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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family adds tiered models with max and ultra reasoning. Here is what early-level engineers should know. The post OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 With Sol, Terra, and Luna: Tiered Models, New Reasoning Modes, Limited Access appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Step into a mesmerizing steampunk world of manual data processing in 2026, featuring a grand clock, punch card operators, and a mechanical tree of job roles within the 'Public Ledger' bureau.

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out ...

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

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Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to SignalFire data.

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

In this tutorial, we build an OpenHarness style agent harness from scratch to see how a practical agent system works. We recreate the core building blocks: tool use, typed tool schemas, permissions, lifecycle hooks, memory, skills, context compaction, retry logic, cost tracking, and multi-agent coor...

Generative AI has reshaped how software gets built. What began as line-by-line autocomplete now spans full application generation, multi-agent build pipelines, and natural-language interfaces to entire codebases. Large language models trained on code can read context, follow intent, and produce work...

In this tutorial, we build a multilingual ASR and speech translation pipeline with NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2. We load the model on a GPU-enabled runtime, prepare audio into 16 kHz mono, and run English ASR. We then translate speech into French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and extract word and segment ti...

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

We build a practical GLM-5.2 workflow using its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the model locally. We set up multiple providers, load the API key securely, and create a reusable chat wrapper. We then test thinking-effort control, streamed reasoning, function calling, a tool-using ag...

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+

In this tutorial, we build a Prefab application that creates interactive dashboards entirely in Python. We design an operations dashboard with reactive state, charts, tables, filters, forms, tabs, and metrics. We generate synthetic pipeline monitoring data and connect it to live UI controls. We then...

LLMs are stateless by default. Agent memory fixes that. This guide breaks down all 7 types — working, semantic, episodic, procedural, retrieval, parametric, and prospective. It covers what each stores, where it lives, and when to build it. Includes a comparison table and working Python code. The pos...