Co-founders behind Reface and Prisma join hands to improve on-device model inference with Mirai

Mirai raised a $10 million seed to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.

For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.

It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets
It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

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Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart.

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing 

“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”

Google Ships WebMCP, The Browser-Based Backbone For The Agentic Web

Google ships WebMCP protocol, letting websites expose structured functions to AI agents and reducing computational overhead by 67% compared to screen scraping.

Research suggests you might be too confident in your ability to spot AI faces

A new study finds that most people, even those with exceptional face-recognition skills, struggle to tell real faces from AI-generated ones.
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Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions

Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026.

The Prognosis For Longitudinal Mental Health Relationships Between Humans And AI

AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW

OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.