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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers. More than 60 preconfigured skills cover fields like genomics and computational chemistry, an…

From linear gates to learning loops: Rewiring biopharma R&D with AI
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From linear gates to learning loops: Rewiring biopharma R&D with AI

An AI-powered R&D model built on connected decision loops—replacing the current sequential, fragmented workflow—can reduce uncertainty, compress timelines, and …

Claude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot
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Claude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-class model, now available in GitHub Copilot. It brings strong coding performance to everyday development and…

Claude Code v2.1.197
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Claude Code v2.1.197

Implementing resilience patterns with Amazon Bedrock and LLM gateway
Practice

Implementing resilience patterns with Amazon Bedrock and LLM gateway

In this post, you will learn five practical patterns for building resilient generative AI applications on AWS, progressing from native Amazon Bedrock features t…

Simplify multi-account access to Amazon Bedrock models with managed entitlements
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Simplify multi-account access to Amazon Bedrock models with managed entitlements

In this post, we show you how to use managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock to subscribe once from a central account and distribute model access across your or…

Build generative UI for AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the AG-UI protocol
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Build generative UI for AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the AG-UI protocol

This post walks through how AG-UI integrates into the Fullstack AgentCore Solution Template (FAST) to build interactive agent frontends on Amazon Bedrock AgentC…

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters
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SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into …

Introducing GeneBench-Pro
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Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.…

NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Brings Accelerated AI to Life Sciences Researchers in Claude Science
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NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Brings Accelerated AI to Life Sciences Researchers in Claude Science

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardwa…

Build agents even faster with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s fully-managed, remote MCP server
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Build agents even faster with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s fully-managed, remote MCP server

A couple of months ago, we announced that over 50 Google-managed MCP servers are available. Today, we’ll dive into how to use the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platfo…

How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve
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How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve

Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular interactions: use fast classical force fields tha…

Bringing speed and strong cost performance to the market with Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite
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Bringing speed and strong cost performance to the market with Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite

Great creative happens when your tools move at the speed of your ideas. To help you create rich, reliable experiences while reducing regeneration time and costs…

Fine-tune Amazon Nova models for accurate email data extraction
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Fine-tune Amazon Nova models for accurate email data extraction

In this post, you'll learn how fine-tuning Amazon Nova models using Amazon SageMaker AI addresses these specific issues by teaching the models to recognize your…

Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock
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Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we share the technical approach using token-based distillation, lessons learned, and deployment architecture. If you face similar bilingual NER ch…

How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects
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How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects

In this post, we explore how Outpost VFX achieved 8x faster training speeds using AWS infrastructure to transform their face replacement workflow, the technical…

Copilot Agent is now available in JetBrains AI Assistant
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Copilot Agent is now available in JetBrains AI Assistant

Today, JetBrains and GitHub are announcing a deeper integration between JetBrains AI Assistant and GitHub Copilot. Millions of developers already rely on the Gi…

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
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Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.…

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded
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How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regi…

San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000
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San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000

San Francisco's AI boom is driving up the cost of living so fast that even couples earning $365,000 a year can't find an affordable apartment. Median rent sits …

Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train mas…

Trump Administration NEPA Reforms: A Win for All Americans
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Trump Administration NEPA Reforms: A Win for All Americans

“In this Administration, NEPA’s regulatory reign of terror has ended,” said White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Katherine Scarlett. For decade…

How Jaiveer Singh Is Helping Robots — and Developers — Move Faster
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How Jaiveer Singh Is Helping Robots — and Developers — Move Faster

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets develo…

How NVIDIA’s Inference Software Stack Powers the Lowest Token Cost
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How NVIDIA’s Inference Software Stack Powers the Lowest Token Cost

As organizations move from AI pilots to production AI factories, infrastructure decisions have shifted from peak chip specifications to cost per token: how many…

GPT-5.6 is here but...
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GPT-5.6 is here but...

plus the insanity of inference…

Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning
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Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows usin…

US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line
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US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line

Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. …

Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta reportedly had hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send suicide, sex, and drug-related prompts to chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI. In…

Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China
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Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Taiwanese authorities have raided the offices of Super Micro Computer and several local partner companies. The article Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe…

Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls
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Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls

Deepseek's new DSpark framework boosts per-user response speed by 60 to 85 percent. A small model proposes token candidates that the larger model checks in batc…