2026-06-24
Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software Engineering, Android, Web, and OS. The release extends Alibaba's recent push into autonomous agents. Qwen3.7-Max, released in May, w [...]
2026-06-24
Gemini 3.5 Flash can now see and control your screen, and Google wants enterprises to trust it
Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type, and scroll across browsers, mobile devices, and desktops, previously required a separate standalone model and is now available as a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-24
Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites
Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing power, and it says it turned down buyout offers worth more than $500M. The great AI compute crunch is minting a new kind of winner. Runpod, a five-year-old startup that rents computing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-24
Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US
Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barely changed in decades. A surgeon stitches the two frayed ends together under a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
