Bevel secures $10M Series A funding from General Catalyst as the AI health companion reaches 100,000 daily users with 8x growth, offering $6 monthly software that unifies wearable data across sleep, fitness, and nutrition without requiring proprietary hardware.
Cognition unveils SWE-1.5, a breakthrough AI coding model with hundreds of billions of parameters that blazes at 950 tokens per second—13x faster than Sonnet 4.5—while delivering near state-of-the-art performance through advanced reinforcement learning and partnership with Cerebras infrastructure.
Google dramatically enhances NotebookLM with an 8x larger context window, 6x longer conversation memory, and 50% better response quality, while introducing custom role settings that let users transform the AI into specialized advisors like research consultants or marketing strategists.
Cursor 2.0 launches with breakthrough Composer AI that codes 4x faster than competitors, completing most programming tasks in under 30 seconds while introducing agent-based interface that runs multiple coding processes simultaneously without interference.
Major AI interpretability research approaches including feature visualizations, saliency maps, and sparse autoencoders fail to decode how neural networks actually work after over a decade of investment, prompting Google DeepMind to abandon leading techniques and researchers to shift toward higher-level analysis methods.
Cursor launches Composer, a revolutionary AI coding agent that generates software four times faster than competitors using advanced mixture-of-experts architecture and reinforcement learning trained on real-world engineering challenges.
GitHub launches Agent HQ platform that integrates AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, and xAI into unified workflows, featuring Mission Control for managing multiple agents simultaneously and new enterprise tools for code quality monitoring and AI usage tracking.
NVIDIA invests $1 billion in Nokia to develop AI-powered 6G networks, launching the Aerial RAN Computer Pro platform that enables software-based transitions from 5G to 6G, with T-Mobile set to begin field trials in 2026 targeting a market expected to exceed $200 billion by 2030.
Qualcomm launches AI200 and AI250 chips to challenge Nvidia's AI processor dominance, featuring 768GB RAM and promising lower power consumption for AI deployment, with Saudi Arabia's Humain already planning implementation.
AI startup Mercor rockets to $10 billion valuation after raising $350 million, pivoting from hiring assessments to training AI models with 30,000 contractors earning $1.5 million daily while benefiting from clients fleeing competitor Scale AI following Meta's controversial acquisition.