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Singular Bank leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate banking operations and developer productivity. The integration enables bankers and software engineers to streamline workflows, automate

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

Uber has integrated OpenAI's technology to enhance its platform, helping drivers optimize earnings through intelligent features and enabling users to book rides more efficiently. This partnership like

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

In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne

Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history'

The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f

Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the com

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 Home's May 2026 update brings a faster camera experience, Gemini 3.1 for complex voice commands, and new web-based controls. The refreshed camera UI features faster navigation and zoomed-in pre

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will imp

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

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production, government agencies are becoming an unexpected proving ground for large-scale workforce transformation. Faced with mounting opera

GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI's faster, more efficient variant of their GPT-5.5 model, designed to deliver improved reasoning and clarity while maintaining lower latency for real-time applications. The mo

GPT-5.5 Instant is a faster, more efficient variant of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model designed for real-time applications and lower-latency tasks. The system card documents the model's capabilities, limitatio

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

This newsletter episode covers recent AI industry developments including a legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, Microsoft's involvement in AI developments, the release of DeepSeek's v4 model, a

OpenAI introduced new advertising purchasing options for ChatGPT, expanding how businesses can buy ad placements within the platform. These new methods likely provide advertisers with additional flexi

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

The agentic era is here, and the public sector is at the forefront of leading this transformation.At Google Cloud Next ’26, it was clear that academia and public sector organizations are no longer jus

Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with 29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company ca

MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) is OpenAI's networking technology designed to enable efficient large-scale AI training by improving communication reliability and performance across distributed sup

Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, go

I just sent out the April edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this month's newsletter: Opus 4.7 and GPT-

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings —

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery IBM released their Granite 4.1 family of LLMs a few days ago. They're Apache 2.0 licensed and come in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built by Gr

OpenAI describes its technical approach to delivering real-time voice AI services with minimal latency across large user bases, likely covering infrastructure optimization, model serving strategies, a

This podcast episode from Last Week in AI discusses recent developments in large language models, including updates on GPT 5.5 and DeepSeek V4, while also covering concerns about potential sabotage or

Pinecone announced the launch of its first serverless region in Asia, specifically in Singapore, expanding its vector database infrastructure to the Asia-Pacific market. This new cloud region enables

Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO, ARINSER

Orchestration is no longer just about moving data; it is about governing enterprise intelligence. To reflect our deep commitment to and embrace of open-source software, we shared earlier that Cloud Co

Google announced major AI infrastructure and platform advances at Google Cloud Next '26 in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new Agent Designer capabilities, and 8th Gene

Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little more deta

NIST: An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date — In April 2026, the Center for AI Stan

It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise s

David Keohane / Financial Times: Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 — Higher memory c

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

This article discusses the emerging landscape of AI agents specialized for different domains, contrasting Codex's capabilities for knowledge work and structured tasks with Claude's strengths in creati

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time — Amazon