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Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive advantage in artificial intelligence will come not from better language models but from proprietary data and causal reasoning.The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI systems that identify cause-and-effect relationships rather than mere correlations, is using a significant portion of the capital to deploy what it claims is one of the fa
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Google cannot require partners like Apple or Samsung to distribute its generative AI products like Gemini as a condition of licensing Googleâs other apps such as Google Maps, a federal judge ruled on Friday as part of the final remedies judgment governing how Google must address its illegal ... Read more âș
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AMD CEO Lisa Su used her appearance at WIREDâs Big Interview conference in San Francisco to push back against growing speculation that the AI sector is overheating. Read more âș
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U.S. and Canadian cybersecurity agencies say Chinese-linked actors deployed "Brickstorm" malware to infiltrate critical infrastructure and maintain long-term access for potential sabotage. Reuters reports: The Chinese-linked hacking operations are the latest example of Chinese hackers targeting critical infrastructure, infiltrating sensitive networks and "embedding themselves to enable long-term access, disruption, and potential sabotage," Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Inf Read more âș
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OpenAI researchers have introduced a novel method that acts as a "truth serum" for large language models (LLMs), compelling them to self-report their own misbehavior, hallucinations and policy violations. This technique, "confessions," addresses a growing concern in enterprise AI: Models can be dishonest, overstating their confidence or covering up the shortcuts they take to arrive at an answer. For real-world applications, this technique evolves the creation of more transparent and... Read more âș
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For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Baidu have rapidly set the pace in developing large-scale, open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models â often with permissive licenses and leading benchmark performance. While OpenAI fielded its own open source, general purpose LLM this summer as well... Read more âș
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AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new features aim to give enterprises more control over agent behavior and performance. AWS also revealed... Read more âș
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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to automate the full software development lifecycle.The announcement, made during AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote address at the company's annual re:Invent conference, introduces three specialized AI agents designed to act as virtual team members:... Read more âș
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro â a development that could reshape the competitive landscape between American tech giants and their Chinese challengers.The Hangzhou-based company launched DeepSeek-V3.2, designed as an everyday reasoning assistant, alongside DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, a high-powered variant that achieved gold-medal performance in f Read more âș
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While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industryâa $250 billion behemothâhas remained stubbornly analog. A London-based startup founded by former McKinsey consultants is betting $2 million that it can crack open this resistant market, one Excel spreadsheet at a time.Ascentra Labs announced Monday that it has closed a $2 million seed round led by NAP,... Read more âș
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As AI systems enter production, reliability and governance canât depend on wishful thinking. Hereâs how observability turns large language models (LLMs) into auditable, trustworthy enterprise systems.Why observability secures the future of enterprise AIThe enterprise race to deploy LLM systems mirrors the early days of cloud adoption. Executives love the promise; compliance demands accountability; engineers just want a paved road.Yet, beneath the excitement, most leaders admit they canât trace how AI... Read more âș
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As AI, cloud, and other technology investments soar, organizations have to make investment decisions with increased speed and clarity. Practices like FinOps, IT financial management (ITFM), and strategic portfolio management (SPM) help stakeholders evaluate opportunities and trade-offs for maximum value. But they depend on unified, reliable data. And thatâs often where the challenge begins.AI can surface insights from data within specific domains, but important decisions rarely rely on a single... Read more âș
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