Google Cloud has a message for developers on March 7, 2026: stop typing, start talking, and ideally let your app “see” what you mean while you’re at it. In a new post on the Google Cloud Blog, Dilasha Panigrahi (Product Marketing Manager) announced the Gemini Live Agent Challenge, a Devpost-hosted hackathon aimed squarely at building…
Converge Bio’s $25M Series A Is a Vote for “GenAI Labs” in Drug Discovery (and a Warning About Hallucinating Molecules)
On January 13, 2026, TechCrunch reported that Converge Bio, an AI drug-discovery startup with operations spanning Boston and Tel Aviv, raised $25 million in a Series A round. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from TLV Partners, Saras Capital, and Vintage Investment Partners, plus backing from unnamed executives affiliated with Meta,…
Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going: What WIRED’s ‘For Future Reference’ Gets Right (and What Comes Next)
On January 27, 2026, WIRED published a neat little reality check titled Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going. It’s part of WIRED’s freshly sharpened “For Future Reference” framing, and it reads like what happens when you put AI CEOs, policy wonks, artists, and UC Berkeley students in the same room, then…
NeurIPS 2025’s uncomfortable RL lesson: depth beats “more data” (plus gated attention, diffusion anti-memorization, and the rise of the AI hivemind)
NeurIPS papers have a funny habit: they don’t just propose a new tweak, they quietly invalidate your last six months of engineering decisions. And while the 2025 conference (held in early December 2025 in San Diego) produced its usual flood of cleverness, a handful of works did something more interesting: they attacked the comfortable assumptions…
What is OpenAI according OpenAI
OpenAI is a research laboratory with the goal of advancing artificial intelligence (AI) by creating a general-purpose AI agent that can learn to solve many different types of problems. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman,…