Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal
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Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing
On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and Mango AI,…
The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
The path to ubiquitous AIBy Ljubisa BajicMany believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human…
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, retaking AI crown with 2X+ reasoning performance boost
FeaturedCarl Franzen February 19, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro Image on fal.aiLate last year, Google briefly…
AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation
If you compile your app for AVX2 and it runs on Windows ARM under Prism emulation, is it faster or…
You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession
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AI-First Company Memos
Shopify. Tobi Lutke. April 7, 2025. Lutke learned his internal memo was being leaked and decided to publish it himself….
AI’s GPU problem is actually a data delivery problem
Partner ContentVB Staff February 9, 2026 Presented by F5As enterprises pour billions into GPU infrastructure for AI workloads, many are…
Claude Opus 4.6
AnnouncementsIntroducing Claude Opus 4.6Feb 5, 2026We’re upgrading our smartest model.The new Claude Opus 4.6 improves on its predecessor’s coding skills….
Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks
Carl Franzen February 3, 2026 VentureBeat made with GPT Image 1.5 on fal.aiChinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI…
Best Microsoft Surface Laptop (2026): Which Model to Buy or Avoid
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyThe Microsoft Surface is the flagship PC brand from the brains behind the Windows…
How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car?
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AI models that simulate internal debate dramatically improve accuracy on complex tasks
Ben Dickson January 30, 2026 A new study by Google suggests that advanced reasoning models achieve high performance by simulating…
The Surface Laptop Is $400 Off
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyAre you looking for a new Windows laptop to get some work done from…
Anthropic’s original take home assignment open sourced
Anthropic’s Original Performance Take-Home This repo contains a version of Anthropic’s original performance take-home, before Claude Opus 4.5 started doing…
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyAs the relationship between the US and its European allies shows signs of strain,…
Engineering a Columnar Database in Rust: Lessons on io_uring, SIMD, and why I avoided Async/Await
I recently released the core engine for Frigatebird, an OLAP (Columnar) database built from scratch. While building it, I made…
Ferrari doing what it does best: The 12Cilindri review
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Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Raspberry Pi’s new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMsJan 15, 2026Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130…
Breaking through AI’s memory wall with token warehousing
VB EventVB Staff January 15, 2026 Shimon Ben-David, CTO, WEKA and Matt Marshall, Founder & CEO, VentureBeatAs agentic AI moves…