**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**
🔍 Google upgrades AI Search with conversational follow-ups
Google is making Search more conversational by letting users jump from AI Overviews into follow-up AI Mode chats powered by Gemini 3.
🚀 OpenAI launches Prism for scientific writing and research
OpenAI unveiled Prism, a free AI-powered workspace integrated with GPT-5.2 to help scientists draft, revise, and validate research papers.
🤖 AI2 releases open-source coding agents
The Allen Institute for AI introduced open coding agents aimed at making AI-assisted software development more transparent, adaptable, and affordable.
https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
💼 Management emerges as a key skill in the age of agentic AI
An experimental MBA course shows that effective management, not coding, may be the critical superpower for building companies with AI agents.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower
🛍️ AI shopping agents attract major investment
Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates, raised $35M to build an AI-powered shopping agent designed to make online shopping more engaging and personalized.
🏗️ AI infrastructure boom continues with Baseten’s $300M raise
Baseten secured $300M at a $5B valuation as demand surges for scalable, high-performance AI inference infrastructure.
📣 Tech and AI leaders drawn into ICE and free speech controversy
From AI CEOs condemning ICE violence to investigations and alleged TikTok censorship, tech platforms are increasingly entangled in U.S. immigration and free speech debates.
🛠️ AI startups target enterprise workflows and support tools
Risotto raised $10M to apply AI to help desk ticketing, aiming to simplify workflows and challenge incumbents like Zendesk and ServiceNow.
🚁 Anduril turns autonomous drones into a recruiting competition
Defense tech company Anduril launched an AI-powered drone racing contest where autonomous performance and coding skills can win cash and jobs.
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