Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language
Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature...
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Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns about MCP (model context protocol), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data...
US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing services and products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and...
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into...
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Over the last few weeks, personal assistants like Instinct, Fo, and Muse have enabled users to call businesses for customer...
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF),...
Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Two of New York’s sweethearts, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and activist and “Broad City” star Ilana Glazer, spoke about AI at...
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal
In Brief Posted: 4:39 PM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg / Getty Images A little over a...
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are...
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch...