<p>Design company Figma today announced multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool. With this launch, the company is taking on other creative solutions such as Canva and Adobe, along with AI-powered website and prototype creators such as WordPress, Wix, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft says that it&#8217;s embracing Google&#8217;s recently launched open protocol for allowing AI &#8220;agents&#8221; to communicate with each other. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google&#8217;s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. Microsoft has also joined the A2A working group on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>French AI startup Mistral is releasing a new AI model, Mistral Medium 3, that&#8217;s focused on efficiency without compromising performance. Available in Mistral&#8217;s API priced at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, Mistral Medium 3 performs &#8220;at or above&#8221; 90% of Anthropic&#8217;s costlier Claude Sonnet 3.7 model on &#8220;benchmarks across [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar has a new data startup called Wisdom AI. It offers an agentic data analyst that works with structured, unstructured, even “dirty” data.</p>

<p>Tech executives have long talked about how AI is going to revolutionize the advertising industry. In particular, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quite vocal about how exactly he wants his company to lead the transformation. Speaking onstage at Stripe&#8217;s annual Sessions conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Zuckerberg laid out his plans to automate [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it’s only fitting that artificial intelligence — the technology that GPUs are used to power nowadays — is making its way into nearly every aspect of video game design. In keeping with that trend, on Wednesday a startup called Sett — which is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday.  This new search experience will utilize OpenAI’s ChatGPT to provide users with a conversational discovery experience. Users can enter their preferences using natural phrases like “I want something funny [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As &#8220;vibe coding&#8221; gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh round of funding. Ox Security, which models risk across both AI- and human-produced code, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $60 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon Web Services is building a new AI-powered code-generation tool codenamed &#8220;Kiro,&#8221; Business Insider reported, citing internal documents it had viewed. The tool can use prompts and existing data to generate code in &#8220;near real-time&#8221; by connecting with AI agents, the report said. The tool is said to have web and desktop apps and multimodal [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI currently has a deal to share 20% of revenue with Microsoft, but the AI company expects to cut that share to 10% by 2030, The Information reported. </p>

<p>A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI &#8220;agent.&#8221; But be forewarned: It&#8217;s quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes. Hugging Face&#8217;s agent, called Open Computer Agent, is accessible via the web and can use a Linux virtual machine preloaded with several applications, including Firefox. Similar to OpenAI&#8217;s Operator, you can [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&amp;D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. &#8220;We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&amp;D should be increased,&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the &#8220;Change My View&#8221; subreddit. The large-scale experiment was designed to explore just how persuasive AI can be. The bots posted over 1,700 comments, adopting personas like abuse survivors or controversial identities [&hellip;]</p>

<p>FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an &#8220;AI scientist&#8221; within the next decade,&nbsp;has released a new tool that it claims can help support &#8220;data-driven discovery&#8221; in biology. The new tool comes just a week after FutureHouse launched its API and platform. The tool, called Finch, takes in biology data (primarily in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI said on Monday it is pursuing a new restructuring plan after conversations with Delaware&#8217;s and California’s attorneys general, both of whom were closely watching as OpenAI tried to break free of its odd corporate structure. Currently, OpenAI&#8217;s nonprofit board governs the organization&#8217;s for-profit operations. Under the new plan, OpenAI’s for-profit arm will become a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Particle, the startup behind an AI-powered newsreader that aims to help publishers, not just steal their work, is bringing its product to the web. On Tuesday, the company announced the launch of the new Particle.news website that connects news consumers with headlines and AI summaries from a variety of sources, plus the ability to delve [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s iOS app is getting a new &#8220;Simplify&#8221; feature that uses AI to make complex or technical text on the web easier to understand, all without leaving a web page. Simplify features a prompt refinement approach developed by Google Research and uses Gemini to make complicated text more digestible, without losing key details. Google says [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google on Tuesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition), an updated version of its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model that the company claims tops a number of widely used benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) is available via the Gemini API and Google&#8217;s Vertex AI and AI Studio platforms, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Every developer has their own unique style of writing code. Despite companies establishing best practices and drawing up documentation, it can be hard for developers to understand someone else&#8217;s codebase. To solve this problem, Dennis Pilarinos built a tool called Unblocked — an AI-powered assistant that answers contextual questions about lines of code. Pilarinos is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>NewLimit, a startup that aims to increase how long people can live a healthy life by genetically programming their cells, has raised $130M.</p>