Meta buys startup known for its AI task automation agents

Meta has acquired an AI startup called Manus — known for its custom research and website-building agents — in a deal valued at more than $2 billion, according toThe Wall Street Journal. It's [...]

This is the hidden risk in automation that leaders can’t ignore

Leaders need to pay attention to governance if they want to reap the rewards of automation. [...]

From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders

When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]

How Deductive AI saved DoorDash 1,000 engineering hours by automating software debugging

As software systems grow more complex and AI tools generate code faster than ever, a fundamental problem is getting worse: Engineers are drowning in debugging work, spending up to half their time hunt [...]

DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge

DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of [...]

ScaleOps' new AI Infra Product slashes GPU costs for self-hosted enterprise LLMs by 50% for early adopters

ScaleOps has expanded its cloud resource management platform with a new product aimed at enterprises operating self-hosted large language models (LLMs) and GPU-based AI applications. The AI Infra Prod [...]

Gong study: Sales teams using AI generate 77% more revenue per rep

The debate over whether artificial intelligence belongs in the corporate boardroom appears to be over — at least for the people responsible for generating revenue.Seven in ten enterprise revenue lea [...]

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-e [...]

Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same.

A San Francisco-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a [...]