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VideoSonarQube + OpenAI: Agentic Development — Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar
Killian Carlsen-Phelan runs it through SonarQube, brings the findings into Codex and asks the agent to fix the vulnerable query.
Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‐Image‐2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking.
The State of AI Report 2026
After months of research and revisions right up to the last minute, I’m thrilled to bring you the 9th annual State of AI Report.
Text is so 2023
Hark (from Brett Adcock - Figure robots) launched which suggests tasks as one-tap action buttons.
Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock
Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confluence.
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people.
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.
What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Jennifer Neville is a partner research manager at Microsoft who’s built a career around understanding and advancing AI for real-world use, and much like the human-AI interactions she’s been studying, her early-career path was multiturn: math, then physics; cognitive science, then work; and finally computer science—despite her best efforts to avoid the field.
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct’s agent is always just a text away.
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
The recently released Jev AI model has been quite a cultural phenomenon in technical communities in the past 2 weeks.
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110
Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it.
Does better work always mean better workers?
But AI is already changing how on-the-job learning works.
VideoWhat Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient.
Is a second MSc worth it? [D]
I’m an AI research engineer based in Africa with about 3 YoEs in RL, LLMs, post-training, and systems efficiency (CUDA/vLLM).
Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue.
OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1
Quick recap: it's an open-source (Apache-2.0) medical AI toolkit with one rule we never break: patient data stays on your machine.
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage.
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge.
🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questions
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
What do you want from AI?
We’re launching a new study using Anthropic Interviewer to learn from your experiences with AI, and we’d like you to participate.
Deploying an HSTU Generative Recommender with NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton
Generative recommender (GR) systems are emerging as a powerful new approach for large-scale personalization.
VideoThe Billion Dollar AI Advantage Is Disappearing
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Maildun for Mac
Design on-brand emails by hand, with AI, or over MCP
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
If you've always wanted to say you have "people" to attend your meetings, there's an app in development for that, as long as you're comfortable with the idea of eventually sending an AI bot in your place and potentially offending your human colleagues.
Flahy uses knowledge graphs to support AI-powered healthcare
The post Flahy uses knowledge graphs to support AI-powered healthcare appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Simplifying domains for people and agents
You just thought of your next great idea, and buying the right domain feels like the easiest way to make that first bit of progress.
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Mistral Opens German Hub in Munich to Advance Industrial AI in Europe’s Largest Economy
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
VideoBuild with Perception Agents — Emile Baizel & Shruti Arora, Amazon AGI Lab
A coding agent says it added a duck icon to a podcast page; a browser verification pass checks whether the change actually appeared.
VideoBuilding Self-Learning Loops for Your Agent — Fuad Ali, Arize AI
A shopping assistant confidently returns products outside a user's budget because its price filter is broken.
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing $581.69 billion, organizations must position their workforce to use AI to power their operations while employing it responsibly.
Building AI builders: Playbook for closing the AI knowledge-capability gap
The biggest barrier to AI adoption isn’t awareness.
How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock
Building grounded AI on Amazon Bedrock, Qlik Answers tackles a common enterprise problem: employees aren’t short on data.
VideoHow to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows — Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
Nnenna Ndukwe uses SignalPay, a deliberately narrow FastAPI payments application, to turn that sequence into quality gates for an AI coding agent.
Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI
College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.
6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s, the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer.
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025.
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb.
The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
In announcing those new apps on Reddit earlier this week, software developer Brandon Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to create "clean-room replacements" for Adobe's closed source software in Rust (with WebAssembly versions available for use in a browser).
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled.
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car.
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights.