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As an engineer who is not a designer and hates slop. Every landing page, app and tui look the same. They're slop and most of them are incomprehensible. Here's how I de-slop my product design. 1. Always consider the whol…

https://p.dw.com/p/5JOAz AI is bringing significant challenges for the gaming industry, but it could also help significantly reduce costsImage: Political-Moments/IMAGO Earlier this month, gaming giant Electronic Arts wa…

Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Managed Deep Agents and LLM Gateway hit public beta, plus Deep Agents v0.7, Tuned Evaluators, Bring Your Own Cloud on AWS, and LangSmith Engine upgrades.

In the age of AI how do agentic engineers estimate their ability to deliver on engineering tasks? I don't think it is actually possible, anymore, but engineers are shipping more code! What a time to be alive. In the old…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations decouples agent evaluation from the framework you build on. As long as your agent emits OpenTelemetry telemetry, the service can score it, whether you use LangGraph, LlamaIndex, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, the Claude Agent SDK, or Strands Agents. This post explains how the framework-agnostic contract works.

Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hack OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks before they escaped their training environment to launch an unprecedented hacking crusade that spread global alarm. The San Francisco AI company conceded on Wednesday that “early signals … could have triggered an earlier response”, as it released a report into the days-long July hack of a major software repository, Hugging Face, considered the first autonomous agent cyber-attack. Continue reading...

TL;DR: AgentPad13 is an open-source take on the $230 Codex Micro and a test of whether an autonomous scientist can teach itself PCB routing. We wanted a more wallet-friendly, open-source Codex Micro, so we asked Marvin…

You’ve shipped a working chat feature. Now comes the hard part: figuring out which framework actually fits your production architecture. The tooling landscape has fractured, and comparing AI agent frameworks in a vacuum…

Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served The post Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled appeared first on The New Stack.

Dive into LangSmith product usage patterns that show how the AI ecosystem and the way people are building LLM apps is evolving.

Reflections on how LangChain has evolved — including our products, ecosystem, and community — over the past two years, and where we're headed next.

See how Podium tests across the lifecycle development of their AI employee agent, using LangSmith for dataset curation and finetuning. They improved agent F1 response quality to 98% and reduced the need for engineering intervention by 90%.

Our new infrastructure for running agents at scale, LangGraph Cloud, is available in beta. We also have a new stable release of LangGraph.

In this post, you will learn how GoDaddy migrated from their legacy business intelligence (BI) tool to Amazon Quick. This was a two-year transformation that delivered results across every dimension of the business: 15,000 hours saved annually, 50% reduction in dashboard count, rendering times cut to under 5 seconds, and AI-powered self-service analytics now accessible to every employee.

Learn how Natera built an automated voice agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets patients book mobile phlebotomy appointments through natural conversation. The post covers the dual-WebSocket bridge, event-driven latency masking, and progressive-trust authentication behind 100% tool-calling accuracy and sub-7-second latency.

The SageMaker Python SDK v3 redesigns script mode with unified ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder classes. This post walks through two end-to-end examples, a scikit-learn Random Forest and a multi-GPU Stable Diffusion 3.5 LoRA fine-tune, showing how SourceCode syncs your local code into any container at runtime so you can iterate without rebuilding Docker images.

Ox-alpha, the stealth model that quickly became the most popular model on OpenRouter in the last few days, is actually The post Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 Flash is cheap, good, and served on Chinese chips appeared first on The New Stack.

The advanced side of supervised fine-tuning data prep. This second post in a two-part series covers evaluating data readiness with learning curves, selecting high-value data subsets, augmenting data with synthetic and distilled examples, and mixing data sources to prevent catastrophic forgetting.

Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning project. This first post in a two-part series covers the foundations of SFT data prep: quality checks, conversational (JSONL) formatting, reasoning and tool-calling schemas, and a representative train/evaluation split.

The gist Auto Browse, the Gemini 3 agentic mode Google started rolling out in Chrome on 28 January 2026, is rationed: 20 multi-step requests a day on Google AI Pro, 200 a day on AI Ultra. That ration is the most informa…

Build, deploy, and monitor production-grade AI agents at scale with LangChain's enterprise agentic AI platform integrated with NVIDIA.

The following article originally appeared on PulseMCP’s blog and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Most MCP demos feature a single server connecting to a single client. For example, you might wire up a Gmail MCP server to Claude Code. It works! It triages your inbox, drafts replies, finds that thing from three […]

Learn proven strategies to speed up your AI agent: reduce latency, optimize LLM calls, enable parallelism, and improve UX. Expert tips from LangChain.

LangGraph Platform, our infrastructure for deploying and managing agents at scale, is now generally available. Learn how to deploy

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Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in another account, without copying source data. This post covers the architecture, security boundary, and two orchestration models: a code-based Strands agent and a declarative AgentCore harness.

We raised $125M at a $1.25B valuation to build the platform for agent engineering.

We look at Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba's open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. We break down where the 180B parameters actually sit: a 125B backbone, a 51B N-gram embedding table, and a 4B multi-token prediction module, with only 6B active per token. We walk through the four architectural changes — the Gated DeltaNet and Qwen Sparse Attention hybrid, Gated Residual, N-gram Embedding, and the Muon optimizer. We also cover the benchmark results, the reported 1/9 training cost against Qwen3.7-Plus, and what self-hosting a 172.78 GiB FP8 checkpoint really demands. The post Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture appeared first on MarkTechPost.

We built WikiBench to test whether generated wikis help coding agents. Pairing a wiki with source code scored higher than source alone, at lower cost.

We shouldn't ignore agentic AI ransomware threats, but the claims of a new ransomware group might be skewing the numbers.

Why LangChain believes in open, customizable cognitive architectures over closed systems. Build reliable LLM agents with OpenGPTs and LangSmith.

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications. "In the rush to deploy AI, organizations have largely bolted conversational AI onto legacy systems," Anand says. "As a result, while many enterprises have adopted digital tools, very few have platforms that are truly integrated, scaled, and capable of seamless orchestration." That gap creates a heavy cognitive load for human agents who must piece together context across disjointed tools to understand what an AI system has already told a customer. The challenge is not simply access to data, but the absence of a shared enterprise context that connects customer identities, interactions, transactions, policies, journeys, and operational systems into a common understanding. Traditional CX architecture was built for linear, human-driven routing, not for managing real-time data flows between autonomous AI systems, data lakes, and human workers. "Today's operational complexity is no longer about adding more intelligence," he adds. "It is about coordinating the existing intelligence across the enterprise, so the enterprise customer never feels the friction of those internal silos. That requires a shared context layer that allows AI systems, applications, and people to operate from the same understanding of the customer and the business." Why orchestration is replacing automation as the top CX priority As that coordination problem grows, Anand says the strategic priority inside enterprises is shifting from automation to orchestration. "Automation solves individual tasks, whereas orchestration connects them into end-to-end outcomes," Anand says. "The next evolution is context-aware orchestration, where AI agents, applications, and human workers operate using a shared understanding of customers, processes, and business intent rather than isolated system records." As organizations accumulate more bots, agents, and AI tools, managing them grows exponentially more complex. Anand says the competitive advantage now sits less in deploying automation and more in how intelligently systems hand off work, collaborate, and escalate. The trap of bolting AI onto legacy systems Companies that simply place a voice AI agent in front of an existing system are repeating the same old mistake. Instead of improving the experience, they end up recreating the deterministic phone menus AI was supposed to replace. The real benefit of AI is the scale, speed, and orchestration it provides. Anand points to a wave of consolidation across the industry, as established contact center providers acquire AI-native firms to close capability gaps and strengthen their customer experience offerings. The broader industry shift reflects a growing recognition that enterprises need more than channels and automation; they need an intelligence layer capable of orchestrating AI, people, data, and workflows across the business. The goal across industries is to make AI the connective layer between customers, employees, and enterprise systems. To achieve that, organizations increasingly need a common enterprise ontology: a shared business vocabulary that aligns customer data, products, policies, SOPs, transactions, and workflows across otherwise disconnected platforms. Tata Communications’ solution is the Interaction Fabric, an orchestration layer that unifies contact center, messaging, collaboration, AI, and customer data while coordinating AI agents, channels, and enterprise systems in real time. Underpinning that orchestration is a context-driven architecture that continuously connects identities, conversations, transactions, and operational data so interactions retain continuity across channels and touchpoints. That means AI and agents can move across voice, WhatsApp, chat, email, and CRM workflows without losing customer context. Identity, intent, and AI-driven insight flow continuously across channels instead of remaining trapped in disconnected applications. The next phase of orchestration is not simply coordinating tasks across systems, but coordinating them through a shared understanding of the enterprise. Context graphs, built on enterprise ontologies, create that common understanding by connecting customers, interactions, products, policies, decisions, and outcomes across organizational silos. This allows AI agents and human workers to operate from the same source of context, driving more accurate decisions, seamless handoffs, and consistent customer experiences. But synchronizing customer intent, conversation history, enterprise data, and AI decision-making across channels only works without lag. Legacy networks not designed for modern data frequency create what Anand calls data gravity, producing latency and inconsistent journeys as users switch channels. "The underlying network needs to be engineered to be as agile as the AI systems running on top of it," he explains. "Interactions stay synchronous and technology itself becomes invisible, leaving only an experience that feels effortless." Making AI a better partner for human agents Effective shared visibility between human agents and AI systems starts with the agent experience rather than any single technology. The most effective implementations allow both the AI and human agent to operate from the same contextual understanding of the customer, ensuring that information gathered in one interaction can inform the next regardless of channel or system. Automated call summaries, real-time sentiment analysis, and AI-powered assistance provide agents with instant, actionable insights and suggested next steps directly within their workflow. That allows AI to handle routine, high-volume tasks such as password resets, delivery tracking, and account updates, while human agents focus on interactions requiring judgment and empathy. "If a customer is facing a sudden crisis like a fraudulent transaction, the AI can instantly block the card, but it cannot provide the emotional comfort and delicate communication needed in that moment of panic," Anand says. "The answer to the dilemma is intelligent orchestration, rather than a choice between systems." In practice, AI handles the immediate technical transaction, while real-time sentiment analysis recognizes the customer's distress and routes the call to a human expert. The objective is to orchestrate AI and human agents together so efficiency never comes at the cost of brand trust and loyalty. Building a unified CX architecture Moving from fragmented experimentation to coordinated orchestration requires both technical and organizational change, Anand says, beginning with consolidating data and fragmented point solutions onto a unified, cloud-first platform. "IT and CX teams need to work more collaboratively," he explains, describing that alignment as the second necessary shift, this time at the organizational level. At the architecture level, Anand says communication APIs need to be embedded into the enterprise's core so every function operates from the same customer context instead of maintaining its own siloed data. Increasingly, this means moving beyond integration alone toward a contextual architecture where a shared ontology and context graph provide a common understanding across CX, operations, sales, service, and AI systems. The deeper organizational change, he says, is a mindset shift from reactive support toward proactive, predictive, and personalized engagement, which he calls the three Ps. How AI agents will shape the future of CX Customer engagement over the next several years will be defined by real-time intelligence, increasing autonomy, and seamless orchestration across touchpoints, and persistent enterprise context that follows customers, employees, and AI agents wherever interactions occur. Rather than analyzing interactions after the fact, enterprises will increasingly shape conversations in real time. "The future of CX will be defined by simplification, aligning data, infrastructure, and operating models around clear customer outcomes rather than adding more models and tools," Anand says. "The rise of AI-powered agents and agent-to-agent interactions is a defining trend, with AI systems moving beyond assisting humans to independently managing and resolving interactions, creating a largely invisible layer of engagement that improves speed and efficiency." Human agents will increasingly work alongside AI, supported by real-time conversational intelligence and next-best-action recommendations to deliver what Anand calls Total Experience: a unified model that brings together customer, employee, and AI-driven experiences. Tata Communications is building toward that future through its Voice AI, AI Workers, and Total Experience Hub solutions. "Ultimately, customer engagement will evolve from being reactive to predictive and increasingly generative," Anand says. "Enterprises won't just be responding to needs, but actively shaping and improving customer journeys in real time." Sponsored articles are content produced by a company that is either paying for the post or has a business relationship with VentureBeat, and they’re always clearly marked. For more information, contact [email protected].

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Qdrant and LangChain deliver production-ready RAG performance with async support, optimized resource usage, and scalable vector search for LLM apps.

Data-driven-characters is a repo for creating, debugging, and interacting your own chatbots conditioned on your own story corpora.

Access multiple LLMs, embeddings, and AI tools through Eden AI's LangChain integration. Unified API for text generation, OCR, speech-to-text, and more.

Discover how developers build LLM applications in 2023. Insights on popular models, vectorstores, retrieval strategies, and testing methods from LangSmith.

Four falsifiable conditions for agentic coding replacing juniors, tested against METR, OpenAI, DORA and Stanford primary source evidence The post What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Build production-ready AI agents with LangChain. Technical guide covering OpenAI functions, tools, prompts, and architecture for Cal.ai's scheduling assistant.

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