🔎 Speaking of AI agents: While AI agents are exploding onto the tech scene, enterprises are hesitant to adopt them because they aren't sure how reliably they work. Coval is a new startup that looks to evaluate AI agents the same way Coval's founder used to evaluate self-driving cars at Waymo. Read more
🤗 Smol models: AI developer platform Hugging Face released a set of models that it says are the smallest models able to analyze images, short videos, and text. The models are designed to work on "constrained devices" like laptops. Read more
📣 Trump puts the EU on blast: The president isn't happy with how EU regulators have treated U.S. tech giants and called the treatment "a form of taxation." Trump took particular aim at a court case last year that resulted in Apple paying €13 billion in back taxes to Ireland. Read more
👀 Another agent (kinda): It was a big day for those tracking the AI agent space. AI-powered search engine company Perplexity announced Perplexity Assistant, which will help assist users with daily tasks and sounds quite similar to an AI agent. Read more
🤑 More money for X: Elon Musk's X grew its in-app revenue over the past year despite a decline in active users. Users spent $7.6 million in the first three weeks of 2024 compared to $13.4 million in the same time period this year. Read more
