6:00 AM PST · February 11, 2026 The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn’t over yet. A new company called Meridian has emerged from…
Author: Russell Brandom
Okay, now exactly half of xAI's founding team has left the company |
5:50 PM PST · February 10, 2026 Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next…
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all |
In Brief Posted: 12:26 PM PST · February 6, 2026 Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks…
Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis |
7:00 AM PST · February 5, 2026 An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an…
Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta users will start to see new AI models and products from the company in a matter of months. “In 2025, we…
A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money? |
We’rein a unique moment for AI companies building their own foundation model. First, there is a whole generation of industry veterans who made their name…
Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X |
2:08 PM PST · January 8, 2026 For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI…
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations |
11:08 AM PST · November 24, 2025 On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. It’s the last of Anthropic’s…
Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider |
6:00 AM PST · November 18, 2025 As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday revealed a new set of products that aims…
Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores |
8:00 AM PST · November 18, 2025 On Tuesday, Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, which is now immediately available…