Lightfield [5] is the CRM that updates itself. Yesterday, it announced a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Here is why thousands of companies switched to Lightfield: it captures every email, call, and meeting automatically. No manual data entry, ever.
Ask "WHICH DEALS HAVE GONE QUIET THIS MONTH?" or "PREP ME FOR MY CALL WITH ACME” and it answers from your actual conversations [6], not fields you never filled in.
Teach Lightfield how you sell and watch it go to work for you.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999. The device expands to a 7.6-inch screen when unfolded, and a 5.4-inch screen when used as a conventional handset. It comes in two colors: Star White and Night Sky. More details on the device, as well as Apple's other recent releases, are available in the article.
The Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra models have new Audio Intelligence tools that use ambient listening to take high-level notes of wearers' conversations throughout the day. The devices will also have a Live Recap function that can show a transcription of what was said in a live conversation in the last 15 seconds and be able to listen to important sounds, such as a crying baby, doorbells, or sirens. These features will not create or store recordings, and Apple will not be able to access the raw audio. They will be available to test in English later this year. The improved Siri is being rolled out on watchOS 27 in beta on September 14.
Modern cancer-vaccine design involves identifying mutations, predicting presentation, predicting immunogenicity, ranking targets, and designing RNA. However, biology is complicated, and whether a target makes a good vaccine candidate depends on all kinds of information. This makes cancer vaccines an unusually direct test of whether AI models can take what it has learned from biology and apply that knowledge to design a medicine for one particular human being.
It is unknown yet whether AI will lead to unprecedented growth or widespread unemployment. Anthropic's Economics team built a model to understand how AI might affect jobs, growth, and unemployment in the US in the coming years. The model found that AI will lead to adverse impacts on wages and job prospects for knowledge workers in scenarios where growth is faster than anything in economic history, and in those scenarios, the challenge will be making sure wealth is broadly shared. The answer will depend on how AI affects all the tasks that make up the economy, the new tasks it creates, and how fast AI takes on this work.
When approval fatigue turns sign-offs into rubber stamps, you need more than good judgment to keep AI secure. Gray Swan's eBook [13] lays out 5 governance implications for AI security, along with 3 questions
PostHog's Replay Vision lets models view session recordings. This post looks at how PostHog built the tool and how it implemented a method for the model to actually see replays. It covers how PostHog built a custom rasterizer that runs hundreds of concurrent jobs across many pods. The custom rasterizer has so far rasterized more than 370 years of recordings into roughly 3.5 million videos since it was deployed in production in March.
Tailwind is joining Shopify, one of the first companies operating at scale to see the potential of Tailwind CSS and start building with it. Shopify has invested in making sure Tailwind is actively maintained and will continue to provide a stable long-term home for the project. Nothing will change with Tailwind CSS or any of Tailwind's other open source projects, but the project will no longer try to grow its business. All existing customers will maintain access to their products, but Tailwind has closed signups for new customers.
Automattic's board has put founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a leave of absence against his will. The company's Chief Financial Officer, Mark Davies, had conspired with other board members to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. Davies is now acting as interim CEO. Mullenweg remains the leader of the WordPress project, and the company's teams, priorities, and work will continue as planned. It is unclear why the board took this action. Mullenweg remains on the board of directors.
The price of AI is coming down. However, volume growth may not be large enough to counteract the effective decline in prices. The models driving volume increases are relatively cheap, standard models. These trends do not appear to be driven by the adoption of open-source models or Chinese models.
OpenAI heard that some Millennium Prize problems had been solved using large language models and saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate the power of its latest model without regard for the teams who had been working on the problem already.
This Datadog best practices guide [6] lays out how to:
* Monitor LLM workflows from end-to-end * Detect and mitigate security risks * Ensure reliable, high-quality outputs
Meta's new Muse AI agent can act as a personal digital assistant, autonomously using software apps and websites on behalf of users. It can be instructed to send emails, book travel reservations, make online purchases, and more through an app or WhatsApp. Muse AI can connect to Meta's other apps to learn more about its user. It can also link to third-party apps like Spotify, Ticketmaster, Shopify, Gmail, and OpenTable. The Muse app is free but has limits on usage, which users can pay $20 or $100 a month to increase.
Apple's secretive core technology development teams had already been studying foldable phones well before Samsung released the first Galaxy Fold in 2019. The company is set to unveil its first foldable phone today. The phone will feature a roughly 7.8-inch interior display considerably wider than those on many Android foldables. Apple was targeting a price of $1,999 early in development, but it has more recently been discussing pricing the foldable product as high as $2,199.
OpenAI says its newest AI technology has solved one of the Millennium Problems. The Millennium Problems are the most heavily researched in the field of mathematics. OpenAI's model solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem in just 88 hours. The company's proof claims to have defined a situation in which the Navier-Stokes equations completely break down. This implies that the laws of physics could theoretically break down under certain conditions.
The AlphaGenome Atlas is an online repository of precomputed predictions made using Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome model. It allows scientists to access the benefits of the model without having to write code or run the model themselves. The atlas includes a single-number impact score to show at a glance if a variant is likely to be meaningful. The atlas could greatly accelerate work in fundamental biology, disease research, and treatment development.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 is a new state-of-the-art image model that generates sharper details with more precise editing. Image generation latency has been reduced by up to 50% compared with Images 2.0. Images 2.5 is available for all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users across desktop, mobile, and web. OpenAI has introduced a new feature called Sketch in ChatGPT that lets users draw directly in the app as a reference.
Teams that operate software at scale need to bake in some real time to deal with the CPU shortage. Most software teams have never capacity-planned CPUs. General-purpose compute is now something many teams need to commit to ahead of time. Teams need to start forecasting and planning around this.
Working out whether a question is actually worth working on is a lengthy, deliberate, and subjective process. Being aware of the difficulty landscape in a field is crucial in making such determinations. Every new advance in mathematics reduces the difficulty of solving problems, which reduces the difficulty landscape of the field. While there are an infinite number of possible problems to solve in mathematics, the vast majority of these problems are not worth focusing on. The indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools achieves the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.
Apple's success with Siri AI will be largely dependent on third-party developers. However, these developers have a lot at stake, as while their apps may become more useful on Apple devices through working with Siri AI, enabling the assistant could risk sidelining their own assistants. Several staple apps are still not working with an early version of Siri AI available to app developers, and it is unclear whether they will. If Siri AI rolls out this year with only support from some apps and not others, it could create a confusing experience for users and turn them off from using the assistant.
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Block has submitted an application to federal regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust.
Sonera is working on sensing technology that non-invasively measures magnetic fields generated by the brain and body to analyze neural data without direct skin contact.
Google's fly connectome contains over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, providing scientists with a fundamental resource for studying how the brain works.
Not on purpose! But stages are always optimistic and close dates go stale. People are busy...
Lightfield [5] is the agentic CRM that builds the record from the conversations themselves, capturing every email, call, and meeting as it happens. So the questions your CRM could never answer, this one can.
OpenAI appears to be implementing a new feature that helps ChatGPT write in users' voices by referencing examples from their connected apps. Some users have had the feature for weeks, but the company has yet to officially announce the tool. OpenAI often tests new ideas with select users ahead of launch. The article includes a screenshot of the feature interface.
ByteDance is preparing to launch a real-time spatial video AI model. The model will be able to create interactive virtual worlds. It will also be able to generate virtual worlds that respond to Pico VR headset users' voices and movements. ByteDance is planning a launch as soon as next month.
Rentosertib is a drug created with the assistance of AI. The AI originally indicated that the drug could help treat patients suffering from a chronic lung disease, but data from clinical trials show it could also slow the aging process. The drug reduced the biological markers of age as measured by six 'aging clocks', a different kind of AI technology designed to predict a person's morbidity and mortality. While the drug shows promise, it is still years away from regulatory approval, even for use in sick patients.
XPeng has started production for its IRON robot. Its production line runs with more than 80% of its core processes automated. The company's robot went viral last year as its walk was so smooth that people accused XPeng of hiding a person in a costume. XPeng is targeting mass production by the end of the year.
What are your AI agents doing? What do they have access to? Teleport gives you answers and helps you set boundaries to contain and control them. Monitor and audit agent behavior to better understand the risks related to AI in your environment.
It's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques. However, software quality seems to be getting worse. This indicates that whatever defaults developers are using might not work very well. This study tests whether simple instructions to agents to use particular techniques or libraries improve implementation correctness. It found that agents tend to either just write the tests they would normally write, but inside a framework for a different type of test technique, or they'll use a technique superficially but not really do the things that get the value out of the technique.