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Impel deployed Claude across engineering and knowledge work; Anthropic reports shorter new-product ramp time and support gains.

AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This post shares 38 open-source agent skills acr

Ina Fried / Axios: In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Su

Jack & Jill, operated by Tinker Tailor Talent Ltd., a hiring platform powered by conversational generative artificial intelligence, said Tuesday it has raised 40 million in early funding to build a jo

As enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP HAN

Mem0 provides persistent user memory and agent memory; its vendor describes fact extraction, contradiction handling and relevant recall.

Latest version of the benchmark introduces two new tests for emerging AI deployment patterns, including Agentic Inference The post MLCommons Sets Participation Record with New MLPerf Inference v6.1 Be

MLPerf Inference v6.1 introduced the first agentic workload run on datacenter hardware and evaluated a model with more than one trillion parameters (Kimi K2), setting a new benchmark for scale. The te

Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with 41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the comp

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, r

OpenAI Group PBC’s global head of policy Chris Lehane said today that his company has been working closely with rivals Anthropic PBC and Google LLC’s DeepMind research lab to try to devise a framework

OpenAI: OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers — OpenAI said on

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt opt

Pipedrive Inc., an intelligent customer relationship management platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced the general availability of Nova, an artificial intelligence tool that

We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare. Consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems. To invite

Snap is introducing 'Specs Intelligence,' a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar t

The Information: Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion — Apple has been working

Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a 1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least 1.5T — The funding round

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security — St

TensorRT Edge‑LLM ran Qwen 3.6‑27B on a single NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor and completed the MLPerf Edge Agentic benchmark in 24 min 36 s—52.33 tokens/s—which is 6.4× faster than the llama.cpp reference (2

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wa

ThinkingData Information Technology Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of the Agentic Engine, an autonomous growth platform for consumer and gaming businesses that uses artificial intelligence to tr

Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step trajectory to train

cuTile Rust extends Rust’s ownership model to tile‑based GPU kernels by splitting mutable outputs into disjoint parts while preserving host‑side ownership across launches. An agent skill translates cu

Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, has launched its second-generation Cassie and Sonny robots, running on the company’s robot foundation mo

Thomas Claburn / The Register: TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly — ‘Jev’ d

TypeSafe AI Inc., a startup founded by a former OpenAI Group PBC researcher who helped develop ChatGPT, emerged yesterday with 40 million in seed funding and a model designed to put artificial intelli

Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional chemis

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more — Robot Models, Silicon & DR

Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions

Artificial intelligence agent certification startup Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company today announced it has raised 40 million in new funding to begin auditing frontier AI models. Until now

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed

Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy p

If a measure of one firm’s impact is based on the company it keeps, then Salesforce Inc. has made a significant leap into the artificial intelligence conversation for 2026. At Dreamforce, the customer

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first ty

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a 40M Series A, bringing total raised to 55M — A day after An

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce

New York Times: At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington

Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage

Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable r

Good Start Labs experiments show that AI training with gameplay can lead to transferable skills: a version trained on a railroad simulation outperformed peers in financial research. Inspired by Twitch

New York Times: Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying — For years, Democrats and

Dense models activate all of their parameters for each token, whereas a Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) model loads all experts into memory but activates only a subset—e.g., Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 30 B t

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate — Nvidia Corp. Chief

Runtime security startup Eve Security Inc. wants to help stop dangerous artificial intelligence agents in their tracks after raising 4.5 million in funding today. The round, which was led by Run Ventu