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Astropad’s Workbench reimagines remote desktop for AI agents, not IT support
Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.
OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.
Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
Detecting Translation Hallucinations with Attention Misalignment
A low-budget way to get token-level uncertainty estimation for neural machine translations The post Detecting Translation Hallucinations with Attention Misalignment appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I
Final 3 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
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How to Use Claude Code to Build a Minimum Viable Product
Learn how to effectively present product ideas by building MVPs with coding agents The post How to Use Claude Code to Build a Minimum Viable Product appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
The Download: water threats in Iran and AI’s impact on what entrepreneurs make
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. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalinization tec
Grounding Your LLM: A Practical Guide to RAG for Enterprise Knowledge Bases
A clear mental model and a practical foundation you can build on The post Grounding Your LLM: A Practical Guide to RAG for Enterprise Knowledge Bases appeared first on Towards Data Science.
AI’s software development success and central management needs
A survey carried out by OutSystems, The State of AI Development 2026 [email wall], argues that AI has moved into early production phase for many enterprises, primarily inside the IT function. The survey was based on the responses of 1,879 IT leaders, and warns that adoption of AI is in danger of run
Microsoft open-source toolkit secures AI agents at runtime
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents. The release tackles a growing anxiety: autonomous language models are now executing code and hitting corporate networks way faster than traditional policy controls can keep up.
I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project
Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, although the scope of its contributions are unclear.
Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI
A practical system design combining open-source Bayesian MMM and GenAI for transparent, vendor independent marketing analytics insights. The post Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.
From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: Designing a Document Extraction System for 4,700+ PDFs
How a hybrid PyMuPDF + GPT-4 Vision pipeline replaced £8,000 in manual engineering effort, and why the latest models weren’t the answer The post From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: Designing a Document Extraction System for 4,700+ PDFs appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalination technology that supplies water
Asylon and Thrive Logic bring physical AI to enterprise perimeter security
Exciting times are ahead in the world of enterprise perimeter security with a new partnership between Thrive Logic, an AI agent-driven security and operational intelligence platform, and Asylon, a security robotics company. Together, the companies are to introduce physical AI into the network edge s
Enabling agent-first process redesign
Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around age