Xiaomi’s HarnessX rewrites its own AI scaffolding mid-task — and smaller models gain the most

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

As enterprise AI agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, their performance is often restricted by their harness, the software scaffolding that connects the backbone LLM to its environment. Currently, harnesses are largely static and hand-crafted....

Stanford researchers will discuss their agentic ‘scientists’ that are on course to reshape drug discovery at VB Transform 2026

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through disconnected workflows that result in knowledge loss during each handoff. A shocking 90% to 95% of drug discovery projects...

How Shopify built an AI stack that doesn’t care which models survive

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, Shopify’s engineers didn’t go into panic mode. The proxy...

Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal that values the company at roughly $2.5 billion. The...

NTSB launches probe into fatal Texas Tesla crash

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has opened an investigation into a crash that happened over the weekend in Texas, in which a driver slammed into a home in Katy, Texas, killing a resident. The family of that victim, 76-year-old Martha Avila, has also...

Amazon will present its framework for engineering trustworthy AI agents at VB Transform 2026

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

AI agents are increasingly proficient at executing business tasks autonomously, but IT leaders are cautious about granting permissions to access enterprise systems. Part of the challenge lies in how AI reliability is measured. Industry standards often rely on EVAL...