The Arena
The labels that dragged Stability AI to court are now on its shareholder register — the clearest sign yet that licensed training data has become the industry's business model, not just its talking point. Stability AI has raised $76 million in a Series B round backed by the three
The Stack
Nvidia just refreshed the little computer that powers a huge slice of the world's robots — and the efficiency numbers are the real story. Nvidia announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new entry-level robotics computer that doubles the inference performance of its predecessor while drawing 40% less
The Frontier
A string of open-weight releases this week keeps pushing what small, deployable models can do. IBM is the latest, rolling out a reasoning-tuned Granite family that trains the bigger variants to actually use tools and code in real sandboxes before shipping them under a permissive Apache 2.0
The Stack
Perplexity and Nvidia are making the most aggressive push yet to pull AI agents off the cloud: a desktop app where the model, your files, and the work itself never have to leave the machine — and the token meter never moves. Perplexity launched Portable Computer on Monday, a version of
The Stack
Two hardware stories today, both about who sets the price of running AI: OpenAI's first custom inference chip just posted benchmark numbers ahead of Nvidia's best, and one of autonomous trucking's quietest operators just bankrolled its expansion. OpenAI's custom Jalapeño chip delivered
The Frontier
While most of the industry keeps refining diffusion, Apple's research group is betting on a cleaner architecture for models that understand and generate text and images in one system. Apple's machine learning research group published STARFlow2, a unified multimodal model built on autoregressive normalizing flows — a
The Stack
No event, no keynote — just a surprise hardware drop with one very clear audience: people who run AI models on their desks. Apple refreshed its entire desktop lineup around local AI inference today, debuting the M6 — its first 2nm chip — in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra, its
The Arena
The legal AI land grab just got its biggest player yet — Google has stopped dabbling and shipped a full vertical. Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal on Tuesday, a purpose-built agentic AI package that plugs Gemini into the systems lawyers actually use — the company's most serious
The Guardrails
Ukraine has handed Britain a first-look pass at the most closely guarded asset of its AI warfare program: the Avengers AI Labs dataset, roughly five million labeled combat images plus sensor data collected across the front line. President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Andy Burnham signed the agreement in
The Frontier
AI's frontier-pushing crowd spent the week cleaving to language and agentic models — but one of the field's better-known researchers used Tuesday to bet on a different kind of foundation model: one that predicts how the physical world changes, not how the world talks. Caltech
The Frontier
Code-analysis firm Sonar put Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 through its standard LLM evaluation and found the model passes more of the tests it's given — hitting 88.6% on executable coding tasks versus 82.9% for the Opus 4.8 it replaces — while generating more than
The Stack
Enterprises can finally answer a question they've been too embarrassed to ask aloud: exactly what did that AI token bill buy? Tempo, the Atlassian ecosystem's planning-and-portfolio software maker, launched Workforce Intelligence on Tuesday, an app that connects AI usage and its cost to the