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Ai2 Challenges the Status Quo in Coding Agents with SERA, an Open-Source Model Built for Specialization and Scale
Coding agents are everywhere. What was once a handful of experimental tools has become a crowded field spanning GitHub (Copilot), OpenAI (Codex), Google (Jules), Anthropic (Claude Code), AWS (Kiro), Vercel (v0), Salesforce (Agentforce Vibes), and a growing roster of startups, each promising to change how software gets written. Now, nonprofit AI lab Ai2 is entering […]
A More Human Way Into Vibe Coding—and Chris Pirillo Is Testing It Live
When Chris Pirillo showed his 11-year-old daughter Google Gemini one day, it didn’t take her long to have it code a game to help her learn multiplication. “She wasn’t weighed down with the idea that she couldn’t do it. She just assumed she could—and she did. She identified her problem, and she solved it,” he […]
Vibe Coding Is Here to Stay, but Human Oversight Remains Critical
The tech industry embraced vibe coding in 2025, as software development became one example of how artificial intelligence can disrupt professions. Instead of traditional line-by-line hand coding, developers can now instruct a bot to code an application through an intent-driven prompt. Vibe coding startups like Lovable have attracted tremendous investor interest, reaching unicorn status in […]
Slack’s New AI Slackbot Is Less About Chat and More About Running the Workplace
Slack bills itself as “where work happens.” Lately, the Salesforce-owned company has been working hard to make that slogan more literal, rolling out features designed not just to speed up how work gets done, but also to keep workers in the app for longer periods. On Tuesday, Slack reinforced that positioning with the general availability […]
Shopify and Google Develop New Open Protocol That Could Make AI Shopping Ubiquitous
Shopify and Google are betting on agentic commerce, and to make it work, the two have jointly developed a new protocol that lets AI agents discover products, browse options, and complete purchases on a user’s behalf—all from a chat. The new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open-source standard that permits agents to connect with […]
Ai2 Releases Molmo 2, an Open Video Model That Outperforms Qwen 3, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro While Knowing Where the Action Happens
Ai2 has unveiled Molmo 2, the latest iteration of its open-source vision-language model (VLM). Arriving over a year after the original, this state-of-the-art update brings the most notable upgrades yet: support for multiple images and video, and grounding. The next-generation Molmo can now count and track objects or actions within videos. And just like its […]
How Shopify Is Turning AI Into a Strategic Advantage for Merchants
Shopify’s Winter 2026 release is here with over 150 new features for merchants, but the centerpiece is a sweeping suite of AI tools designed to do more than automate tasks. From a rebuilt Sidekick AI to agentic storefronts that help sellers control how their brand appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, Shopify is betting […]
Glean Debuts Enterprise Autonomous Agents Built on Deep Organizational Context
Glean is expanding its agentic portfolio with autonomous agents it claims are the first built specifically for the enterprise. These bots leverage organizational context to make decisions, adjust their decisions as circumstances change, and function within established governance rules. The startup asserts they’re designed to support employees rather than replace them. “Most ‘agents’ in the […]
AWS Unveils ‘AI Factories’ to Build Sovereign-Grade AI Infrastructure for Governments and Giants
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has worked with many large companies to develop large-scale AI infrastructure, from Anthropic to Saudi Arabia-backed HUMAIN. Now, the company wants to make it easier for the public sector to access the same capabilities, without the heavy investment. At this year’s re:Invent conference, the tech firm announced the launch of AI […]
AWS Makes Trainium3 and Trainium3 UltraServers Generally Available, Previews Trainium4 Custom AI Chip
Last year, Amazon Web Services introduced Trainum3, its third-generation chip for training large language models (LLMs). At the time, these were state-of-the-art and twice as fast as their predecessors. However, as AI models become larger and more complex, a better way is needed to reduce latency and training times. Today, the company is introducing Amazon […]