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OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

The organization is prioritizing an AI browser called Dia.

A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

Retail supply chain algorithms can melt the Almond Joy out of Halloween.

Amazon Web Services on October 22, 2026 released a generally available upgrade to the Amazon Polly Generative text-to-speech engine, adding 14 new voices across nine locales and bringing generative voices to Hindi and Finnish for the first time. In an AWS Machine Learning Blog post, the company described the updated engine as producing more expressive, more accurate speech output with low latency, now available in production. The release arrives as a drop-in upgrade for existing generative…

RIVANNA announced on October 22, 2026, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) clearance for BoneEnhance, a machine learning software module for the company's Accuro XV diagnostic ultrasound system. The module segments bone and surrounding tissues and supports visualization of skeletal anatomy in three dimensions during image review. The Charlottesville, Virginia-based company, which develops AI-enabled clinical decision-support systems, described BoneEnhance as the first…

Customers are letting AI agents use their credentials to access accounts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and other major U.S. banks, sometimes without direct instructions. Morgan Stanley has blocked agents, while other banks are restricting access. Most plan to limit agents to read-only access. The article Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials appeared first on The Decoder .

Designing a promising molecule is only the beginning of drug research. Someone still has to make it, test it, and turn the results into a better next experiment. Warp Sciences is betting that this physical bottleneck is where AI can create its next major advantage. Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization, or CRO, combining experienced chemists, AI, and robotics. Led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer…

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<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation">Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation</a></strong></p> News today from Anthropic:</p> <blockquote> <p>We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-th

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The Amazon Polly Generative engine gets a major upgrade: more expressive, more accurate speech with low latency, plus 14 new voices across 9 locales and general availability of Hindi and Finnish. This drop-in upgrade requires no code changes and is now generally available in production.

Sources at several banks have indicated that they have been taking actions independent of user instructions.

Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now includes training sessions, generally available today. You write and coordinate your own post-training loop (custom loss functions, reward signals, or multi-turn reinforcement learning) while SageMaker AI handles GPU allocation, distributed execution, fault recovery, and checkpoint storage.

Amazon SageMaker AI training session APIs let you write your own LLM training loop (SFT, RL, or custom objectives) in a Python script while the service runs the GPUs. This post introduces the programming model and three SDK clients, then walks through a GRPO loop on GSM8K and a reinforcement learning workload on competitive programming.

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With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance capabilities that enable companies to manage agents in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The article Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine appeared first on The Decoder .

Amazon Quick is a HIPAA-eligible service, but eligibility is not the same as compliance. This post explains who HIPAA applies to, how PHI flows through Amazon Quick, what the platform provides for regulated environments, and a step-by-step guide to deploying compliant AI agents in a healthcare environment.

The Browser Company announced on October 22, 2026 that it will sunset its Arc browser on December 22, 2026, ending new Arc account creation effective immediately and directing members to Dia, the AI-focused browser that will carry the company's engineering and security focus going forward. In a farewell post on Arc's website, the company said Arc for macOS and Windows will stop working on the shutdown date, members will no longer be able to sign in to their Arc accounts, and it will deactivate…

Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent produces it, and how to get that audio back to a browser over Server-Sent Events or a unified binary transport.

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn't even over yet. But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed

Open source AI thrives when people come together to learn, build, share knowledge, and contribute. Behind every project is a community of developers, researchers, educators, and contributors helping make these... The post Meet the 2026 PyTorch Foundation Ambassadors appeared first on PyTorch .

Liquid AI released RIPL, a real-time inference engine for its LFM models. On one B200, LFM2.5-1.2B on RIPL showed 14.4 to 28.4x lower p95 latency than Qwen3.5-0.8B on vLLM. The post Liquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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Cohere on October 22, 2026, announced the public beta of Confidential Computing on Cohere Model Vault, its dedicated, fully managed model inference platform, running on NVIDIA H100 GPUs on Microsoft Azure for enterprises processing sensitive data. The launch extends Model Vault to workloads involving clinical records, financial information, privileged documents, intellectual property, and proprietary source code. Cohere said the goal is to let enterprises use the capabilities and operational…

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METR and Redwood Research on October 22, 2026 published a public account of a pilot exercise in which one employee from each organization spent three weeks with deep access to OpenAI's internal infrastructure, stress-testing the company's internal misalignment monitoring system. The evaluators reported discovering a number of novel vulnerabilities in the system as it existed on and before July 21, 2026. The exercise ran from July 21 to August 11, 2026, and focused primarily on estimating the…

Uber is rolling out OpenAI's ChatGPT Work agent to more than 30,000 employees across its global workforce starting October 22, 2026, expanding an earlier 1,000-employee pilot into a company-wide deployment inside ChatGPT Enterprise, according to OpenAI's announcement. The announcement describes the expansion as Uber's first company-wide deployment of an agentic platform tailored for knowledge work. Teams across functions including operations, finance, marketing, and product will gain access…

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new hosted projects on October 22, 2026: Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic; Open Responses, contributed by OpenAI; OpenEnv, contributed by Hugging Face; and OpenSandbox, contributed by Alibaba. The additions bring AAIF to 10 hosted projects in its first year, up from three launch projects in December 2025. The announcement coincides with AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, taking place October 22 and 23, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center…

GPU applications are processing ever-growing datasets with increasingly powerful accelerators. According to the 2025 Stanford AI Index, compute for notable AI...

Leidos said on October 22, 2026, that it will deploy artificial intelligence automation to streamline and accelerate the Pentagon's asset management system under a new $95 million five-year contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency. In an announcement datelined Reston, Virginia, the company said the system, known as the Enterprise Logistics Management System or ELMS, is used by more than 50 agencies to manage over 80 million items of government property valued at more than $140 billion…

Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a measured autoscaling policy from two live-endpoint measurements, Q_max and T_total, instead of guesswork.

Rescale used the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) framework on AWS, with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, to build an intelligent test-triage agent in weeks. Learn how AI-DLC structures AI-assisted development and how Rescale is scaling the practice across its engineering organization.

Phylo, Inc. announced on October 22, 2026, a partnership with Bayer to deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo's agentic AI platform, to accelerate scientific research and evaluation, with Bayer scientists gaining full access for literature and omics evidence workflows in drug discovery. The Bayer Partnership Under the agreement, Phylo will provide Bayer with full access to its agentic platform. Phylo says the platform helps Bayer scientists bring together scientific literature, biomedical data, and…

Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their operating costs. Yet 75 percent of CEOs plan to keep raising their technology budgets. So far, strategic conviction is beating measurable results. The article Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research .

AI developers aren’t just running a single model anymore—they’re orchestrating multiple models in parallel, chaining inference calls, and experimenting...