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Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI
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Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI

In an era of rapid AI disruption, the winners may not be the companies that predict the future most accurately, but those that learn, reallocate resources, and …

Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
Research

Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’…

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.
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If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.…

Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI
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Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark…

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova
Practice

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including …

Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Practice

Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

In this post, you deploy a two-phase infrastructure for multi-turn RL using Amazon Nova Forge on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. By the end, you have an event-driven…

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers …

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
Labs

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accept…

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle
Practice

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into …

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities
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How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in …

A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity
Practice

A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity

Overcoming scale-related barriers and strengthening ties with other firms—both large and small—can help small businesses in Chile maximize their potential and n…

China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas
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China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down the features that let users build and chat with custom AI companions, responding to new regulations from Beijing. The ar…

Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop
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Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop

Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has been delayed more than a year to 2028 because of circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm…

Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028
Policy

Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028

Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028 dumimar Tue, 06/30/2026 - 14:43   Opening: 29 June 2026   Closing: 12 August 2026 This call for…

Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Research

Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

Is this the beginning of a new world?…

ChinAI #365: Around the Horn (26th episode)
Labs

ChinAI #365: Around the Horn (26th episode)

Greetings from a world where……

JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed
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JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed

Security firm Sysdig describes an extortion attack where a language model broke in on its own, stole credentials, and destroyed databases. No human appeared to …

Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
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Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"

Amazon Web Services is shutting down its crowdsourcing service Mechanical Turk to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The article Amazon sunsets Mechanical Tu…

How Covista is changing education for healthcare professionals
Practice

How Covista is changing education for healthcare professionals

Chairman and CEO Steve Beard explains how the organization’s multiyear transformation has reshaped its purpose, structure, and culture.…

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the United States Secret Service
Policy

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the United States Secret Service

On the 161st anniversary of the United States Secret Service, we celebrate the extraordinary professionals who, with absolute selflessn…

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of Chippawa
Policy

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of Chippawa

Today, our Nation commemorates the Battle of Chippawa—the historic victory in which American forces decisively defeated the British Army&#16…

Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
Labs

Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers

Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM
Labs

Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM

Sakana Translate:Sakana Chatが翻訳に対応、翻訳・添削・質問の3機能を搭載
Labs

Sakana Translate:Sakana Chatが翻訳に対応、翻訳・添削・質問の3機能を搭載

Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting
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Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting

Baidu's Unlimited OCR reads dozens of document pages in a single pass, where previous systems topped out at about ten. A modified attention mechanism keeps memo…

Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"
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Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"

A Google Deepmind developer ported the 2003 real-time strategy game "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to iPhone and iPad using Anthropic's Claude Cod…

Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it
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Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it

Bytedance's AI video tool Seedance is dividing Hollywood. A viral clip featuring AI-generated Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise prompted the Motion Picture Association's…

Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes
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Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes

Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in some c…

AI private schools sell wealthy US families on personalized learning over traditional education
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AI private schools sell wealthy US families on personalized learning over traditional education

Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops fo…

AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous
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AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous

AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself. Their real problem is not asking the user for clarification when queries are a…