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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Microsoft have entered a partnership aimed at helping promising African startups use artificial intelligence to improve their operations and prepare for expansion. The organizations signed a memorandum of understanding during the EBRD’s annual meetings in Amsterdam. The agreement establishes a framework for a pilot programme focused on [...]
When news broke that SpaceX would acquire Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, in a reported $60 billion all-stock deal, most of the discussion centered around AI. This was another milestone and enormous valuation, and signal that AI is still bringing enormous disruption. Those reactions aren’t wrong but they can overshadow the bigger story. The real significance […]
The post AI Bias Is Putting LGBTQIA+ People at Risk appeared first on Partnership on AI .
Beat the 8GB VRAM limit. Learn how to run three different LLMs on a single 8GB GPU using C++ layer multiplexing and admission control. The post 3 Agents. 3 LLMs. 1 Aging GPU: Engineering Parallel Inference on Bare Metal appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Africa’s mobile operators are deploying AI across a growing range of internal functions — including predictive maintenance, network optimization and AI-driven customer service — according to the Mobile Economy Africa 2026 report published this week by the GSMA. The report cited an Airtel initiative launched in Uganda in April 2025, which the telco described as [...]
Since writing this blog post, Open AI has released GPT 5.6; and after re-running evaluations this model performed better than GPT5.4. The recommended agent in JetBrains is now Codex with GPT 5.6 Luna, medium reasoning. __________________________________________________________________________________ JetBrains AI supports multiple coding agents, including Junie, Codex, Claude Agent, and any ACP-compatible agent you bring yourself. Previously, […]
Starting with the Toolbox App 3.6 Early Access Program (EAP), SSH connections to remote environments use the JetBrains Daemon (jetbrainsd) by default. We’re making this change available in the EAP first because jetbrainsd is becoming the shared background service for JetBrains tools. Moving SSH there helps us validate the new connection flow before using it […]
TL;DR The TokenSpeed-kernel is a standalone, open-source subsystem designed to solve backend complexity in LLM inference. It introduces a clean, layered API and registry system that decouples the high-level runtime...
En abril de 2026, el CEO de Duolingo, Luis von Ahn, reconoció que la compañía había retirado uno de los elementos más delicados de su estrategia de inteligencia artificial: el uso de IA dejaba de contar en las evaluaciones de desempeño de sus empleados . Lo llamativo es que, un año antes, una crisis pública en toda regla no había conseguido cambiar su estrategia ni un milímetro. El primer debate se abrió en la primavera de 2025, cuando Duolingo se declaró ‘AI-first’ . Ahí saltó la discusión habitual de la IA frente a las personas. Prendió rápido: usuarios borrándose la app y las redes de la marca inundadas de críticas. Von Ahn resolvió con oficio la crisis reputacional: aclaraciones, matices y un tono más suave. Le funcionó. El fuego se apagó, la estrategia siguió intacta y la empresa continuó creciendo. Pero se había abierto un segundo debate, menos visible pero igualmente importante: el de la evaluación de los empleados. Ese no se aplacaba con una nota de prensa. Fuera apenas trascendió: lo que una empresa haga con sus evaluaciones internas no provoca bajas masivas ni incendia TikTok. Dentro fue otra cosa. No hubo clamor, pero sí una objeción de fondo. Y esta vez el CEO cedió. La comunicación fue casi inversa a la del año anterior: no hubo gran rectificación pública ni operación de imagen. Von Ahn lo mencionó casi de pasada en un podcast: esa métrica se había retirado. Una crisis pública no movió la estrategia . Una objeción interna, sí. Lo interesante no es tanto la difer…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…
Ankit Singh, Assistant Vice President of Content at Pocket FM, has announced his departure from the company after a two year stint. In a LinkedIn post, Singh said he moved from working on retention, revenue and analytics to leading Pocket FM’s global content marketing function. He said his team managed content marketing across international markets and adopted generative AI for content production, brand campaigns, the Discover platform launch and other initiatives. "In the next chapter, I'm working on something of my own with a close friend for people in the middle of a job search," said Singh. His exit came on the same day the shutdown of Pocket TV, Pocket FM's microdrama vertical, came to light. Responding to Entrackr's queries, the company said Pocket TV had been launched as a beta experiment and was concluded around eight months ago. It also reiterated its focus on its core audio business and global expansion ahead of a potential IPO. Singh's departure also comes amid a series of senior leadership exits at Pocket FM in recent months. Last month, Chief Financial Officer Anurag Sharma stepped down after nearly three years with the company to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. During the same month, Senior Vice President Mayank Sancheti also stepped down from his role. Pocket FM has also begun discussions to shift its holding company back to India through a reverse flip as it eyes a public listing in the country. Update at 6:10 PM, June 26 : The story has been updated to…
Here’s a case worth pondering: your app freezes for ten seconds, and you ask an AI agent what’s wrong. What does it actually do? For a long time the honest answer was: it rummages through your code and takes a wild guess. A snapshot taken by a profiler tool is runtime evidence. It knows exactly […]
Danishmartech startup Serpier has raised €1.4 million in funding from True Collectiveand the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) to expand its AI-poweredmarketing platform for e-commerce busi...
Take a practical look at multimodal, any-to-any systems for vision-language reasoning, speech interaction, document intelligence, real-time assistants, local deployment.
Qiskit Paulice, a new Qiskit addon, improves the reliability of quantum circuits by detecting and filtering out errors.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7C] - One LLM call ranks the candidates with reasons. The output is one typed object your auditor can defend The post An LLM as arbiter in RAG retrieval: picking the right candidate with reasons appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Salesforce today announced Agentforce Help Agent, a new pre-packaged service agent that organizations can connect to their knowledge base to provide support to customers and employees across chat, portals, and other digital channels using text or voice. The new agent is also the first offering from Salesforce to feature a new pay-per-resolution model in which organizations only pay when the agent autonomously resolves an issue from start to finish. “It’s a packaged, opinionated solution targeted at the customer service team, built on the Agentforce platform,” said Kishnan Chetan, EVP and GM of Agentforce Service at Salesforce. “Customers pay when their customers’ questions are resolved, i.e., it doesn’t get escalated to human or the customer doesn’t abandon it.” Salesforce built the new service agent on experience from millions of customer service interactions. Chetan noted that tens of thousands of Salesforce customers use Agentforce across sales, marketing, and commerce, but the majority start with service. Salesforce itself has followed that trajectory . Its Help.Salesforce.com service portal has handled 4.3 million customer inquiries since release and has resolved 70% of them. Emphasis on usability and trust Chetan said the team has focused on making the Help Agent easy to deploy, even by business users. Users can enable voice, web, portal, and messaging channels from a single screen, allowing the agent to answer customer questions and manage cases. Users can add additio…
Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to quickly build and deploy AI agents. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt service agent set atop the Agentforce platform. It can be connected to company knowledge, actions and communication channels in minutes – including web, text and voice. […] The post Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New York-based company pitches itself as an AI-native alternative to legacy human capital management software, the category long dominated by Workday […] The post Warp lands $60M to automate payroll, compliance and HR with AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week’s GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming. Plus, Dark Scrolls joins the growing Devolver lineup, alongside Square Enix’s The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. They lead the […]
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics . My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those interactions. When I look back at my thesis now, liquid crystal technology is old hat, and I imagine my work could be completed with AI assistance in a matter of days—maybe hours. But the same cannot be said for the work of the pure mathematics Ph.D. students with whom I shared a cramped office at the University of Edinburgh. At the time, I felt sorry for these colleagues, who day after day sat at their desks, seemingly tearing their hair out and making no progress. (Though I was struggling too, I was at least always making some headway.) When we finished and went our separate ways, some hadn’t even published a paper. Now, in hindsight, I finally understand why they toiled for years on abstract mathematical problems that only a handful of people in the world care about. It wasn’t arrogance, as I thought at the time; they weren’t trying to prove their superior intelligence by being the first to solve a seemingly intractable mathematical problem. It wasn’t even a form of masochism (which was my second guess)—penance for some imagined inadequacy. I realized they derived joy, satisfaction, and meaning from the long journey toward understandi…
LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence with the public beta release of a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents access shared files across clouds, on-premises systems and edge environments. The company said its […] The post Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
As AI automates workflows, scoring, and orchestration, MOps shifts from system management to business impact. The post When AI runs the workflows, what happens to MOps? appeared first on MarTech .
The newsletter resurgence reflects a broader shift in consumer behavior toward curated content, trusted voices, and meaningful engagement. The post The email newsletter is back and winning the inbox appeared first on MarTech .
This is a guest post by Mateusz Maćkowski and Marek Grzelak, co-maintainers of cot.rs and speakers at Rustikon 2026. You can watch their full talk here. In the very beginning, all we wanted to do was build a JSON API. After doing that a few times in Rust, we noticed a recurring pattern. Every new […]
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to…
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In this article, you will learn how to distinguish agentic workflows from autonomous agents by focusing on who owns control flow — a human writing...
To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power's initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reliance on automated systems in production and design. It turns out that those automated systems were not as robust as previously assumed, […]
A reflection on the first month of learning data engineering in public, and what actually kept me going. The post One Month Into Learning Data Engineering in Public: Here’s What I Didn’t Write About appeared first on Towards Data Science .
N26, one of Europe’s most well-known challenger banks, has reached its first full-year profit, new figures show, amid a difficult period for the German challenger bank, which saw a management shake-up...
As enterprises deploy increasing numbers of AI agents across applications and organizations, the Linux Foundation on Wednesday announced plans to launch a new Agent Name Service framework designed to establish identity, ownership, and trust for these systems. The ANS framework , which is expected to allow systems and users to verify who an agent represents, what permissions it has, and whether its code and operational history remain authentic and unchanged, will be based on the existing Domain Name System (DNS) , the Foundation said in a statement. Just like DNS translates human-readable website names into internet addresses, ANS aims to create a standardized naming and discovery layer for AI agents, with the ability for enterprises to publish agent identities through domains they already control, enabling other agents and systems to verify who an agent represents and discover information about its capabilities and ownership before interacting with it, it added. This, the Foundation further added, creates a federated mechanism for agent discovery and verification without any reliance on any proprietary registry or centralized control. Growing demand for an agent identity framework ANS solves an emerging problem for enterprises, especially in scaling AI deployments, said Charlie Dai , principal analyst at Forrester, too. “The agent identity problem is already emerging in early production deployments, particularly where multiple agents interact across tools, APIs, and organiza…
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Hyderabad Police Commissioner said in the advisory that the cybercrime cell is seeing an increase in online fraud cases involving children making in-game purchases through unauthorized UPI payments. The post How games with loot boxes are driving children to make unauthorised UPI payments appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon circuitry
Ely Ratner on Taiwan, allies, and getting China right
E-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart are accelerating their quick commerce ambitions through large scale investments in micro fulfillment centres amid intensifying competition with Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket and JioMart. On Wednesday, Flipkart Minutes announced that it had crossed 1,000 micro fulfilment centres (dark stores) across more than 130 cities and 8,000 pincodes, less than two years after its launch in August 2024. Sources indicate that the company is on track to surpass 1,500 micro fulfilment centres within the next few months. The Walmart-owned company also claimed a 5X increase in order volumes over the past year, led by rapid expansion across tier II and tier III markets. Meanwhile, Amazon unveiled plans to expand Amazon Now, its quick commerce service, to more than 300 cities across India. The e-commerce giant plans to support the rollout through a network of over 1,000 micro fulfilment centres and more than 100 urban fulfillment centers . Currently, it operates more than 500 centres. The expansion plan was unveiled during CEO Andy Jassy's visit to India, where he met government officials, industry leaders and company employees. The firm had earlier announced a $300 million investment to strengthen its infrastructure and operations, with a portion of the capital allocated to expand the footprint of its quick commerce vertical. The latest developments show how India's largest e-commerce companies are increasing their focus on quick commerce, a…
UK-based Blue Lake VC has secured a cornerstone commitment from the British Business Bank, the UK’s largest institutional investor in venture capital. Ukrainians David Gilgur and Lyubov Guk, founding...
MeitY has released OGAI's registration form, but applicants have no clear way to submit it because the authority's portal is not live. The post Online gaming authority releases registration form; but applicants have nowhere to submit It appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
The RBI has revised customer protection rules for digital banking fraud, redefining liability, shifting the burden of proof to banks, and introducing limited compensation for small-value fraud victims. The post RBI issues final amendment directions on limiting customer liability in digital transactions, effective from 2027 appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, in what the US AI company described as the largest known attack of its kind against it. The campaign, carried out between April 22 and June 5, generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, according to a June 10 letter Anthropic sent to senior members of the US Senate Banking Committee, Reuters reported . Anthropic said the effort involved “distillation,” a technique in which a less capable AI model is trained on the outputs of a more advanced system, potentially allowing rivals to replicate some of its capabilities at lower cost. The company said the campaign was conducted by operators affiliated with Alibaba and Alibaba Qwen, Alibaba’s AI lab, according to the report. The allegation comes as businesses adopt generative AI tools across business functions, putting pressure on vendors to show they can detect misuse while keeping services available for corporate customers. The dispute also comes as AI development becomes more closely tied to US-China technology tensions . Anthropic said the alleged campaign could help accelerate China’s ability to reach the capabilities of its advanced Mythos Preview model, while US officials have stepped up scrutiny of advanced AI systems over fears they could be used by military or intelligence users in countries of concern. In February, Anthropic said it had identified similar campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot…
Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have acquired from vaccines
LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world, from the US and UK to Chile to Ireland, a report has found. In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the latest annual review of climate litigation by the London School of Economics (LSE) found a growing number of cases challenging the energy sources, water consumption and air pollution of datacentres, all of which have related climate implications. Continue reading...
Imagine there’s a stranger out there who has nothing but API access to your chatbot. They are interested in knowing whether a specific patient, employee, or customer appears in the data you trained it on. Without breaching the database or stealing backups, this person can theoretically figure out this information with carefully crafted prompts and […]
IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.
A Citizen Lab investigation confirms evidence Russian authorities used Cellebrite tool to hack prominent Russian activist Andrey Pivovarov after the Cellebrite claimed to have ceased sales to Russia. The post Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after company claimed to have ended contract appeared first on Access Now .