Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata. It targets the frequent judgment calls inside agent pipelines: routing, triage, tool selection, and guardrails. Is it deployable? Yes,…
Lightspeed is sharpening its India technique round AI, concentrating on $250 million for a brand new early-stage fund because the enterprise agency bets the know-how will drive the following wave of startups in one of many world’s largest markets. The Silicon Valley enterprise agency is already a serious investor in AI corporations together with Anthropic,…
As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority. Tech executives from OpenAI and Nvidia have confirmed their attendance at the dinner, as a number of key agenda items are on the table….
Databricks announced on Thursday that it has acquired an early-stage spreadsheet startup referred to as Row Zero. The story goes that Databricks’ finance staff fell in love with Row Zero as a result of it was a cloud instrument that would scale past 1 million reside spreadsheet rows. They had been combining Row Zero with…
Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus in New Mexico, Bloomberg first reported Thursday. Force majeure clauses, common in energy and commodities contracts, excuse a party from contractual obligations when events outside its control get in the way. Oracle is not seeking to exit…
If there’s one factor robotics founders and traders agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT second” the place a general-purpose robotic can seamlessly adapt to any atmosphere has not arrived. Opinions fluctuate on whether or not the breakthrough is simply across the nook or a decade away. Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup based final yr, is…
Voice assistants dealing with cellphone calls is a bit more accepted in the present day than again within the Duplex days. Name screening options abound—whether or not on a Pixel, Samsung, or iPhone, onboard assistants routinely intercept unknown callers to ask why they’re calling. However these sorts of options—very like hyped-up AI translation options—can typically…
Waymo’s industrial robotaxi ramp-up seems expansive, each in geographic attain and in ridership. And by virtually each measure, it’s — till you take note of the place the majority of these robotaxis are literally exhibiting up. The numbers over the previous two years replicate the form of industrial rollout you’d count on from a deep-pocketed…
The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion Stoica — has created a version of its tiny language models for smart glasses running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. On Wednesday, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the chipmaker showcased PrismML’s 1-bit Bonsai LLM, which can be run locally on AI smart…
One of the first things I did when I left my full-time job at WIRED was give Claude Cowork access to my email and calendar. After reporting on artificial intelligence for years, I was curious about what the technology could do for me. I had imagined Cowork as a hyper-capable digital assistant, but was let…
