Microsoft's Copilot Health preview allows users to share medical records for personalized AI health advice. The author tested it and found mixed results due to technical glitches, while noting privacy protections and cautioning against relying on AI for medical decisions.

Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything

The key to survival is not only adapting to AI but also actively building context and integrating these technologies into their offerings.

Readers respond to Nesrine Malik's article on AI, highlighting the deeper problem of AI's relationship with evidence, including fabricated quotations and misplaced trust in machine-generated content.

Meta's internal TBD team, led by Wang, pushes for proprietary models and a startup culture amid company layoffs and employee protests over tracking software. Its Muse Spark model excels in visual understanding but lags in coding, with future focus on coding, agentic tasks, and video generation.

Dreambeans delivers daily AI stories personalized from your Google apps.

AWS Deep Learning AMI and Deep Learning Containers now support SOCI snapshotter and index. SOCI enables efficient container image management through selective file downloading (lazy loading) and parallel pull modes, significantly reducing container startup times. This post explains how SOCI works, when to use each mode, and provides performance benchmarks.

GitLab has laid off about 14% of its workforce, roughly 350 employees, as part of a restructuring plan announced last month. The company is exiting 22 countries, flattening management layers, and investing in infrastructure to handle increased traffic from AI workflows, with a sharper focus on R&D.

Harmonic rebuilt their AI Scout using Deep Agents and LangSmith, achieving a 4x increase in user retention and transforming the tool from a rigid search interface to a trusted advisor that handles complex investment queries.

Learn how to use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to improve tool-calling accuracy of a small language model using Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs. The post covers dataset preparation, training, evaluation, and comparison of models.

Worried about Google's AI Overviews killing your traffic? Before switching platforms, read this. Based on 16 years of experience, we answer whether Shopify is good for SEO in 2026 and why Shopify SEO experts are more crucial than ever.

At CVPR, NVIDIA Research presents three papers tackling key challenges in robotic grasping, autonomous driving reasoning, and virtual agent training. GraspGen-X is the first foundation model for zero-shot grasping, adaptable to any gripper. LCDrive accelerates vehicle reasoning using compact latent representations. NitroGen, based on Isaac GR00T, trains embodied agents in virtual environments over thousands of hours. The work emphasizes the importance of large-scale training for generalization.

At CVPR 2026, NVIDIA introduced new physical AI agent skills to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles, robots, and vision AI systems. These skills integrate with NVIDIA Cosmos 3, simulation frameworks, and libraries to automate workflows from scene reconstruction to policy training. Key advancements include Neural Reconstruction, AlpaGym, OmniDreams, Metropolis skills for defect generation, and new robotics tools in Isaac Sim. NVIDIA also released open models like Alpamayo 2 Super and datasets like GRAIL.

A context-efficient CLI coding agent built by agents. Discussed on Product Hunt.

The author paid for Microsoft 365 Premium to test its Copilot agents, finding them unhelpful and confidently wrong. Tasks like Excel file creation, product research, and troubleshooting resulted in dead ends, wasted time, and suggestions that didn't work. The AI's unwavering confidence contrasted with its incompetence.

Slopwatch is a .NET tool that detects cheating behaviors by AI coding assistants, such as disabling tests, suppressing warnings, empty catch blocks, and adding arbitrary delays. It can run as a Claude Code hook or in CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality.

Qwen 3.7 Plus is Alibaba's proprietary reasoning model released in June 2026, scoring 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, far above average. However, it is expensive, slow, and very verbose. The model supports text, image, and video input with a 1M-token context window.

Colour Memory API provides deterministic colour matching, search, and brand audit tools based on historical archives, with REST and MCP interfaces, no LLM required for core functions.

At Microsoft’s Build conference, the company announced new AI initiatives including a super app, reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-like agents. The announcements signal Microsoft’s independent ambitions following its effective split from OpenAI. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman stated the goal is to become one of the top four AI labs, unveiling MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model built from scratch without distillation. Microsoft also emphasized strong enterprise ties and security to compete with rivals.

Perplexity has announced an orchestrator that combines AI models running on your own computer with powerful cloud models and automatically decides which task gets processed where.

AI Specialists launches five prebuilt Claude Code agents—Developer, Architect, Marketer, Analyst, Strategist—each a one-time $35 purchase. The agents come with a shared framework called The Network that enables them to work as a team, targeting solo founders tired of expensive hiring and endless subscriptions.

Enterprise IT leaders struggle with AI pricing, especially achieving ROI. The typical IT exec may not be the right person to decide AI usage as many line-of-business workers experiment on their own. Without a clear AI strategy, pricing negotiations are impossible. Current per-token pricing is disliked, and alternatives like SAP's per-task model aren't better. The core issue: enterprises want value-based pricing while vendors prefer resource-based pricing. The solution may involve an AI committee and tying executive bonuses to project outcomes.

Droppable lets you edit your Shopify theme with AI - no code required. Click any element, describe the change, and see it instantly in a safe preview. Work in a private draft, collaborate with your team, and publish when ready. Every change is tracked and can be rolled back. Free plan available.

GPT-Rosalind now features enhanced biological reasoning, medicinal chemistry expertise, genomics analysis, and experimental workflow capabilities, advancing life sciences research.

Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping.

This article details how Dharma-AI applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to structured OCR tasks by using the model's own degenerate outputs as rejection pairs, achieving an average text degeneration reduction of 59.4% and a peak of 87.6% across five model families, without relying on human preference labels.

OpenSOP is an open-source runtime that converts agent process definitions into typed REST APIs, providing version control and auditability for agent workflows. Developed by Coba.ai, it aims to replace ad-hoc scripts and prompts.

Due to AI demand consuming PC hardware supply chain capacity, 32GB DDR5 RAM now costs at least $375, up from under $100 a year ago. SK hynix warns manufacturing constraints will persist through 2030, while AMD and Intel introduce older products to alleviate price pressure.

Session Vault is a privacy-first session manager for Chrome that lets you save and restore all open tabs and AI chat sessions with one click. Everything stays 100% local—no account, no cloud, no tracking. Built for power users with 30+ tabs open.

Sun is a collaborative voice API for agents, designed for real-time multi-speaker interactions like meetings, group calls, and multi-agent debates. It features a 10x larger context window than competitors and agent-aware barge-in.