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HubSpot Lays out Its Vision for Human-AI Teams With New Data Hub, Smart CRM, and Breeze Tools

HubSpot is joining the chorus of tech companies betting that the future of work isn’t human or AI, but the force unlocked when the two operate in sync. At this year’s INBOUND conference, the CRM and marketing automation company unveiled its Fall 2025 release, featuring a range of new tools designed to help its customers […]

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems Lands $863 Million to Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an American fusion power company spun out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has secured $863 million in Series B2 funding. The new round comes four years after the energy firm raised $1.8 billion, bringing its total to around $3 billion—an amount that’s “one-third of the total capital” invested in […]

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Adobe Brings Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image to Firefly and Express

Adobe is expanding its Creative Suite with Google’s latest image-editing model. The company announced that Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now integrated into Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express, giving creators a new way to generate visuals and bring their ideas to life. To mark the occasion, Adobe is giving Firefly and Creative Cloud subscribers unlimited […]

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Ai2’s Asta Launches as an Open Framework to Bring Rigor to Scientific AI

Fresh off unveiling MolmoAct and securing a U.S. government contract to build a new, fully open suite of advanced models, Ai2 is testing the boundaries of scientific discovery with the introduction of Asta, its new AI toolkit for scientific research. True to The Allen Institute for AI’s mission, this collection is built to give researchers […]

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Microsoft Extends NFL Deal, Equips Teams with Surface Copilot+ PCs and AI Tools

Microsoft is deepening its ties with the National Football League, signing a multi-year deal to equip all 32 teams with its Surface Copilot+ PCs and AI tools aimed at streamlining operations and boosting performance. The agreement marks an expansion of a partnership that began more than a decade ago, when Microsoft became the NFL’s official […]

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Adobe Launches Acrobat Studio, Bringing AI to the PDF

Adobe wants to bring the PDF into the AI era. For more than 30 years, this business file format has been the workhorse of office communication. Now, Adobe is giving it a significant upgrade with Acrobat Studio, a new tool helping companies mine insights, inform decisions, and reformat these documents into polished, on-brand content—no design […]

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U.S. and Nvidia Invest $152M in Open AI Models to Drive Scientific Breakthroughs

The United States is teaming up with Nvidia to develop a new generation of AI models aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs and strengthening the country’s leadership in AI research. The National Science Foundation (NSF) will invest $75 million in the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, which is led by nonprofit research […]

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Ai2’s MolmoAct Trains Robots to Think in 3D Before Acting in Reality

Ai2, or the Allen Institute for AI, is unveiling a new class of models designed to help robots move through the world with greater spatial awareness. Known as Action Reasoning Models (ARM), it’s billed as giving machines spatial awareness that text-based inputs alone can’t deliver. The first in this ARM family is MolmoAct, an open-source […]

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Vercel’s v0 Breaks Out of the Developer Box as a Universal Coding Agent

Vercel, the cloud infrastructure platform, is releasing an update turning its v0 agent into an AI builder for everyone. It’s no longer a vibe coding tool exclusively for software developers. Instead, it’s a tool that designers, marketers, sales, finance professionals, or anyone with an idea can use to rapidly create software without needing “a single […]

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Google’s Jules Coding Agent Exits Beta, Joins the AI Coding Arms Race

Google’s rival to GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, and Cursor is now publicly available. After three months in beta, the company’s AI coding assistant, Jules, has launched, now powered by Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model. A product from Google Labs, Jules was initially an experimental AI agent first announced in December 2024. Six months later, it […]