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FeaturedWe Reviewed 149 AI Tools. Here's What They Actually Cost in 2026
*Last updated: August 2026* The most common question we get is some version of: do I actually have to pay for this stuff? It's a fair question, and it's surprisingly hard to answer from the outside. Every AI tool's pricing page is designed to move you toward a subscription. Nob...
FeaturedThe Plain-English AI Glossary: 25 Terms That Actually Matter in 2026
There is a specific moment that stops people from using AI, and it usually isn't the technology. It's a sentence like this one, pulled from a product announcement: *"Our new multimodal foundation model supports a 200K context window with improved RLHF alignment and reduced hallu...
FeaturedAI Agents Are Getting Their Own Computer Chips — Here's Why That Matters
The Next Big Bet in AI Isn't What You'd Expect If you've been following AI news at all, you know Nvidia as the company that makes the powerful chips (specialized computer processors) that power everything from ChatGPT to Gemini. But Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang just announced somet...
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Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say
Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.
Mirendil raises $1B in funding to speed up AI model development
Mirendil Inc., a provider of software that speeds up artificial intelligence development, has raised $1 billion in early-stage funding. The startup stated on Thursday that Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital jointly led the Series A investment. They were joined by more than a half-dozen others inc
AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
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Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia won’t end his problems with Congress
Jensen Huang may be out at Nvidia, but the questions surrounding his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy—and what it might have meant for American national security—are only growing more serious. The billionaire’s resignation Thursday has done little to quiet a scandal that threatens to rea
How Microcredentials Help Engineers Build Trustworthy AI
Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics, governance, and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the industry’s toughest challenge
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