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The firm behind Claude could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of Nov. 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving, the people said. Dealmaking typically grinds to a halt in the days around the holiday, which is on Nov. 26. Anthropic is still e

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt Squeezes a Local AI Agent Into 4GB NVIDIA's new 4GB open model targets local voice assistants, NPCs and robots, outperforming peers on conversation benchmarks while using 80% fewer tokens. - NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small model

As AI adoption expands globally, people across languages and cultures are using it in more aspects of their daily lives. General-purpose language models serve as a powerful foundation, but they sometimes lack the local knowledge, cultural nuance, and precision a particular applic

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is showcasing its full lineup of local AI hardware. RTX Spark, which launched last week, powers personal agents on Windows PCs; DGX Spark supports developers building and scaling applications on Linux; and DGX Station serves enterprise teams running frontier

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During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of nonvoting stock, called Class C common stock. The shares give the holder an ownership stake but no vote on company decisions. This class takes effect in January. Meta says it will

Mark Zuckerberg was just three minutes into his keynote speech at the company's annual Meta Connect product event last month when his tone turned almost wistful. "Building is an act of love," he said, glancing down at the ground with his hands in his pockets. "It's how we impart

Artificial Analysis' Code2Video-AA Benchmark Shows Claude Opus 5.5 Dominates AI Video Coding A new benchmark judges 27 models on turning marketing briefs into animated HTML videos, with Claude Opus 5.5 leading at 10x the cost of rivals. - Artificial Analysis launched Code2Video-A

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7 Climbs to No. 2 on Image-Editing Benchmark Microsoft AI's newest image editing model climbs to #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, trailing only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and leading four categories. - Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks

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We’re a little over three weeks away from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, which we’re hosting in the heart of San Francisco on Nov. 12. We’ve secured some of the top names in Silicon Valley to speak on our main stage, including Igor Babuschkin, Nikesh Arora, and Ali Ghodsi. Now, w

Welcome to Snowflake's Startup Spotlight, where we ask startup founders about the problems they're solving, the products they're building and the lessons they've learned during their startup journey. In this edition, meet Dust's Co-Founder and CTO, Stanislas Polu, and learn how t