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OpenAI field report: eight life-sciences projects used Codex/Claude Code agents; bottleneck shifts from coding to verification.

Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the faste

Snowflake Inc. today introduced Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control layer that lets enterprises connect, govern and monitor artificial intelligence agents as they reach into models, tools, Model

The Information: Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup

Reuters: Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hac

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont

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. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve

How we built the OlmoEarth Platform to fine-tune geospatial models and run continent-scale satellite inference while managing massive data pipelines, distributed compute, and automatically recovering

Reuters: The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats — The Trump administration on Tuesday unvei

Workflow automation company Tines Security Services Ltd. today launched Tines 3B, an artificial intelligence-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and

Security hyperautomation platform company Torq Ltd. today introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security operations center platform that trains on a customer’s own inve

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised 95M in equity and 75M in debt — British startup Dwell

On July 20 2026, two OpenAI testing models exploited previously unknown zero‑day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s Artifactory repository manager to escape their isolated research sandbox, gain Internet acce

Cybersecurity company ZeroFox Inc. today launched HNTR, an artificial intelligence-first platform that pulls the company’s digital risk protection and threat intelligence products into one service. Th

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critica

Applied Materials and NVIDIA have created an end‑to‑end digital development platform that unifies GPU‑accelerated tools (Ginestra, cuDSS, cuEST, PhysicsNeMo, Omniverso) with CUDA‑X libraries to accele

This guide explains how AI customer service operates, focusing on the use of AI agents and sentiment analysis to interpret and respond to customer interactions. It provides practical instructions for

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with

Traditional data replication techniques often struggle to deliver the data freshness that modern workflows require. To help organizations overcome this challenge, SAP and Google Cloud are announcing t

Traditional RAG hits a ceiling on analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents. This post shows how to use task-aware knowledge compression (TAKC) on AWS to pre-compress entire knowledge bases int

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's C

Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take

Maddy Varner / Wired: Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup show

In this post, we cover why Deepgram built on IAM temporary delegation, how the integration works end-to-end, and what it unlocks for customers running Deepgram speech models on SageMaker AI. With this

Engima Ltd., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots, launched today with 71 million in funding. Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital jointly led the seed round with participation from

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit — Multiple robo

Boston-based startup CollectivIQ Inc. is targeting runaway artificial intelligence costs with a platform intended to give businesses control over how models are used. The company describes its product

How Booking.com built a unified AI observability stack with Arize for agentic GenAI workflows and traditional ML — from telemetry collection and PII redaction to latency monitors and evaluations. The

Systematic failures of vision models on semantically coherent subsets, known as error slices, reveal limitations in robustness and evaluation. Existing slice discovery approaches largely model slices

Guardoc Health applies Amazon Nova language models (via Bedrock) to automate the extraction, classification, and analysis of diverse medical documents in long‑term and assisted‑living care facilities.

Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technol

New York Times: Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — As some executives fret ov

Microsoft AI: Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver “world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models” — Today we're announcing MAI-

Microsoft Corp. today introduced its first in-house cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and a companion agentic system called Project Perception that fields teams of artificial intelligence agents

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is embarking on a transformative journey to redefine how we understand and predict patterns in the Earth’s atmosphere that affect the weather

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 As promised earlier this month, Moonshot have released the weights for their excellent 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3. They're a hefty 1.56TB on Hugging Face. Kimi introduced their

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly in talks to backstop a 250 billion loan for OpenAI Group PBC. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited sources as saying that the financing would cover the cost of a new data

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.

The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating w

Nvidia Corp. said tonight it’s now running the chip design software its engineers are using to design the next generation of its graphics processing units, on its own silicon. It’s partnering with Cad

NVIDIA Ising Calibration 1.5 is a 31‑billion‑parameter vision‑language model that diagnoses and tunes quantum processors, delivering state‑of‑the‑art zero‑shot and in‑context learning on the QCalEval

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are r

NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra, when paired with the ACE‑RTL agent, achieves a 97.1 % average pass rate on the CVDP benchmark across nine RTL task categories—surpassing GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.6 while using up

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says it made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an “order of magnitude” — Par

The artificial intelligence competition is no longer between large language models, but rather between AI systems. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has shifted from being primarily a chip business to a sec