Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experienced nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

Microsoft Discovery Aims To Advance The Era Of Agentic Science

The cloud-based agentic AI platform aims to help human researchers overcome resource constraints and complex data challenges to accelerate science at scale.

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT’s commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, data shows.

Small Language Models Outperform Frontier AI On Cost, Speed And Accuracy

Bigger has defined AI from day one. New data says task-specific small models beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and speed — and save money.

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company’s technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Disappearing Act: The Best AI Feature Is The One You Never Notice

The AI backlash is real — and growing. Tinder’s CTO explains why the best AI feature is the one your users never notice and never have to think about.

The Biggest Mistake High-Achieving Students Make On College Applications

A student bragged on TikTok that he climbed Kilimanjaro, wrote about it in his essay and got into Yale. Another student thought she could use the same ploy.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.