The Stack
Block just dropped Berd into the open — a desktop app that lets you work with AI agents from any provider in a single window, released under Apache 2.0. The project, built on Tauri 2 and React 19, wraps Block's own Goose agent backend and already has 216
The Arena
The Pentagon wants AI on the battlefield faster, and venture capital is following the order. Austin-based Smack Technologies, which builds AI decision-making tools for the US military, announced a $61 million Series B led by Costanoa and First In on Monday, adding fresh fuel to the growing defense-
The Guardrails
Safety monitoring is no longer a side project — it's a line item. OpenAI disclosed this week that changes to its model training pipeline will increase compute overhead by 20 percent of its observed inference workload, and the company says it won't pass that cost on to
The Guardrails
Beijing has quietly approved deliveries of around 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each to ByteDance and Tencent for use at their mainland China facilities, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Financial Times. The move signals a rare crack in the US export-control wall — and
The Frontier
Alibaba's latest open-source release is turning heads: Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter model that runs on personal computers, has crossed one million downloads within days of launch and is outperforming models several times its size on independent benchmarks. The model scored 52 on the Artificial
The Arena
Two big moves from the infrastructure side of AI today — one in software, one in hardware — both pointing the same direction: the market is betting heavily on the tools that make AI actually work in production. Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would value the open-
The Stack
Inference is eating AI's bill, and a new open-source release just made it cheaper to run. DFlash 2, a block-diffusion draft model from Inco AI, ships checkpoints for Qwen3.8-27B and Muse-Glimmer-30B — and claims over 20% more output per verification pass at roughly
The Arena
The lease we were waiting on is signed: OpenAI is the tenant, Nvidia is the exclusive silicon, and the site used to enrich uranium for the Cold War. OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease on SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio — up to
The Everyday
Google and the UK government just moved contrail avoidance from airline-by-airline experiments to the people who actually own the sky. Google UK, NATS, and a UK-backed consortium launched Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday — a £5 million, 30-month trial that will use AI forecasts to nudge commercial
The Frontier
Anthropic just put wet-lab numbers on a claim it has been making for months: a general agent can run a specialist's early-stage biology workflow, not just talk about it. Anthropic said Tuesday that Claude designed de novo protein binders against 15 targets and produced confirmed binders
The Arena
The booked quarter is in, and it does not look like the annualized story OpenAI has been selling. OpenAI's second-quarter revenue grew 18 percent from the first quarter to $6.7 billion, according to people familiar with the figures cited by the Wall Street Journal — and its
The Guardrails
A 2028 hopeful who spent last year courting Amazon-backed campuses just told AI builders they do not get to skip the township meeting. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday that puts local officials in front of every data center project, yanks those projects out of the