Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, found another way to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its starting price on Wednesday — $24,950 before destination, taxes, and other fees — it also said it had changed its battery strategy,...

Alibaba’s model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software...

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...