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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…

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

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
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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…

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

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…

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…

A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface
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A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface

A study of more than 26,000 Chinese students found that AI users finished homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24 percent worse on exams. The f…

UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do
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UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do

In a study covering seven benchmarks, the UK's AI Security Institute shows that standard AI evaluations systematically underestimate agent capabilities by cappi…

AI Research This Week: The Most Important Papers, Breakthroughs, and Benchmark Results Explained (2026)

AI Research This Week: The Most Important Papers, Breakthroughs, and Benchmark Results Explained (2026)

Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI
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Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evalua…

The serial builder advantage: Why repeat innovators win
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The serial builder advantage: Why repeat innovators win

New McKinsey research explains why organizations that repeatedly build new ventures outperform those that approach innovation as a one-off effort.…

Frontier Models Tracker: Every Major AI Model, Benchmark Score, and Release Update (2026)

Frontier Models Tracker: Every Major AI Model, Benchmark Score, and Release Update (2026)

AI Research: Best Sources for Papers, Breakthroughs & Global Progress (2026 Guide)

AI Research: Best Sources for Papers, Breakthroughs & Global Progress (2026 Guide)

Frontier Signal: The Complete Guide to AI News, Research, Agents & Practice (Updated Weekly)

Frontier Signal: The Complete Guide to AI News, Research, Agents & Practice (Updated Weekly)

Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI
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Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy BoltzGen on SageMaker AI and run an end-to-end protein design experiment. By the end of the walkthrough, you have a w…

NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America
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NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure n…

OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy
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OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy

An OpenAI benchmark paper suggests that the Pro tier of GPT-5.6 could ship in three variants. That would be the first major change to ChatGPT Pro's structure si…

Introducing GeneBench-Pro
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Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.…

Build agents even faster with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s fully-managed, remote MCP server
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Build agents even faster with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s fully-managed, remote MCP server

A couple of months ago, we announced that over 50 Google-managed MCP servers are available. Today, we’ll dive into how to use the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platfo…

How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve
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How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve

Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular interactions: use fast classical force fields tha…

Fine-tune Amazon Nova models for accurate email data extraction
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Fine-tune Amazon Nova models for accurate email data extraction

In this post, you'll learn how fine-tuning Amazon Nova models using Amazon SageMaker AI addresses these specific issues by teaching the models to recognize your…

Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock
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Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we share the technical approach using token-based distillation, lessons learned, and deployment architecture. If you face similar bilingual NER ch…

How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects
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How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects

In this post, we explore how Outpost VFX achieved 8x faster training speeds using AWS infrastructure to transform their face replacement workflow, the technical…

Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning
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Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows usin…

Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS
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Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS

In this post, we show you how PAR built a production-ready multi-tenant LLM analytics system that enforces row-level security through a three-layer architecture…

Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is restricting its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these AI tools from being incorporated into its own train…

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

Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't
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Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't

Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models ar…

ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5
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ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5

Researchers from Renmin University and ByteDance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that generates text differently than ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at …