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For financial institutions, operational resilience has long been embedded in regulatory and supervisory expectations — to say nothing of the high expectations of consumers. With the implementation of

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI too

Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container and SDK styling, branding removal, and a

In the DeepSWE benchmark a two‑stage approach of running DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 first and falling back to GPT‑5.6 Sol when the tests fail achieves 83 % success at an average cost of 3.35 per task, compa

A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising 6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foun

Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize op

Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big secu

Google LLC today revealed it’s partnering with the U.K. government and the country’s aviation industry on a new initiative called Operation Blue Skies that aims to use artificial intelligence insights

Every data team knows the moment. Someone opens a table, sees a column called cust_seg_flg, and has to go ask around to find out what it means, whether it's safe to use, and whether anyone has already

NVIDIA’s ALCHEMI Toolkit delivers composable, PyTorch‑native GPU‑accelerated workflows for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling AI coding agents to generate robust simulation code

Learn how Axonius, a cybersecurity SaaS provider, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agents across hundreds of customer environments, without building custom compu

Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gigabytes of critical data in Box: financia

Learn how Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The architecture deli

An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin

Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual sim

In this post, we describe how AIDA works at a high level and how it helps address these challenges — grounding users in the right contracts, under the right legal context, and within the right access

A few weeks after closing a 300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 700 million in funding. Investment firm Jane Street led the deal. It

New benchmark categories for generative AI and agentic workflows arrive alongside updated LLM tests, as the industry standard for measuring PC AI performance evolves. The post MLPerf Client v2.0 Expan

Mojo🔥 is now open source Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023. Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed

Machine learning techniques in multi-view settings face significant challenges, particularly when integrating heterogeneous data, aligning feature spaces, and managing view-specific biases. These issu

The rise of neoclouds — AI-first cloud providers — is transforming enterprise infrastructure. The unique requirements of AI models and agents have paved the way for new collaborations between hardware

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday t

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails — The ar

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a 20M Series A, following a 10M seed in January 2025 — Artificial inte

Cloud-native access control company Portnox today unveiled expanded capabilities aimed at governing the artificial intelligence agents and other nonhuman identities now logging in to corporate network

NVIDIA cuML and cuVS now support multi‑GPU all‑neighbors kNN graph construction in UMAP, enabling end‑to‑end scaling of the dimensionality reduction algorithm to hundreds of billions of vectors. The i

Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good ti

Stable Audio 3.0 now offers a DAW‑plugin that brings real‑time audio generation directly into your favorite digital audio workstation, letting you arrange, edit, and mix generated tracks like any othe

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congression

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to 6.7B, while its losses deepened; Anthropic's Q2 revenue more than doubled to 11.6B, with a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker'

Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders m

Pew Research Center: Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have becom

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. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companie

Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a 110M Series A at a 1B+ valuation — Velaura AI was

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “Ther

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp.

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's te

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality — When I wro

Give an autonomous agent a wallet and spending guardrails so it can pay for paywalled APIs, MCP servers, and web content. This post connects OpenClaw to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5 were benchmarked on DeepSWE. A cascading strategy that starts with Pro 0813 and escalates to Fable only when it fails solves 82.7 % of tasks at an average cost

The QAD (Quantization‑Aware Distillation) pipeline for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leverages NVIDIA Model Optimizer to aggressively compress the model with W4A16/NVFP4 quantization while keeping accuracy c

Bloomberg: Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to 105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests 1.5B in SB Energy — Nvidia Corp. has agreed to spe

Structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search are now available for Claude models hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, turning a model endpoint into a production agent pla

Gemini and Pixel have entered long‑term partnership agreements with Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint‑Germain to deliver AI‑powered personal intelligence exper