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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.
OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest: Terms & Conditions
Explore the official terms and conditions for the OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest, including eligibility, entry steps, judging criteria, and prize details. Learn how to participate, submit your entry on Instagram, and win...
Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint
Discover OpenAI’s Child Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.
Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship
A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent
Using ChatGPT for search and deep research
A practical guide from OpenAI on integrating ChatGPT’s search and deep research capabilities into research workflows.
Listen Labs raises $69M Series B after viral billboard hiring stunt
Founded by Alfred Wahlforss, Listen Labs turned a $5,000 San Francisco billboard into a mass hiring funnel and has since attracted investors including Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, Conviction and Pear VC. The round values the company at $500 million, brings total...
Railway raises $100M to build an AI-native cloud and take on AWS
The new capital dramatically increases Railway’s war chest after just $24 million raised previously, including a $20 million Series A from Redpoint in 2022, and positions the startup to push an AI-native approach to cloud infrastructure as teams grapple with...
Tesla’s Robotaxi launches in Dallas and Houston show token deployments and near‑zero availability
Data suggests only a handful of vehicles were placed in each market and that live availability fell back to near 0%, prompting scrutiny of the rollout’s size and timing.
Tesla Cybertruck approved to export power in PG&E residential V2X pilot — California’s first AC V2G sign-off
PG&E and Tesla announced Cybertruck participation in the utility’s residential V2X pilot; homeowners can receive up to $4,500 toward the equipment and installation needed to send power from the truck back to the grid. The AC approach is technically simpler an...
Tesla registrations in California drop 24.3% in Q1; ZEV share hits lowest level since 2021
Tesla saw a sizable drop in California registrations in Q1 2026 as the overall ZEV market share in the state declined to 13.7%, per CNCDA.
Ankit Gupta Joins Y Combinator as General Partner
YC elevates a seasoned ML-focused advisor to the partner team after he worked with dozens of YC founders.
AWS, Meta Strike Multibillion-Dollar Multiyear AI Infrastructure Deal
The deal ties Meta’s AI compute needs to AWS Graviton chips at scale, reshaping competition among cloud and silicon providers and signaling a major revenue win for AWS.
Google positions its AI agent platform for action — integration still incomplete
Enterprises are moving from AI that answers or creates content to AI that performs tasks; Google argues that achieving that safely and reliably demands a cohesive stack spanning silicon to applications. The platform shows promise but faces integration and dep...
ToolSimulator lands in Strands Evals SDK to scale safe testing of agent tool calls
Use ToolSimulator inside Strands Evals to validate agent behavior, catch integration bugs early, and test edge cases without exposing live systems or PII.
Amazon SageMaker AI adds G7e instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
G7e on SageMaker AI provides high‑memory RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs in 1/2/4/8‑GPU nodes, enabling single‑node inference for large open models and a lower‑complexity option for deploying FMs.
Tracing ML Lineage with DVC and Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps
AWS shows how DVC and SageMaker AI MLflow Apps can be used together to capture lineage at both dataset and record granularity, enabling reproducible pipelines and richer traceability for ML models.
Musk pushes unsupervised FSD for consumer Teslas to Q4 2026 at earliest
Tesla’s CEO again pushed back the timeline for unsupervised FSD, leaving owners, investors and regulators waiting for a clearer path to deployment.
Tesla Roadster unveiling delayed again; Musk says debut could arrive in about a month
The long-promised Tesla Roadster has been postponed once more. The CEO's latest estimate pushes the reveal beyond a timetable the company had recently reiterated, marking at least the eighth schedule change since the prototype's 2017 debut.
Tesla proposes urban “microfactories” to retrofit millions of HW3 cars
Tesla sold large numbers of vehicles marketed as capable of FSD while many lacked hardware sufficient for true autonomy. CEO Elon Musk has proposed localized retrofit centers to install upgraded sensors and compute, but the plan raises logistics and margin qu...
Tesla to start Optimus production at Fremont in late July or August
Tesla will repurpose Fremont to build Optimus this summer, but early production is expected to be slow and unpredictable because the robot comprises about 10,000 unique parts and requires a brand-new manufacturing setup.
YC launches AI Stack offering $25k+ in dev credits to student attendees
YC’s new student-focused package supplies substantial credits for AI tools through partner deals, aiming to accelerate student projects and early-stage experimentation.
OpenAI Academy’s guide to building reusable ChatGPT skills
The Academy lesson focuses on reusable workflows that let organizations scale automation, reduce manual prompt work, and maintain quality and consistency when using ChatGPT.
Personalizing ChatGPT: Custom Instructions and Memory
The post walks through two personalization tools: custom instructions, where you tell the model about your preferences and goals, and memory, which preserves select user details between chats. It highlights how these tools can streamline workflows while raisi...
OpenAI’s guide to building and using custom GPTs
The new Academy resource walks readers through the process of creating custom GPTs and putting them into practical use. It frames custom models as tools for automating routine tasks, enforcing consistent output standards, and delivering purpose‑built assistan...
OpenAI’s guide to using files in ChatGPT
OpenAI’s Academy article outlines file-upload workflows in ChatGPT, enabling data review, document summarization and content generation from a variety of file formats.
Nova Forge SDK, Part 2: A practical playbook for fine‑tuning Nova with data‑mixing
This follow‑up to the SDK introduction and initial customization piece gives practitioners a practical, end‑to‑end recipe for adapting Nova models to specific tasks. It spotlights data preparation, how to apply the SDK’s data‑mixing during training, and basic...
AWS demonstrates Bedrock video semantic search using Nova Multimodal Embeddings
AWS provides a Bedrock-based example that uses Nova Multimodal Embeddings to improve video search by aligning user intent with multiple signal types, plus code to deploy and test with your content.
AWS distills Nova models to speed up, cut cost for video semantic search
A new AWS Machine Learning Blog post outlines a model-distillation workflow on Amazon Bedrock that compresses routing capabilities from Nova Premier into Nova Micro. By moving intelligence into a compact student model, teams can dramatically reduce inference...
AWS adds finer cost attribution to Amazon Bedrock
The Bedrock enhancement provides more detailed cost visibility and practical examples to support chargebacks, budgeting and cost governance for foundation-model usage.
Nueces County Order After Tests Find Toxic Metals in Tesla Refinery Discharge
Lab tests show carcinogenic and heavy-metal contamination in wastewater from Tesla’s Texas lithium refinery; local authorities have ordered the discharge stopped.
Tesla releases Q1 2026 financial results and shareholders’ letter after market close
Tesla disclosed its first-quarter 2026 reporting package and investor letter; expect management commentary on the call to clarify performance and near‑term priorities.
Tesla’s Q1 2026: One-time fixes hid a stalled auto business
Q1 2026 results showed a 21.1% gross margin, 136% operating income growth and $0.41 non‑GAAP EPS, but Tesla’s disclosures reveal that warranty reserve releases, tariff refunds, delayed supplier payments and fresh debt drove much of the improvement, masking a...
Tesla seems to say Robotaxi launch will be pushed back in 5 US cities
Tesla has released quarterly earnings, and the announcement was accompanied by what seems to be a backpedaling on availability of Robotaxis in 5 of the 8 cities Tesla has announced availability in. more…
Cloud Cost Optimization: How to maximize ROI from AI, manage costs, and unlock real business value
Get practical strategies and best practices to help you plan, design, and manage AI investments for sustainable value and efficiency. The post Cloud Cost Optimization: How to maximize ROI from AI, manage costs, and unlo...
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports optimized generative AI inference recommendations
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI supports optimized generative AI inference recommendations. By delivering validated, optimal deployment configurations with performance metrics, Amazon SageMaker AI keeps your model developer...
Tesla offers 1 year of free Supercharging, claims ~40% premium for non-Tesla EVs
Tesla is bringing back free Supercharging for new Model 3 Premium and Performance orders in North America, bundling one year of complimentary charging with new purchases. The automaker also used the announcement to take...
Copilot cloud agent fields added to usage metrics
Following the Copilot coding agent to Copilot cloud agent rename, the Copilot usage metrics API now includes a new used_copilot_cloud_agent field in user-level reports. This boolean field mirrors the existing… The post...
Making ChatGPT better for clinicians
OpenAI makes ChatGPT for Clinicians free for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, supporting clinical care, documentation, and research.
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.
Introducing GPT-5.5
Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.
Model release watch: what buyers should track after the launch headline
A practical way to read major AI launches without getting distracted by brand theatre.
Chip and compute race: the hardware story software teams can no longer ignore
Hardware coverage becomes relevant to software buyers once supply, speed and inference cost start changing product choices.