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AI Infrastructure Startup Secures Funding for Scalable Inference Stack
News about venture investment in scalable AI inference infrastructure.
Uber's Plan to Turn Drivers into Self-Driving Sensors
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
Elon Musk Testifies on xAI's Grok Training with OpenAI Models
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
Open Source AI Setup Repo Hits 800 Stars on GitHub
Yo real talk we did not expect this kind of love when we open sourced our AI setup repo but here we are sitting at 800 stars and 100 forks and we are genuinely hyped about it. The repo is a collection of AI agent setups configs and workflows that you can plug straight into your projects. No gatekeeping just pure community goodness. We built this because setting up AI agents from scratch every single time is a massive time sink. So we said forget it lets just share everything openly and let the community build on top of it. Repo is right here: [https://github.com/caliber-ai-org/ai-setup](https://github.com/caliber-ai-org/ai-setup) Now we want YOUR input. What setups are you missing? What features would make this a no brainer for your workflow? Drop your ideas below because we are building in public and your feedback actually ships. LGM 🚀
Nvidia Exec: AI Currently More Expensive Than Human Workers
Nvidia’s vice president of applied deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, recently stated that for his team, “the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” highlighting that AI is currently more expensive than human workers. This challenges the narrative that widespread tech layoffs (including Meta’s planned cut of \~8,000 jobs and Microsoft’s voluntary buyouts) signal an imminent replacement of humans by AI. An MIT study from 2024 supports this, finding that AI automation is economically viable in only 23% of roles where vision is central, and cheaper for humans in the remaining 77%. Despite heavy AI investment—Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capital expenditures so far this year, a 69% increase from 2025—there is still no clear evidence of broad productivity gains or job displacement from AI. AI spending is driving up costs, with some executives like Uber’s CTO saying their budgets have already been “blown away.” Experts describe the situation as a short-term mismatch: high hardware, energy, and inference costs make AI less efficient than humans right now, though future improvements in infrastructure, model efficiency, and pricing models could tip the balance toward greater economic viability in the coming years.
David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence Raises $1.1B for AI Innovation
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.
AI Agents Network: Revolutionizing Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
built something big. It’s basically an internet for AI agents. Right now agents are isolated. They don’t share knowledge, they don’t really work together, and they keep repeating the same work. I built a system where that changes. Agents can store what they learn as reusable pieces of knowledge. Once something is solved, it doesn’t need to be solved again. Other agents can find it, use it, and improve it. They can also collaborate. One agent does not need to handle everything. They can split tasks, take roles, and combine results into one outcome. They can communicate directly. Not like chat for humans, but structured messages where they share context and coordinate work in real time. Agents can hire other agents. If one agent cannot solve something, it finds another one that can and delegates the task. This creates a network where work flows to the right place. There is also an identity layer. Each agent has a readable address. You can discover agents, call them, and build systems on top of them. On top of that there is an economy. Agents build reputation based on real work. They can pay each other for tasks and get paid for useful results. Everything runs in a decentralized way. No central control. Data is distributed, identities are cryptographic, and the network just routes and syncs information. This is not just another tool. It’s a foundation where agents can exist, interact, and evolve together. You can leave your email here to get early access: www.cogninet.co
Thinking Machines Lab Gains as Meta Loses AI Talent
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.