Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example. Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected them to. Earlier this year,…
Each startup has a second that modifications all the things. For some, it’s touchdown their first buyer. For others, it’s closing their first funding spherical. For a choose few, it begins with one pitch. In case you’re going to use for Startup Battlefield Australia, now could be the time. Applications shut July 6, and as…
Most browser automation runs from the outside. Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and browser-use all drive a browser from an external process. They read the page through screenshots or the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Alibaba’s Page Agent takes the opposite path. The agent lives inside the webpage as plain JavaScript. It reads the live DOM as text and…
print(“\n[5/10] Creating a synthetic multimodal report…”) monthly_data = pd.DataFrame( { “Month”: [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”], “Query Volume”: [1200, 1700, 2100, 2600, 3300, 4100], “Hybrid Accuracy”: [0.71, 0.74, 0.79, 0.83, 0.87, 0.91], “Average Latency ms”: [980, 920, 850, 790, 760, 730], } ) table_md = monthly_data.to_markdown(index=False) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4.8)) plt.plot(monthly_data[“Month”], monthly_data[“Query Volume”], marker=”o”, label=”Query Volume”)…
IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq Thursday via a SPAC merger at a valuation of about $1.9 billion. But share prices didn’t pop. They spent most the day below the IPO price — a lukewarm welcome. SPAC mergers are often not immediately popular with retail investors these days….
It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it. Now we know just how much Big Tech’s pursuit of AI is costing the environment. Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Each company has pledged to zero-out its…
Meta is getting into gaming with the launch of a new app called Pocket, which allows people to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts. The software, a result of Meta’s acquisition of the team at the vibe-coded gaming platform Gizmo earlier this year, describes itself as “a creative platform for making and…
When SpaceX announced last month that it had agreed to acquire the popular AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, investors believed the deal would be a boon for both companies. Cursor would benefit from getting the computing resources of a major AI lab, which it could use to train its own models. In turn,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Under the proposal, other AI companies would donate similar stakes, although significant questions remain about the specifics. According to the FT’s reporting, the donation…
Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised $46.6 million for its second fund from LPs, including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures. Founded in 2021 by Joanna Drake and Julie Wroblewski, Magnify invests in companies that target the care economy, such as those building assistive robotics, family cybersecurity, and AI for home use. The firm said Fund…
