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How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

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Parametric Skills
Research

Parametric Skills

Since intelligence fundamentally relies on efficient skill acquisition (Chollet, 2019), the ability to leverage skills is critical. For LLMs, skills, manually a…
Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents
Research

Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents

Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: …
MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications
Research

MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, defines a standardized interface for connecting large language models (LLMs) to exte…
A Hybrid Framework For Crypto-Ransomware Detection In Enterprise Shared Storage
Research

A Hybrid Framework For Crypto-Ransomware Detection In Enterprise Shared Storage

Most corporate workplace environments enforce policies and technical controls that limit the storage of sensitive data on client endpoints. Consequently, ransom…
Wireless Backdoor Attack and Defense for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channel
Research

Wireless Backdoor Attack and Defense for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channel

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to preserve semantic meaning and task-oriented information beyond conventional message recovery over wireless channels. The…
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers
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Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers

Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.…
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares an Emergency and Authorizes the Temporary Suspension of Certain Duties on Phosphate Fertilizer from Morocco
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares an Emergency and Authorizes the Temporary Suspension of Certain Duties on Phosphate Fertilizer from Morocco

PROTECTING AMERICA’S FOOD SUPPLY: Today, President Donald J. Trump took action to safeguard America’s food supply and support domestic agricultural product…
Declaration of Emergency and Authorization for Temporary Duty Free Importation of Phosphate Fertilizer Morocco
Policy

Declaration of Emergency and Authorization for Temporary Duty Free Importation of Phosphate Fertilizer Morocco

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1. Fertilizers are an essential component of agriculture and food production. Producers of corn,…
Claude Meets Blackwell Ultra: Anthropic’s Models Now Run on NVIDIA GB300 in Azure
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Claude Meets Blackwell Ultra: Anthropic’s Models Now Run on NVIDIA GB300 in Azure

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, givin…
Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity
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Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.…
Dual Agreement Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Fetal Ultrasound Segmentation
Research

Dual Agreement Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Fetal Ultrasound Segmentation

Maternal-fetal US is the primary imaging modality for monitoring fetal development, yet accurate automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity …
Beyond Visual Forensics: Auditing Multimodal Robustness for Synthetic Medical Image Detection
Research

Beyond Visual Forensics: Auditing Multimodal Robustness for Synthetic Medical Image Detection

With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud. Although prior work h…
Story Operators: Decomposing the Original $\to$ Sequel Transformation in Embedding Space
Research

Story Operators: Decomposing the Original $\to$ Sequel Transformation in Embedding Space

I treat a book as a point in a sentence-embedding space and a literary transformation as an operation on points. Given an original novel and its sequel, I ask w…
BrainAgent: A Large Language Model-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Brain Signal Understanding
Research

BrainAgent: A Large Language Model-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Brain Signal Understanding

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and brain signal understanding are pivotal for clinical health and next-generation interactions. Despite this significance, its…
SurgAtlas: A Large-Scale Surgical Video-Language Dataset with 2,391 Hours of Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Research

SurgAtlas: A Large-Scale Surgical Video-Language Dataset with 2,391 Hours of Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery

We introduce SurgAtlas, the largest surgical video-language dataset to date, comprising 15,291 videos (2,391 hours) spanning 18 surgical specialties and over 5,…
Scientific discovery as meta-optimization: a combinatorial optimization case study
Research

Scientific discovery as meta-optimization: a combinatorial optimization case study

Scientific discovery is fundamentally an optimization problem, defined by a vast "state space" of theories and experiments, and an evaluation criterion based on…
HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI
Labs

HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI

HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.…
AI won't become a real coworker until it stops answering and starts finishing tasks
Briefing

AI won't become a real coworker until it stops answering and starts finishing tasks

A survey paper by Tencent and several Chinese universities traces the path from chatbot to "digital colleague." AI systems won't become reliable coworkers, the …
EERLoss: A Novel Loss Function for Training Deep Biometric Models. A Case Study in Keystroke Dynamics
Research

EERLoss: A Novel Loss Function for Training Deep Biometric Models. A Case Study in Keystroke Dynamics

Deep learning approaches to biometric verification are commonly trained by optimizing indirect objectives, creating a misalignment between the optimization proc…
PolicyAlign: Direct Policy-Based Safety Alignment for Large Language Models
Research

PolicyAlign: Direct Policy-Based Safety Alignment for Large Language Models

Safety alignment of large language models (LLMs) typically depends on high-quality supervision data, such as safe demonstrations or preference pairs. However, i…
Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey
Briefing

Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 mo…
Code Isn't Memory: A Structural Codebase Index Inside a Coding Agent
Research

Code Isn't Memory: A Structural Codebase Index Inside a Coding Agent

Coding agents now interleave LLMs with retrieval over the working repository, and retrieval implementations vary widely across deployed harnesses. Inside a fixe…
Curvature-aware 3D length estimation of greenhouse cucumbers using RGB-D imaging and cubic spline arc-length integration
Research

Curvature-aware 3D length estimation of greenhouse cucumbers using RGB-D imaging and cubic spline arc-length integration

Commercial greenhouse cucumber production is graded by fruit length, which drives harvest scheduling, labour allocation, and logistics. Manual measurement with …
Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding
Research

Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, where specific functionalities may need to be removed due t…
RLM-Cascade: Response-Level Speculative Decoding for Cost-Efficient LLM API Serving
Research

RLM-Cascade: Response-Level Speculative Decoding for Cost-Efficient LLM API Serving

We present RLM-Cascade, a proxy-layer system that applies speculative decoding at the response level to reduce LLM API costs without requiring model architectur…
Self-Compacting Language Model Agents
Research

Self-Compacting Language Model Agents

Long agent traces composed of chains of thought and tool calls accumulate stale content that anchor subsequent generations, and eventually outgrow the context w…
Zero-Shot Test-Time Canonicalization using Out-of-Distribution Scoring
Research

Zero-Shot Test-Time Canonicalization using Out-of-Distribution Scoring

Pretrained vision models often misclassify inputs that are rotated, scaled, or sheared, even though these affine transformations leave the object class unchange…
Track total merges by adoption phase in enterprise and organization reports
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Track total merges by adoption phase in enterprise and organization reports

Building on the AI adoption phase cohorts added to the Copilot usage metrics API, organization and enterprise reports now report the total number of pull reques…
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…
OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"
Briefing

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…