Amazon launches Kiro, its own Claude-powered challenger to Windsurf and Codex
Initial community reactions were mixed but intrigued. Developers praised the emphasis on specs, hooks, and structure.Read More
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin into WindsurfRead More
AI’s fourth wave is here — are enterprises ready for what’s next?
To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now?Read More
The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI
California’s statewide power grid operator is poised to become the...
The human harbor: Navigating identity and meaning in the AI age
The future is marked by deepening uncertainty about our place in it, and by growing ambiguity about the nature of human purpose itself.Read More
Stop vetting engineers like it’s 2021 — the AI-native workforce has arrived
Jobs will fade and rise due to AI. But those who learn to screen, train and build dev teams around AI-enabled talent will write the future.Read More
Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action
Enterprises adopting voice AI must consider not just usability, but inclusion. Supporting users with disabilities is a market opportunity.Read More
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.Read More
A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models
A new AI model learns to “think” longer on hard problems, achieving more robust reasoning and better generalization to novel, unseen tasks.Read More