2025-11-19
OpenCV founders launch AI video startup to take on OpenAI and Google
A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world's most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centr [...]
2025-11-18
How AI tax startup Blue J torched its entire business model for ChatGPT—and became a $300 million company
In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a r [...]
2025-11-17
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 co [...]
2025-11-17
Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus, a $6.2 billion AI bet on faster engineering
Jeff Bezos is taking on his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021. According to the New York Times, he is stepping in as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup backed by 6.2 bill [...]
2025-11-16
From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later
When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing [...]
2025-11-13
Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently
Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]
2025-11-13
Alembic melted GPUs chasing causal A.I. — now it's running one of the fastest supercomputers in the world
Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive advantage in artificial intelligen [...]
2025-11-12
Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini
Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]