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Salesforce has unveiled Agentforce 2.0, introducing AI agents with human-like reasoning abilities that can autonomously handle complex business tasks, marking a major push into the emerging 'digital labor' market.

The new Runway Talent Network is already home to dozens of AI-skilled artists and companies, including Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD studio.

Simulation Theory, a startup dedicated to reducing waste by optimizing compute resources, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.

The IBM Granite 3.1 open source models provide 128K context, integrated hallucination protection and accelerated embedding capabilities.

Byte latent transformer (BLT) uses a special architecture to learn directly from raw bytes as opposed to tokenized chunks of text.

Coplay, the AI copilot for game developers, today announced it has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding.

The UAE-backed institute has released Falcon 3 in four different sizes with the goal of democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities.

A major step forward for devs looking to build new advanced AI applications or integrate the most advanced OpenAI tech.

Salt, an AI workflow orchestration firm for enterprises, raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Google's enterprise-focused Code Assist will now be powered by Gemini 2.0 and connect to tools like Atlassian, GitHub and GitLab.

Nvidia and DataStax launch new AI tool that reduces enterprise data storage costs by 35x while enabling multilingual retrieval, transforming how companies like Wikimedia process and access massive datasets.

Writer AI launches Palmyra Creative, a $1.9B enterprise AI solution that breaks free from generic AI content, offering businesses unique creative outputs at one-sixth the training cost of competitors.

Engineered Arts, a United Kingdom firm making humanoid robots, has restructured as a U.S. company and raised $10 million.

Google used NotebookLM, Google Trends and third-party insights to identify AI agents, multimodal AI and enterprise search as top 2025 trends.

AI is making semiconductor leaders more optimistic about 2025, but headwinds could come from geopolitical and talent retention concerns.

Moodboards enable users to upload curated collections of images that act as inspiration for generating new art.

Slack CPO Rob Seaman reveals how Agentforce 2.0 will transform workplace AI by leveraging contextual intelligence and deep platform integration, transforming how enterprises use AI agents for automation and collaboration.

OpenAI is updating its web search integration with ChatGPT to expand access and make it more useful to those on the go.

Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash provides business analysts with greater speed and flexibility in defining Python scripts for complex analysis.

From chatbots to retrieval-augmented generation applications to autonomous multi-agent AI: What's every enterprise leader needs to know.

With model degradation, AI development could stall, leaving AI systems unable to ingest new data and essentially becoming “stuck in time.”

Cohere's Command R7B uses RAG, features a context length of 128K, supports 23 languages and outperforms Gemma, Llama and Ministral.

Projects in ChatGPT allows users to create folders and add conversations and documents, bringing these capabilities together in one place.