Eightfold co-founders secure $35 million in seed funding for Viven, a groundbreaking AI startup that creates digital employee clones by analyzing internal communications like emails and Slack messages, enabling colleagues to query these virtual twins when team members are unavailable.
Honor unveils AI-powered shopping tools on its Magic8 smartphone that automatically find deals and coupons across major Chinese e-commerce platforms, as the company aims to surpass Apple and capture a top-three market position in China by year-end.
Hyperspell launches an AI memory platform that gives workplace agents long-term context across apps like Slack, Gmail, and Notion, solving the critical problem of AI systems forgetting everything between sessions and lacking company knowledge awareness.
Google's AI system now predicts floods five days in advance in Bangladesh, triggering automatic $85 cash payments to farmers before disasters strike, allowing them to protect livestock and crops rather than rebuild after devastation, with trials showing pre-flood aid proves more effective than traditional post-disaster relief.
Open source AI models that appear free are shocking IT leaders with hidden costs 4-8 times higher than expected, driven by massive compute demands, specialized talent needs, and infrastructure expenses that often exceed proprietary alternatives, prompting experts to recommend hybrid deployment strategies.
Replit generates 15x more revenue than competitor Lovable despite lower traffic while ranking third in AI startup spending, as open source AI models now cost organizations up to $30,000+ monthly in compute expenses that often exceed proprietary alternatives.
OpenAI partners with Broadcom to build 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips starting late next year, sending Broadcom stock soaring nearly 10% as the deal helps reduce compute costs and brings OpenAI's total compute commitments to 33 gigawatts across multiple chip partnerships.
Facebook revives its job board on Marketplace targeting young adults seeking entry-level positions just as AI threatens to eliminate 50% of such jobs within five years, allowing users to search openings and contact employers directly through Messenger.
Slack transforms into an AI-powered operating system, integrating native agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic while rebuilding Slackbot as a personal AI companion and introducing Channel Expert agents that provide instant knowledge from team conversations through natural language interactions.
Five revolutionary AI design patterns are transforming basic chatbots into sophisticated agents that can reason with external tools, write and execute code from natural language, evaluate their own performance, collaborate through specialized multi-agent workflows, and actively search and remember information for enhanced problem-solving capabilities.