Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now the Financial Times reports that five of those launches are on hold. Country launches that have been paused include Austria, Norway, and Greece. Uber seemed to confirm the decision to the FT, saying that recent launches…
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. It carries 1.6 trillion total parameters and activates about 48 billion per token. The model targets agentic coding: code understanding, generation, and execution inside agent workflows. Two facts stand out. First, LongCat-2.0 supports a native 1-million-token context window. Second, both training and serving ran entirely…
Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reports that Nansen’s analysis is based on transactions that are publicly visible on the blockchain, showing that 988,905 accounts had lost money on the memecoin as of…
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…
We spend dozens of hours at our desks each week (if not more), so it’s worth creating a workspace that’s productive and enjoyable. The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. From ambient lighting to smart mugs, there are lots of products designed…
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based tech conglomerate that made headlines for acquiring the likes of AOL and Vimeo, went public on the Nasdaq this week with a pop, briefly reaching a market capitalization over $25 billion. While Bending Spoons stock has slightly slumped since then, its market cap remains twice double its previous private valuation of…
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2026. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused on other industries like healthcare and even a few crypto companies. This list will be updated throughout the…
LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for legal documents, powered by LlamaIndex Index v2 (the LlamaParse Platform). The project demonstrates a pattern the team calls a Retrieval Harness for agentic retrieval. The approach differs from single-shot retrieval. Instead of one embedding search per query,…
Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March 3, 2026. He now lists himself as an independent researcher on his personal site. In a talk titled ‘Qwen: Towards a Generalist Model / Agent,‘ he walks through the Qwen family. It ends on a single line:…
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data until it becomes structured JSON. Open-source document extraction has become the standard way to do that conversion on your own hardware. Two different problems hide under the phrase ‘PDF to JSON.’ The first is schema-driven…
