Anthropic's Batch API slashes token costs by 50%, but a new analysis reveals the savings only make sense at fleet scale — single-agent use suffers from up to 24-hour latency, and surprisingly, cheaper Haiku models take longer to batch than pricier Sonnet or Opus.
Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver's new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, raises a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation, marking the largest seed round in European history as it pursues superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, Google, and others.
Redis releases a new framework targeting the root cause of most AI agent failures in production — broken context architecture — offering a reference design, 12-question self-audit, and RedisVL-powered semantic search to replace fragile, stitched-together context systems.
The M4 Mac Mini has sold out on Apple's website as surging demand for running on-device AI models drives buyers to eBay, where prices soar up to $979, with shortages now spreading to the Mac Studio amid an industry-wide memory crunch.
Classic cloud vulnerabilities and AI-powered attacks are dominating the 2025 cyber threat landscape, as hackers exploit misconfigurations and exposed secrets while leveraging AI to accelerate reconnaissance and scale intrusions across increasingly interconnected cloud environments.
Anthropic launches a beta memory feature for Claude Managed Agents, allowing AI to retain and share context across sessions, with early enterprise adopters like Rakuten already reporting a 97% reduction in first-pass errors.
Anthropic launches built-in memory for Claude AI agents in public beta, enabling cross-session learning that has already slashed first-pass errors by 97% and reduced latency by 34% for early adopters like Rakuten, while Wisedocs reports 30% faster document verification.
Google unveils Workspace Intelligence at Google Cloud Next, bringing AI-powered features across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, while also launching a tool that makes migrating from Microsoft 365 five times faster.
Meta is slashing 10% of its workforce, cutting 8,000 jobs and canceling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, as the tech giant redirects resources toward massive artificial intelligence spending.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) surpasses 300 million monthly SDK downloads, cementing its role as the dominant integration standard for production AI agents while powering key Claude features and offering developers best practices to slash token usage by up to 85%.