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GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users.
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GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users.

October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore raises a practical…

This week on Uncanny Valley , Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger discuss the “morally binding” AI accord that tech executives signed following a meeting with Donald Trump. They’ve agreed that AI labs will regulate themselves—should work out great.

Work is a team sport. We can get good results working alone, but when a team gets in a room and focuses on the same problem at the same time, something…

Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards.

Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years.

Robotics DoorDash puts its own drone on the menu Good morning, robotics enthusiasts. DoorDash wants to fly your next takeout order straight to your backyard, and it just pulled the cover off the aircraft behind DoorDash Air.

Spooky season is streaming in. Alongside falling leaves, pumpkin spice and everything nice, 25 new games are joining GeForce NOW throughout October, including…

AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit…

AI Argon aims to return Google to the frontier PLUS: How (and why) to set up Meta’s Muse Desktop Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,879 new readers who joined us yesterday.

GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users.

Quick Apps could already bring live data into an app from connectors and content sources: action connectors (services like Jira, Slack, and Google Drive),…

Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience Barclays, the British universal bank, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to integrate secure, enterprise-grade AI systems across its global operations. Barclays is extending Claude across the bank to accelerate software development, modernize legacy systems, and improve operational efficiency.

Summary: In this guest post, Prof. Matthew Schwartz returns to describe a new approach to AI-accelerated science. In Vibe Physics , Schwartz discussed similarities in capability between Claude and a physics graduate student.

Gemini. It only took Google seven months (February to September) to release their next frontier model.
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GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February (3.1 Pro), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last…

Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages | NVIDIA Technical Blog Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages By Imane Khaouja , Amine El Khair , Meshari Alaeena , Zahra Al-Kaf and Abdulrahman Alkhamees NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR supports multilingual streaming transcription across 40 language-locales, but deployment-specific dialects...

How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering? - Apple Machine Learning Research research area Methods and Algorithms content type paper published October 2026 How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?

• Give finance professionals an AI coworker grounded in their business context to accelerate decision-making • Enable teams to analyze performance, model scenarios, investigate variances, and speed up forecasting and financial reporting • Apply consistent guardrails across data access, actions, and AI usage, so every...

I Tested 25 Midjourney AI Prompts for Halloween 2026 — Here Are the Results You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills | NVIDIA Technical Blog Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills By Claudia Martinez , Matan Raz and Tamir Tevet NVIDIA DOCA AI agent skills provide verified API signatures, hardware capability requirements, and build constraints so agents can reason like experienced DOCA developers.

Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way.

ElevenLabs founders Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs , the AI audio company behind music generation platform ElevenMusic , has completed a USD $300 million employee tender offer at a valuation of $22 billion .

Traditional database recovery is painfully slow and scales poorly with size, often causing hours of downtime while provisioning new compute, downloading large snapshots and replaying log files.

Today we’re introducing Extract v2.5, a new generation of our schema-based document extraction agents. This release brings accuracy improvements across all tiers as well as enhanced grounding capabilities to our highest tiers, Agentic and Agentic Plus.

Teams that process documents at scale know the routine: files land in storage, someone notices, opens each one, decides what it needs, and routes it for…

You need Claude Platform on AWS (CPonAWS) inference from three environments: production workloads on AWS, developer laptops for local iteration, and external…

Midjourney , the AI image generator, unveiled a full-body ultrasound scanner that maps the entire human body in 60 seconds and aims for 1 billion scans monthly. Midjourney launched a medical division and a full-body ultrasonic scanner that images the body in about a minute.

Hi folks,I’m in sf till Sunday. I wanna meet folks talk about ai with non-technical adoptionbuilders doing fun shitfounders working on dev…

Agentic marketing uses AI agents grounded in trusted customer, business, and decision context to recommend the next best action for each customer, within guardrails that marketers set.

Organizations need to own their intelligence to be successful. Training and serving that intelligence at scale, however, requires petaFLOP/s of compute and terabit/s of networking, spread across many nodes.

Databricks now includes a family of native, built-in IP functions for parsing, validating, canonicalizing, and joining IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and CIDR blocks - no UDFs, no regex, no brittle bitwise math.

Modal just hosted our inaugural conference, Runtime . Here are a few of the highlights that we announced. VM Sandboxes give your agent access to a full Linux computer.

At Modal, our customers rely on Sandboxes to execute untrusted code written by their downstream users or, almost exclusively now, by agents. Running untrusted code isn’t a new problem: every cloud provider has to do this from day 1 to isolate their platform from their user and their users from each other.

Today we’re making VM Sandboxes generally available on Modal, built for those who need to give their agents the power of a full computer.

“What you see is what you get” is a guiding principle for many software engineers — create programs where the content you’re editing looks the same as the…

How to install ComfyUI on Mac to generate AI images locally How to install ComfyUI on Mac to generate AI images locally Step by step guide to install ComfyUI on an Apple Silicon Mac and generate AI images with FLUX locally, no subscriptions or cloud needed. 1.

In my previous post: Building persistent memory for multi-agent AI systems with Amazon S3 Vectors, we explored why memory engineering is the foundational…

Key Takeaways AT&T, Southwest, Canada Goose, and others share lessons they learned from their agentic deployments.

What Is Jev? A Guide to TypeSafe AI’s System One Model Agents run in a loop: an LLM decides what to do, a tool executes, a model evaluates the results, and then continues in that loop until the task is complete.

Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples | NVIDIA Technical Blog Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples Do Inference Now (DIN) Deploy provides open-source C++ samples that combine ONNX Runtime with the NVIDIA TensorRT RTX execution provider to accelerate local AI inference on Windows and Linux.

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts , which by then had been around for several years.

In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google.

Generative AI has made it possible to produce large amounts of personalized content quickly and at low cost.

Ranveer Singh becomes the first Brand Ambassador for Ray-Ban and Ray-Ban Meta in India.

The common paradigm of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is to let agents make multiple attempts at a task, and optimize towards the…

Intro Weaviate v1.39.3 includes a fix for a high severity credential disclosure vulnerability in Weaviate's Google-backed modules, where an unvalidated…