO George Arison said that AI had increased its engineering output 2.5-fold. Without AI, he said the company would need 200 more engineers.
Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is on sale for just $60
The Birdfy Feeder Rookie is a good option if you’re new to birdwatching or simply don’t want to spend a lot on a smart feeder, and several configurations are on sale.
AI must empower entrepreneurs, not replace human creativity – UPS Global Director
Artificial intelligence (AI) should be viewed as a tool for strengthening entrepreneurship rather than replacing human creativity and critical thinking, Global Director of Social Impact at UPS…
OpenAI's First Device Is a $300-Plus Doughnut-Shaped Speaker: Report
Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.
State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
Founded by Trump ally and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has attacked the press and works in the digital surveillance space.
AI Briefing: Europe is getting bogged down in AI laws – America is breaking records
While Brussels is finding exceptions for the AI Act and getting lost in paragraphs, US corporations like Microsoft and Palantir are writing billion-dollar profits.
AI Is Changing the Work Companies Bring Back to the U.S.
AI Impact tracks AI’s role in work returning to the U.S., broken customer-service handoffs and legal casework overnight.
Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.
AI creating more jobs in India than cuts: Nomura report
According to the report by Nomura Holdings Inc, AI-driven recruitment continues to be more than job losses in the country. Given the country's vast workforce, India is experiencing the "largest absolute impact" of AI across layoffs, hiring freezes and recruitment.
HackerOne Extends Platform Reach to Remediate Source Code Vulnerabilities
HackerOne has added a remediation capability to its H1 Platform that reduces the amount of time required to remediate validated vulnerabilities and other weaknesses affecting specific lines of source code.
American farmer who built a life in Russia says he and his family are facing deportation
Justus Walker, an American farmer known as “The Merry Milkman” who lives on a farm in Russia’s Altai Krai, said Russian authorities plan to expel his family from the country. He said he received a call informing him that authorities intend to revoke his residence permit.
AI Won’t Fix American Education
While AI may transform how students learn, it is unlikely to address underlying inequalities that shape educational achievement, argues Sonia Murrow.
Doximity’s stock skyrockets 50% on medical AI excitement. Can the rally last?
While one analyst thinks Doximity has a compelling AI opportunity, another worries that the company could cannibalize its core business of medical networking.
AI just created a virus not found in nature, and scientists are worried
This technique could lead to new treatments for antibiotic-resistant bugs, but some scientists say the technology could be misused
BJP MP to propose bills seeking age checks for children, curbs on AI deepfakes
The proposed Bills seek parental consent for children under 13 on social media and penalties for misuse of AI-generated deepfakes.
AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: On Thursday, AMD said it's entered into an agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that makes chips for inference. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model, rather than being general purpose.