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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

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Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting

Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations.

Robust.AI chooses Aptiv PULSE sensor for Gen 3 Carter mobile robot

Aptiv provides sensor fusion from radar and vision using AI to enable Robust.AI's Carter robot to move safely around people.

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services

In this technical collaboration between AWS and the authors, we present a pragmatic solution: agentic overlays. Agentic overlays are thin wrapper layers that transform traditional REST-based services…

a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most

Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in exchange.

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds

DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source coding model family built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5. Instead of a fixed harness, the model learns its own scaffold during reinforcement learning. The…

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch sizes and sequence lengths that take…

Implementing super resolution by deploying SeedVR2 on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement video upscaling using SeedVR2 on SageMaker AI. We cover the solution architecture, walk through the deployment steps, and show performance comparisons…

Build self-service AWS Health analytics to find actionable health insights with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show you how to build Chaplin (Customer Health and Planned Lifecycle Intelligence Nexus), an open source solution that uses AI agents exposed through the Model Context Protocol (MCP)…

Building agentic AI applications with a modern data mesh strategy on AWS

This post shows how to build a governed, serverless data mesh on AWS that provides the secure, scalable data foundation production agentic AI requires.

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Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

TokenSpeed-Kernel: Portable APIs and High-Performance Kernels for Multi-Silicon LLM Inference

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…

Repositioning retail for the AI era

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…

Google Desktop CTR Climbs While Mobile Dips, Report Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Desktop and mobile clickthrough rates are splitting, according to new benchmark data. Clicks are growing on desktop while declining on mobile.

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81.8% Of My ‘AI Assistant’ Traffic Was Fake. The Googlebot Number Was Worse via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

ClaudeBot outpaced Googlebot on a new site. Here's what verified crawl data actually looks like, and how to get your own.

Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs

Adobe said that it will integrate Topaz Labs' tools across its apps.