Google Lets Developers Block Gemini Agents’ Tool Calls

Google has added a control layer to the managed agents in its Gemini API, letting developers run their own code before and after every tool call an agent makes inside its cloud sandbox, and cancel the [...]

Recursive Commits Most of Its Raise to AWS Compute Capacity

Recursive, the AI research company led by Richard Socher, has signed a multi-year, $410 million agreement with Amazon Web Services to run its automated AI research system, putting the bulk of its fund [...]

China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says

For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start [...]

Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact

“We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two." [...]

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models

Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to beat China is to shut its models out. In an interview with the Financial Times [...]

groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era

groundcover, an observability startup that keeps customers’ monitoring data inside their own cloud, has raised $100 million in a Series C round. The financing was led by the growth investor One Pea [...]

Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts

Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported by Reuter [...]

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thir [...]

groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform

Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand increasingly complex pr [...]