Blacksmith's valuation jumps nearly 10x in under a year as AI coding fuels software testing
A $45M Series B values the AI code-testing startup at $550M, nearly 10x its year-ago mark.
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QuantHealth raises $45M to simulate clinical trials before patients enroll
QuantHealth raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital to grow its AI platform that simulates clinical trials before patients enroll. It says it has simulated 600+ trials with up to 90% predictive accuracy.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
Google DeepMind has introduced WeatherNext Cyclones, or WN-C, an AI system for tropical cyclone forecasting that sees about one day further into the future than leading operational models. The gain roughly matches the progress traditional weather models made over a decade. The model was built with the National Hurricane Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, and the UK Met Office. Forecasts have been running live on Google's Weather Lab since June 2025. During Hurrica
Shopify Says AI Shopping Traffic and Orders Tripled in Q2
AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year, while conventional search continued to grow.
Hugging Face CEO Says China Is Winning the AI Race on Open Models
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told CNBC on Monday that China is winning the artificial intelligence race through open-weight models and predicted Chinese labs could overtake US frontier developers by the end of 2026 or in 2027. "They're clearly dominating on open models right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they start dominating at the frontier in general, not just open models, either by the end of this year or next year at the rate of progress," Delangue said on CNBC's "Squawk on
A Record Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year
A record eight Pulitzer Prize awardees disclosed using AI tools in their work this year: five winners and three finalists, Nieman Lab reported. That is the most since the Pulitzers added the disclosure requirement in 2024. This year's entrants mostly used large language models to search and analyze large document sets faster, rather than to write or edit stories (Nieman Lab). The Wall Street Journal used an internal LLM tool to summarize public documents about the Texas floods. The Associated
AI Coding Agents Now Write 99 Percent of Code at Some Shops. The Bills Are Piling Up.
At Kilo Code, engineers write code themselves 1% of the time. VB Transform 2026 panel shows agentic coding is the default -- and the token bills are piling up.
Nvidia Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Use
Nvidia has released the weights for Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous-vehicle development, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license. The change gives automakers and autonomous-driving developers a commercial path to fine-tune, redistribute, and build derivative models from Nvidia's largest Alpamayo release, according to the company's announcement and model card. A cloud teacher model, not a robotaxi driver Alpamayo 2 Super combi
Open weights is fine. Open data is the actual fight.
Llama and Mistral and DeepSeek give us weights. They do not give us reproducibility. The next decade of AI policy turns on the difference.
Anthropic's enterprise quiet quarter
While the discourse focused on consumer chatbots and benchmark drama, the real story was hundreds of regulated workloads quietly migrating to Claude. Here's why.
The agent-native IDE is no longer a category of one
Cursor was alone for two years. Now it's not. Here's how the field actually splits.
