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Gemini Decisions API
Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions (yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring) and…
The VergePress
United won’t let your AI agent book your flight
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal…
MarkTechPostPress
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API With Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10/M Tokens
Google launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by Gemini Decision 1. It returns calibrated probabilities for up to 1,000 yes/no, choice and rubric questions over text, images, audio, video and PDFs, at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. The…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Automating AWS Agent Registry updates with push-based architecture
This post shows how to keep the AWS Agent Registry current automatically. Using AWS CloudTrail, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and AgentCore Identity, an event-driven pipeline detects MCP server changes and pushes updated tool metadata to…
Google AICompany
Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.
SiliconANGLEPress
AI agents carry memory and storage like people, so their data needs guarding while in use
As AI agents move into production on Kubernetes, cloud engineering teams at financial companies face a security problem that encryption alone can’t solve. Container orchestration has become the default foundation for AI workloads, and the…
SalesforceCompany
Salesforce Releases R&D Agents That Improve Its AI Models
SFR-AutoR&D, a new self-improving system from Salesforce, trains and improves the embedding models in deployment-grade enterprise AI.
SiliconANGLEPress
Agents may soon be the main workload, and most of the time they’re doing nothing
As AI agents take on more enterprise work, agent sandboxing has become a basic requirement rather than an afterthought. Every agent that writes code, runs tools or drives a browser needs hard walls around it. Those walls also can’t come at…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
UAEF: A framework-agnostic system for closed-loop evaluation of AI agents
The Universal Agent Evaluation Framework (UAEF) is a framework-agnostic system for evaluating AI agents. UAEF converts each framework's traces into one canonical format, scores them with 36 built-in metrics across 7 dimensions, and stores…
TechCrunchPress
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
With Databricks at 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie…
DatabricksCompany
Bring your business context to ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Grok Bot
Every business is adding more data to their AI-powered workflows. But more data doesn't...
SiliconANGLEPress
Red Hat accelerates agentic adoption across hybrid environments
Enterprise ambitions for artificial intelligence are outpacing the infrastructure and budgets needed to support them. Red Hat AI faces a familiar enterprise challenge: turning ambitious plans for artificial intelligence into production…
TechCrunchPress
Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
TheSequenceNewsletter
The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #969: Last Week in AI: Security Agents, Custom Models, and Editable Video
GPT-6 Cyber, Inkling 2 Small, and Gemini put feedback at the center of useful work
Latent SpaceNewsletter
AI Engineer Code Summit: OpenAI on New Ways of Working With Codex
On the first day of AIE Code Summit, OpenAI showed how developers can steer Codex by voice, hand off work to the cloud, and make use of dots.
SiliconANGLEPress
Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. today revealed that it has raised $750 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation. Mercor provides the human expertise used to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
The agent evaluation playbook: Built-in, DeepEval, and AutoEval on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
When you deploy an agent, whether it is working is really several questions: did it finish the task, stay on topic, leak data, or skip steps? This post shows how to evaluate agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with built-in, DeepEval, and…
Ars TechnicaPress
Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
Researcher finds 35,000 Grok Build apps wide open to anyone who looked for them.
Microsoft ResearchResearch
Lazare, veni foras: Reprogramming Dormant Neurons to Backdoor AI Agents
Microsoft researchers have discovered “Lazarus,” a backdoor technique that can reprogram dormant neurons in an AI model, causing an otherwise normal AI agent to execute malicious commands when a hidden trigger appears. The threat is…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
Designing for Agents — Zeno Rocha, Resend
Where does answer engine optimization (AEO) end and agent experience begin? Inside Resend, from the docs that help Claude Code pick an email API to the tools it uses to send.
The RegisterPress
14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team
Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Autonomous treasury agents: How Trovata built an AI-native solution on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore
Learn how Trovata built autonomous treasury agents on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using an RBAC-secured architecture for bank-branded AI deployment and agentic workflows that move corporate treasury from manual operations…
The VergePress
ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’
ChatGPT is going to let you chat with verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand to help you with things like comparison shopping. The feature, available first to "eligible" e-commerce and online service businesses in the US, is…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
How TCS built an agentic test orchestrator with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) built an agentic test orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that turns requirements into executable, governed tests for its Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) clients. Learn how specialized…
The VergePress
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing on the platform - the latest speed bump in the AI agent race. A reader tells The Verge that for several weeks he's had his Muse agent browse and curate a daily…
The VergePress
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature
Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders" two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its "strongest model" yet, and capable of competing…
Gemini (Google)Company
Introducing the Multimodal Knowledge Agent benchmark
We’re launching Multimodal Knowledge Agent, a new benchmark to evaluate how agents reason across visually-complex multimodal tasks.
MarkTechPostPress
Zyphra Releases ZONOS3-Mini: Open-Source TTS With 100M Active Parameters
Zyphra released ZONOS3-Mini, an Apache 2.0 text-to-speech model with 800M total and 100M active parameters. It clones voices, steers delivery word by word and runs in real time in the browser The post Zyphra Releases ZONOS3-Mini…
ZDNETPress
5 apps I need Siri AI to work with now that it’s open to third-party developers
With the latest betas for iOS and other platforms, Siri AI is now available to all developers for full integration into their apps. Here are the ones I hope will jump on board.
SiliconANGLEPress
Kora builds AI models and agents into a new Linux OS bound for Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs
Desktop software company Kora Systems Inc. today unveiled Kora, a Linux-based operating system that builds artificial intelligence models and agents into the system itself. Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has spent close to a year working with…
SiliconANGLEPress
Cowbell unveils AI liability insurance for small businesses that deploy AI agents
Cyber insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. today unveiled Cowbell AI Liability Insurance, a standalone policy for U.S. small and midsized businesses that covers losses caused by the artificial intelligence agents they deploy. The new…
SiliconANGLEPress
Lumbra gets $25M in backing to help intelligence community deploy reliable AI agents
When it comes to matters of national security, it’s vitally important to ensure that the right intelligence gets to the right decision-makers, but doing this in today’s complex information technology environments is challenging, to say the…
MarkTechPostPress
Meta Releases Muse Ember, a 1M-Context Model for High-Volume Agent Work
Meta Muse Ember is Meta’s smallest model, built for tool calls, coding subtasks and document parsing. It ties Claude Haiku 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at roughly a third of the cost per task. The post Meta Releases…
SiliconANGLEPress
Meta introduces Muse Ember to power cost-efficient AI agents
Meta Platforms Inc. today introduced Muse Ember, an entry-level artificial intelligence model that costs significantly less than the competition. Notably, it’s the first AI that the company trained using Muse Wonder. The latter algorithm…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
How skills and agents work in AWS Quick
Repeatable tasks like status updates, release notes, and ticket creation can be encoded in AWS Quick through agents and skills. This post covers how agents, skills, and your data fit together in AWS Quick, how to build and share skills for…
SiliconANGLEPress
Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with science, coding upgrades
Anthropic PBC today pulled back the curtains on Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, its two most capable large language models to date. The LLMs are identical as far as their core capabilities are concerned. The difference is that…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Single-shot and agentic retrieval with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports single-shot RAG and retrieval-only requests through AgenticRetrieveStream, alongside agentic retrieval. This post explains how the maxAgentIteration parameter matches retrieval effort to…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Pluggable Agentic AI Framework: A seven-layer composable enterprise agentic AI reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
A seven-layer composable reference architecture for taking enterprise agentic AI from prototype to production on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Each layer has a stable contract, so you can swap technologies at any layer without redesigning the…
ZDNETPress
Ready for a Siri AI agent? Apple under pressure to upgrade its assistant faster
Apple’s public-facing satisfaction with the Siri AI launch obscures internal pressures and tensions.
IEEE SpectrumPress
AI Agents Are Testing the Limits of Zero-Trust Security
This article is brought to you by Queen’s University Belfast . Several teams around the globe are leveraging AI by creating a task force of agents managed by an orchestrator and creating applications to support risk assessment, client…
SiliconANGLEPress
Exclusive: FormAssembly overhauls its platform to expand into AI-powered process automation
FormAssembly Inc., a provider of online data collection and workflow automation software, today announced a complete platform overhaul that expands its capabilities beyond building forms to automating complex business processes using…
MarkTechPostPress
Reason Machines Open-Sources Aspen, a Git Server Built for AI Agents
Reason Machines has open-sourced Aspen, a self-hosted Git server for AI agents. It follows OpenAI’s Pando design and sustained 567 pushes per second on one 8-core server in the company’s own test. The post Reason Machines Open-Sources…
OpenAICompany
CodeRabbit scales agentic software development and ships 20x more
CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to govern and trust AI-generated code and Codex to ship 20 times more software with the same engineering team.
NVIDIA BlogCompany
Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA
As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating…
GitHub (AI and ML)Company
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering
Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment. The post Beyond code generation: A…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Taxonomy of agentic primitives in AWS Quick
As we built Amazon Quick, its agents grew from answering questions to taking actions, and the same primitives kept getting rebuilt under different names. This post shares the taxonomy we converged on — triggers, agents, capabilities, and…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate
Learn how to build a serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate that gives AI agents secure, metadata-driven access to an enterprise data lake. Exposing a new dataset requires only a JSON file, with no…
NVIDIA BlogCompany
How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks
A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating next-generation 6G network development. Together, they give researchers a foundation for testing ideas…
OpenAICompany
Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
OpenAICompany
Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex
Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.
Cloudflare (AI)Company
Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)
AI agents act for millions, but servers see intermediaries that strip user visibility. This post defines the problem space and introduces a collaborative approach to safely identifying, allowing, and managing this automated traffic.
SiliconANGLEPress
Oracle wants to pull stalled AI agents out of demo mode and into production
Companies want AI agents faster than they can build the AI architecture to run them. Most can put together a convincing demo. Far fewer can move agents into production without exposing data, hurting uptime or blowing their budgets. That…
Microsoft ResearchResearch
Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit
AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer…
OpenAICompany
GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
SiliconANGLEPress
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor in a deal first reported today by Axios. Conductor confirmed it’s joining Meta in a post on its website. Terms were not disclosed. The company’s software…
SiliconANGLEPress
AI agents meet billable hours as Certinia rethinks services delivery
Certinia Inc. is bringing AI into the software firms use to sell projects, assign staff, deliver work and bill clients. AI’s ability to instantaneously draw from a deep well of information and provide guidance in practically any field of…
SalesforceCompany
Your AI Agents Are Fast. Your Process Isn’t. Here’s How to Fix It.
Picture a race car flying down a country highway, only to find itself stuck behind a tractor. The car’s engine is spectacular. But it can’t go any faster than the tractor. That’s what many companies encounter, often without realizing it…
Cloudflare (AI)Company
See the agents, set the terms: New visibility and control for personal agents
Personal AI agents have changed how users interact with the web, blurring the lines between automated and human traffic. Learn how Cloudflare gives site owners visibility and control to manage personal agent access.
Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second…
Google DeepMindCompany
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are…
NVIDIA BlogCompany
Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI
Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge. Physical and agentic AI offer new ways to…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work? Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of Legora, one of the…
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking…
OpenAICompany
Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex
Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.
Latent SpaceNewsletter
Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work
Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.
NVIDIA BlogCompany
Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap…
Microsoft ResearchResearch
From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference
Mistral’s open-weight release, frontier monitoring, and the day’s AI Twitter and Reddit recaps.
NVIDIA BlogCompany
Thin, Light and Built for Everything: NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games
NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems combine an NVIDIA…
Cloudflare (AI)Company
How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents
Almost 100,000 Commerce.com domains now give AI agents real shopping tools through WebMCP on Cloudflare. Here's how we turned it on across every store at once, while keeping each merchant in control.
The RegisterPress
AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
TheSequenceNewsletter
The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #955: From Persistent Agents to Decision Models
Meta expands its agent models as Jev and Liquid sharpen structured decisions