Harvey's first post-trained model nearly doubles LAB task completion, but only one benchmark number survives independent verification today The post Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post
George Hammond / Financial Times: Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 AI lab's
A chief information officer I was talking with recently said something that stuck with me: Permissions tell an agent what it’s allowed to do. They say nothing about what you meant. This observation to
Reuters: Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on S
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
28 debugging experiments reveal that AI struggles less with complexity than with missing information. The post Bug Detection Blind Spots in AI Coding Harnesses (GStack and Beyond) appeared first on To
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed with seven models, more
OpenRouter, Ramp, Etched, and DeepSeek reveal the emerging economic stack beneath modern intelligence.
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent of agent token consum
Even if language models worked perfectly, they could make research worse, not better. A new theoretical study argues that because AI saves time, researchers' remaining hours become more valuable and g
Nvidia servers with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips are set to cost about 15 percent more due to an ongoing DRAM shortage from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, Bloomberg reports. The price hikes hi
Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC: A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial It's been a crazy
Reuters: Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply Uruguay seemed like the perfec
In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails framework. We move beyond simple prompt filtering to implement a layered archite
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
Anna Heim / TechCrunch: London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings Inherent, a L
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
Sonja Wind / Bloomberg: Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns Buying clothes onl
Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix f
Turning a demo agent into something that can keep real booking data The post Building a Proper Backend for My LangGraph AI Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The artificial intelligence industry wants enterprises to measure progress in tokens, model calls and usage. But those are largely vendor-revenue metrics not enterprise-value metrics. The Canva exam
Bloomberg: A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses A spate of compelling releases at budget
OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially
Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench experiment, changing only the harness—same mod
Everyone is familiar with the situation: A larger group of people plans to visit a restaurant together, but it can take time and sometimes a great deal of patience to agree on a time and place to meet
A 48-minute video walkthrough of token sampling, watermark detection, and removal
RayNeo is launching a new headset without a camera or speakers. The article RayNeo's new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays appeared first on The Decoder.
Did you think RSI stopped at model training?
Netflix pitted its years-old recommendation engine against an in-house language model called GenRec and says it got better results. Instead of relying on thousands of hand-crafted features, GenRec con
Researchers at the UK AI Security Institute used psychometric methods to show that popular safety benchmarks for language models don't measure one consistent trait. Blanket blocking of requests can ar
SemiAnalysis: With each successive era of LLMs, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model Comparing open vs. closed mode
SemiAnalysis: With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model Comparing open vs. closed models
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures Rundoo Inc., the creator of
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures OpenAI has
Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs Amazon h
Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation Calgary company
Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised $250 million in funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was join
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks SAN FRANC
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the
Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation Devoted Hea
Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5, in public beta for Claude Enterprise customer
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a
DeepSeek today debuted a new addition to its flagship V4 series of large language models. On launch, V4 Flash Vision Exp is only available via the Chinese startup’s paid developer platform. The compan
Laura Bratton / The Information: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, has resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, and is returning to Salesforce, where she was Slack's CRO Kaylin Vo
Laura Bratton / The Information: Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning Kaylin
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, provides severity ratings with CWE classifications, and suggests patches
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI Apple Inc. is
Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools No items found. Reading time —
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September Nscale is seeking
AI is showing up in nearly every aspect of daily life—from internet searches to visits to the doctor's office. It could one day even play a role in the street layout in front of your apartment buildin
Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx , and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed
Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for
The common belief throughout the marketing and advertising world is that generative AI can produce striking visuals, but it struggles to match the performance and brand discipline of skilled human des
Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it works much better with reasoning LLMs available through OpenRouter. Updated for compatibility with LLM 0.32 . Models now
Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment an
Researchers explore how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission.
A Google DeepMind engineer breaks full-stack development into five simple layers and explains how it affects everyday users.
Extendable framework enables testing agents on the full set of capabilities required to successfully complete a procedure, not isolated proxy tasks.
Cyborg insects combine the mobility of living organisms with miniature electronic devices, offering potential applications in search-and-rescue operations, infrastructure inspection and exploration of
The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force partner countries to
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M Starcloud, a startup developi
AI factories are power-constrained industrial systems. The question is no longer how many GPUs fit in a data center, but how much AI output each available...
Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers c
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Reuters: Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027 South Korea's dominant chat app
Reuters: Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 South Korea's dominant chat app operat
AI systems should not automate a decision simply because they can provide a prediction. A decision system should consider how uncertain the prediction is and defer if a mistake would be costly. The po
Reuters: Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B China's leading flash memory chipmak
Reuters: Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale China's leading flash memory chipm
Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests DeepSeek unveiled an experim
Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 DeepSeek unveiled an experimenta
As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important....
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered The platform h
Financial Times: A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services Some drivers are cons
See how AI agents are autonomously handling support, coding, supply chains, healthcare, and fraud detection today.
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The article Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services appeared first on The Decoder.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition Nvidia Corp. is
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition Nvidia Corp. is i
Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback
CNBC: How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution Dave Petso has been a wealth ma
CNBC: How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho, with new millionaires, job growth, rising housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution Dave Petso has been a wealth manager
Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Anthropic in busines
OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conventional background re
Dawn Kopecki / Reuters: How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M A handful of bi
arXiv:2608.19407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Learning models can include billions of parameters or more, making it difficult to explain their internal transformations and outputs. However, exp
arXiv:2608.19385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical Arabic manuscript transcription is not only a recognition problem. A usable scholarly system must cope with shifting hands and layouts, prese
arXiv:2608.19380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While modern autonomous driving systems excel at perception tasks such as object detection and trajectory prediction, they lack the high-level causal re
arXiv:2608.19218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems are increasingly being explored for domain-specific maintenance and prognostics tasks, raising the q
arXiv:2608.19211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human speech is richly expressive, with prosody carrying linguistic and emotional information beyond the lexical content. A capable large audio-language
arXiv:2608.19208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are frequently exposed to auxiliary textual context, the impact of which on visually grounded tasks remains und
