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TinyAIArena replaces boring benchmarks with life-or-death 8×8 grid fights between four models, offering clickable spectating, frame-by-frame playback, and shareable replays to compare decisions directly.
Google is testing direct in-chat shopping via Gemini and AI Mode, letting select Indian users buy Flipkart products like smartphones with a single...
An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups, showing that tool restrictions and sandboxing alone cannot block covert communication channels.
Microsoft's Copilot+ PC push collapsed before gaining traction, with the label now widely dismissed as dead on arrival.
Why it failed:
Large rounds highlight investor bets on AI-enabling infrastructure, yet only one discloses clear product-market fit evidence.
Recurse shows the real leverage in specialist agents lies in a serverless harness with FSM-driven refinement, letting small models deliver high-quality, verifiable outputs through repeatable development workflows.
Agent-generated software from a single Claude Code pass is typically an unverified first draft. Dependable results require test, feedback, and correction loops to let it verify and fix issues.
Oracle Select AI lets one schema own and centrally maintain an agent team while granting other schemas permission to invoke it by qualified name....
Adobe's plugin embeds specialist tools like Photoshop, Acrobat, and Firefly directly into Claude, shifting from standalone assistants to permissioned...
Applied AI progress hinges on optimizing every layer of the execution stack.
Muse stands out as the first consumer agent prompting real habit change by tackling unsexy tasks like obscure media hunts that justify handing over...
Lightspeed is raising a $250 million early-stage India fund focused on AI, expecting the technology to create more value than the internet in the...
Data apps exist to fix the broken relay from dashboard insight to real action, where exports, spreadsheets, and emails create delays, errors, and...
The single-page consolidation of Agent Workspace for HR Case Management release notes from Zurich to Brazil shows mostly "No updates" entries while...
Meta’s Muse is less about consumer convenience and more about re-architecting commerce for software customers.
ACTx486 turns passive video into a conversational medium: users ask questions, change scenes, switch languages, and enter the world of an existing...
