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Genies’ AI Avatar Tech Coming to Unity Editor in 2026
Genies, a gaming technology company, is partnering with Unity to bring its customizable AI avatars and asset creation tools to Unity’s Asset Store and Unity Editor. Developers will now have access to game, entertainment, celebrity, and sports IP-driven avatars that they can incorporate into games. The expectation is that this will free resources up to […]
Ai2 Brings OLMo, Molmo, and Tülu AI Models to Enterprise Teams with Cirrascale Deal
Non-profit AI lab Ai2 is partnering with infrastructure platform provider Cirrascale in a move to commercialize its open-source models. OLMo 2, Molmo, and Tülu 3 can now be run via API on Cirrascale’s Inference Platform, enabling companies to avoid the need to deploy the models themselves and the associated costs of in-house systems or expertise. […]
Ai2’s SciArena Benchmarks AI for Science, Inspired by ChatBot Arena
Nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has launched a new platform to help researchers evaluate which AI models perform best on scientific literature tasks. Called SciArena, it’s an open, collaborative service that enables head-to-head comparisons of large language models. Think ChatBot Arena—but built for the scientific research community. “Measuring progress in using AI agents for literature-grounded scientific […]
Salesforce Wants to Scale Digital Labor. Agentforce 3 Is the Plan.
Salesforce is scaling up its agentic development platform, adding features to help organizations embrace the hybrid workforce paradigm. Agentforce 3 is the latest in a series of rapid-fire innovations from the enterprise tech giant. This release introduces a new Command Center for overseeing AI agents, adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across Agentforce […]
HubSpot Connects Its CRM With ChatGPT to Deliver Smarter Customer Insights
HubSpot is bringing more artificial intelligence into its CRM platform through a new integration with OpenAI. The company has introduced a “deep research connector” with ChatGPT, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to perform advanced analysis and generate deeper insights using their customer data and context. “We’re building tools that help businesses lead through the AI […]
Ai2’s RewardBench 2 Is a Tougher Benchmark for Testing How Well AI Models Reflect Human Judgment
Ai2 has released an update to its RewardBench benchmark, making it more capable of evaluating reward models. The next-generation test is built using new, more complex examples to assess how accurately AI models can produce answers that are as accurate as those of a human. In its first round of testing, RewardBench 2 ranks Google’s […]
Microsoft’s Project Amelie Is an Experiment in ‘AI Developing AI’
Microsoft Build featured a flurry of product announcements. But beyond the official launches, the company also offered a glimpse into its frontier projects—experimental inventions that may never be released to the public but serve to showcase the ideas Microsoft is exploring. One such effort is codenamed Project Amelie, an AI agent capable of building machine […]
Microsoft Pushes AI to the Edge
IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft pushes AI innovation to the edge. Will OpenAI crack the AI hardware market, a space where many have stumbled, after acquiring Sir Jony Ive’s AI startup for nearly $6.5 billion? Plus, catch up on this week’s key headlines you might have missed, including what was announced at Google I/O and the […]
Microsoft’s NLWeb Project Turns Websites into Conversational Interfaces for AI Agents
Microsoft is reimagining how people interact with autonomous agents through a new open project called NLWeb. Designed to bring natural language interfaces to websites, it transforms ordinary web pages into conversational agents, enabling users to interact directly with the site’s content. The company is betting on this to be as impactful on the agentic web […]
Microsoft Adds Model Tuning to M365 Copilot to Build Domain-Specific AI
Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot assistant that transforms it into a domain expert. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, the feature is called Copilot Tuning and is a low-code service allowing developers to train models on an organization’s own data without needing the assistance of data scientists. Imagine a […]