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Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageM

Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Cloud Run instances, which let you do just that. Consider AI agents such as OpenClaw

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it r

Designing effective reward signals for open-domain question answering is challenging because high-quality responses must simultaneously satisfy multiple aspects of answer quality that are difficult to

NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS

Google DeepMind: Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP — Building trust in propri

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new 'Expert Intelligence' feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly

Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today announced the launch of Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review, aimed at developer teams adopting artificial intelligence coding

OpenAI’s LLM agents were trained to win a benchmarking competition and were given “impossible tasks” on the internal ExploitGym framework. With safety guardrails disabled, the agents created an improv

We ran Signal on Alyx, the AI engineering agent built into Arize AX. It surfaced a duplicate task-state loop and a 43-call dataset retry that appeared as valid tool activity or an OK root span. The po

Bloomberg: Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platf

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, la

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche — Porsche has si

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more — It c

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these mode

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had 'achieved AGI,' one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing.

Lambda Inc. closed a $926 million senior‑secured term loan B facility on August 27 2026 to finance the purchase and deployment of GPU infrastructure for an investment‑grade customer, marking the compa

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised 156M at a 5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity — Identi

Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Reports that an acquisition was in the cards first lea

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit 279B in Q2, up from 119B in Q1, 95.2B in Q4 2025, and 50.3B in Q3 2025 — The AI chi

CNBC: Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong — Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursd

Nvidia Corp.’s first AI infrastructure boom concentrated enormous amounts of compute. The next opportunity will be distributing it through high-speed network fabrics. Everyone knows that I love storie

OpenAI Group PBC today published an open letter signed by more than 100 technology companies, banks, insurers and security vendors warning that artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks will become

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, A

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month — It seems the

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power un

Plaud Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled note-taking devices, today introduced the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of earbuds and a charging box that connect people to AI agents for

Pythian deployed Gemini Enterprise to employees. Pythian reported 80% shorter database incident resolution time using AI in a Google Cloud guest post.

Serving automatic speech recognition (ASR) models at scale is costly when each request uses only a fraction of a GPU. Learn how NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) with NVIDIA Triton Inference Ser

When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own company as a proving ground to discover how enterprise AI actua

Runable Inc., a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses build, run and grow, announced Wednesday that it has raised 21 million in early-stage funding to scale its operations and

Identity verification company Socure Inc. today announced a 156 million strategic growth investment at a valuation of 5.2 billion. Part of that money went to agentic artificial intelligence startup Fr

Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see

Reuters: Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~4B valuation — Anthropic discussed buying arti

New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as 10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place — The company is rethinkin

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating — The US government is inves

Newcomer: Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a 1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures — Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raisi

Artificial intelligence is changing what storage and data management platforms look like. In collaboration with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Solidigm, DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DDN Ente

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