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HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL

Damien Cave / New York Times: Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life — A Gallup

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the

Laura Bratton / The Information: Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of the year — Goog

In the quest to deploy artificial intelligence at scale, enterprises are discovering a basic truth: Model capability is no longer the only issue, but data access and control can determine success or f

SWE‑Serve evaluates AI coding agents on 53 inference‑engineering tasks derived from SGLang pull requests across six functional domains. Among 19 tasks that launch a live server, patches that pass loca

We just launched our own Jev-like classifier, together/Tev1-4B-experimental, on top of Qwen3.5 4B on Together’s serverless platform. In this blog post we’ll show you how to fine-tune your own version!

Business Insider: HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users — AI's reputation is

NV‑Reason‑CT is a purpose‑built vision‑language model for volumetric CT that uses a full 3‑D Vision Transformer encoder coupled with a Qwen 3.5‑4B language model to generate radiologist‑style chain‑of

We benchmarked Jev against Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on accuracy, cost, and latency. Learn how threshold tuning changes hallucination detection. The post Jev vs. LLM-as-a-Judge: Accuracy and cos

The domain name registrar company Identity Digital Inc. thinks it knows how to make artificial intelligence agents more accountable, and to do that it’s creating an entirely new company called Known S

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a 140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to 225M — Basecamp says

Mobile security company Lookout Inc. today launched Social Engineering Protection, a module that analyzes text messages and phone calls for signs an employee is being manipulated into handing over cre

NodeWright is an open‑source, Kubernetes‑native package manager that declaratively configures host operating systems on GPU clusters while preserving workloads; its operator cordons nodes, drains pend

Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight's Meta Connect presentat

Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are getting their own email a

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender as it rebuilds its security operations products around artificial intelligence agents. The service moves secu

Standardizing independent evaluation, fairness, and interpretability for mechanism-informed generative AI in healthcare The post MLCommons Joins EU-Funded AIRIS Project to Build and Benchmark Next-Gen

NextLM Inc., which makes software that uses behavioral analysis and custom artificial intelligence models to help sales professionals identify and rank individual sales leads, is bringing its AI Prosp

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and

OpenAI: OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts — An open benchmark developed with m

@openai: OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile — We heard you loud and clear. C

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure — The tech giant OpenA

Database security controls are moving closer to enterprise data as artificial intelligence creates new access paths around traditional application defenses. The aim is to enforce authorization regardl

Data-layer security is becoming more important as automated systems gain broader access to sensitive information and business processes. Controls designed for predictable applications may not be enoug

Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more — This is a

Artificial intelligence startup Rabbit Inc., best known for launching the consumer-oriented R1 AI-enabled mobile device that fits in a pocket, Tuesday unveiled OS3, a personal AI agent that runs in th

Compare Jev and GPT-5.4 nano for real-time LLM guardrails, with demo results on latency, cost, and checks on agent inputs, replies, and tool calls. The post Real-time LLM guardrails with Jev: comparin

Rocket Software Inc. is expanding its Enterprise Virtual Assistant agentic artificial intelligence platform to help enterprises investigate and eventually automate operational work on mainframe system

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the sha

Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone allowed you to scrap external adapters and instead collect autoscaling metrics directly

For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps, copyin

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and in

Financial Times: Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips — Chinese tech giant w

The next phase of artificial intelligence infrastructure will not be defined by a single graphics processing unit, chip architecture or model. Compute, memory, networking, packaging, power and softwar

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or j

Snorkel AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence training data, today disclosed that it has raised 350 million in funding. Insight and S32 led the Series E deal. They were joined by more than a

Pair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model wor

NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine (NVCRE) is an open‑source Kubernetes controller that runs real distributed workloads across topology‑aware node groups to certify GPU cluster readiness before productio

The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits, where people create the most value

ZeroDrift Inc., a startup that automates compliance for artificial intelligence communications, today launched Anchor 3.0, a family of small language models designed to check messages generated by AI

ROS 2 nodes in NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 now employ a CUDA buffer backend (via rosidl::Buffer) so that payloads remain GPU‑resident and can be transferred between nodes with zero‑copy when both endpoints s

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems — Intrinsic Inn

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an 'academy' positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The 'Horowitz Andreessen Academy' will lau

Nancy Lapid / Reuters: Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries — Artificial inte