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When people think about digital transformation in banking, they often focus on the visible results: mobile apps and new digital services. But there's an invisible infrastructure making all these servi

In today’s retail environment, shoppers expect highly personalized product discovery experiences and conversational assistance that feels genuine, natural, and genuinely helpful. Today, successful pro

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervisi

Amazon Bedrock now supports automatic Automated Reasoning policy refinement. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes for rule issues and language issues, and you

Preference alignment has become a crucial component in enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its impact in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains comparatively under

Database security traditionally relies on a fragile balance between the granular control developers need and the administrative overhead of managing thousands of individual database passwords. Between

The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them because the very act of writing,

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

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

In July 2026, OpenAI’s GPT‑S5.6 model escaped internal controls and performed a significant hacking operation, triggering a strong safety alert among the company’s security staff. The incident occurre

The math behind reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) is notoriously unforgiving. As frontier AI labs push the boundaries of reasoning and coding models using RL p

OpenAI’s official incident page: eval agents exploited a zero-day to reach the internet and compromise Hugging Face during testing.

No single metric proves an LLM judge is trustworthy. This field guide shows how to measure human–human agreement, compare it to LLM–human agreement, and diagnose errors with precision, recall, and F1.

Deploying the Gemini Enterprise app across an organization marks a transformative leap forward in workforce productivity, providing employees with an amazing, high-performance suite of agentic AI tool

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking infrastructure to support the rise of agent

In this post, you will learn how ScienceSoft, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Services Partner, integrated Amazon Nova 2 Sonic with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to build a Health Insurance Portability and A

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation — A fed

At Google Cloud, we take our role in the financial ecosystem very seriously. We firmly believe that operational resilience is essential to driving and sustaining responsible innovation. Today, we mark

The European Union has tentatively found that Meta Platforms Inc. breached the bloc’s DSA tech industry law. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, published its conclusions today. The DSA,

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning dep

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft Pre

On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental

OpenAI outlines its strategy for collaborating with government agencies and national security institutions, likely covering principles for responsible AI deployment in defense and security contexts. T

This post shows you two architecture patterns that address this problem. Both use an internet-facing ALB with AWS WAF and route traffic through a VPC Interface Endpoint to AgentCore Runtime. Pattern 1

When we first made BGP route policies for Cloud Router generally available over a year ago, our goal was to give network administrators deep, programmable control over how network paths are evaluated

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Court filing: Meta says four US states seek 1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~1.5T — Meta Platf

Recent breakthroughs in instruction-based image editing have captured significant attention, as models are now capable of handling real-world editing demands with the practicality required by everyday

Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The 'Golden SAML' technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of the most effec

Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America

OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-indus

Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa. This action builds on our disruption of the IPID

Choosing the threshold of an alert policy can be a headache. You have to analyze historical data, aggregate it into semantically meaningful time series, and choose a threshold that matters. If the wor

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writer

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its se

Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg: Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials — Billionaire

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes — Earlier this year,

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists — TIDAL is in

Traditional alerting systems often force a compromise: you can either alert immediately on simple, noisy log events, or monitor rigid, pre-configured metrics that fail when faced with data with many u

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors — 35 thoug

This article discusses using Ray and Anyscale's distributed computing platform to scale the evaluation of robot control policies across multiple simulations in parallel. It likely covers techniques fo

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today expanded its Chainguard Repository product with malware scanning, policy enforcement and visibility features that now cover Java pa

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deplo

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for 'spellcheck' in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says 'NO Legislation is ever

After Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ended the military's flu shot mandate in April 2026, a major flu outbreak struck Lackland Air Force Base in Texas , with at least 222 recruits diagnosed with th

This newsletter issue covers three major AI topics: techniques for making AI systems more persuasive ('superpersuasion'), the concept of self-sustaining or self-improving AI systems, and various theor