Spott has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to build an AI-native platform that promises to transform how recruitment agencies operate. The San Francisco-based startup announced the funding round today, led by Base10 Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Fortino, True Equity, and several angel investors. The capital injection follows Spott’s recent completion of Y Combinator’s…
Basketball has March Madness. Tech has the Consumer Electronics Show. AI has been waiting for its big moment—and this week may finally be it. With Microsoft’s Build and Google’s I/O developer conferences happening back-to-back, it was already primed to be a big week.
In the first generation of the web, back in the late 1990s, search was okay but not great, and it wasn’t easy to find things. That led to the rise of syndication protocols in the early 2000s, with Atom and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) providing a simplified way for…
As AI advances toward expanded capabilities, knowledge workers are confronting not just job loss, but the deeper question of what makes them matter.
Fortune published the story of a 42-year-old software engineer with a computer science degree whose purpose has unraveled. He had earned a six-figure salary writing code for a tech company. Then came the wave of generative AI. His job vanished, not by…
OpenAI updates Operator to o3, making its $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription more enticing
May 26, 2025
It was a big week for AI announcements following events from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic. But OpenAI is finishing things out with news of its own. And no, we’re not just talking about its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s design team to lead a new hardware…
Beyond single-model AI: How architectural design drives reliable multi-agent orchestration
May 26, 2025
We’re seeing AI evolve fast. It’s no longer just about building a single, super-smart model. The real power, and the exciting frontier, lies in getting multiple specialized AI agents to work together. Think of them as a team of expert colleagues, each with their own…
Google’s ‘world-model’ bet: building the AI operating layer before Microsoft captures the UI
May 26, 2025
After three hours at Google’s I/O 2025 event last week in Silicon Valley, it became increasingly clear: Google is rallying its formidable AI efforts – prominently branded under the Gemini name but encompassing a diverse range of underlying model architectures and research – with laser focus. It is releasing a slew of innovations and technologies around it, then integrating them into products…
Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops
May 22, 2025
Well-funded French AI model maker Mistral has consistently punched above its weight since its debut of its own powerful open source foundation model in fall 2023 — but it took some criticism among developers on X recently fmior its last release of a proprietary large…
OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises to build intelligent, action-oriented agentic applications.
These enhancements include support for remote Model Context Protocol (MCP)…
Google is moving closer to its goal of a “universal AI assistant” that can understand context, plan and take action.
Today at Google I/O, the tech giant announced enhancements to its Gemini 2.5 Flash — it’s now better across nearly every dimension, including benchmarks for reasoning, code and long context — and 2.5 Pro, including an experimental enhanced reasoning mode, ‘Deep Think,’…
