Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.
Revolutionary spec-driven development methodology eliminates spontaneous 'vibe coding' by leveraging AI to achieve an unprecedented 95% accuracy rate in first-attempt code implementation through detailed specifications that separate human strategic planning from AI execution.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser featuring integrated chatbot capabilities and task completion agents, sending Alphabet shares down 2% as the company directly challenges Google's Chrome browser dominance with its new macOS application.
Veeam acquires data security firm Securiti AI for $1.725 billion in cash and stock, with founder Rehan Jalil joining as president of security and AI to help enterprises better control and secure their data for AI applications as the deal closes in early December.
AI hiring platform Findem raises $51 million in new funding as its customer base explodes 100x to over 12,000 users in just 12 months, leveraging 1.6 trillion data points to revolutionize talent matching for major companies like Adobe and RingCentral.
ChipAgents secures $21M Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to revolutionize semiconductor design with AI automation, experiencing explosive 60x usage growth as top chip manufacturers embrace the platform to tackle increasingly complex billion-gate processors and accelerate time-to-market.
Google launches Google Skills, a unified learning platform featuring 3,000 courses from across its divisions, gamified experiences with AI-powered labs, and direct job placement connections to over 150 employers including fast-track hiring processes.
Elon Musk challenges former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy to a public coding contest between xAI's Grok 5 and Karpathy, likening it to the historic Deep Blue vs Kasparov chess match, but Karpathy declines, preferring collaboration over competition with AI models.
AWS suffers massive outage impacting over 108 services across US-EAST-1 region as DNS failures cascade through DynamoDB, EC2, Lambda, and CloudWatch, with internal network monitoring issues triggering widespread connectivity problems before full restoration at 3:01 PM.
DeepSeek unveils groundbreaking OCR model using vision-text compression technology that slashes AI processing costs by 95% while achieving 97% accuracy, potentially revolutionizing operations across finance, science, and medical industries.