Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the co…

Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift
Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift

Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attac…

Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery
Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America’s food-delivery robot business. Through a deal with W…

OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips

OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by …

Revolut is building its own airport lounges, starting in Copenhagen in 2027
Revolut is building its own airport lounges, starting in Copenhagen in 2027

Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that it will open its own premium airport lounges across Europe, with the fir…

Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations
Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations

Spotify will begin attaching an “AI Persona” badge to artist profiles whose public identity is generated rather than human, the company announced. Profiles carrying the badge will be excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, w…

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match

Meta wants a seat at the table developers actually use. The company has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and takes direct aim at the fast-growing market for software that writes software. The tool is built on Meta’s late…

Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud
Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud

Nvidia wants self-driving cars to explain themselves. The company has released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open AI model for robotaxis that does not just plan a route but reasons about why, and it is now available for commercial use. The model is Nvidia’s pit…

Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions
Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions

Revolut is handing its customers free access to ChatGPT, the result of a new partnership with OpenAI. The fintech, which says it now serves more than 75 million people worldwide, is bundling OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go into its subscription plans, giving anywh…

Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?
Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?

Every accelerator makes a version of the same offer: capital, mentorship, a network, three months of support, and materially better odds of survival. Evidence suggests that little of it actually works. In April, Youn Baek and Deepak Hegde of NYU Stern …