• Musk's xAI launches Grok 4.1 with lower hallucination rate on the web and apps — no API access (for now)

    In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google's limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple independent evaluators — Elon Musk's rival AI startup xAI last night unveiled its newest large language…

  • Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA are setting a bar for cloud infrastructure investment and AI model availability with a new compute alliance. This agreement signals a divergence from single-model dependency toward a diversified, hardware-optimised ecosystem, altering the governance landscape for senior technology leaders. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the relationship is a reciprocal integration where the…

  • Google Antigravity introduces agent-first architecture for asynchronous, verifiable coding workflows

    Googlefocused launched yet another coding agent platform, this time focusing on developer teams collaborating to create agents that can execute complex tasks automatically. The platform, called Antigravity, is powered by Gemini 3 and is now available in public preview with “generous rate limits on Gemini 3 Pro usage.”  Antigravity is an agentic coding platform that…

  • Microsoft’s Agent 365 shifts AI agents from sandbox tools to enterprise-grade infrastructure

    Managing and maintaining AI systems remains a challenge for many enterprises, particularly with the potential for agentic sprawl to expose businesses to risky entry points.  Microsoft entered the observability fray with the launch of Agent 365 during its annual Ignite conference Tuesday. It described Agent 365 as the control plane for AI agents, serving as…

  • Google unveils Gemini 3 claiming the lead in math, science, multimodal and agentic AI benchmarks

    After more than a month of rumors and feverish speculation — including Polymarket wagering on the release date — Google today unveiled Gemini 3, its newest proprietary frontier model family and the company’s most comprehensive AI release since the Gemini line debuted in 2023. The models are proprietary (closed-source), available exclusively through Google products, developer…

  • Microsoft remakes Windows for an era of autonomous AI agents

    Microsoft is fundamentally restructuring its Windows operating system to become what executives call the first "agentic OS," embedding the infrastructure needed for autonomous AI agents to operate securely at enterprise scale — a watershed moment in the evolution of personal computing that positions the 40-year-old platform as the foundation for a new era of human-machine…

  • Writer's AI agents can actually do your work—not just chat about it

    Writer, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, is launching a unified AI agent platform designed to let any employee automate complex business workflows without writing code — a capability the company says distinguishes it from consumer-oriented tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. The platform, called Writer Agent, combines chat-based assistance with autonomous task execution in…

  • How AI tax startup Blue J torched its entire business model for ChatGPT—and became a $300 million company

    In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI of a bygone era, serving hundreds of accounting firms with predictive models. But it had…

  • Ton Ecosystem partners to help Telegram’s decentralised AI network unseat OpenAI

    Telegram’s Cocoon AI network is getting ready for prime time with a massive deployment of graphics processing units courtesy of one of the Ton blockchain ecosystem’s leading investors, AlphaTON Capital. AlphaTON is working with SingularityNET, CUDO Compute and Vertical Data to deploy a huge fleet of high-performance GPUs on the network, housed in a sustainably-powered…

  • Alibaba rolls out revamped Qwen chatbot as model pricing drops

    Alibaba is updating its artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to catch up with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi version and became available on both major app stores on Friday, last week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “most powerful official AI assistant for its models”…