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Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business

Big data company Databricks Inc. is getting into the agentic artificial intelligence coworker game with the launch of a new tool called Genie One, aimed at helping business teams orchestrate workflows and automate work-related tasks. The arrival of Genie One expands on the company’s existing Geni...

The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents

Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled a new architecture – Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing – that en...

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls

Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where mu...

Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.

Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes

Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B

Newly public SpaceX Corp. today announced plans to acquire Cursor, the developer of a popular vibe coding platform, for $60 billion in stock. The companies expect to close the transaction by the end of the quarter. The move is not unexpected. In April, SpaceX partnered with Cursor to develop arti...

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

SpaceX Aims at Agentic Coding With $60B Cursor Acquisition

The acquisition could help SpaceX expand its developer offerings and will give it access to Cursor’s developer workflow and user analytics.

US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says

Trump admin green-lighting $111B deal "reeks of corruption," Sen. Warren says.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today

Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.

Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.

Nexla’s Express solution leverages conversational interface to fuel agentic AI

Working with complex enterprise data once required extensive technical expertise. That barrier is lowering, as demonstrated by data integration platform provider Nexla Inc.’s launch of a conversational data engineering platform designed to make the process more accessible. In November 2025, Nexla...