Daily digest / 20 October 2026
See how an AI shopping agent can turn a room photo into a personalized shopping experience—from finding the right products to updating an order. In this demo for fictional home goods retailer Vesper & Alder, a shopper uses voice and images to create a cozy reading nook. The ag…
Automated attack surface analysis and reduction can meaningfully improve the security of deployed software in the near term. In this post, we preview data we’ve collected from applying attack surface reduction techniques to large open-source codebases using Claude.
Learn how i14 trained and served Laplace 3B, a linear attention model, on AWS Trainium2 using native PyTorch. Its recurrent state stays fixed at 29.5 MB per sequence regardless of context length, avoiding the growing key-value cache of transformer models and keeping serving me…
My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones ( play it here ). Unlike my previous experiments , this one is actually fun to play . I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got there by telling Claude to "M…
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
AI tools have made it easy to vibe code agents. Building and maintaining an enterprise...
The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can work with Smartsheet without switching tools.
How Amazon partnered with AVERI to independently assess — and improve — our internal safety testing of Amazon models.
Enterprise supply chains are data-rich but insight-poor, with the data to decide scattered across ERP, monitoring, procurement, and email. This post shows how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore exposes those systems as a governed tool layer, and how Amazon Quick turns them into one conv…
Today we're introducing agent memory on Agent Bricks, Databricks' agent developer...
We present Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR, a family of audio-language models that builds upon its predecesor Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR with improved speech recognition and expanded capabilities in speaker-diarized transcription and general audio understanding. The family retains support for 30 l…
Western open models strike back
Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
We asked an internal research Claude model to design minibinders (small proteins that attach tightly to a target) against scorpion neurotoxins.
Lab Director Chris White has worked on research challenges with real-world implications—from new approaches to wartime data analysis to tools for combating human trafficking. He talks to program manager Weishung Liu about the influences that led to the work and more. The post …
My new book is out today... what happened since the last one
Four cities. One clear message: Europe is building what’s next in AI. Tomorrow, Jensen takes the stage at NVIDIA GTC Berlin to continue the conversation. See you there.
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Voxtral 3: Mistral's voice agent SDK for real-time speech in 50+ languages, accurate transcription, emotional TTS, deep tool use.
The distributed inference framework makes serving large models on your own infrastructure reliable and affordable for the agentic era.
Learn how to transcribe a podcast with AI in five steps, format the transcript as SRT or VTT, and publish it on podcast platforms and your website.
Eleven Realtime is a new class of Speech to Speech models for voice agents that sound natural. Available in ElevenAgents and the Realtime API.
How 3PL Trinity Logistics used ElevenAgents to automate 30,000 inbound carrier calls/month, lift margins 25% on automated bookings, and cut costs 40%.
An independent Schlotzsky’s and Cinnabon franchisee cut menu repricing time by 95% and built a workflow that could free up $100K in cash flow.
FairStress is a new benchmark that reveals demographic differences in how LLMs defend and explain their decisions, even when their final choices appear fair.
Terminal X’s Eval Agent grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric, catching 25% more deviances from a fund’s mandate with GPT-6.1 Sol.
Decision models have exploded onto the scene recently, starting with TypeSafe’s Jev, followed by Perplexity’s Decider, Liquid’s d1, Cloudflare’s Clef, and OpenAI’s Decisions API 1 . These models promise fast, inexpensive classification. Decision models are an appealing low-cos…
Electronic health records are written to support care, not retrieval. Across years of oncology notes, the primary diagnosis is restated in report after report, while the events that shape a patient's course, such as a recurrence or a change in therapy, may be recorded only onc…
Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they’re not going to be in super wide use just yet.
Anthropic announces updates to embedding independent evaluators
We identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
A report describing a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack and how we disrupted it.
OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.
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