Tencent is in talks to become the largest external shareholder in agentic AI startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, moving aggressively into the AI race after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's acquisition of the company.
Google Cloud's new Discovery Bench framework exposes alarming flaws in AI benchmarking, revealing that a single vague word can crash an agent's performance score from perfect to zero, while also uncovering broken ground truth and mislabeled data in widely trusted benchmarks — raising urgent questions about whether the AI industry …
OpenRouter launches the Pareto Router, a free tool that automatically picks the most cost-efficient coding AI model based on a user-defined quality threshold, with session stickiness to ensure consistent results across multi-turn conversations.
A new open-source AI framework called ACRouter launches on GitHub, intelligently routing coding tasks across multiple AI models to optimize both performance and cost, complete with a benchmark dataset, Hugging Face adapters, and plug-and-play integrations for popular developer tools.
AI training startup Mercor is in talks to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation after doubling revenue to a $2 billion annualized run rate in just four months, while acquiring AI agent training company Deeptune — signaling a strong rebound after a turbulent early 2026 marked by a data …
Anthropic launches Claude Code, a powerful AI-driven terminal tool now available on Mac, Linux, and Windows, enabling developers to navigate codebases, automate workflows, and code faster using natural language commands.
Prisma ORM is taking the developer world by storm, amassing 774,000 users and 47,000 GitHub stars with its type-safe database toolkit that supports seven major databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL for Node.js and TypeScript developers.
OpenAI retracts its support for SWE-Bench Pro after an internal audit uncovers that nearly 30% of the coding benchmark's 731 tasks are broken due to flawed tests and misleading prompts, prompting a call for new, developer-built benchmarks.
OpenAI acquires Northslope, a Palantir-backed applied-AI firm, deploying hundreds of engineers directly inside client businesses to dominate enterprise AI implementation as competition shifts from model performance to real-world adoption.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10, switching to its own AI assistant Qoder, after Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant of conducting the largest known AI distillation attack, escalating tensions as Anthropic moves to cut off Chinese firms from accessing its models through third-country loopholes.