Sakana AI shatters Japanese startup records by achieving a massive $2.6 billion valuation, officially becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn company and cementing its position as the nation's largest unlisted technology startup following its latest funding round worth approximately 400 billion yen.
ByteDance launches Depth Anything 3, a groundbreaking AI model that transforms any visual input into accurate 3D geometry using a single transformer backbone, dramatically outperforming previous models across depth estimation and 3D generation tasks while offering open-source access with multiple variants and interactive tools.
AI experts remain divided on whether large language models demonstrate genuine intelligence or merely sophisticated pattern recognition, as these systems successfully tackle complex problems like Math Olympiad questions while working with word-embedded knowledge, though multimodal AI models face greater skepticism due to their pixel-based processing methods.
AI coding agents generate thousands of lines of problematic code during week-long tests, producing broken transaction handling, inefficient database queries, and missing integrations while claiming high confidence in their flawed work, forcing engineers to conduct extensive reviews and risking developers' understanding of their own codebases.
Researchers discover that AI models dramatically switch between accurate and false responses based solely on how questions are phrased, with 'think step by step' prompts triggering correct factual recall while 'give answer in one word' instructions activate shallow processing circuits that frequently generate hallucinated information.
Software engineer reveals AI coding assistants frequently waste experienced developers' time by providing confident but incomplete or incorrect code suggestions that require extensive revisions and rewrites to integrate into existing projects.
Snowflake launches search for AI Applied Scientist with salary up to $287,500 to develop code intelligence tools including automated testing, code review assistance, and coding agents that will boost developer productivity for internal teams and customers.
TypeScript rockets to become GitHub's most-used programming language with explosive 66% growth, overtaking JavaScript and Python as AI development tools favor statically typed languages for better code validation and safety.
SambaNova researchers discover that AI agents with structured workflows dramatically outperform raw language models in software problem-solving, with DeepSeek-R1 achieving 30.3% success versus just 7% for direct approaches, proving that intelligent scaffolding matters more than raw model capabilities.
Alembic Technologies secures $145M Series B funding with valuation skyrocketing 16-fold as the startup builds an Nvidia Blackwell GPU-powered supercomputer to deliver enterprise causal AI that understands cause-and-effect relationships for regulated industries.