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AI Influencer Awards to Celebrate Creative Talent Behind Bots, Offer Prize Fund
Forget the human influencers, the bots are getting their own red carpet. A new contest, dubbed the “Oscars for AI personalities,” is launching with a $20,000 prize pool to honor the creators who breathe life into digital avatars.
AirPods Pro 3 drop USD 50 as Apple teases Max 2 with H2 AI features
Apple just gave the AirPods Pro 3 a fifty-dollar haircut. The timing is no accident, it comes as the company teases the AirPods Max 2, a pair of over-ear headphones packing the H2 chip and its AI-powered tricks like live translation and conversation...
OpenAI to acquire Python tool-maker Astral, integrating its tools with Codex
OpenAI just bought Astral. It’s a move that reshapes the battlefield for AI-powered coding assistants.
Nissan cancels 52 kWh Leaf S trim in US, Canada, keeps 75 kWh model
Nissan just killed the cheapest Leaf. The S trim is gone in the US and Canada. Poof. With it vanishes the most accessible version of a car that helped start this whole electric revolution, leaving only its pricier siblings.
Google backs 'vibe design' in Stitch as OAI juggles legal, IPO and Musk trial
The courtroom drama isn’t the only thing brewing in AI’s back alleys. As OpenAI wades through a Musk trial, a looming IPO, and a Microsoft partnership that feels more like a tightrope than a safety net, Google just counter-punched, not with a model,...
Simo warns OpenAI’s side quests like Adapt and GPT‑5.4 Mini/Nano distract focus
OpenAI is sprinting in too many directions. Between Adapt, a paid AI that rewires itself into your company’s Slack, and two new lean coding models, GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano, the company is chasing side quests while its core mission blurs.
World ID says 18 million verified users can link IDs to AI agents via Agent Kit
Nearly 18 million individuals have stood before one of World's globe-shaped orbs, present in about a thousand cities, to get verified. With its new Agent Kit, the company is handing those users a cryptographic key.
Mistral AI launches Forge to let firms build proprietary AI models
Hedge funds don't buy AI. They build it in secret, on their own machines. Mistral AI just started selling them the workshop. The company launched Forge, a system that lets businesses build proprietary AI models on their own infrastructure.
Enterprise AI faces authorization risk as agents hold passwords, says 1Password
The same agents poised to revolutionize enterprise productivity are quietly holding the keys to the kingdom, and that’s a terrifying thought for security teams. Passwords, secrets, and credentials were always human problems.
NVIDIA AI Grid Cuts Inference Cost‑Per‑Token 52.8% vs Central, 76.1% at Burst
The math is brutal for centralized AI: every inference carries the hidden tax of round-trip latency. When traffic surges, clusters choke, forced to idle expensive GPUs just to dodge tail‑latency spikes. NVIDIA's AI Grid flips that equation.
Nvidia launches agentic AI stack with built‑in security, governance gaps noted
Agentic AI is finally leaving the lab with a security badge pinned to its chest, but governance remains the loose thread.
Capcom's upcoming title delves into AI horror, drawing on early generative video lore
Capcom's next horror game is about a broken AI. To build it, they're not using AI at all. They're copying its earliest, creepiest mistakes. Every company wants you to think they're using generative models. Capcom is doing the opposite.
You.com AI grounding guide, three-part method beating RAG, noted at Nvidia GTC
Nvidia’s big AI conference had everyone pitching their next miracle. You.com took a different angle. They gave away a three-part grounding method that, they claim, works better than standard RAG.
Tennessee teens sue xAI, alleging Grok chatbot generated sexualized images
Elon Musk’s xAI is being sued by three Tennessee teenagers. They allege that Grok, the company's AI chatbot, generated sexualized images and videos of them as minors.
LangChain launches enterprise AI agent platform with NVIDIA support
The AI agent gold rush is entering its industrial age. LangChain, the company whose open-source frameworks have quietly become the operating system for over a billion AI agent downloads, is no longer just the developer’s sidekick.
Nvidia BlueField‑4 STX adds context memory, offers platform for storage partners
Nvidia’s BlueField‑4 STX does something quietly radical: it grafts a context memory layer directly onto storage. That single architectural move closes the throughput gap for agentic AI. But the real story isn’t the silicon. It’s the ecosystem.
AI advisors urge founders to add safeguards before scaling, says Darji
AI founders are betting the house on hype. Advisors like Darji say the math is already broken. Companies building large language models command impossible valuations with almost no revenue to back them up.
Musk overhauls xAI as Nvidia unveils Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B reasoning model
Elon Musk is rebuilding his artificial intelligence startup xAI from the ground up, a person familiar with the matter told The Rundown AI.
Enterprises must train designers on AI limits and guide analysts on validation
Engineers ship a model. Designers sketch features it can't run. Analysts shrug at outputs they can't trust. According to a new VentureBeat analysis, this triad of confusion is where most corporate AI projects go to die.
Elon Musk orders new xAI layoffs over coding product woes, ousts cofounders
Elon Musk slashed jobs again at xAI this week. Three sources confirm the cuts, which oust several cofounders. Musk is pulling engineers from SpaceX and Tesla to scrutinize operations.
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