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Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

Tolan, the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and…

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational…

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Tenstorrent Marina Temkin Tenstorrent hits…

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in…

MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight

MiniMax's M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…

“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world

“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick…

Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant

Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten…

Pegasus 1.5 from TwelveLabs is now available in Amazon Bedrock

On Oct 9, 2026 we announced the availability of TwelveLabs’ Pegasus 1.5 on Amazon Bedrock. Pegasus 1.5 is a…

How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium

As voice becomes a first-class modality for AI, Deepgram’s models span speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and…

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and…

Push-based KV transfer to improve TTFT and TPOT for disaggregated inference in vLLM

vLLM is an open-source inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). LLM inference has two…

Improve TTFT for multi-turn agentic workloads with bi-directional KV transfer in vLLM

Multi-turn agentic workloads build on accumulated context as an agent reasons, invokes tools, and…

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

Claude Haiku 5.5: What’s New and How to Use It for Fast, Cheap AI Workflows

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices by 90% and adds adaptive thinking and a 1M token context window. Learn what…

One Search, Two Layers: Compiler Controls Inside PyTorch Helion using NVIDIA CompileIQ

With Helion’s release last year, it aimed at enabling developers to write GPU kernels in PyTorch-native…

AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

Among the 377 results that OpenAI announced on October 6, 2026, one stood out. It claimed to settle the…

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs 

Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing. The…

How the KV Cache Shapes AI Agent Costs

An AI agent can spend most of a model call reading a history it has already processed. The KV cache preserves…

NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production

At a creative industry event that took place today in Berlin — hosted in collaboration with Adobe,…

LangChain vs. LlamaIndex vs. Building From Scratch: Here’s What I Suggest

Choosing the right framework for your large language model application comes down to one question: what are…

📈 Monday data: Who won the trade war?

In the AI Investment Brief today: Early AI adopters report gains, plus CoreWeave's bond woesTrump’s first…

Who searches the web for your agent?

From all the people that have their agents searching the web dozens of times a day, very few actually know…

Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers

Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers Maximilian Schreiner View the…

Introducing TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium

Frontier models span language, video and audio, on architectures from dense and mixture-of-experts…