The chip would give AI model makers the option to offer lower token prices, possibly easing the concerns of businesses worried about higher token costs.

Klarna's AI assistant, built on LangGraph and LangSmith, handles the work of 700 full-time staff, reducing customer query resolution time by 80% and automating 70% of repetitive support tasks.

A new report shows that U.S. government spending on AI-powered surveillance tools for immigration enforcement has reached record levels under Trump's second term, with contract awards to 11 tech firms rising from $310 million in 2025 to $513 million in 2026.

Mycelium provides AI coding agents with persistent, queryable memory of the entire codebase. It reduces files read per task from 40 to 4, saving 7k tokens per task, and includes features like natural language preflight, live graph viewer, agent change history, and semantic search.

Gradium released two real-time speech translation models: stt-translate (speech-to-text) and s2s-translate (speech-to-speech), covering English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese across 20 language pairs. By collapsing the traditional three-model cascade into two, they achieve better BLEU and MetricX scores than gpt-realtime-translate, with an average latency of 3.0 seconds—just behind Gemini's 2.9s—while adding output voice selection and cloning.

The EU AI Act compliance deadline is August 2, 2026. This article explains what the Act requires for high-risk AI systems and how LangSmith and LangChain OSS help meet each requirement through full observability, automated evaluations, human oversight, and more.

The author built an AI agent named Pele using Hermes framework and Pascal prediction market to automatically trade World Cup matches. The agent operates via Telegram, has its own Solana wallet, and executes bets based on an investment strategy. The author shares the setup process, strategy, and early lessons.

At Stanford University's commencement, students expressed mixed feelings about AI. Some are hopeful, others fearful. Google CEO Sundar Pichai's speech was protested. The article explores how AI is reshaping job prospects, education, and societal norms for the next generation.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI." She issued the response after screenshots showed a Claude AI reference in the summary.

Bio IQ is a benchmark leaderboard for life sciences AI, evaluating models on key biomedical tasks.

A comprehensive tutorial that builds an OpenHarness-style agent harness from scratch, covering tool use, permissions, memory, skills, context compaction, retry logic, cost tracking, and multi-agent coordination, with fully runnable code.

Microsoft, with AI assistance and international law enforcement, disrupted StealC and Amadey malware by taking down over 200 C2 servers. The novel approach uses RICO to target the cyberattack supply chain instead of a single tool, marking a shift in cybercrime disruption.

GPTZero, known for its AI detection tools and used by over 19 million people, has been acquired by Superhuman, the company behind Grammarly and Superhuman Mail. The acquisition aims to integrate AI detection into email and expand its reach in education and beyond.

In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds

According to a Salesforce survey of 3,075 service professionals, 70% of service organizations using AI agents report positive outcomes within 60 days. AI agent adoption in customer service has grown from 39% to 66% over the past year. A new outcome-based pricing model (pay-per-resolution) is expected to accelerate enterprise adoption.

AutoEditor is an AI video editor designed to create viral videos by automating retention editing.

AI Titus News aggregates AI industry updates in a Drudge Report-style format, covering Claude's self-coding, new orchestration APIs, model releases, and community highlights.

Lelu is an open-source authorization engine for AI agents that checks every action for prompt injection, low confidence, and policy violations. It uses a layered pipeline including confidence gates, policy evaluation, and risk models, and supports human-in-the-loop review. Self-hosted, MIT licensed, with SDKs for Node.js and Python.

In this post, you will learn how to build a voice agent that handles appointment reminder conversations using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent authenticates patients by voice, manages appointments (confirm, cancel, or reschedule), collects pre-visit health information, and escalates to human staff when needed. You handle routine calls at scale, which can help reduce no-show rates. This sample focuses on the agentic side of the problem: voice conversation and tool orchestration. A browser-based interface is included for testing. To connect the agent to actual phone lines for outbound dialing, you would integrate a telephony service such as Amazon Connect Customer.

This post explains how to build an end-to-end integration between Snowflake semantic views and Amazon QuickSight. Using movie review data, it demonstrates how to define a shared business logic layer, explore data with natural-language queries via Cortex Analyst, and generate consistent dashboards—reducing data reconciliation efforts and AI hallucinations.

Tom MacWright observes that an increasing number of job applications are fully or partially generated by LLMs, making candidates 'accidentally anonymous'.

This article argues that for AI-assisted coding, model call costs are only a small fraction of total engineering decision cost, with human review and rework being the true bottleneck. It compares routing, agentic RAG, multi-model deliberation, and automated testing, and advocates for a verification layer that connects claims to evidence, narrowing the review search space. It also quantifies when extra verification pays off.

Daikin Applied Americas redesigned its data engineering operating model using Databricks Genie Code, implementing a MECE skill framework and medallion architecture to enforce consistency. This AI-assisted approach accelerates pipeline development while maintaining governance and alignment with business concepts.

Revenue management platform Beyond has launched a suite of AI-powered tools including Listing Lens, an AI listing analyzer, and a beta MCP server for AI integrations. The company's earlier AI pricing assistant Neyoba has already saved customers over 100,000 hours of manual analysis.

Pro- and anti-AI groups spent $24m on a congressional contest in New York, but it’s unclear to what end. The race targeted state assembly member Alex Bores, who sponsored an AI safety bill.

SparQ Pulse is an open-source Developer Experience suite for GitHub-native teams, featuring project management, async standups, blockers tracking, team presence, action items, chat, documents, time tracking, and optional AI. It self-hosts via Docker with SQLite/PostgreSQL and uses Python, Flask, HTMX. The project has 12 stars on GitHub and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

From smart lights to home security, Amazon Prime Day features some great deals on essential smart home gadgets.

Facebook announced it's reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app to help creators grow their audiences on the social network, competing with TikTok and YouTube.

A developer noticed uneven AI recommendation traffic across his products and built a free tool that scans your website, simulates buyer queries, checks if AI recommends your product, compares with competitors, and provides an optimization checklist to increase recommendation rates.

The move expands the chipmaker’s AI infrastructure ambitions from edge devices to data centers.