A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research
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A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research

An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.

June 25, 20253 min read
Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang
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Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

June 25, 20252 min read
Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
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Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links

Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.

June 4, 20252 min read
Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more
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Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.

May 28, 20253 min read
Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding
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Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding

Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.

May 28, 20253 min read
Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT
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Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT

OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.

May 21, 20253 min read
Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list
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Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list

AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.

April 30, 20252 min read
Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
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Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration

OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.

April 16, 20252 min read
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
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Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

March 19, 20253 min read
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
AI Agents

Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

March 19, 20253 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
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Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.

February 19, 20252 min read
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
AI Agents

Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.

February 19, 20252 min read
Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
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Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

February 12, 20253 min read

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