Tesla is no longer planning to reach “volume production” of three of its newest products — the Cybercab, the Tesla Semi, and its Megapack 3 commercial energy-storage solution — in 2026, according to a second-quarter shareholder letter published Wednesday. The company also removed language from its first-quarter letter about its Optimus robot reaching “volume production.”…
U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying that sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller model learns from the outputs of a…
Alphabet buyers have very publicly worried that the corporate’s large AI spending isn’t well worth the cash. With the corporate’s newest earnings report, these buyers ought to be capable of loosen up slightly. The takeaway: Google’s cloud enterprise — pushed largely by enterprise AI adoption — is booming. The search large noticed Google Cloud income…
On Wednesday, IBM formally reported earnings and the information was as unhealthy as everybody knew it could be. Whereas the 115-year-old firm nonetheless generates boatloads of money — $17.2 billion in income, $9.9 billion in gross revenue, practically 58% margins, and $2.2 billion in web earnings for the quarter — its outcomes fell nicely in…
The AI business isn’t fairly experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 second, but it surely feels very shut. The main Chinese language AI labs have been on a roll currently, releasing a sequence of just about cutting-edge open-source fashions. Z.ai launched GLM 5.2 in June, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 final week, and Alibaba launched Qwen 3.8…
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system is a classifier that inspects each request before a model runs, then dispatches it to the model best suited to that specific task. The cursor team reports frontier-quality performance at 60% savings in online A/B tests, and 30–50% savings for early-access…
In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task categories, runtime environments, and interaction-time budgets. We begin by downloading the dataset snapshot from Hugging Face, parsing the released task specifications, and examining the benchmark taxonomy, execution settings, internet requirements, judging logic, and scoring metadata. We then…
The Trump administration is split over how to respond to the rapid rise of China’s leading AI models, according to multiple people familiar with deliberations. The debate is broadly divided between parts of the White House, which has pushed for stricter controls on Chinese AI that may soon rival the most powerful US models, and…
SoundCloud announced Wednesday that it has acquired Nina Protocol, a decentralized music platform that enabled independent artists to sell music directly to fans while keeping 100% of their revenue. The financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. It’s also unclear whether any members of Nina’s team will join SoundCloud. The company has not yet responded…
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also joined the funding round, re-connecting Kalanick with the company he founded — and…
