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Pictet rolled out Claude Code and Cowork to about 700 people; Anthropic reports selected prototype and compliance-task time savings.

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “Thi

Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just 'disable' the use of Direct2D. So, instea

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised 165M led by Maverick Silicon at a 1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M — Lyte, a fast-gro

Cloud providers and security companies are being pulled into tighter formation as artificial intelligence widens the enterprise attack surface faster than any single supplier can cover it. The AWS Cro

Wired: Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch — The company is reducing pressur

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid 500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at 157M before the sale — Palo Alto Net

Data has become the fuel for artificial intelligence, and the largest untapped reserve to power AI is unstructured data. Industry estimates cited by theCUBE Research indicate that more than 80% of ent

Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.

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. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any bett

NVIDIA’s modern CUDA Toolkit (via CCCL launch API and indexing model) eliminates out‑of‑bounds shared‑memory errors and replaces hand‑written kernels with CUB block‑level primitives, reducing per‐imag

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Comin

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that

Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-agent architecture on Amazon Bedrock that

Artificial intelligence agent startup Wonderful AI BV today announced that it has raised 550 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners, which was also the headline backer of t

ZeroDrift Inc., a startup that automates compliance for artificial intelligence communications, today introduced Guard for Agents, a service that lets developers turn written company policies into enf

Visko Platform Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab focused on developing persistent world models, said today it has raised 10 million in a pre-seed funding round from Llama Ventures. It’s al

Every LLM call your application makes costs money, and agentic applications make a lot of LLM calls. Arize AX now ships a Cost Agent that reads traces, ranks spend, and opens a pull request with the f

Anthropic PBC today debuted Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable large language models to date. The launch comes a day after the company inked a 35 billion infrastructure deal with

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers str

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — Anthropic PBC is releasing a new versi

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — In June, Anthropic first released Fable 5,

Anthropic: Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5

Aranya Inc., a startup that says it can transform raw bare-metal servers into custom, production-ready graphics processing unit clusters for artificial intelligence inference in less than two days, la

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey today warned that advanced artificial intelligence poses risks to financial infrastructure. Bailey outlined his concerns in a letter to G20 finance ministers and

BenchMIRT is a new method for auditing LLM benchmarks question by question, revealing which capabilities they actually measure and helping researchers build smaller, more focused, and easier-to-interp

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike evaluated an “agentic” cyber‑defense platform that fuses NVIDIA’s Nemotron open‑model family with Falcon telemetry for a continuous offense‑defense closed loop running at machin

Information technology services company CBTS Technology Solutions LLC today launched Forge Agents, a platform that turns a plain-language description of a job into a working artificial intelligence ag

Ben Patterson / PCWorld: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law — Aside from b

Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 'sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks'. Their announcement spends a notable a

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a f

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched SafeMind, a family of artificial intelligence models and agent harnesses created with Nvidia Corp. and built for security work rather than general use. A resea

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today unveiled Falcon Guardian, software that finds the artificial intelligence agents running inside a company and shuts down the ones security teams have not approved. The

Security vendors are rebuilding data loss prevention, or DLP, around contextual understanding rather than pattern matching — and AI-powered DLP is giving the category’s most stubborn unsolved problem

Enterprise defenses hunt the unauthorized: the foreign file, the stolen credential, the behavior nobody sanctioned. Agentic AI security inverts that model, because the agent moving through the busines

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the 499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd.

Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks

When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on AWS through an AI League event. This pos

Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to displa

Gilbert + Tobin uses ChatGPT and Codex in governed legal operations; OpenAI reports 87% active usage among enabled users.

Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating 'professional-grade' AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built a

Boomi Scribe is an AI-powered agent on AWS that automatically generates documentation for enterprise integration workflows. Learn how Boomi uses Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon S3, Amazon

t54 built x402-secure, a trust layer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments that scores every endpoint before an autonomous agent pays it. See how session budgets, credential isolation, and a determinis

Inference workloads fall into four use‑case buckets (Chatbots/Copilots, Agents, Content Generation, Translation), each with distinct token patterns that dictate the required GPU memory and compute. Si

The post explains how a quick, one‑hour audit of AI agent usage revealed $1 million per year in avoidable spend. By reviewing deployment patterns and trimming unnecessary calls, the team reallocated r