There’s an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they’re centered around one device: the smartphone. That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to place online to host and use cutting-edge, …
As AI model providers increasingly move downstream, launching products and agents for specific enterprise applications and sectors like finance, one big question still remains: how will said AI agents be equipped with the proper context surrounding a task — who assigned it, which other stakeholders are involved, what data or discussions have taken place about …
Presented by Nutanix Across industries, organizations are focused on how to move from AI pilots, proofs of concept, and cloud-based experimentation to deploying it at scale — across real workloads, for real users, in real business environments. VentureBeat spoke with Tarkan Maner, president and chief commercial officer at Nutanix, and Thomas Cornely, EVP of product …
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A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constraint that has defined — and limited — every major AI system since 2017. The company claims its first model, SubQ 1M-Preview, is the first LLM …
OpenAI updated the default model for ChatGPT to its new GPT-5.5 Instant, along with a new memory capability that finally shows which context shaped responses — at least some of them. This limitation signals that models are starting to create a second, incomplete memory observability layer that could conflict with existing audit systems and agent …
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Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything, a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a structured command line interface (CLI) that AI coding agents can operate with a single command. Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot CLI …
OpenAI on Monday began emailing more than 8,000 developers who applied for its invite-only GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal ChatGPT accounts, effective immediately and lasting through June 5. “We had over 8,000 people express interest in just 24 hours, and while we wish …
American Express (Amex) is building a system that lets AI agents shop and pay on behalf of users — but right now it’s only within its own payment network, and still involves a black box that could hinder trust and auditability. Amex already participates in agentic commerce protocol projects, especially Google’s Agent Pay Protocol (AP2), …
The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn’t cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat’s Q1 2026 Pulse survey underscores this trend: Every standalone vector database is losing adoption share, while hybrid retrieval intent …
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and urgent. The product, first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in November, positions itself as …
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