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Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5

Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in th…

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead c…

Manage AI applications on Mac with Jamf’s AI Governance and Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show how you can use Jamf’s AI Governance with Amazon Bedrock to configure, deploy, and validate managed settings for AI applications across a …

Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF

This post shows you two architecture patterns that address this problem. Both use an internet-facing ALB with AWS WAF and route traffic through a VPC Interface …

How We Achieved ~1000 tok/s and 16x Throughput with DSpark for Ideogram V4 Prompt Expander

At @fal , we've achieved 16 times higher throughput on Qwen3.6 for a use-case that required high interactivity per user using DSpark on SGLang. But why did…

Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, l…

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration pla…

Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents

Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote…

From adoption to impact: Three horizons of AI transformation

Most organizations are still early in their AI journeys. A new global survey reveals how companies can progress from individual adoption to enterprise-wide valu…

Cost versus value: Managing agentic AI system performance

Per-token pricing has stopped being a useful measure for what enterprises actually pay for gen AI. A conversation with David Tepper, CEO of Pay-i, delves into t…

From healthcare to health: Asia’s longevity opportunity

On average, people are living longer than before, raising a broader conversation about how to create an ecosystem that effectively combines the delivery of care…

Introducing Robostral Navigate

Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.…

Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source. The artic…

Meta tests always-on AI glasses that capture your entire day

Meta is testing a prototype of AI-powered headsets with "Super Sensing" that use a camera and microphone to record every moment of the wearer's life. The articl…

Reimagining logistics pricing

Logistics players can focus on four pricing strategies in the AI era.…

Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises questions

Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code executi…

Agent Framework’s Orchestration Patterns Reach 1.0

Python’s agent-framework-orchestrations package is now 1.0.0. That puts Microsoft Agent Framework’s orchestration layer at 1.0 across Python and .NE…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government

OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 on Thursday after the U.S. government lifted its release ban following additional testing. Binding standards for future model approv…

Targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty

Targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty lobacni Wed, 07/08/2026 - 09:10   Opening: 08 July 2026   Closing: 08 September 2026 T…

Add review cycles and time to adoption phases in the usage API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports two additional code-review velocity metrics for each AI adoption phase, extending the adoption phase cohorts fields av…

Kimi K2.7 now available for Copilot Business and Enterprise

On July 1, 2026, we announced Kimi K2.7 would be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max plans. The model is now additionally available on Copilot Business and …

Claude Code v2.1.204

Democrats Fought Against Historic Tax Cuts. Now They’re Fighting Against Opportunity for America’s Kids.

President Donald J. Trump and Republicans delivered the largest middle- and working-class tax cuts in history through the Working Families Tax Cuts, which Democ…

Claude Code v2.1.203

Conversational Design: Five Patterns to Shape Customer-facing AI Experiences

What held up in production when the goal wasn’t just functional accuracy but better dialogue…

Responses are the Easy Part: What We’ve Learned Building Real-time Voice Experiences at Scale

Timing, interruption, silence and recovery shape the experience as much as words…

Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows

How autonomous code improvement can be made disciplined enough for enterprise use…

Designing Organisations That Can Keep Up With AI

Why organisational latency is becoming the biggest barrier to fully realising AI’s benefits…

Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs

Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per week alr…

Per-user budgets for cost centers in the billing UI

Enterprise admins can now create cost center user-level budgets directly in the billing UI where you manage cost centers and budgets. This feature is available …