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12:38 PM PDT · October 5, 2026 Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy and his team announced Monday in a blog post that the firm has invested in AI coding startup Factory. Menlo declined to comment on how much it invested but said the deal was part of Factory’s latest
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The White House has launched an AI rebranding effort, stating that from now on, all US government officials will have to call it "super intelligence," or SI. It's unclear whether this is the administration's attempt to wash away AI's deteriorating reputation among
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This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Single-folder archival in Zoho Mail: What you need to know — Email archival
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Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and
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Save $150: Prime Day is one of the best times to buy a Mac, and this deal on Apple’s latest desktop is hard to ignore. Right now, the M5 Pro Mac Mini is $150 off, dropping it to a record-low price of $1,550. Whether you’re editing video,
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Sick of your wheezy old vacuum cleaner? Prime Day is an excellent time to upgrade, and many of our favorite models from top brands are on sale now. This includes CNET Lab Test winners like the Dreame Z30 cordless vacuum and fan favorites like the Roborock S70. Whether you want
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Save $70: You don’t have to count down the hours until Amazon’s October Prime Day sale to score a great deal on a new pair of headphones. There are thousands of deals already available, including a whopping $70 off the eye-catching Nothing Headphone A. That’s a 35%
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Amazon’s not the only place to find smartphone and smartwatch deals during Prime Day. Woot is also slashing prices on some of our favorite Android devices right now. You can get the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge with 256GB of storage for $550, which is 50% savings on its
