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Daily analysis of AI tools, research, and industry shifts — written for engineers and decision-makers.
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OpenAI Raises $122B at an $852B Valuation
OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation on March 31, 2026 — the largest private fundraise in history. Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank led the round, with $35 billion of Amazon’s stake contingent on an IPO…
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AI Is Automating the Full Research Pipeline
AI tools now cover the full research pipeline: Elicit cuts systematic review time by 80%, Sakana’s AI Scientist generates hypotheses…
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5.4: Which Wins?
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite costs 10x less than GPT-5.4 and delivers 2.5x faster throughput. GPT-5.4 scores 75% on computer use and…
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Hunyuan 3.0: Tencent Bets on Agents, Not Benchmarks
Tencent’s Hunyuan 3.0 launches in April 2026 under a new chief AI scientist who co-created the ReAct agent framework —…
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OpenAI’s AI Research Intern: Autonomous Science in 2026
OpenAI has named a fully automated researcher as its new North Star — a system that designs experiments, runs them,…
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Stripe Minions vs Cursor Agents: Two Paths to Autonomous PRs
Stripe’s internal Minions are shipping 1,300 AI-generated pull requests every week with zero human-written code. Cursor 3 just launched cloud…
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DeepSeek V4 Is Here: 1T Parameters at $0.30/MTok
DeepSeek V4 ships with 1 trillion MoE parameters, a 1M-token context window powered by Engram conditional memory, and API pricing…
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AI Agents Now Handle 12-Hour Tasks. Here’s the Data.
The length of coding tasks frontier AI agents can complete with 50% reliability is doubling every 7 months—and recently accelerating…
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How to Use Cursor’s Parallel Agents for Large Refactors
Cursor 2.5 introduced parallel cloud agents — up to eight at once in isolated VMs with git worktrees — that…