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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 inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The
Madison Mills / Axios: Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 — After burning t
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them — Artificial i
**Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries with Lakebase and Agentic AI** The article details how Lakebase’s unified data‑lake platform, coupled with Agentic AI’s autonomous decision‑making agents,
Echo Software Ltd., a startup that’s using artificial intelligence agents to secure container images, today announced it’s acquiring the assets of Minimus Inc. following the company’s wind-down. The c
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every ar
Z.ai Co. today released the code for GLM-5.3-Flash, a large language model that’s 10 times more cost-efficient than its predecessor. The algorithm made its original debut last week under the codename
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have adva
Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the enterprise world is still dealing with a data pipeline problem. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 99% of this data is dark to
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic add
Karen Weise / New York Times: Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is t
Bill Gates / GatesNotes: Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework — Bill Gates, a
The SageMaker Python SDK v3 redesigns script mode with unified ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder classes. This post walks through two end-to-end examples, a scikit-learn Random Forest and a multi-GPU Stab
Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in another account, without copying source data
Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised 43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atrei
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations decouples agent evaluation from the framework you build on. As long as your agent emits OpenTelemetry telemetry, the service can score it, whether you use LangGrap
Security operations startup Mate Security Ltd. today launched Gamebooks, a set of structured investigation procedures that govern what its artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do while workin
The Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next 176 B multimodal MoE model uses a hybrid Gated DeltaNet / Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA) architecture that compresses long‑context history and aggregates tokens into micro‑blocks f
Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next is a multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model with 125 B parameters that employs Gated DeltaNet (compressing historic context) and Qwen Sparse Attention (exact retrieval over full contex
As AI takes on more complex work, business leaders face a new challenge: enabling rapid innovation using agents while protecting their margins and budgets. To get a real return on AI, financial operat
Glean Technologies Inc. today unveiled Glean Tau, a desktop workspace that connects the company’s enterprise artificial intelligence to a user’s local files, applications and code. The launch anchors
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a new voice‑to‑text AI model in the Gemini 3.5 branch that powers Gboard’s “Rambler” feature on Pixel 11 and is set to roll out across Google products such a
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini famil
In this post, you will learn how GoDaddy migrated from their legacy business intelligence (BI) tool to Amazon Quick. This was a two-year transformation that delivered results across every dimension of
COMPASS is a scalable cross‑embodiment robot navigation framework that builds on NVIDIA’s X‑Mobility pretrained policies, adding lightweight RL fine‑tuning specialists for new robot‑scene pairs to avo
Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolv
Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token ef
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project — AM Intelligenc
The internet connected billions of people and mobile devices, putting computers in every hand. Now, we’re in the middle of the next big technology shift, deploying millions of autonomous AI agents to
**Intelligent Transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe** In August 2026 Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a next‑generation speech‑to‑text engine engineered for highly accurate, low‑latency real‑
Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit — Resea
Alex Heath / Time: Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 — Alex Heath … They ho
Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation End to End — from Building the Vector Database to Serving an Iterative, Multi-Hop Question-Answering Inference Pipeline The post Introducing the MLPerf End-
We’re excited to introduce v5 Droplets, a new generation of compute built on 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. v5 Droplets are purpose built to deliver higher performance for demanding workloads such as c
High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representatio
Artificial intelligence developer Stability AI Ltd. today announced that it has raised 76 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Sony Music Group, Universal Mu
METR: METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Exc
Learn how Natera built an automated voice agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets patients book mobile phlebotomy appointments through natural conversation. The post covers the dual-WebSocket brid
Nutanix Inc. today introduced new capabilities intended to help enterprises run agentic artificial intelligence applications alongside existing virtual machines and containerized workloads without spl
Nvidia Corp. reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and revenue and also delivered bullish guidance for the current quarter and next full year, sending its stock up more than 4% in afte
Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of 108B, above a 104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) quarterly re
NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion integrates its custom NVHBM memory into the MGX rack‑scale architecture, enabling hyperscalers to deploy large numbers of custom XPUs with higher bandwidth, reduced silicon area
The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastructure depends not only on compute, but on
OpenAI: OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence — Read the technical report Read METR r
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach — In July, an
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret 'message board,' and ha
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of t
Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning project. This first post in a two-part series covers the foundations of SFT data prep: quality checks, conversational (JSONL) form
The advanced side of supervised fine-tuning data prep. This second post in a two-part series covers evaluating data readiness with learning curves, selecting high-value data subsets, augmenting data w
Supervised fine-tuning on teacher-generated trajectories is the standard first stage for distilling tool-calling capabilities into deployable models. Post-training pipelines that drive shipped tool-ca
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is ab
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is 'a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4'. It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce
Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~400M in its second startup fund, after it raised 175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft — The Cha
The Information: Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for 12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Huggi
Business Insider: Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing — - The companies have not reached a deal
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale 45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has a
The Information: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a 6B valuation; 1X sought 1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to