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OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: 'We may be losing the ability to understand AI' | VentureBeat

Scientists from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta unite in rare collaboration to warn that a critical window for monitoring AI reasoning may close forever as models learn to hide their thoughts.

Liquid Edge AI Platform LEAP lets devs build local AI mobile apps | VentureBeat

LEAP addresses those needs head-on with a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.

Thinking Machines first product coming in months, open source | VentureBeat

Backed by $2B and with OpenAI’s open-weight model now in limbo, Thinking Machines could capture developer attention and interest.

Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID | VentureBeat

Perplexity and SheerID launch a global program offering students up to two years of free AI access through secure identity verification.

Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems | VentureBeat

A DeepMind study finds LLMs are both stubborn and easily swayed. This confidence paradox has key implications for building AI applications.

Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions | VentureBeat

Mistral's open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security.

Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries | VentureBeat

Anthropic is unveiling a financial sector-specific Claude version that will tackle data connectors and added rate limits for analysts.

Amazon launches Kiro, its own Claude-powered challenger to Windsurf and Codex | VentureBeat

Initial community reactions to Kiro were mixed, but developers were intrigued, praising the emphasis on specs, hooks and structure.

Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: 'We're friends with Anthropic again' | VentureBeat

Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin into Windsurf.

AI’s fourth wave is here -- are enterprises ready for what’s next? | VentureBeat

To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now?

The human harbor: Navigating identity and meaning in the AI age | VentureBeat

The future is marked by deepening uncertainty about our place in it, and by growing ambiguity about the nature of human purpose itself.

Stop vetting engineers like it’s 2021 — the AI-native workforce has arrived | VentureBeat

Jobs will fade and rise due to AI. But those who learn to screen, train and build dev teams around AI-enabled talent will write the future.

Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action | VentureBeat

Enterprises adopting voice AI must consider not just usability, but inclusion. Supporting users with disabilities is a market opportunity.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free | VentureBeat

Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.

Solo.io wins ‘most likely to succeed’ award at VB Transform 2025 innovation showcase | VentureBeat

Solo.io's Kagent Studio framework allows enterprises to build, secure, run and manage their AI agents in Kubernetes.

A new paradigm for AI: How 'thinking as optimization' leads to better general-purpose models | VentureBeat

A new AI model learns to "think" longer on hard problems, achieving more robust reasoning and better generalization to novel, unseen tasks.

The great AI agent acceleration: Why enterprise adoption is happening faster than anyone predicted | VentureBeat

Enterprise AI agent adoption is accelerating faster than predicted. Get the 4 key takeaways from VB Transform 2025 on how leaders from Intuit, Capital One, and more are deploying agents in production and reshaping their teams for a new era of AI.

CISO dodges bullet protecting $8.8 trillion from shadow AI | VentureBeat

Clearwater Analytics CISO Sam Evans dodged a bullet by blocking shadow AI from exposing data integral to $8.8 trillion under management.

AWS doubles down on infrastructure as strategy in the AI race with SageMaker upgrades | VentureBeat

AWS upgraded its SageMaker platform to offer more observability and streamlined functions to make AI model inference and training easier.

Employee AI agent adoption: Maximizing gains while navigating challenges | VentureBeat

At Transform 2025, BCG's Matthew Kropp offered a game plan for agentic AI workflow evolution, employee adoption, and organizational change.

Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the 'smartest AI in the world' — what businesses need to know | VentureBeat

Musk did not apologize nor did he accept responsibility for Grok's antisemitic, sexually offensive, and conspiratorial remarks.

Open vs. closed models: AI leaders from GM, Zoom and IBM weigh trade-offs for enterprise use | VentureBeat

Experts from General Motors, Zoom and IBM discuss how their companies and customers consider AI model selection.

Announcing the winners of VentureBeat’s 7th Annual Women in AI awards | VentureBeat

Here are the winners of the Women in AI awards at VB Transform, in categories including entrepreneur, research, mentorship and responsibility.

Skip the AI 'bake-off' and build autonomous agents: Lessons from Intuit and Amex | VentureBeat

Intuit and American Express detailed how their companies are embracing agentic AI to transform customer experiences, internal workflows and core business operations.

Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the entire robotics industry | VentureBeat

Hugging Face launches Reachy Mini, a $299 open-source desktop robot that democratizes AI development for millions of builders worldwide.

Scaling agentic AI: Inside Atlassian’s culture of experimentation | VentureBeat

Scaling agentic AI isn’t just about having the latest tools -- it requires clear guidance and a culture that champions experimentation.

Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first 'memory operating system' that gives AI human-like recall | VentureBeat

Researchers unveil MemOS, a breakthrough "memory operating system" for AI that delivers 159% improvement in reasoning tasks and enables persistent memory across sessions.

As AI use expands, platforms like Brain Max seek to simplify cross-app integration | VentureBeat

As enterprise search becomes more important, companies are betting on all-in-one platforms like ClickUp's Brain Max to make finding information easier.

MCP isn’t KYC-ready: Why regulated sectors are wary of open agent exchanges | VentureBeat

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is gaining momentum. But, not everyone is fully onboard yet, as financial institutions sit and wait before adoption.

Facing AI-powered threats, CISOs consolidate around single-vendor SASE | VentureBeat

AI attacks are exposing gaps in multivendor stacks. CISOs are shifting to single-vendor SASE to consolidate, reduce risk and regain control.

How Capital One built production multi-agent AI workflows to power enterprise use cases | VentureBeat

With over 100 million customers, Capital One's agentic system is built for scale and complexity.

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Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' Grok AI peddles conspiracy theories about Jewish control of media | VentureBeat

The chatbot is giving antisemitic responses and bizarre first-person replies, raising concerns about bias and safety ahead of Grok 4 launch.

New 1.5B router model achieves 93% accuracy without costly retraining | VentureBeat

Katanemo Labs' new LLM routing framework aligns with human preferences and adapts to new models without retraining.

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Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge | VentureBeat

As AI applications permeate enterprise operations, a critical bottleneck often emerges: data storage.

Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies | VentureBeat

Event-driven multi-agent systems are a practical architecture for working with imperfect tools in a structured way.

Data everywhere, alignment nowhere: What dashboards are getting wrong, and why you need a data product manager | VentureBeat

In an enterprise world drowning in dashboards, one truth keeps surfacing: Data isn’t the problem—product thinking is.

Sakana AI's TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30% | VentureBeat

Sakana AI's new inference-time scaling technique uses Monte-Carlo Tree Search to orchestrate multiple LLMs to collaborate on complex tasks.

HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH | VentureBeat

This gain is made possible by TNG’s Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method — a technique for building LLMs by selectively merging the weight tensors