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One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by environmental noise. To overcome this challenge, researchers at Alibaba introduced Hierarchical Decoupled Policy Optimization (HDPO), a reinforcement learning framework that trains agents to balance.
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos […] Read more ›
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“Sorry, is now still a good time?” I said, on a call I had scheduled myself, at the exact minute we had agreed on, to a person who had asked me to call. There was a small pause. “Why are you apologizing?” she asked. And I realized I genuinely did not know. I apologize for ... Read more Read more ›
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Google Maps has a variety of icons that are mostly self-explanatory, but the leaf icon can confuse some drivers when they first see it. What does it mean? Read more ›
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The White House is poised to lift export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5, according to a U.S. official. The move could occur as early as Tuesday evening, Politico reported. On June 12, the federal government forced Anthropic to withdraw two models—Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a version of Mythos ... Read more ›
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A couple of rumors so far have suggested that Samsung will hold its next big Unpacked event on July 22 in London, and now the company itself is strongly hinting at the fact that it is the correct date. Over in Malaysia, Samsung is offering its loyal fans an exclusive MYR 700 ($171) discount "on the purchase of their next Galaxy Foldable". This will be available in the Samsung Members... Read more ›
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Amazon MGM said the reportedly unsympathetic portrayal of OpenAI's CEO "will be better served if it were released by a different studio." Read more ›
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The company is taking a slightly different approach to previewing its highly anticipated foldables. Here's what the cryptic videos could mean. Read more ›
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Samsung, in an attempt to build more hype for its upcoming lineup of foldable devices, has taken drastic measures and wiped its entire Instagram feed. To be honest, I couldn’t tell you how many photos/reels the brand had posted, but alas, it’s all gone. In a post sent out to media, Samsung says that, “This... Read the original post: Samsung Just Wiped Its Instagram Feed Read more ›
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Samsung is teasing its next generation of foldables with a cryptic social media campaign, and we're just trying to read the tea leaves. Read more ›
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Rapid AI adoption is just shifting bottlenecks downstream as governance fails to keep up, making trust more critical than speed. Read more ›
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The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals. Read more ›
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Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro that could be called the "MacBook Ultra." The device will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The "Ultra" name isn't a sure thing, and Apple could also continue to call the device the MacBook Pro. It will be a "Pro" device in the MacBook Pro line.... Read more ›
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Call it a hot chip summer. Investors are flocking to startups making semiconductors and components to run AI more efficiently, minting high valuations for businesses looking to compete with Nvidia and other stalwarts. Etched, a four-year-old startup run by young Harvard dropouts trying to develop a specialized AI chip, announced a $800 million funding round Tuesday. Last week, our colleagues reported that chip startups SambaNova and xLight are both raising... Read more ›
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Nanoleaf today launched the Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light, an affordable Matter-compatible lighting product. With a dual-sided design, there's a main downlight and an upward backlight for a layered lighting glow. Each side can be controlled individually for bright light or an ambient lighting option. The light has 196 LEDs inside, with up to 2600 lumens. White light ranges from 2200K to 6500K, supporting tones that change throughout the day to... Read more ›
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Who has the best RGB TV, best OLED TV, or best art TV? I'm comparing releases from Samsung, LG, TCL, and more halfway through the year. Read more ›
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Erasmo Guerra enjoys a takeout dinner on his balcony in Bangkok while watching the neon-lit dinner boats cruise along the river. Read more ›
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OpenAI and Broadcom this morning unveiled their first custom AI accelerator chip named "Jalapeño," positioning it is as a purpose-built processor for large language model (LLM) inference, rather than the more general GPUs offered by the likes of Nvidia or AMD. According to its creators, Jalapeño is designed to support workloads behind ChatGPT, Codex, the API and future agentic products, though notably, both OpenAI's and Broadcom's news releases position it... Read more ›
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Customer expectations have shifted from simple, fast conversational interactions to complex agentic AI-powered tasks that legacy IT architectures simply can’t handle. To address this, Intuit made the bold decision to overhaul its technical infrastructure for its business platform. The company moved away from its multi-agent setup, which prioritized broad capabilities, to a granular, skill-and-tool-based architecture while embedding human experts directly into the workflow alongside AI. This shift involved d Read more ›
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AI agents are increasingly proficient at executing business tasks autonomously, but IT leaders are cautious about granting permissions to access enterprise systems. Part of the challenge lies in how AI reliability is measured. Industry standards often rely on EVAL scores, which provide a static snapshot of performance rather than a measure of overall reliability. These metrics can fail to capture predictability across prompts, environments, and input types, said Bryan Silverthorn,... Read more ›
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Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, Shopify's engineers didn't go into panic mode. The proxy shifted them to Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 automatically, without interrupting their workflows. “Fable looks amazing; we used it of course,” Farhan Thawar, Shopify’s head of engineering,... Read more ›
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Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through disconnected workflows that result in knowledge loss during each handoff. A shocking 90% to 95% of drug discovery projects reportedly fail — one of the highest failure rates of any industry. A single successful drug can take over a dozen years and up to $1 billion from initial discovery to patient... Read more ›
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As enterprise AI agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, their performance is often restricted by their harness, the software scaffolding that connects the backbone LLM to its environment. Currently, harnesses are largely static and hand-crafted. Improving them is largely manual and they do not automatically improve based on the execution data they collect from their environment.To address this engineering bottleneck, researchers at Xiaomi introduced HarnessX, a framework that treats... Read more ›
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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software Engineering, Android, Web, and OS. The release extends Alibaba's recent push into autonomous agents. Qwen3.7-Max, released in May, was built around a 35-hour autonomous execution capability. That shift targets a ceiling teams training... Read more ›
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Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, block-type classification, and per-word confidence scores. The release marks Mistral's fourth generation of optical character recognition technology in roughly 15 months and lands at a moment when the company's pitch for European AI sovereignty has never been more commercially relevant.The model... Read more ›
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AI agent orchestration platforms are popping up like weeds these days, but London-based AI transformation startup Mindstone's Rebel might be among the most promising I've come across. That's because the system, which officially launched this week, is a local-first, agentic AI operating system distributed under a "Fair Source" license, allowing teams of under 100 users to freely adopt and customize it to suit their needs, while those organizations with more... Read more ›
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OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it "much more fun to talk to" and saying it is "better at understanding the intent behind a question and adapting its response accordingly," as well as offering improvements in shopping results,... Read more ›
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