Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

Expedia's AI chief Xavi Amatriain explains why AI evals are replacing traditional specs for agent governance, using toll ...

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside’s Laguna S 2.1 is a new Western open-weight coding AI model that rivals larger systems on benchmarks with ...

Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of AI model's pre-calculated tokens

As context windows and multi-turn interactions grow, so does the GPU compute wasted recalculating work a model has already ...

Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model cuts AI agent token costs by up to 65% on long horizon engineering tasks —and 3.5 Pro is on the way

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are available immediately through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android ...

Native Acquires Frontline Research Group to Build the Agentic AI Data Layer for Africa’s $1.7 Trillion Traditional Trade Market

Acquisition brings market share feeds from 14 African markets into Native's platform — connecting the actions that grow share with the measurement tha ...

Atlassian: Research shows organizations should approach AI at the team level, not the individual level, to achieve true ROI

Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, ...

CIBC Innovation Banking Provides $17m in Growth Funding to Modo Energy

CIBC Innovation Banking announced today that it has provided a $17m growth funding package for Modo Energy, bringing the total amount of funding raised by the company to $52m. The company will use the ...

Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy

Writer's new AI harness study cuts enterprise token spend by 38% and cost per task by 41% across six foundation models, ...

LINAK Gets Its First Measurable Marketing Return in Years with ZoomInfo

The Danish manufacturer of electric linear actuators replaced a competitor platform it could not measure, and its first targeted display campaign gene ...

A single AI agent conversation can look perfect and still be broken, leaders from LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave said at VB Transform 2026

LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave leaders say scoring AI agent conversations one at a time hides broken products — and explain ...

Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems

An autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face for a weekend undetected, and safety guardrails blocked defenders' own forensic ...

Tegus Cuts Conversation Intelligence Spend 50% by Consolidating Its Tech Stack with ZoomInfo

The investment-research platform moved conversation intelligence onto a vendor it already used, cutting that spend by 50% while preserving three years ...