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The AI race is back on after Anthropic and OpenAI pulled ahead

Google and Meta are pressing back into the race after trailing Anthropic and OpenAI on recent models.

Floqer pitches AI agents that research B2B sales prospects at TechCrunch Disrupt

Startup says its autonomous customer knowledge database will go open source in early 2027, pending security reviews.

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The AI race is back on after Anthropic and OpenAI pulled ahead

Google and Meta are pressing back into the race after trailing Anthropic and OpenAI on recent models.

Floqer pitches AI agents that research B2B sales prospects at TechCrunch Disrupt

Startup says its autonomous customer knowledge database will go open source in early 2027, pending security reviews.

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart added one-click Hugging Face deployment

SageMaker JumpStart also shipped pre-configured endpoints tuned for low cost, low latency, or general-purpose generative AI workloads.

DARPA launches $73 million RAPIID program to develop shelf-stable blood

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to fix blood storage limits that cause preventable deaths.

NVIDIA introduces cuDF skills for Spark UDF GPU acceleration

The cuDF skills guide testing, conversion, benchmarking, and optimization for rewriting Spark UDFs into GPU-accelerated code.

Shopify now lets any AI agent browse and purchase its listings

Buyers connect an agent to their Shop account, set rules, and approve each purchase through Shop Pay.

Microsoft forms Xbox Labs to experiment with AI-powered game ports

The new group will decompile and recompile games, following a wave of AI-assisted mods that run classic titles on new hardware.

Flox Intelligence builds edge AI to deter wildlife from trains and roads

The KTH spinout is a Startup Battlefield 200 finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt and sells on-device wildlife deterrence.

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, claiming frontier performance at lower cost

Argon rolls out to Gemini Pro and Ultra subscribers today, with Google claiming benchmark wins over GPT-6 Astra and Claude models.

NVIDIA open sources Run:ai platform for AI workload and GPU orchestration

Four modular components ship alongside the code, including a GPU-aware scheduler and a CUDA-native GPU sharing operator.

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, agrees to sell assets to Disney

Court filings list assets and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million, and the company has no buyer yet.

AI labs buy data from failed startups as resale market grows

SimpleClosure brokers sales of defunct startups' code, emails, chats, and documents to AI training labs.