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Telecommunication operators deploy autonomous agents built on telecom-domain models and running inside secure execution runtimes connected to tools, digital twins, and shared skills to understand netw

Chris Gillett / Works in Progress Magazine: How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids, and a look at what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the fu

Modal Auto Endpoints is a feature that automatically optimizes and manages inference endpoints, allowing users to deploy machine learning models with reduced operational overhead. The service likely h

Big data management startup Komprise Inc. said today it’s introducing a major update to its platform with the launch of Komprise Transparent File Tables, an entirely new feature that enables a “struct

Artificial intelligence-native loan origination startup Lama AI Inc. said today it has closed on a 10 million capital infusion, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than 20 million after g

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue — Password

The Linux Foundation said today it plans to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard that gives artificial intelligence agents trusted identities through the same Domain Name System that alread

To effectively operate and troubleshoot applications, developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) need to understand the full context of their system's behavior, typically as part of their loggin

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected — A hacking gr

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Menlo raised 3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly 14B — In 202

For the past three years, 'Meta' and 'Ray-Ban' have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different st

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a partnership with EssilorLuxottica to launch a new lineup of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses that can “see” the world and talk to users about it. Bui

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice — The new Meta

When annotators disagree on a label, the disagreement itself carries signal—and the number of annotators needed to capture it depends on the evaluation metric. We fine-tune NLI models on label distrib

Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch: Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8% — One anal

Container image startup Minimus Inc. today announced that it’s removing the registration wall on its entire catalog of secure container images, making the full library free to any developer. The compa

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages — Today, we're releasi

Artificial intelligence-powered software testing and quality assurance platform Momentic Inc. today announced a major update to its service focused on verification in the AI coding era, enabling teams

Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today launched EmberAI, an artificial intelligence assistant built specifically for operational technology environments that aims to put the

Realizing value from AI investment has become the ultimate prize for most enterprises today. This requires the ability of data and compute to work together, a key mission for the partnership between N

Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this indust

Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that impact has been task‑based: automation th

News Highlights: NVIDIA technology runs 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of the systems new to the list. 26 systems on the TOP500 adopted the NVIDIA Grace CPU, up eight from the previous list. The top eight

Sacramento County deputies used a drone to disarm a suspect during a standoff in a 'nationwide first.' Deputies attached a strong magnet to the drone and flew it toward the suspect's hand, with the dr

Identity and access management company Okta Inc. today said more than 25 software makers have signed on to its Cross App Access framework, which routes the connections artificial intelligence agents m

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London — Two men p

Telecommunications is an incredibly complex, highly specialized domain. Modern mobile networks are inherently multi-vendor, featuring diverse and often proprietary data structures. While AI has made m

Financial Times: OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of an IPO — Lossmaking AI group i

Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent

Oracle reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees (13% of global headcount) as part of a restructuring to expand AI adoption across operations and investments. The company's capital expenditure jumped

Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has raised 35 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Koch Disruptive Tec

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a 35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to 85M — Orderful Inc., a

ParallelKernelBench is a benchmark from Together AI that evaluates frontier large language models' ability to write optimized multi-GPU CUDA kernels, revealing significant limitations in current LLMs'

Partly Group Ltd., a New Zealand startup using artificial intelligence to change up the automotive parts business, announced today that it has raised 50 million new funding at a 500 million valuation.

Probook is an AI operating system for home services built around dispatch that automates intake, dispatch, and customer communications across the entire customer experience, expanding margins for serv

MIT engineers have found the first direct evidence that plant seeds can sense sounds in nature: Rice submerged in shallow water germinated 30% to 40% more quickly when exposed to vibrations from water

The Vercel CLI now preserves locally configured environment variables when linking a project, preventing them from being overwritten by remote environment variable settings. This feature allows develo

Prosper AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for healthcare organizations, today announced that it has raised 30 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowit

This article from Ben's Bites likely covers methods or tools for documenting and recording professional skills, possibly in the context of AI-assisted learning, portfolio building, or skill verificati

Vercel has introduced a redesigned trace viewer for Vercel Workflows that improves the visualization and debugging experience for workflow executions. The updated interface likely provides enhanced vi

With an adaptable fastener designed at CSAIL, pitching a tent or adjusting the cast for a broken bone could be almost as easy as zipping your coat. The researchers, led by associate professor Stefanie

This IBM Research article discusses optimizing AI inference performance and costs by leveraging mixed hardware configurations, combining different types of processors and accelerators rather than rely

Jan Wolfe / Reuters: SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Falun Gong persecution, further limiting a law used to hold corporations liable for overseas human rights abuses — The U.S. Supreme

In this post, you will learn patterns for implementing production-ready multi-tenant systems using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will see these patterns demonstrated through healthcare AI agents that

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. delivered mixed results in its first earnings report since going public last month, beating Wall Street’s revenue projections but falling short on earnings, sending its

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll b