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…
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben…
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, AI startup Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement last year, noting that the startup’s image-generation models could create images of characters, such as Bart Simpson and Darth…
NVIDIA Research introduced HORIZON, a hands-free agent framework for hardware design. It treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. This research team exercises the register-transfer level (RTL) instantiation. A structured Markdown harness becomes a project pack. A self-contained agent loop then evolves an isolated git worktree. It commits a version only when an executable acceptance…
This week, Anthropic released Claude Science. It is an app for scientists, available in beta. It runs on Anthropic’s existing Claude models, not a new model. The app targets researchers who juggle databases, notebooks, and cluster terminals. It runs multi-step research and records how each result was made. The beta is available for Pro, Max,…
