Reflection has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to develop what it calls “frontier open intelligence” — AI models designed to match the capabilities of closed systems while remaining accessible to developers and researchers worldwide. The funding round attracted major players including NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, 1789 Capital, and

The world’s central bankers don’t usually dabble in hype cycles—but this week, the Bank of England couldn’t stay quiet. In a stark assessment, officials cautioned that the surging wave of artificial intelligence investments may be inflating into something dangerously fragile. They didn’t call it a “bubble” outright, but anyone reading between the lines could feel

Testing AI has turned into something of a ritual for me lately. One day it’s productivity bots, the next it’s creative writing assistants, and then—on a whim—I found myself wandering into the world of kinky AI companion apps. Let me just say: this is a whole different flavor of AI interaction. These aren’t tools for

Starburst is updating its AI services to help enterprises build multi-agent workflows and monitor these agents for compliance and cost effectiveness. The data lakehouse provider, earlier in May, released a set of AI services, comprising the Starburst AI Agent and AI Workflows, across the Starburst Enterprise Platform and Starburst Galaxy, aimed at adding an agent-supporting

Google Labs has introduced Jules Tools and the Jules API, a command-line interface and API respectively for the Jules coding agent. Jules Tools and the Jules API were announced October 2. Jules Tools is a new CLI that brings Jules directly into the developer’s terminal, where they can start, stop, and verify Jules tasks next

Codex, OpenAI’s AI-powered software engineering agent that can work on tasks in parallel, is now generally available. Since being launched as a research preview in May, Codex has added Slack integration, an SDK, and admin tools. OpenAI announced general availability of Codex on October 6. Developers can log in to chatgpt.com to try out Codex.

The chilling reality of a Salesforce.com data breach is a jarring wake-up call, not just for its customers, but for the entire cloud computing industry. In recent months, a wave of cyberattacks has targeted cloud-based platforms that house and process massive amounts of personal and corporate data. The latest extortion attempt is from Scattered LAPSUS$

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows

By all counts, this week should mark a crowning achievement and a flood of fervent coverage across the tech media universe — and, heck, even the mainstream, general news media. Think about it: At whatever point Apple decides to finally catch up and get on the foldable phone bandwagon — in 2026, 2027, 2097, or

Google has introduced a new AI assistant to serve as a platform so users can access and coordinate agents that automate work tasks. Gemini Enterprise, which replaces the Agentspace app launched last year, also features new enterprise search functions to help customers tap into data from across an organization’s business apps.  Gemini Enterprise is aimed