6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Pixel 11 ships a Gemini agent that phones businesses for you

Google's Pixel 11, unveiled today, ships a Gemini agent that calls restaurants and clinics on the user's behalf, with call transcripts, and automates tasks across 40+ apps.

Ex-Qwen chief launches $2B agent startup Pragmatik Labs

Lin Junyang, who led Alibaba's Qwen from launch to global scale, announced Pragmatik Labs today with a $2B post-money valuation and no product yet.

Signals: DeepSeek undercuts Microsoft, EU costs extra

Microsoft's own code model loses to DeepSeek on price and speed, Blacksmith hits a $550M valuation, and Mistral prices EU data residency at a 10% surcharge.

China-linked AI agents breached Taiwan government networks

Dream disclosed today that suspected China-linked hackers ran up to eight autonomous AI agents for four days in July, breaching 85 Taiwan government accounts and reaching its nuclear safety agency.

Cognition AI in funding talks at $40 billion valuation

Cognition AI is in early talks for a funding round that could value the Devin-maker above $40 billion, up from $26 billion three months ago, per Bloomberg.

Why LLMs Are Swapping Attention for Mamba Layers

Nvidia's Nemotron-H replaces 92% of its attention layers with Mamba-2 blocks and still matches Llama-3.1 on MMLU, at up to 3x the throughput. Here's why that ratio works.

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