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Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk as more athletic than championship-winning …

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Tome's founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield

Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a year of quiet development — a bold pivot by a startup that once had 20 million users and $43 million in the bank building something completely different. The San Francisco-based company is positioning itself as a fundamental reimagining of how …

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Adobe to buy Semrush for $1.9 billion

Adobe said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire search engine optimization company Semrush for about $1.9 billion in cash, as the Photoshop maker seeks to augment its suite of marketing offerings. In a statement, Adobe said it would offer $12 per share for Semrush, almost double the latter’s closing price of $6.89 on Tuesday, before news of the …

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Microsoft remakes Windows for an era of autonomous AI agents

Microsoft is fundamentally restructuring its Windows operating system to become what executives call the first "agentic OS," embedding the infrastructure needed for autonomous AI agents to operate securely at enterprise scale — a watershed moment in the evolution of personal computing that positions the 40-year-old platform as the foundation for a new era of human-machine collaboration. The company announced Tuesday …

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In a sea of agents, AWS bets on structured adherence and spec fidelity

Despite new methods emerging, enterprises continue to turn to autonomous coding agents and code generation platforms. The competition to keep developers working on their platforms, coming from tech companies, has also heated up. AWS thinks its offering, Kiro, and new capabilities to ensure behavioral adherence set up a large differentiator in the increasingly crowded coding agent space.  Kiro, first launched …

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Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI

Andy Konwinski is concerned that the U.S. is losing its dominance in AI research to China, calling the shift an “existential” threat to democracy. Konwinski is a Databricks co-founder and the co-founder of the AI research and venture capital firm Laude. “If you talk to PhD students at Berkeley and Stanford in AI right now, they’ll tell you that they’ve …

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Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft

After a year of frenzied dealmaking and rumors of an upcoming IPO, the financial scrutiny into OpenAI is intensifying. Leaked documents obtained by tech blogger Ed Zitron provide more of a glimpse into OpenAI’s financials — specifically its revenue and compute costs over the past couple of years.   Zitron reported this week that in 2024, Microsoft received $493.8 million in …

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[2506.09160] Understanding Human-AI Trust in Education

[Submitted on 10 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 12 Nov 2025 (this version, v4)] View a PDF of the paper titled Understanding Human-AI Trust in Education, by Griffin Pitts and 1 other authors View PDF Abstract:As AI chatbots become integrated in education, students are turning to these systems for guidance, feedback, and information. However, the anthropomorphic characteristics of these chatbots …

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Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

Google DeepMind shared on Thursday a research preview of SIMA 2, the next generation of its generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning powers of Gemini, Google’s large language model, to move beyond simply following instructions to understanding and interacting with its environment.  Like many of DeepMind’s projects, including AlphaFold, the first version of SIMA was trained on …

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