Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

By Eric Francia How would you handle a junior employee questioning the way you’ve always done something? Might you roll your eyes and dismiss their comments as naivety? Or would you indulge their curiosity? As AI has made knowledge accessible on a scale never seen before, companies are becoming leaner and operating faster. What once…

Z.ai, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched ZCode, a free desktop application it describes as an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its flagship GLM-5.2 large language model. The move marks the company’s most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market, where it now competes…

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start…

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published on Sunday, after other prominent industry figures have expressed similar views in recent months. Pachocki argues that leading AI labs should voluntarily pace their model development efforts. According to the executive, such slowdowns should become “commonplace” until the…

Financial services company Block Inc. today launched Buzz, a free open-source workspace built for teams of humans and AI agents. The agents are full members with their own accounts, not chatbots answering prompts. Buzz combines team chat with code hosting and automated workflows, and Block is going after companies that now run their work across…