Arcee’s U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence
San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source licenses to the public—enabling developers, solo entrepreneurs, and even medium-to-large enterprises to use the powerful AI models for free and customize […]
This tree search framework hits 98.7% on documents where vector search fails
A new open-source framework called PageIndex solves one of the old problems of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): handling very long documents. The classic RAG workflow (chunk documents, calculate embeddings, store them in a vector database, and retrieve the top matches based on semantic similarity) works well for basic tasks such as Q&A over small documents. PageIndex […]
The trust paradox killing AI at scale: 76% of data leaders can’t govern what employees already use
The chief data officer (CDO) has evolved from a niche compliance role into one of the most critical positions for AI deployment. These executives now sit at the intersection of data governance, AI strategy, and workforce readiness. Their decisions determine whether enterprises move from AI pilots to production scale or remain stuck in experimentation mode. […]
Infostealers added Clawdbot to their target lists before most security teams knew it was running
Clawdbot’s MCP implementation has no mandatory authentication, allows prompt injection, and grants shell access by design. Monday’s VentureBeat article documented these architectural flaws. By Wednesday, security researchers had validated all three attack surfaces and found new ones. (The project rebranded from Clawdbot to Moltbot on January 27 after Anthropic issued a trademark request over the […]
AI agents can talk to each other — they just can’t think together yet
AI agents can talk to each other now — they just can’t understand what the other one is trying to do. That’s the problem Cisco’s Outshift is trying to solve with a new architectural approach it calls the Internet of Cognition. The gap is practical: protocols like MCP and A2A let agents exchange messages and […]
Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 is ‘open,’ 595GB, and built for agent swarms — Reddit wants a smaller one
Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China’s Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a restless audience. The Beijing-based startup had reason to show up. Kimi K2.5 had just landed headlines about closing the gap with American AI giants and testing the limits of […]
AI models that simulate internal debate dramatically improve accuracy on complex tasks
A new study by Google suggests that advanced reasoning models achieve high performance by simulating multi-agent-like debates involving diverse perspectives, personality traits, and domain expertise. Their experiments demonstrate that this internal debate, which they dub “society of thought,” significantly improves model performance in complex reasoning and planning tasks. The researchers found that leading reasoning models […]
How leading CPG brands are transforming operations to survive market pressures
Presented by SAP The consumer packaged goods industry is experiencing a fundamental shift that’s forcing even the most established brands to rethink how they operate. It’s what some folks call the CPG squeeze, or a convergence of margin compression, trade policy headwinds, and the sobering reality that pricing-led growth is no longer a viable strategy. […]
Airtable’s Superagent maintains full execution visibility to solve multi-agent context problem
Airtable is applying its data-first design philosophy to AI agents with the debut of Superagent on Tuesday. It’s a standalone research agent that deploys teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel to complete research tasks. The technical innovation lies in how Superagent’s orchestrator maintains context. Earlier agent systems used simple model routing where an […]
Factify wants to move past PDFs and .docx by giving digital documents their own brain
Tel Aviv-based startup Factify emerged from stealth today with a $73 million seed round for an ambitious, yet quixotic mission: to bring digital documents beyond the standard formats most businesses use — .PDF, .docx, collaborative cloud files like Google Docs — and into the intelligence era. For Matan Gavish, Factify’s Founder and CEO, this isn’t […]