Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen3.8-Max — Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.
Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z — For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one.
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders — When Anthropic shared financial figures recently with prospective investors in its planned initial public offering …
Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday — Acquisition would be French conglomerate's largest and enhance its products focused on manufacturers
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more — Millions have downloaded Meta's AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages — Google and Apple lobbyists are engaged in a massive effort to press state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety laws …
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M — The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.