AI chip founder Naveen Rao argues new hardware substrates are needed to build true intelligence.
“We need innovation on the hardware substrate to actually build true intelligence.”
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Manually reviewing 100-1,000 real examples beats any automated benchmark for evaluating AI models.
“there's just no better eval than looking at 100 examples or 1,000 examples”
Meta data center investment in Richland Parish spiked local sales tax collections, boosting teacher salary checks by roughly $45,000.
“They got a $50,000 check.”
will.i.am uses his EDU.FYI platform and ASU professorship to teach students to build personal AI agents responsibly
“Being in this class taught me how responsible you have to be while you're building an agent that's going to be representing you out in the real world.”
Salesforce debuts an 'AI harness' that wraps models with enterprise context, permissions, and governance to run agents.
“The model brings the intelligence, and the harness brings your business.”
Impeccable's author shares hard-won lessons on engineering advanced agent skills beyond simple prompts.
“let's talk about the dark arts of skill engineering”
xAI's Grok 4.6, a frontier agentic model, is now available in Amazon Bedrock.
“Grok 4.6 widens that surface area considerably: it is available on both the bedrock-mantle and bedrock-runtime endpoints, and it supports the Converse API alongside Chat Completions and Responses.”
Ex-OpenAI researcher's startup Typesafe AI launched Jev, a type-safe classifier model with guaranteed structured output.
“It deleted language from the large language model. And the result is a new type of classifier that's 200 times faster, 400 times cheaper with free output tokens and zero hallucinations.”
.NET 11 boosts performance while Azure and a new multicloud DB SDK improve resiliency and portability.
“As code generation gets cheaper, tested abstractions become more valuable.”
BMW Group's CLEA system runs daily anomaly detection across 14,000 cloud accounts for ~$50/month in compute.
“But a dashboard shows what already happened, and only when someone opens it.”
Posit's Positron data science IDE now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI.
“Positron, Posit's integrated development environment (IDE) for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI.”
Benchling secured multi-tenant AI agent code execution at scale using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with zero security incidents.
“Today, this architecture processes more than 600 code execution sessions per day across more than 250 tenants per week with zero security incidents.”
EXL's AWS-built Medical IDP solution automates medical record review for insurance claims and underwriting.
“Insurance claims adjusters spend over 100 minutes per case manually reviewing medical records.”
Meta open-sources Rebalancer, its nine-year-old assignment-problem solver for datacenter resource allocation.
“This separation of concerns is crucial to Rebalancer’s usability, scalability, and extensibility.”
Open source is now at the core of Microsoft's products, from Kubernetes to Linux kernel foundations.
“open source is now literally at the kernel at the core of Microsoft today”
Open source is now at the kernel and core of Microsoft, foundational to the products it ships today.
“open source is now literally at the kernel at the core of Microsoft today”
LangChain demos 'Jev,' a fast, cheap System 1 classification model for agent routing, guardrails, and evals.
“System 1 models are a class of AI models built to make fast structured decisions that software can use directly.”
NVIDIA Earth-2 turns local observations into timely, high-resolution weather decisions for weather-sensitive industries.
“Weather-sensitive industries increasingly have access to observations that offer an earlier, more local view of changing conditions.”
adidas centralizes its data on Databricks lakehouse and uses Genie AI to speed analyst insights.
“one great example is Genie that helps our analysts to generate insights faster”
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RAND recommends the US adopt a 'Freedom of Action' strategy to preserve all options on the path to superintelligence.
“to build and preserve the ability to secure U.S. geopolitical advantage and ensure humanity's survival with agency through the transition to Superintelligence”
OpenAI forms an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI to guide review of emerging results.
“OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.”
Higgsfield AI uses GPT-6 Astra to ship video ad features for small businesses faster.
Meta announces Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable to deliver petabit (1 Pbps) capacity.
“Today, we’re announcing Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity, and the first to deploy multi-core fiber at scale.”