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President Trump’s America First Agenda Scores Major Supreme Court Win on TPS Termination
Policy

President Trump’s America First Agenda Scores Major Supreme Court Win on TPS Termination

The Supreme Court has delivered a major victory for American sovereignty, ruling that the Trump Administration has full authority to terminate Temporary Protect…

Securing agentic AI with perimeter guardrails: What's new in VPC Service Controls
Practice

Securing agentic AI with perimeter guardrails: What's new in VPC Service Controls

As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and…

MAI-Code-1-Flash for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise
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MAI-Code-1-Flash for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise

MAI-Code-1-Flash, Microsoft AI’s in-house coding model, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, building on its rec…

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Labs

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stac…

AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic
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AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic

AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek after AI costs exceeded personnel costs. CEO Flo Crivello calls it "a matter of survival for the business.…

How Cara pioneers domain-specific AI for enterprise insurance brokerages with AWS
Practice

How Cara pioneers domain-specific AI for enterprise insurance brokerages with AWS

In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS service…

Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3
Practice

Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3

In this post, you’ll build a server that extracts text from PDF files in Amazon S3 in real time. This protocol-based approach provides programmatic document acc…

Production-grade AI agents for financial compliance: Lessons from Stripe
Practice

Production-grade AI agents for financial compliance: Lessons from Stripe

In this post, you learn how Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system for financial compliance. We cover the technical architecture of Stripe’s ReAct agen…

Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027
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Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027

Advisors are telling OpenAI to hold off on going public until next year. The triggers: volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak stock performance after its recor…

Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow
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Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow

"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. The article Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers …

Building profit resilience in European private banking
Practice

Building profit resilience in European private banking

Private banks face a critical decision point: Strengthen their business focus and monetization discipline, or risk declining profits.…

Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit
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Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit

About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can e…

Turning sustainability compliance into a competitive edge
Practice

Turning sustainability compliance into a competitive edge

How financial institutions can turn mandatory reporting of financed emissions into a growth opportunity.…

OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"
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OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer b…

Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs
Research

Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs

Microblogging platforms generate massive amounts of short, noisy, and dispersed user content, making automatic keyphrase extraction (AKE) an important but chall…

Nemotron-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context
Research

Nemotron-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context

Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for parallel and iterative generation. However, existing…

Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation
Research

Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation

Large reasoning models (LRMs) take longer on harder problems, just as humans do. This surface similarity hides an opposite pattern within items. When an LRM get…

DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography
Research

DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography

In recent years, advancements in deep learning and generative models have revolutionized music-driven dance generation. This paper introduces a novel platform, …

NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications
Research

NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications

This tutorial paper provides a step-by-step, reproducible walkthrough of NeuraDock Agent, an open-source EEG agent focused on Alpha dynamics and visual cognitiv…

Assessing Post-Reform Changes in Risk Disclosure Quality with a Multidimensional Text Analysis Approach
Research

Assessing Post-Reform Changes in Risk Disclosure Quality with a Multidimensional Text Analysis Approach

While corporate narrative disclosures provide crucial information to capital markets, comprehensively evaluating their qualitative changes over time remains cha…

Coarse-to-Fine: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Method for Non-rigid 3D Shape Matching
Research

Coarse-to-Fine: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Method for Non-rigid 3D Shape Matching

Non-rigid 3D shape matching is a fundamental task in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we propose a hybrid self-supervised method based on a coarse-t…

Explainable Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Models for Detecting the Presence of Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients
Research

Explainable Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Models for Detecting the Presence of Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients

Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus, which results in mild to severe inflammation of the liver. Over many years, hepatitis C gradually damages th…

Temporally Consistent Label Interpolation for Robust Surgical Multi-Task Learning under Challenging Conditions
Research

Temporally Consistent Label Interpolation for Robust Surgical Multi-Task Learning under Challenging Conditions

Effective multi-task learning for surgical scene understanding is fundamentally hindered by annotation granularity mismatch; temporal workflow tasks such as pha…

FracEvent: Event-Camera Simulation via Fractional-Relaxation Pixel Dynamics
Research

FracEvent: Event-Camera Simulation via Fractional-Relaxation Pixel Dynamics

Event cameras asynchronously report brightness changes with microsecond-level temporal resolution, but real event data remain difficult to collect at scale beca…

CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
Research

CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs

In this paper, we present CAT-Q, Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization, for compressing and accelerating LLMs. Unlike existing state-of-the-art terna…

PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs
Research

PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs

Autoregressive large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly limited by key-value (KV) cache movement rather than dense matrix multiplication. Modern paged…

SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills
Research

SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills

Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces. Prior work has explored work…

Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction
Research

Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction

Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that dep…

Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis
Research

Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis

Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and pr…

ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration
Research

ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration

The adoption of powerful diffusion models is hindered by their significant inference latency. Recent ``cache-then-forecast'' schemes alleviate this issue by acc…