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Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to 'select early partners') and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B parameters, 'purpose-built for GitHub Cop

Tecban deployed Copilot to business and engineering teams. Tecban reported 5,808 hours saved per year through AI in 11 cases, in a Microsoft customer story.

Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ, new models, managed compute, and trust,

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 uses a mixture-of-transformers architecture that pairs a reasoning transformer with a generation transformer, enabling it to understand object interactions and spatial-temporal relatio

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced an expanded collaboration with Moderna, committing up to $50 million to support preclinical development and Phase 1 clinical testin

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already u

Anthropic PBC today introduced a new large language model, Claude Opus 4.8, that’s significantly better than its predecessor at complex coding tasks. The company announced the LLM alongside another ma

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. Ther

Artificial intelligence cloud operator CoreWeave Inc. today announced the launch of a new offering that gives enterprise outfits the ability to deploy AI agents that can learn and improve themselves a

Google created MapReduce more than 20 years ago to solve the scaling problems in data processing that the then young company was running into. The AI era that we are in now demands efficient, large-sc

This article examines whether the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model remains viable and competitive in the current market landscape. It likely discusses challenges facing SaaS companies, such

The way we work has fundamentally changed. From automated agents to sophisticated AI services, Generative AI (GenAI) has become a daily tool for a vast majority of employees. But with this rapid adopt

Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hop

Many development teams are familiar with the hesitation that comes right before pushing a new feature live. As AI helps developers write code faster, the gap between rapid code generation and safe pro

Many of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are choosing to build their future — and the world’s — on Google Cloud because of our complete and open AI stack. We embed AI into every layer of our ar

LLMs have become more powerful at smaller sizes, but deploying them to edge devices like smartphones remains a massive challenge. Today, developers have to optimize across a sprawling combination of a

As models and harnesses improve, agents are taking on increasingly complex tasks that can run for hours or even days. But as we push agents to do more, this has surfaced a new operational problem: lon

What the numbers mean for financial services Executive summary Lambda is the first to publish an audited STAC-AI™ LANG6 result on NVIDIA HGX 8xB200, with independently verified performance data that F

Our recent paper, “LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate”, has generated discussion about the reliability of AI systems in delegated workflows. We appreciate the interest in this work and want

Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat a

NASA is moving quickly to define next year's Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency's Orion spacecraft and commercial

In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medica

Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal AI platform MeshClaw to automate routine or unnecessary tasks as pressure grows to demonstrate AI adoption, in a practice known as 'tokenma

As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them. Autonomous AI agents operate acros

April brings Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 model support with Tier 5 and Tier 6 default quota in Microsoft Foundry, new tracing paths for Microsoft Agent Framework and hosted agen

In this post, we'll explore how we built a proof-of-concept that converts natural language queries into executable seismic workflows while providing a question-answering capability for Halliburton's S

The agricultural and crop protection supply chain is one of the most intricate networks in the world. It takes up to two years to turn active ingredients into the final products farmers need, and a si

This article discusses the integration of Benchmaxxer Repellant into the Open ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Leaderboard, likely a tool or mechanism designed to prevent gaming or manipulation of l

True spatial intelligence for multimodal agents transcends low-level geometric perception, evolving from knowing where things are to understanding what they are for. While existing benchmarks, such as

At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditional defense mechanisms — and how agentic threat intelligence can help bridge the gap. We have a vision for agentic defense where auton

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my

The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensiti

Building AI agents that work well in a demo is one thing, but running them in production requires serious infrastructure. At Google Cloud Next '26, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to he

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart

Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simp

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has 'significant imp

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow version 3.10, bringing enhanced capabilities for generative AI development and streamlined experiment tracking

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an agentic experience that changes this. Developers describe their use case using natural language, and the AI coding agent streamlines the entire journey, from use case

NVIDIA cuOpt Agent Skills integrate LLM reasoning with GPU-accelerated solvers to enable AI agents to translate natural language supply chain problems into optimized mathematical models, with skills e

The Trump administration has brought onshore wind development to a halt, with the Pentagon holding up approvals for approximately 165 wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns.

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Drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East during military conflict, with two facilities in the UAE directly struck and a facility in Bahrain damaged by proximity

The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragmented point solutions, founders are building their businesses her

Manufacturing is shifting from relying solely on real-world testing, as high-fidelity simulation now produces synthetic training data accurate enough for production-grade AI. NVIDIA Omniverse librarie

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today announced Mobile App Risk Intelligence, new capabilities that are designed to give enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile apps a

OpenAI outlines its commitment to implementing safety measures and responsible practices in the development and deployment of AI systems to protect users and communities. The statement likely covers O