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Thursday, September 10, 2026

Every story published that day — lead first, then grouped by section.

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Models & Research

ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients"

ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" Zhongyi Zhou, Research Scientist, and Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, Google XR ToolGrad is a data generation framework that reverses the traditional paradigm by first generating tool-use answers before user queries. We show this design enables LLMs to achieve better tool-use performance.

Google Research6 min read

News

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News

Global conflicts, shifting tariffs, trade disruptions and regulatory uncertainty are forcing companies worldwide to rethink how they manage supply chains. For many, the challenge is not only moving goods from one place to another but understanding, in real time, how a disruption in one part of the world could ripple through factories, suppliers, inventory, transportation costs and customer demand.

Microsoft AI Source6 min

Models & Research

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Illustration for: ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual
Models & Research

ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" Zhongyi Zhou, Research Scientist, and Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, Google XR ToolGrad is a data generation framework that reverses the traditional paradigm by first generating tool-use answers before user queries. We show this design enables LLMs to achieve better tool-use performance.

Google Research6 min
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Models & Research

Switzerland's first IBM Quantum System Two | IBM Quantum Computing Blog Switzerland will soon get its first IBM Quantum System Two Lockheed Martin and IBM are launching a Swiss quantum innovation hub at ETH Zurich to advance research, industry collaboration, and workforce development.

IBM Research5 min
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Models & Research

Multilingual Reasoning Image Inputs Safety Modes Citations Tool Use Structured Outputs For both trial keys and production keys, North Small Translate is free until rate limits are reached. Learn more about rate limits for different models and key types here .

Cohere2 min

Products & Tools

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Products & Tools

Today we're announcing the public preview of preemptible compute for Together GPU Clusters, available on Kubernetes clusters in all regions. Preemptible nodes give teams a lower-cost way to run interruption-tolerant work — short experiments, inference bursts, batch jobs — on the same GPU infrastructure they already use, billed sub-hourly at a flat 50% of the on-demand rate.

Together AI Blog4 min

Open Source

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Open Source

Hey folks,We had some reports of ending up in spam 😭 - so if you add us as a contact in Gmail, that shouldn’t happen.You’ll have seen me…

Ben's Bites4 min

Policy & Ethics

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Policy & Ethics

Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data We’ve spoken with many of the world’s largest enterprises across regulated industries like financial services, manufacturing and telecommunications. One of their common strategic partners is Cloudera, providing them with a platform to gain valuable data insights across both on-prem and cloud environments.

Mistral AI News2 min