Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest Venture Fund as a lead in a startup fundraising round. Lucra announced last month that it raised a $20 million Series B, led by the…
AI’s greatest champions have argued for a while that the expertise will usher in an period of unprecedented productiveness good points, richly rewarding employees who harness it whereas displacing those that don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software program startup ClickUp, claims that this shift is imminent. Final Thursday, Evans announced on X that…
Pope Leo XIV printed his first encyclical on Monday, dubbed Magnifica Humanitas, on “safeguarding the human particular person within the time of synthetic intelligence.” And whereas AI is the hook, the issues Leo focuses on are older and extra pervasive: inequality, struggle, the erosion of democracy, and the focus of energy within the palms of…
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The Model Context Protocol has moved from Anthropic’s internal experiment to a de facto industry standard at a speed few integration protocols have matched. Since its launch in November 2024, MCP has grown explosively: OpenAI adopted it in March 2025, Microsoft announced support in Copilot Studio in March 2025, and by late 2025 combined Python…
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,” Hultquist adds. “Zero-day use by criminal actors has been fairly limited, and the ones that do use them tend to be really successful,…
For years, authentication on the web followed one design assumption: a human sits behind a browser. Click a button. Fill out a form. Verify an email. Copy an API key and paste it somewhere else. That model does not work when the user is delegating work to an agent. Agents are already writing code, opening…
StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime. It is an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully customizable persona capabilities. StepAudio 2.5 Realtime is a voice model that operates in real time. Unlike pipeline-based systems that separate speech recognition, reasoning, and synthesis into sequential steps, this is an end-to-end model. Audio goes…
print(“nPART 5 ── Datasets & experiments ————————————–“) DATASET = “capital-cities-tutorial” langfuse.create_dataset(identify=DATASET, description=”Capital-city QA benchmark”) _items = [ (“What is the capital of France?”, “Paris”), (“What is the capital of Germany?”, “Berlin”), (“What is the capital of Japan?”, “Tokyo”), (“What is the capital of Italy?”, “Rome”), ] for i, (q, a) in enumerate(_items): langfuse.create_dataset_item(dataset_name=DATASET, id=f”cap-{i}”, enter={“query”:…
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the din around us, de Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies navigating the AI security moment we’re all living through,…
