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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending i…

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these cha…

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley …

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

Most RAG Hallucinations Are Extraction Errors: Seven Patterns for a Typed Generation Contract

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8ter] - Naming the RAG error correctly matters: model reads the context, so a wrong answer is an extraction error, not a hallucination. Seven typed-contract pa…

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a r…

Getting Started with OmniVoice-Studio

OmniVoice Studio is built on a premise that everything runs on your hardware. Voice cloning, video dubbing, real-time dictation, voice design, all of it local, all of it free for personal use, no API …

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m…

Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML

Patience, Optimism, Discipline, Projects, Teams The post Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Prompt Compression Techniques: How to Reduce LLM Costs Without Losing Important Context

Large language models often receive more information than they need. A prompt may include long instructions, retrieved documents, chat history, examples, and tool descriptions. This increases token us…

7 Best Claude Code Alternatives for CLI Agentic Coding

Discover seven cheaper, faster Claude Code alternatives for CLI agentic coding, with open-source tools, local models, MCP support, and better context control.

Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower

The hidden cost of asynchronous systems, how tiny CPU tasks quietly became our biggest bottleneck while scaling hundreds of LLM agents. The post Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower appear…

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their com…

Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the …

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacit…

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

The Anthropic Economic Index connector - Anthropic

The Anthropic Economic Index connector Anthropic

A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund - Anthropic

A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund Anthropic

Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The …

Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: Iterate top-k One at a Time

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8bis] - Two regimes for sending retrieved candidates to the generation brick, the sufficiency signal that picks between them, and the per-question type dispatc…

How To Build Your Own LLM Runtime From Scratch

If you have ever wanted to actually build an LLM inference runtime yourself — pack your own weights, own every barrier, capture your own CUDA graphs — this is what that journey looks like on an H100. …

AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic

AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthro…

Kaggle + Google’s Free 5-Day Agentic AI Course

Google and Kaggle's 5-Day AI agents course is now freely available to everyone.

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

Build an LLM Agent That Can Write and Run Code

A hands-on walkthrough of code execution with the OpenAI Agents SDK and Docker The post Build an LLM Agent That Can Write and Run Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions

News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

10 Newsletters Keeping You Ahead in AI

Cut through AI noise with 10 curated newsletters covering daily news, technical research, policy, and builder tools.

Detecting Vulnerabilities in Agent Skills with SkillSpector: From Green Checkmark to Real Security Judgment

Static analysis nailed the malicious skill and over-flagged the useful one. The gap between those results is where human judgement actually earns its keep. The post Detecting Vulnerabilities in Agent …

Advancing the next era of national science

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Is Here: The Efficiency Release

On July 21, 2026, while everyone was still waiting on the much-delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google slipped out a mid-cycle update to its speed tier: Gemini 3.6 Flash. No new frontier claims, no dramatic re…

SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up

SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project, teaming with nearly 20 partners to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China. In a keynote titled ‘Intelligent Transformation and Symbiosis,’ Yang Fan –…

Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta res…

Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it.…

Introducing OpenAI Presence

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex

NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.

Agentic AI vs AI Automation: What’s the Real Difference?

This scene is playing out across engineering teams everywhere. Someone wraps a few LangChain calls inside a loop, adds a couple of tools, and proudly declares, “We’ve built an AI agent.” The demo look…

Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

Prompt Engineering Isn’t Enough: How Four Bricks of Context Engineering Stop RAG Hallucinations

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #9bis] - Your RAG isn’t hallucinating, it’s answering the wrong context faithfully. On real NIST and World Bank documents, watch each of the four bricks break, …

Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs

Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a…

Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

I Tried Fine-Tuning a Robot AI Model on Colab. Here Is What Worked

A reproducible 100-step LoRA fine-tuning run for OpenVLA, with dataset checks, Colab setup, training metrics, and W B evidence. The post I Tried Fine-Tuning a Robot AI Model on Colab. Here Is What Wor…

Run the Mythos Enhanced Coding Model Locally with llama.cpp and Pi

Run Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M locally with llama.cpp, connect it to Pi coding agent, and build fast local coding workflows using MTP speculative decoding and an OpenAI-compatible API.

How Much of a Data Science Workflow Can Run on a GPU Today? Part 1: Accelerating Data Preparation

Exploring GPU acceleration with cuDF, cudf.pandas, and the Polars GPU Engine The post How Much of a Data Science Workflow Can Run on a GPU Today? Part 1: Accelerating Data Preparation appeared first o…

The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus

You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. So…

5 Free Courses to Go From AI Beginner to Practitioner

Follow this free five-course roadmap to build real AI skills, from classical algorithms to training LLMs from scratch.

Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery

Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. …

Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.

Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 ar…

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.

Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants - Anthropic

Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants Anthropic

A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up Claude Code for High Performance Agentic Programming

This article walks through the actual configuration, permissions, hooks, and command habits that separate a fresh install from a setup that holds up under real, sustained agentic work.

Top 5 MCP Servers for High-Performance Agentic Development

Here are five that are genuinely worth wiring into a high-performance agent development setup, chosen for what they do to an agent's actual capability rather than their star count.

Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

US public health agencies to test OpenAI and Anthropic AI models

Public health departments across the United States will test generative AI tools under a new programme involving the Coalition for Health AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Accenture. The Public Health Use Ca…

Kimi K3 open-weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-weight model has been read almost entirely through its parameter count since it launchedon July 16. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it is the largest open-weight model released …

Complete Guide to Thinking Machines Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled Inkling, its first general-purpose open-weights foundation model. It is a multimodal MoE model with 975B parameters, 41B active parameters, and a 1M-token context wi…

Top 10 GitHub Repositories Trending in July 2026 (AI, ML & GenAI Edition)

If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, tr…

Could Your AI Systems Already Be High-Risk Under the EU AI Act?

Access the on-demand webinar to understand what the latest guidance means for your AI governance program and what your organization should do next.

KDnuggets Weekly Roundup: Week of July 13, 2026

Stop Using If-Else Chains: Use the Registry Pattern in Python Instead • 5 Real-World SQL Projects to Build Your Data Portfolio • 10 YouTube Channels Keeping You Ahead in AI • Structured Language Model…

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capit…

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

How to Connect MCP Servers with Claude (Claude Desktop and Claude Code)

Connecting MCP servers to Claude allows it to work with external tools, files, databases, repositories, and other systems instead of operating only within the chat window. The setup differs slightly b…

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Fable 5: Benchmarks, Pricing & Hands-On

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 are currently fighting for the frontier-model crown. Fable 5 holds a slight edge in general intelligence, while Sol hits back with stronger coding performance, faster ex…

Connect more of your apps to Search

You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.

Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

Inside the Claude Fable 5 System Prompt: A Full Breakdown

THE GIST ▸ What it is: A 3,826-line system prompt steering Claude Fable 5 inside the Claude app, pulled from a public GitHub archive. ▸ What’s in it: Rules about safety, tone and restraint. ▸ Why it m…

What is Meta Prompting and How does it work?

Prompts shape every interaction with a large language model. Clear instructions produce focused, useful responses, while vague ones often lead to inconsistent results. This becomes harder when teams n…

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation

Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research - Anthropic

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research Anthropic

How to Measure Video Similarity: 6 Techniques I Tested (and the One I Shipped) 

Two short clips. One question: how alike do they look? Sounds trivial, it isn’t, and I learned that the slow way. My setup: one reference clip, eight others to rank against it, all waterfalls (more on…

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

Introducing a way to reflect on how you use Claude - Anthropic

Introducing a way to reflect on how you use Claude Anthropic

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.

New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

Redeploying Claude Fable 5 - Anthropic

Redeploying Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is now available - Anthropic

Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is now available Anthropic

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 - Anthropic

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers

Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

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

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 - Anthropic

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic

Agents for financial services - Anthropic

Agents for financial services Anthropic