Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 now available on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has made Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI available on Amazon Bedrock, describing it as the first open-weight model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters. The model combines native vision capabilities with a 1-million-token context window...
xAI ships Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on speech-to-text API
xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on September 18, 2026, making the speech-to-text model available on its Speech-to-Text API for batch files and real-time streaming. Batch pricing remains $0.10 per hour of audio and streamin...
AWS launches GPU-aware SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway
AWS announced general availability of the SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway, a Kubernetes-native routing addon that places inference requests using real-time GPU signals such as KV cache utilization, queue depth, LoRA adapter r...
AWS ships next-gen AgentCore Runtime with elastic memory and 2-second cold starts
AWS announced general availability of a next-generation AgentCore Runtime, the serverless microVM compute layer inside Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The company said the new runtime reclaims unused session memory instead of holding i...
Ryft secures €23 million Series B for payments expansion
Manchester payments company Ryft secured a €23 million (£20 million) Series B led by Gresham House Ventures. Ryft said it will use the funding to expand in Europe and the U.S., accelerate product development and move upmarket. The...
UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics
The United Nations on Thursday announced the UN System Data Commons with Google, replacing the UNData portal with a natural-language platform that supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can query official statistics dir...