Awesome Agents Podcast

Microsoft's Harrier-OSS-v1 family delivers three MIT-licensed multilingual embedding models, with the 27B variant claiming top spot on Multilingual MTEB v2 at 74.3.

Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, doubling in four months, as investors pour capital into AI software designed to run robots in the real world.

The 15-person startup that launched an H100 GPU into space last November just became the fastest Y Combinator company ever to reach unicorn status.

Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.

Meta releases SAM 3.1 with Object Multiplex, processing all tracked objects in one shared pass for 7x faster inference at 128 objects and improvements on 6 of 7 VOS benchmarks.

NVIDIA's DSX Flex library and Emerald AI's Conductor platform let AI factories ramp GPU power up or down in seconds, unlocking faster grid connections and up to 100GW of new U.S. capacity.

Shopify activated Agentic Storefronts by default on March 24, making products from millions of merchants discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's AI channels.

Anthropic confirmed paid Claude subscriptions more than doubled in 2026 while annualized revenue climbed from $1B to $19B in roughly 15 months.

Google launched two new tools on March 26 that let users transfer memories and full chat logs from ChatGPT or Claude into Gemini - 24 days after Anthropic launched the same concept first.

Mistral releases Voxtral, a pair of open-weights models covering speech recognition and text-to-speech that undercut OpenAI and ElevenLabs on price.

OpenAI ships a plugin marketplace for Codex CLI v0.117.0, bundling skills, app integrations, and MCP server configs behind an enterprise governance layer.

Three new arXiv papers show how to build more reliable planning agents, cut benchmark costs by 70%, and why LLMs fail at long-horizon financial decision-making.

Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.

Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.

ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-3 today with a fully open-source agent toolkit. The best AI in the preview phase scored 12.58% against a human baseline of 100%.

The LiteLLM supply chain attack originated from Trivy - the security scanner in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. TeamPCP compromised Trivy, stole the PyPI publishing token, and uploaded backdoored packages directly.

Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

Ai2's MolmoWeb is a fully open-source web agent that navigates browsers by screenshot alone, beating GPT-4o-based agents at the 8B scale with weights, training data, and code all released under Apache 2.0.

Three arXiv papers push AI agents further: metacognitive self-modification, milestone-based RL lifting Gemma3-12B from 6% to 43% on WebArena-Lite, and hybrid workflows cutting inference costs 19x.

OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from Helion, the startup where Sam Altman holds a personal stake worth an estimated $375 million.

Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to design 'Project X' - a corporate takeover strategy to avoid paying Subnautica creators a $250M bonus. A Delaware judge reversed everything and called it out by name.

A developer leaked the model ID for Cursor's Composer 2: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast. Moonshot AI says Cursor violated the Kimi K2.5 license by not displaying attribution in a $2B ARR product.

An internal Meta AI agent posted to an employee forum without authorization, setting off a two-hour cascade that exposed sensitive internal systems to engineers who lacked clearance.

Atlassian is laying off 10% of its workforce and splitting its CTO role in two to redirect cash toward AI development - but the company's own CEO pledged a hiring surge five months ago.