Briefing

Briefing

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to huma…

2026-06-25

Practice

What it takes to become—and remain—an effective CEO

Between the first 90 days and the last, here’s how leaders can successfully manage people, products, processes, and themselves.…

2026-06-25

Practice

Building agentic AI applications with a modern data mesh strategy on AWS

This post shows how to build a governed, serverless data mesh on AWS that provides the secure, scalable data foundation production agentic AI requires.…

2026-06-25

Practice

Build self-service AWS Health analytics to find actionable health insights with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show you how to build Chaplin (Customer Health and Planned Lifecycle Intelligence Nexus), an open source solution that uses AI agents exposed t…

2026-06-25

Practice

Implementing super resolution by deploying SeedVR2 on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement video upscaling using SeedVR2 on SageMaker AI. We cover the solution architecture, walk through the deployment ste…

2026-06-25

Practice

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch …

2026-06-25

Practice

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services

In this technical collaboration between AWS and the authors, we present a pragmatic solution: agentic overlays. Agentic overlays are thin wrapper layers that tr…

2026-06-25

Labs

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning argumen…

2026-06-25

Research

Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specif…

2026-06-25

Practice

Frontiers of compute: The technologies to reduce AI inference costs

AI’s next breakthrough may not be a smarter model but a cheaper token.…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way

Diffusion models generate tens of thousands of plausible weather events where historical data doesn't exist. Insurers are hoping for more precise risk assessmen…

2026-06-25

Practice

Unlocking full potential: Five practices reshaping PE value creation

The half-life of the initial deal thesis is shrinking. Private equity firms are shifting toward a more adaptive, execution-led model that reshapes value creatio…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't t…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Claude Code in Slack

a tip to get better UI from Codex…

2026-06-25

Practice

How TITAN Group’s CEO is transforming a century-old company

As the first outside leader of the family-founded business, Marcel Cobuz has made some tough decisions about what to keep and what to change. His formula seems …

2026-06-25

Practice

How companies can strengthen their geopolitical risk readiness

Survey results reveal a widening gap between leaders’ assessment of their risk exposure and responsiveness. Five actions can help leaders prepare for a range of…

2026-06-25

Practice

What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies

Even before the Middle East conflict began, geopolitics surged as the foremost investor concern. AI disruption and capital allocation discipline are also top of…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged …

2026-06-25

Briefing

Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast

By 2025, Meta will have already replaced about half of all human moderation requests with large language models and aims to increase that percentage to over 90 …

2026-06-25

Briefing

Qualcomm enters the data center market with its own processor

Qualcomm is pushing further into the data center market with a new processor called the Dragonfly C1000. The article Qualcomm enters the data center market with…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Google keeps losing top AI researchers to rivals

Google appears to be hemorrhaging key AI researchers to competitors. The article Google keeps losing top AI researchers to rivals appeared first on The Decoder.…

2026-06-25

Briefing

Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen

Google has integrated "Computer Use" directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model operate computers, browsers, and mobile devices on its own. On the OSWorl…

2026-06-25

Labs

How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.…

2026-06-25

Research

Multilingual Hematology Visual Question Answering Dataset

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in medical image analysis by jointly understanding visual and textual information for tasks such…

2026-06-25

Research

FUTO Swipe: Layout-Agnostic Neural Swipe Decoding

Neural swipe decoders are typically tied to the keyboard they were trained on, requiring a new corpus and training run for each layout. In this report, we docum…

2026-06-25

Research

Automatic Generation of Highlights for Academic Paper Via Prompt-based Learning

Highlights provide a concise summary of the main contributions of an academic paper and help readers quickly understand its focus. However, many journals do not…

2026-06-25

Research

Pre-Warm: Input-Conditioned Weight Initialization for Convolutional Neural Networks

We introduce Pre-Warm, a simple yet effective zero-training-cost method for data-conditioned initialization of the first convolutional layer. Before the first f…

2026-06-25

Research

UC-Search: Risk-Aware Test-Time Search for Delayed Constrained Time-Series Control

Time-series models are usually scored as forecasters, yet deployed systems often require delayed decisions under uncertainty and hard feasibility constraints. U…

2026-06-25

Research

Physics Question Scene Graph: Fine-grained Evaluation of Physical Plausibility in Text-to-Video Generation

Video generation models are increasingly capable of producing realistic videos, but they still struggle to generate videos that follow basic physical laws. Comp…

2026-06-25