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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. Ther

Editor’s note: Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) recently completed a major infrastructure upgrade, migrating its IBM Sterling Order Management System (Sterling OMS) from an Oracle database to Google Clou

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we unveiled the blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise, sharing our eighth-generation TPUs, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a fully reimagined Agentic Data Cloud, Workspace I

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On T

At I/O 2026, Google announced that AI is transitioning from something users actively open to a background service that completes tasks automatically. The company introduced Gemini Spark, a new agentic

I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2

Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep up, organizations must route fragmented data from SaaS, IoT, and legacy sources into secure, sca

In this post, you learn how to prompt Amazon Nova 2 Lite for content moderation using structured and free-form approaches, grounded in the MLCommons AILuminate Assessment Standard. The prompting techn

As you look out at your 2026 infrastructure roadmap, your goal is to balance the need for rapid innovation with operational stability. You shouldn't have to choose between adopting the latest database

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet, is now generally available. Designed for ultra-low latency, high-volume tas

This article discusses the integration of Benchmaxxer Repellant into the Open ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Leaderboard, likely a tool or mechanism designed to prevent gaming or manipulation of l

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable sparse expert activation, meaning that only a subset of the model’s parameters is used during each inference. However, to translate this sparsity into practical

Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi

Anthropic: Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts — In this post, Brianna, a r

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As AI models grow larger and more capable, the computational cost and time required to evaluate them has become a significant limiting factor in development, potentially surpassing training compute as

Now Available on Qdrant Cloud: GPU Indexing, Multi-AZ, and Audit Logging We’re excited to announce some Qdrand Cloud upgrades to address AI workloads that write continuously, must meet higher uptime S

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs — The U.S. Sta

GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model Big claims from Qwen about their latest open weight model: Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previo

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct

This week at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we are sharing the evolution of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), delivering leading performance, efficiency, security, and scale for your most demanding and complex

Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 represents a significant update to their open-source language model, positioning it to compete with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and potentially ahead of DeepSeek v4. The refresh a

ReasoningBank is a memory framework that distills generalizable reasoning strategies from an agent's successful and failed experiences, which the agent retrieves at test time to inform interactions wh

Moonshot AI today released Kimi-K2.6, the latest addition to its popular Kimi series of open-source large language models. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup says that the algorithm outperfor

This article from Latent Space discusses Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 release, highlighting incremental improvements across multiple performance dimensions compared to the previous 4.6 version. The pie

This article describes techniques for developing an efficient optical character recognition (OCR) model capable of processing multiple languages, leveraging synthetic data generation to reduce annotat

Editor’s note: In this post, we share joint insights from Raj Gulani, Director of Product Management for Network Experiences, and Dan Rayburn, Industry analyst with 30-plus years of experience coverin

Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at co

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP of Creative AI at WPP about the workflow that cuts training time for humanoid robots from days to minutes — plus access to the open-source code

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there would be no Google Cloud. In this regul

A mid-2026 outlook piece from the Interconnects AI newsletter in which the author makes specific predictions about the trajectory of open-weight language models, likely covering expected capability mi

Reuters: AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on

At Google Cloud, we often see customers asking themselves: 'How can we manage our generative AI costs effectively without sacrificing the performance and availability our applications demand?' This is

The OpenAI Academy tutorial 'ChatGPT for Customer Success Teams' covers how ChatGPT supports core customer success functions, including accelerating research, drafting communications, organizing qu...

The OpenAI Academy's 'ChatGPT for Finance Teams' tutorial teaches finance professionals how to leverage ChatGPT to streamline reporting, analyze data, improve forecasts, and communicate insights mo...

Healthcare IT finds itself at a critical intersection where significant data opportunities are colliding with escalating cybersecurity threats. Rural and community hospitals, in particular, are facing

The *Interconnects.ai* article argues that fears around releasing an open-weight version of Claude Mythos are overstated, noting that closed frontier models still lead open-weight ones in robust, ...

NVIDIA's open-source project **Slinky** (developed by SchedMD, now part of NVIDIA) enables organizations to run full Slurm clusters directly on Kubernetes infrastructure by managing the complete li...

ALTK-Evolve, published by IBM Research, is a memory system for AI agents that enables on-the-job learning by helping agents improve over time, learning from and using guidelines generated from pre...

Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos (system card PDF), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced Projec