Enterprise data lakes accumulate tables faster than human stewards can document or classify them, leaving columns with missing descriptions and unassigned governance labels. This documentation debt undermines data discovery, access control, and regulatory compliance. We present Glyph, a production system that frames two coupled problems, column description generation and column type annotation for data classification, as cooperating LLM agents orchestrated as stateful graphs. The Descriptor grounds generation in the pipeline source code that produces each column, retrieved on demand from an…

Moving from closed to open source models can take weeks, not years. A five-stage playbook: discover, evaluate, adapt, decide, and production.

Agentic LLM systems that generate code through multi-turn tool use face a fundamental context problem: each session starts from zero, discarding the configuration choices, domain constraints, data schemas, and tool-use patterns that made previous sessions productive. Naively persisting entire conversation histories is both token-inefficient and counterproductive—irrelevant context degrades generation quality. We introduce shared selective persistent memory, a memory architecture for agentic systems that identifies and retains four categories of reusable context—task specifications, data…

This week on the a16z show, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, made the point that developers have been The post OpenAI president: “The computer should be there to empower you.” So stop retooling software for AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular. Asked if they support or oppose the construction of data centers to power AI tech, 61 percent of the 1,503 likely voters surveyed in early September (ahead of the recent AI safety slowdown discussion) said they were opposed, with only 14 percent saying they strongly support. The split was about even among 2024 Donald Trump voters, at 49 percent support to 45 percent oppose, while people who had voted for Kamala Harris or who didn't vote leaned opp … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this web UI for trying out the new models. You can select a model and voice preset, enter an optional system prompt and then start a voice conversation through your browser, including the ability to interrupt the model while it is talking. The implementation uses no libraries. It connects to the wss://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/ws/google.ai.generativelanguage.v1alpha.GenerativeService.BidiGenerateContent?key=... WebSocket endpoint and uses a Web Audio API AudioContext for both capture and playback. Here's the Gemini Live tutorial f…

A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all. At an event in Washington today to warn about the dangers of AI, US senator Bernie Sanders said that Congress has been ‘asleep at the wheel'. Oddly, Steve Bannon appeared at the same event. But is this response a distraction from the more immediate problems AI is already causing? Kai Wright and Carter Sherman are joined by Guardian tech reporter Johana Bhuyian to put this moment in context, and she explains why we should be cynical about industry calls for regulation Continue reading...

Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with the announcement of Koa — Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. Huang didn’t just take the stage. He walked into […]

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Learn how to leverage NVIDIA’s cuDNN Frontend Graph API to build custom kernel fusions, autotuning engine configurations, FP8-style epilogues, scaled dot-product attention, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph captures. This practical tutorial demonstrates how to optimize deep learning computations directly below framework abstractions while validating results against PyTorch The post Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants. The proposals were revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, met with Labor ministers and warned that Australia’s copyright laws were preventing the company from training models locally. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

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At San Francisco conference Dario Amodei reiterates need for AI slowdown as Jensen Huang says argued against it Anthropic’s CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development. Following shortly after, Nvidia’s CEO argued against such deceleration. Dario Amodei used an automotive analogy to make his point: when a competing car company has a safety incident like brake failures, it is a moment for all car companies to stop and review their own practices, he said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce convention on Tuesday. “It’s very tempting to attack your competitor and say these guys are unsafe,” he said. “But I think the more responsible way to respond to it is to say, let’s look at our own record. We may not have had this big, hi…

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date. The models execute tools and API calls in the background while the conversation keeps flowing, process live visual inputs, and switch between 97 languages mid conversation. Extended Thinking ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index with 82.6 and scores 97.7% on Big Bench Audio. Both are available today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio at $0.005/min for audio input, with all generated audio carrying Google DeepMind's SynthID watermark. The post Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

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Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China. Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological adversaries were united in warning of the potential dangers of AI and demanding stringent guardrails against Silicon Valley’s “oligarchs”. Continue reading...

Calls for an AI slowdown come as enterprise demand is building for cheaper and unregulated open source models from China.

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Bernie Sanders criticised the advancement of artificial intelligence at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington Tuesday, warning that this version of AI is 'the least capable version of AI that we will ever have'. The independent senator from Vermont was speaking at the conference alongside a number of AI sceptics, including Steve Bannon Continue reading...

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We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a “botnet” threatens the entire internet; it’s all a big tech psyop. We look at six claims and reactions to them. Continue reading...

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On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivaram was watching on Zoom with about forty others — his team at Emerald AI in their San Francisco conference room, engineers […]

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed audience — with more than 8,000 attendees this year, up from 3,500 last year — […]

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AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its misery We can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has declared that fears over artificial intelligence were all a hoax dreamed up by conspiracy theorists. Obviously that includes the top bods at Anthropic and its competitors, who all called for a coordinated global slowdown while the industry works out how to mitigate the risks. Still, good to know the tech bros are just fantasists and space cadets at heart. All that was needed to keep humanity safe and well, The Donald insisted, was a president with a very high IQ. Someone very like him. The only man alive who could out-think the combined power of the world’s supercomputers. He could tell them wher…