Databricks launches CustomerLake, an agentic customer data platform embedded natively in the lakehouse.
“It can power one-to-one personalization with agents to provide the perfect customer experience a billion times a day.”
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Gemma 4 runs 10 parallel local sub-agents at 170+ tokens/sec on one machine.
“This is the new standard for local parallel AI.”
Databricks proposes 'Infinity Campaigns' where a per-customer agent continuously generates personalized next-best-action content in a feedback loop.
“What if we could have an agent for every customer?”
Gray Swan's Kolter and Fredrikson discuss AI red-teaming and indirect prompt injection after US export controls on Mythos and Fable.
“the risks of jailbreaks and (industry term) indirect prompt injection are suddenly the talk of the town”
Microsoft Teams SDK reaches GA in TypeScript, C#, and Python with new group UX capabilities for collaborative agents.
“make your agents effective where work happens, which is across meetings, channels, and group chats.”
Databricks launches Genie Code, an agentic coding agent natively integrated with its machine learning stack.
“we've upgraded the context in Genie code. So, it now knows how your machine learning teams and how your data science teams actually work”
Apple previews incremental Swift language and tooling updates at WWDC26.
“Okay, okay, so there are more than a few updates to Swift.”
Databricks announced Genie App Builder, a context-aware vibe coding tool that understands a business's data and governance.
“Genie App Builder is vibe coding that understands your business.”
Databricks' Unity AI Gateway adds centralized governance, security, and cost control across agents, models, MCPs, and skills.
“wouldn't it be great if you just had like one inventory of all the agents that were built in your enterprise?”
Hugging Face launches a recurring live tutorial series on fine-tuning coding agents for continual learning.
“I think you could come from from zero here.”
Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness layer to combine, control, and share AI agents.
“we think that we need a new layer above the harness level to manage and build with agents”
Stanford researchers are building human-centered AI tools using music emotion recognition to aid people with depression and anxiety.
“we are creating AI tools that will use music to aid people with depression and anxiety.”
Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments letting AI agents pay autonomously per request.
“agents should pay for intelligence the same way they already call APIs, programmatically, instantly, and without human intervention.”
Founders should find their first 10 customers where buyers actually spend time, not default to cold email/LinkedIn.
“He closed more in 3 days than he had in 3 months of sending cold emails.”
Intel CEO argues domestic US semiconductor manufacturing is critical for supply chain resilience.
“You cannot just depend on one or two player in different geographical.”
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings delivered highest F1 scores for natural-language semantic search over aerial imagery at scale.
AWS shows how to run ComfyUI generative-AI workflows on SageMaker processing jobs for batch image generation at scale.
“ComfyUI is a node-based, visual workflow builder for generative AI that makes it straightforward to compose, test, and iterate on complex image, audio, or video pipelines without coding every step.”
Meta has deployed the AV1 codec for real-time video calls on the majority of mobile devices in Messenger and WhatsApp.
“In offline tests, we observed at least a 20% bitrate reduction with AV1 compared with H.264/AVC under our product settings on low-end and mid-range devices.”
NVIDIA introduces CCCL Runtime, modern C++ abstractions for core CUDA programming concepts.
“NVIDIA CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL) provides delightful and efficient abstractions for CUDA developers in C++ and Python.”
Build 2026 showcased AI-native hardware including the Surface RTX dev machine and an AI badge device with Copilot.
“It is the first piece of AI native hardware that any of us have ever seen.”
Microsoft showed off new AI-native hardware at Build 2026, including a Surface RTX dev machine and a Copilot 'badge' device.
“It is the first piece of AI native hardware that any of us have ever seen.”
DeepSeek introduces a method to fix GPU underutilization by rerouting prefill work through idle decoding machines.
“you don't need a bigger brain. You need a bigger straw.”
NVIDIA introduces DAQIRI to enable real-time AI on high-speed data acquisition pipelines.
“Measured data is the backbone for all AI models and workflows that process data as it's created, act on what matters in real time, and analyzes data for deep insights.”
Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 marks a step-change for open agentic models, rivaling top labs.
“minor version numbers can have AI models crossing meaningful user experience thresholds”