Scaling AI Through Data Fluency
This Databricks blog post discusses how organizations can scale their AI initiatives by developing data fluency—the ability to effectively understand, manage, and leverage data across the enterprise.
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This Databricks blog post discusses how organizations can scale their AI initiatives by developing data fluency—the ability to effectively understand, manage, and leverage data across the enterprise.
Since Zscaler Inc.‘s launch, the company’s mission has been to disrupt traditional access and security with its Zero Trust platform. At its user event, Zenith Live, in Las Vegas, the company made its
Financial Times: Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised 1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~7B valuation — Crypto group Tether, Ama
Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements — Microsoft's legal teams are evaluating Ant
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas — Asha Sharma's first major cuts will
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering its price for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic — The company might lower prices for toke
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Bloomberg: Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce — Sea Ltd.'s Shopee is cutting
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Today, we’re announcing the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities: a collection of AI agents and skills that make this possible for developers building on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. In this po
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Kara Carlson / Bloomberg: Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises — The carmaker has just 5
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This article discusses strategies for optimizing the performance of advanced AI frontier models when running on AMD hardware infrastructure. It likely covers deployment best practices, hardware config
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Vercel has enabled threshold billing for Pro teams, allowing users to set spending limits and receive alerts when approaching or exceeding their budget thresholds. This feature helps Pro plan customer
Valve discontinued its physical Steam gift card retail program, with all retailers expected to be fully out of stock by the end of 2026. The company cited persistent scammer abuse of the cards; despit
Visa Inc. has struck a deal with OpenAI Group PBC to let artificial intelligence agents make payments for users, bringing one of the world’s largest payment networks into ChatGPT’s push toward agentic
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Kristin Robinson / Billboard: WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works — The deal i
The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years — The company has been prep
Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 — After testing got underw
Zscaler Inc. today unveiled a major expansion of its zero-trust SASE platform, adding an agentic framework that lets administrators manage the system through natural-language prompts and extending its
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations — When two A
NVIDIA FLARE Auto-FL automates federated learning research by constraining agent actions through a control plane, enforcing fixed benchmark contracts, and using an experiment ledger to ensure reproduc
FinOps startup PointFive Inc. said today it has raised 60 million from investors who are betting on its ability to help companies keep a lid on the spiralling costs of running artificial intelligence
FrontierCode is a benchmarking framework designed to evaluate code quality and move beyond 'slop'—low-quality or poorly generated code—in AI-generated outputs. The framework likely provides metrics an
On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the
Reuters: Analysis: Trump and his sons profited 2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~2.3B — Risking little of their own mone
Databricks announced the winners of its 2026 Customer Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements and innovation by Databricks customers across various industries. The awards highlight organizati
Databricks announced the recipients of its 2026 Customer Awards, recognizing organizations that have demonstrated excellence and innovation in their use of the Databricks platform. The awards highligh
Anthropic just announced Claude Fable 5, a new AI model it said is the most powerful model it has ever made widely available. According to the company, Fable 5 'shows exceptional performance in softwa
Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity — Today we're launching Claude
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs — Key Poin
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits — Anthropic is
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days — Claude
Anthropic has implemented safeguards on Fable 5 that restrict responses on cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry topics due to their advanced capabilities in these areas. When users ask about these se
Anthropic PBC today introduced Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, two large language models that it says outperform the competition across a wide range of benchmarks. The LLMs are derived from the Cl
Apple used to question whether generative AI-powered editing features were worth the risk of distorting our perceptions of the world. Now it seems Apple no longer believes that photos should accuratel
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Apple is expanding its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond its data centers, partnering with Google and NVIDIA to run Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud. Apple says it worked with Google and
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Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence tool designed to help organizations lower their cloud bills. AWS FinOps Agent is initially available in public preview. It’s the la
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This paper benchmarks frontier automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems on their ability to handle code-switched speech, where bilingual speakers mix languages within a single conversation. The rese
This article discusses Claude Fable 5, likely exploring Anthropic's latest version of their AI model and examining new fables or narratives related to AI safety concepts. The piece probably analyzes h
Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier model, is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch is the latest proof point of our ongoing commitment to bring the industry's latest models str
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours — Claude