Enterprise software giant Intuit is laying off about 3,000 employees, or 17% of its workforce, to streamline operations and redirect resources toward artificial intelligence initiatives, according to an internal memo from CEO Sasan Goodarzi.

A new tool called 'What Models?' helps users find the best local AI models for their GPU, VRAM, and system memory, with customizable minimum context windows, speed, and features.

xAI just released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, which animates a still image into a short clip with synchronized audio in one pass. This guide provides prompting tips including sound design, intensity modifiers, camera movement, focus, and starting from an image.

Modal raised $355M at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint. The company has grown fivefold since September, exceeding $300M in annualized revenue. Modal provides a cloud platform for AI, focusing on elastic inference, agent runtimes, and sandboxes. The funding will support expansion in low-latency inference, reinforcement learning, and agent compute.

Use Weaviate's built-in MCP server to give Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code hybrid search over your codebase and docs. No glue code.

For nine years the AI boom has been a private bet, priced by a small circle of venture funds and sovereign wealth in rounds most people could never touch. This week it started going public. SpaceX filed an $80 billion IPO prospectus on Wednesday, the largest in history, with a chatbot company and $6.4 billion in AI losses folded inside it. OpenAI is days from filing its own, aiming for a trillion-dollar debut by September. The public markets are about to answer the question private investors kept waving away: at what price?

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. Users of OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or Strands Agents can invoke models on SageMaker AI by changing only the endpoint URL, without custom clients, SigV4 wrappers, or code rewrites. The feature supports Chat Completions requests and streaming responses, with bearer token authentication.

Pancake is an autonomous AI agent system integrated into Slack, functioning like an organizational chart where agents have roles and goals to make companies operate autonomously. The founders launched it on Product Hunt, highlighting positive beta feedback.

3M Users, 100K Signups/Week, Own-Metal Data Centers, $200K+ Coding Agent Spend, and the Death of PRs

SpaceX's S-1 filing reveals an agreement with Anthropic for compute access across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II, valued at $1.25 billion per month through May 2029.

Enterprise AI reveals gaps in traditional data governance measurement. Key metrics include data trust, observability, and AI-specific indicators like RAG retrieval reliability and output traceability.

Google on Tuesday showed off new plans to turn its famous search bar into an AI assistant that can book restaurants, track news, and contact businesses—just by asking a question.

Programmatic access to product analytics for agents and developers.

Turbovec is an open-source vector index written in Rust with Python bindings, leveraging Google's TurboQuant algorithm for 16x compression and zero codebook training, outperforming FAISS on ARM hardware.

Claude for PowerPoint on steroids - an AI tool to supercharge your presentations.

NanoCo launches a managed enterprise service with a sandboxed AI agent per employee, raises $12 million seed round. Its open-source framework NanoClaw has nearly 29,000 GitHub stars.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared at Google I/O the goal of 'solving all disease,' prompting a nuanced look at AI in medical research. The article explores the potential of AlphaFold and AlphaGenome, the gap between research tools and consumer AI health, and the dangers of oversimplified science communication.

ATxSummit 2026 opened in Singapore with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as guest-of-honor. The inaugural AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge showcased 11 youth projects, emphasizing AI for healthcare, education, social inclusion, and agriculture. Two AI healthcare MoUs were also signed.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, a high-speed execution engine for real-world tasks, and Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent. The model outperforms previous versions in coding and agentic benchmarks, is 4x faster, and aims to enable autonomous AI systems. Google also unveils Omni, an AI world model for video.

When AI image generators depict cities, they tend to produce more recognizable images for large metropolitan areas than for smaller communities, a new study finds. This raises concerns about representation and visibility in generative AI.

This article uses the biblical story of David and Goliath as an analogy to compare small language models (SLMs) and large language models (LLMs). It highlights how SLMs excel in specialized, resource-constrained, or privacy-critical contexts, while LLMs offer broad generalization and deep reasoning. The piece also explains knowledge distillation and provides a framework for creating domain-specific SLMs.

At Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, AI Search upgrades, Universal Cart, Gemini Spark, and more. Here are the top highlights.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds discussed the double-edged sword of AI in programming at the Open Source Summit North America, noting a 20% increase in kernel commits due to AI tools, but also social and security challenges.

Deep Agents now supports interpreters: small embedded runtimes where agents write code to coordinate tools, hold working state, and decide what enters model context. They provide a middle ground between serial tool calls and full sandboxes, enabling agents to express multi-step work, keep intermediate state out of model context, and execute code and actions more predictably.

This tutorial walks through building a complete knowledge graph generation pipeline from plain text, conversations, and multiple documents using kg-gen. It covers entity extraction, chunking, clustering, aggregation, NetworkX analytics (centrality, PageRank, community detection), interactive visualization with PyVis, and export to JSON/GraphML.

Strands Evals announces four new multimodal LLM evaluators for image-to-text tasks: Overall Quality, Correctness, Faithfulness, and Instruction Following. These evaluators send images directly to a multimodal judge model, returning image-grounded scores and reasoning strings, and integrate into CI to catch visual hallucinations, factual errors, and instruction violations. The post covers setup, reference-based/free modes, custom rubrics, and judge model selection.

Mike Veerman's HTML app simulates LLM token output speeds from 5 to 800 tokens/second, helping users visualize the real meaning of speed claims.

New Visa research calls AI-accelerated scams 'the fastest growing source of consumer harm.' Here's what you need to watch out for.

As AI coding tools become more accessible, non-developers are creating apps that fulfill niche needs. Google I/O 2026 showcased AI Studio updates for native Android app creation, prompt-based widgets, and hints at a shift to mobile vibe coding. Apple is reportedly working on prompt-based shortcuts.

IBM announces expansion of its enterprise security program for the AI era, partnering with Anthropic as a member of Project Glasswing, an industry initiative to defend critical software infrastructure. New tools include IBM Concert and IBM Autonomous Security to combat AI-powered attacks.