A new standalone C++ engine called SAM3DBody-cpp now delivers real-time 3D full-body motion capture from a single camera with zero Python dependencies, supporting multi-person tracking, a 70-joint skeleton, and direct BVH export compatible with Blender.
Microsoft unveils a new family of AI coding models at its Build developer conference, aiming to reclaim market leadership in AI-assisted coding and reduce its dependence on OpenAI as competition from Anthropic, OpenAI's Codex, and Cursor intensifies.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in a Series H funding round at a near-trillion dollar valuation while simultaneously launching Claude Opus 4.8, a more honest and capable AI model that is four times less likely to miss its own coding flaws, with new agentic features and a teased next-gen model class …
Corporate AI spending faces a major reckoning as companies like Microsoft and Uber struggle to justify soaring costs and poor returns, with experts warning that unfocused deployment, high token costs, and poor use case selection are driving a correction away from AI overuse toward smarter, revenue-focused applications.
Microsoft is rolling out a faster, redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot featuring a cleaner interface that loads twice as fast, smarter progressive disclosure tools, and deeper integration across desktop and mobile apps, letting users edit documents and ask questions directly from within paragraphs, spreadsheet cells, and slides.
Micrograd, a 150-line Python autograd engine with over 16,000 GitHub stars, brings PyTorch-like deep learning power to bare-bones code, making neural network backpropagation transparent and accessible at the most fundamental scalar level.
Crawl4AI, the open-source AI web crawler boasting 66,700 GitHub stars, releases critical security hotfix v0.8.6 while also delivering a 5–10x speed boost, anti-bot detection, and Shadow DOM flattening for developers building RAG pipelines and AI agents.
OpenAI and Thrive Holdings have deployed a self-improving Tax AI across 30+ accounting firms that processed 7,000 returns this season with 97% drafting accuracy, saving practitioners a third of their time while autonomously correcting its own mistakes through a continuous feedback loop.
Lovable launches parallel AI subagents that autonomously research and explore codebases in real time, dramatically accelerating complex builds at no extra cost — and users may actually pay less as lighter tasks route to cheaper models.
OpenRouter rockets to a $1.3B valuation after securing $113M in Series B funding, as the AI gateway platform surges to 100 trillion tokens per month serving 8 million users across 400+ AI models.