Android 17 rolls out with the June Pixel Drop, bringing App Bubbles, enhanced security, new AI models, and more to Pixel devices first.

Databricks announced three new capabilities at Data + AI Summit 2026: App Spaces for governance, Genie App Builder for AI-assisted app creation, and Serverless Micro Apps for cost-efficient scale-to-zero apps, enabling governed vibe coding in the enterprise.

This post walks you through how to use P-EAGLE directly within Amazon SageMaker AI. It demonstrates how to select a compatible model from SageMaker JumpStart, configure parallel drafting, and deploy a highly optimized endpoint.

Ito is an automated QA platform that runs code on pull requests, providing behavioral regression testing without manual scripts. It integrates with GitHub, supports any stack, and generates QA reports with video and screenshots.

Databricks announced OpenSharing, the next evolution of Delta Sharing and the industry's first open protocol built for the agentic era. It extends data sharing to the full AI stack — models and agents — and becomes an independent open-source project under the Linux Foundation. OpenSharing enables sharing across any cloud, vendor, and format, addressing challenges of cross-organizational data collaboration. Key features include Genie Agent Sharing for governed AI experiences, SecureConnect for simplified cross-cloud networking, Global Distribution for automatic replication and reduced egress costs, and support for on-premises storage via the Storage Ecosystem. It also adds Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API compatibility for broader interoperability.

Nexla launched Express, a conversational data engineering platform that reduces barriers to enterprise data integration. Available on AWS Marketplace, Express enables development teams to build production-grade data pipelines via natural language, supporting AI agents with rich context from over 550 connectors.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure enhancements at its Discover customer conference, promising to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale by implementing self-driving networks and establishing AI factories as the foundation of what it calls the “agentic enterprise.”

This article explores systematic methods to track the decision history, configuration, and code lineage of AI agents in agentic software development. The author proposes building an 'agent warehouse' for observability and scale, and discusses Git's limitations in storing agent data.

Databricks announces the Public Preview of Apps on Databricks Marketplace, enabling customers to discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications natively within their secure Databricks workspaces, with no data movement required.

Apple has approved Tiny Corp's TinyGPU driver, enabling Nvidia and AMD eGPUs to work on Apple Silicon Macs for compute workloads. This guide covers hardware recommendations, setup, and performance benchmarks for running CUDA-based local AI.

OpenSharing SecureConnect is a Databricks-managed proxy that simplifies network configuration for cross-organization data sharing. Providers set up once and no longer need to configure networks per recipient. Optionally, private link connectivity via NCC enhances security. Data stays in provider storage. Now in Public Preview.

France’s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech giant Palantir in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid ‘strategic dependency’, the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has said.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman details upcoming hardware including camera-equipped AirPods for visual AI context, a second foldable iPhone, and a 20th-anniversary iPhone with an edge-to-edge curved display, all targeted for late 2027.

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for next-gen XR devices, featuring GPU 60% faster, CPU 30% faster, NPU up to 160% faster, and improved cooling and battery life. Already powering the upcoming Aura glasses, the chip promises better visuals, AI capabilities, and lighter designs for smart glasses.

This post explores how to build reliable AI agents by designing loops, not just using a good model. It introduces four nested loops: the agent loop, verification loop, event-driven loop, and hill climbing loop, each building on the previous to create agents that work consistently and improve over time. Using LangChain primitives, developers can implement each level and embed human oversight where needed.

The Qwen team has released Qwen-RobotSuite, a set of three embodied AI models targeting manipulation, world modeling, and navigation. RobotManip is a Vision-Language-Action model built on Qwen3.5-4B that uses a unified alignment framework to scale manipulation data. RobotWorld is a language-conditioned video world model with a 60-layer MMDiT that predicts future video frames. RobotNav is a navigation model built on Qwen3-VL with a parameterized interface for multiple task modes. The suite achieves state-of-the-art results across several benchmarks.

This article analyzes how different exploitation strategies within capitalism have led to an enormous concentration of power, threatening democratic societies. Through three case studies—supply chain capitalism, platform mercantilism, and the AI coup—the author develops a 'political economy of dependencies' to understand the fusion of tech oligarchs and political power, with AI as a central driver.

Forward Deployed Selling (FDS) is an open-source enterprise sales methodology for the AI era, packaged as a Claude Skill. It provides a playbook refined over 20 years of experience, aiming to compress sales cycles by 3-10x.

TwelveLabs specializes in multimodal AI models that can “watch” and analyze video content. The company has expanded its reach through AWS Marketplace, with models Marengo and Pegasus for video search and analysis, and the new Rodeo AI copilot for video editing. Use cases extend from entertainment to automotive, legal, and insurance sectors.

The Pokémon TCG AI Battle Challenge pits AI against the complexities of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It features a Simulation and Strategy category, with top teams advancing to a final round in late 2026. Prize pool includes $50,000 for the winner.

Backgrind lets you run your AI agents over any app, including games.

Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover Las Vegas, NVIDIA and HPE are expanding the HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit for HPE Private Cloud AI. NVIDIA Confidential Computing extends across HPE AI Factory and enhanced full-stack NVIDIA integration is available throughout the portfolio.

Agent Arena is the first public arena for AI agents, where autonomous agents compete in real-world challenges, earn rewards, build reputation, and evolve over time. It provides a living ecosystem for agents to prove themselves beyond demos and benchmarks.

Data management provider Hydrolix enables sub-second query latency and complete dataset access for agentic AI, leveraging object storage and advanced indexing. A case study with NVIDIA shows a CDN incident resolved in nine minutes using natural language queries via Hydrolix's MCP server.

AI chip startup SiMa Technologies Inc. today launched Palette Neat, a purpose-built agentic AI development environment for creating applications that connect the physical world to AI models. The tool can be paired with the company’s Modalix MLSoC system-on-module or new PCIe companion card, enabling developers to rapidly build apps that can see, learn, adapt, and interact with the real world. Using natural language, developers can describe their ideas, and the AI agent automatically generates low-level compute code, cutting development time from months to days.

AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that directly influence underwriting discipline and capital allocation.

Fleet supports both quick, ad hoc tasks and recurring responsibilities. See how General Purpose Chat and Specialized Agents help teams delegate work.

This article demonstrates how to use Multipass to run Ubuntu Core 26 in a virtual machine and turn it into a local AI inference appliance by installing the gemma4 snap. It covers launching the VM, installing the AI snap, configuring services, accessing the WebUI, and understanding the path to production deployment. Ubuntu Core provides a secure, minimal OS while AI workloads are delivered as snaps for easy updates and management.

BlitzGraph is a graph database designed for AI agents, featuring multi-kind entities, bidirectional relationships, and a typed JSON query language (BQL). It aims to replace traditional table-based databases with a more natural graph model, supporting full-text search, referential integrity, and smart transactions.

Mistral launches Vibe, a unified AI agent for long-running multi-step work and coding. It integrates with enterprise tools, offers Work Mode and Code Mode, and introduces VS Code extension and CLI updates.