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Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Ast

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development” — Googler

Google LLC is trying to address the latency problem associated with voice-based artificial intelligence agents with the launch of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today. They’re b

The post explains how site owners can keep their content visible in search engines while blocking its use for AI training datasets. It details technical approaches—such as specific robots.txt rules, m

The NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform attains superior performance‑per‑watt by combining factory‑level DSX MaxLPS power shifting, rack‑level capacitors with Intelligent Power Smoothing, and the Groq 3 LPX de

NVIDIA NVLink 6 offers a natively lossless fabric for large‑scale AI factories by integrating lightweight Forward Error Correction, physical‑layer retries, UPHY recovery and credit‑based flow control

From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. Today, platform teams often stitch together custom w

New York Times: Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover — Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nv

The Financial Services Working Group's flagship initiative advances to the final round of the C:>DIR Global 'Agentic Regulator' Hackathon, with winners announced September 18. The post MLCommons Agent

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has bac

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a 180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a 1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to 335M+ — The artifi

Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with t

Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a 50 million early-stage funding round to ma

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg Law: OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is

@openrouter: OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent mo

Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through six practical prompt caching scenarios u

Italian cybersecurity startup Exein SpA today announced that it has raised 270 million at a valuation of 1.7 billion to build security for robots, vehicles and other machines that run artificial intel

Salesforce Inc. unveiled AIforce today during its Dreamforce user conference, a new artificial intelligence interface layer that brings the power of the company’s platform to where people use AI agent

Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa, a specialized artificial intelligence model that’s custom built fo

Salesforce Inc. is stretching its data and artificial intelligence tentacles further into the public cloud, announcing expanded strategic integrations with both Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Clo

NVIDIA FLARE separates persistent federation services from dynamically launched job workers, allowing each participating site to deploy federated learning jobs on Docker, Kubernetes, or Slurm without

The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from traditional manual human-driven operations to fully Autonomous Network Operations. Modern networks have grown incr

Alix Coutures / The Information: Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Bori

Valida Pau / The Information: Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise 1B at a 10B valuation, up from 2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round — The startu

Application security company StackHawk Inc. today launched Wingman, a tool that fixes security vulnerabilities inside the artificial intelligence coding session that produced the flawed code. The soft

Database startup Keewano today launched KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database designed to give artificial intelligence agents real-time context for analytics and decision-making. The startup also anno

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. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs D

Claire Moses / New York Times: The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” — Bill G

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former Open

Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting — Meta Platforms In

Robotics forces AI models to run on‑device because real‑time control loops cannot tolerate the latency or capital cost of sending data to a datacenter, so manufacturers must embed compute within each

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to

Learn how Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat detection at billion-message scale, plus t

**AI Knowledge‑Base Summary** NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine augments JAX for dropless Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) training, delivering a 10.4× throughput boost on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs and raising DeepSeek‑V3

BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to a

Artificial intelligence now touches nearly every customer service operation, yet most deployments still stop at a single chatbot or an assist panel beside a human agent. The harder work — coordinating

A cancellation-policy fix raised action safety and dropped average task completion from 0.89 to 0.72. This walkthrough shows how to regression-test agent changes with Agent Experiments in Arize AX. Th

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent

AI bots named “Timmy,” “Ren” and “Jackie” are flooding social‑media platforms with automated, low‑quality messages that present themselves as newly‑created agents on a small platform called iLands. Th

Software delivery platform company Akuity Inc. today introduced Agentic Control Plane, a layer that lets artificial intelligence agents read its pipeline data and act on it under the permissions the p

OverviewAs enterprises scale their AI and agentic workflows, they require serverless platforms that make data preparation for model training, evaluation, and inference effortless and efficient. Datafl

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI l

Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconcile

This guide identifies six leading knowledge‑engine platforms in 2026—Pinecone Nexus, Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex, Microsoft IQ, Palantir Foundry, and Glean—that each transform heterogeneous dat

Artificial intelligence-powered construction management startup Buildots Ltd. said today it has raised 130 million in new late-stage funding to expand its platform and capitalize on rising investment