AI NewsPrentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
AI NewsCognition has acquired AI assistant Poke in a deal valuing it in the low nine figures, bringing Poke's conversational interaction model to Cognition's coding agent Devin.
AI NewsThree OpenAI GPT-5.6 models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with support for the Responses API, prompt caching, and the Codex coding agent.
AI NewsSouth Korea's president and top business and research leaders met with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners at an AI Summit in San Francisco to advance the country's AI development.
AI NewsAMD introduced Helios, a rack-scale AI system that the company says will begin shipping to customers later this year, in a challenge to rival Nvidia.
AI NewsAegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
AI NewsPatreon is laying off about 20 percent of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, with CEO Jack Conte pointing to AI's impact on how the company works and organizes.
AI NewsAn AWS tutorial explains building multi-Region carrier performance dashboards in Amazon QuickSight with Highcharts custom visualizations while maintaining data sovereignty across Regions.
AI NewsYope has raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build a private social app centered on small groups of friends and family, avoiding algorithmic feeds and ads.
AI NewsGoogle has committed $40 million in AI tokens and credits toward the Genesis Mission, an initiative focused on advancing scientific discovery.
AI NewsAn overview of leading alternative browsers to Chrome and Safari, as the competition for user preference evolves.
AI NewsSynthesia introduced AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training tool where employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics.