Artificial Intelligence
a16z funds photonic AI infra, Apple agents code faster, Yale coaches agents, Mistral ships phone-first ASR
TL;DR * AI Infrastructure Funding Surges as Andreessen Horowitz Allocates $1.7B * Apple Introduces Native Agentic Coding in Xcode 26.3 for Autonomous AI Development * MAPPA Framework Boosts Multi-Agent System Performance by Up to 17.5% * Mistral AI Launches Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 with <200ms Latency for On-Device 13-Language