American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]

Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate humanoid robot push

Meta has acquired robotics AI startup Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate its work on humanoid robots. The goal is an open platform for the entire industry, similar to what Android did for smartp [...]

Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence

Novo will take an equity stake in Cellular Intelligence and is in line for future milestone payments and royalties. The startup plans to apply its AI platform to STEM-PD, a stem-cell-derived treatment [...]

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and au [...]

Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months

The Five Eyes intelligence agencies warn: AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are only months away. That's according to the Guardian.<br /> The article Five Eyes int [...]

No Claude Fable 5? No problem: Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model, auto synthesis system

Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level AI performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. [...]

How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence

Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that accurately re [...]

Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence

Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index despite being four times smaller [...]

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of t [...]