Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference from the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. This post shows how to
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
Learn how to build a generative AI-based support operations platform on AWS that converts training videos into structured SOPs, applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation to guide ticket resolution, and uses machine learning
How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock
Business intelligence dashboards can fail silently, showing blank, stale, or wrong data even when every infrastructure monitor reports healthy. Learn how an AWS team built an automated, AI-powered content validation solu
From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn how a global interdealer broker built an automated architecture documentation pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that analyzes .NET code bases, generates architecture diagrams, and maintains searchable documentat
Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities
Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-agent architecture on Amazon Bedrock that produces IDEA-align
Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team
Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silo
AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner
Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply
A visual guide to how graph neural networks work under the hood The post Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and game
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
AI Agent Memory Design: What Works and What Doesn’t
In this article, you will learn how to design reliable memory systems for AI agents, covering both the patterns that work and the common architectural...
A Complete Guide to Decoding LLM Model Names
If you have ever tried downloading a local LLM, you have probably seen model names that look like this: Qwen3.8-27B-A3B-It-2507-gguf-q2ks-mixed-AutoRound At first, it looks like meaningless technical shorthand. It isn’
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joine
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers Claude Fable 5.1's improvements, the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards for keeping your data in a cloud environment you contro
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spac
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI
When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on AWS through an AI League event. This post explains why Atos
ChatGPT Ads passes $1B run rate in 200 days
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days, and OpenAI is expanding self-service ads to new regions. Tens of thousands of advertisers now use the platform and self-service access thro
Tokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock
As generative AI adoption scales, cost governance becomes a top challenge. Learn how Jamf built real-time, per-user spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock using IAM Customer Managed Policies, an Amazon Athena cost view, an
Your JSON Is Valid but Your Data Is Wrong: Five Failure Modes LLM Structured Outputs Won't Catch
Five failure modes that survive constrained decoding, and why your schema validator will never catch them. The post Your JSON Is Valid but Your Data Is Wrong: Five Failure Modes LLM Structured Outputs Won't Catch appeare
Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hun
Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks
More informed decision-making through uncertainty quantification The post Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks appeared first on Towards Data Science.
3 Ways to Enhance Your AI Model’s Interpretability
In this article, you will learn three concrete techniques for making machine learning model predictions interpretable, covering both global and local explanations across tree-based and...
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
5 AI Skills That Will Keep Data Scientists Relevant in 2027
What each one solves, and runnable code you can paste into a notebook. The post 5 AI Skills That Will Keep Data Scientists Relevant in 2027 appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why MCP servers are becoming AI’s newest attack surface
As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports it. New standards and connectors keep appearing, and the ones that catch on spread through the ecosystem within months rather than ye
How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Your LLM Can Return Perfect JSON and Still Be Wrong
What I learned after thinking more carefully about Structured Outputs on messy, incomplete data The post Your LLM Can Return Perfect JSON and Still Be Wrong appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
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Why RAG Complexity Should Be Earned
A framework for building RAG pipelines that introduces complexity in response to observed failure modes, from lexical and hybrid search to reranking and agentic information seeking The post Why RAG Complexity Should Be E
Combining LLM Embeddings with Tabular Features in a Unified Scikit-learn Pipeline
In this article, you will learn how to build a unified scikit-learn pipeline that combines text embeddings generated by a lightweight open-source language model with...
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.
A milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
Top 7 Free AI Automation Courses with Certificates
You don’t need to know anything about AI automation to get started. There are plenty of free courses that can take you from the basics to building your own automations, even if you’re starting from zero. Some are complet
Interpretable Text Classification: Probing Scikit-LLM Embedding Spaces
In this article, you will learn how to use probing classifiers, UMAP visualization, and SHAP values to interpret and analyze the quality of text embeddings...
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
10 Essential Agentic AI Concepts Explained Simply
AI agents are everywhere right now. You hear terms like tool calling, agent loops, MCP, guardrails thrown around as if its common language… it isn’t! But that is about to change. Agentic AI isn’t nearly as complicated as
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026
NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology contr
Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now
NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivers Vera CPU systems across the AI ecosystem as Vera begins shipping at scale.
A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that deman
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.
NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory
The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastructure depends not only on compute, but on how compute, memory
Mastering the AI Project Cycle: From Concept to Production
In fact, AI projects are not built by simply choosing a model and feeding it data. Furthermore, a successful AI system goes through multiple stages, starting with identifying the right problem and ending with deployment,
New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people who built the LLM) ha
Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technolo
Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.
Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for developers
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex
Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.
MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data
MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It pr
Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark
Comparing Local Tool Calling: Gemma 4 vs. Llama 3 vs. Mistral
In this article, you will learn how Gemma 4, Llama 3, and Mistral implement tool calling locally, and what trade-offs each model family presents for...
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business throu
Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The idea of letting a machine do the driving for you may put a lot of people off autonomous vehicles. But research could m
How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory
To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrast
With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents
The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with f
Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries finan
What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficul
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI is accelerating some types of progr
How to Use Kimi K3: Moonshot AI’s 2.8T Open-Weight Model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model built with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It activates only a small fraction of its parameters per token, helping reduce inference costs while deliv
Integrating Agentic AI with Existing Machine Learning Pipelines
In this article, you will learn how to combine a classical machine learning pipeline with an agentic AI system to build a hybrid, autonomous customer...
Spec-Driven Development with Claude Code: Writing Bulletproof Specs
I have written enough specs for Claude Code now to have hit the failure mode nobody warns you about. The spec was fine. The plan was fine. Claude worked through the tasks, ran the test suite, and reported everything pas
This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch s
Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI
About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical clues are spread across metrology data, tool trace
How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code
From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software develo
Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck’s technological pessimism
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now DiG-bench shows that Fable displays so
AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet
Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as the “246 theorem”—fo
Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence
AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factorie
Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and Smartphone Technology.
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent
Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM I
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets
Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!
NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Hua
Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—together with appropriate
NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class
We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the bu
AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.
Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.
Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power Architecture
Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just
Evolve your marketing with new AI tools
Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your marketing workflow.
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
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AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’
IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids
Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity us
Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?
This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different f
Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026
Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course
Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Self-sustaining and self-replicating A
Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to?
Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multiply inputs by learned
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for t
Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more
We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search
These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning tasks.
5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world
It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find the perf…
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI’s accidental AI hacker
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Epoch and METR release MirrorCode, a b
Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis’ big policy plan
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now UK government: Gap between open and cl
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.
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.
Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Fable writes a decent GPU kernel, hint
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now NVIDIA sets up a crude self-improvemen
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI can decisively out-persuade humans: