Meet AnyCoder, a new Kimi K2-powered tool for fast prototyping and deploying web apps

18 July 2025 at 22:03

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For novice developers or even those with expertise who want to spin up a new project fast, AnyCoder seems like a great place to start.Read More

OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

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By:Carl Franzen

17 July 2025 at 17:16

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If a website needs you to log in, you can do that securely through a special browser view, which lets the agent dig deeper and handle more.Read More

Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’

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By:Carl Franzen

15 July 2025 at 22:13

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

Finally, a dev kit for designing on-device, mobile AI apps is here: Liquid AI’s LEAP

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By:Carl Franzen

15 July 2025 at 16:46

LEAP takes a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.Read More

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

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By:Carl Franzen

14 July 2025 at 21:16

A surreal, atmospheric image of people working on laptops in a dimly lit, modern co-working space. The scene features a futuristic digital backdrop resembling cascading code or data streams in green and orange hues, evoking a sci-fi or cyberpunk aesthetic. The lighting is warm and moody, with soft ambient bulbs and silhouettes of plants adding a natural contrast to the high-tech ambiance. Figures are seated at low tables, focused on their screens, creating a contemplative, tech-driven environment

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

Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

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By:Carl Franzen

14 July 2025 at 18:46

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

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

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By:Carl Franzen

10 July 2025 at 17:24

Graphic novel style artwork of Elon Musk in black t-shirt and jacket presenting Grok 4 in red lettering on large display behind him

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

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

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By:Carl Franzen

3 July 2025 at 13:32

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

From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

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By:Carl Franzen

27 June 2025 at 20:00

Organizations that delay systematic AI deployment risk being left behind by competitors who have already mastered the transition from experimentation to execution.Read More

OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

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By:Carl Franzen

27 June 2025 at 18:02

From L to R: Carl Franzen of VentureBeat and Olivier Godement of OpenAI at VB Transform 2025

OpenAI now includes tracing and eval tools with the API stack to help teams define what success looks like and track how agents performRead More

How Highmark Health and Google Cloud are using Gen AI to streamline medical claims and improve care: 6 key lessons

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By:Carl Franzen

27 June 2025 at 17:24

Left to right: Carl Franzen from VentureBeat, Will Grannis from Google Cloud and Richard Clarke from Highmark Health on stage at VB Transform 2025

Success in generative AI isn’t reserved for those with the biggest budgets, but for those with clear plans, flexible platforms, and patience.Read More

Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline

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By:Carl Franzen

24 June 2025 at 15:00

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EXCLUSIVE: New York City based startup Emergence AI, founded by former IBM researchers, previously made headlines for its impressive automated system that allows enterprises to type in a requested task in plain natural language and automatically create a fleet of agents to help complete it. But that’s not all the company has up its sleeve whe…Read More

Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why

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By:Carl Franzen

23 June 2025 at 17:29

As an independent business owner or leader, how could you possibly trust Grok to give you unbiased results?Read More

Mistral just updated its open source Small model from 3.1 to 3.2: here’s why

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By:Carl Franzen

20 June 2025 at 22:51

The fact that it is made by a French startup and compliant with EU rules and regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act also helps its appealRead More