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World leaders focused on ROI over hype this year, discussing sovereign AI, open ecosystems, and workplace change.

This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.

Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.

My favourite open-source AI model just got a major upgrade..Kimi K2.5 is here! LLMs excel at answering questions and writing code, but real work spans messy documents, images, incomplete data, and long decision chains. Most AI systems still struggle in these environments. Moonshot AI built Kimi K2.5...

In this tutorial, we implement Tree-KG, an advanced hierarchical knowledge graph system that goes beyond traditional retrieval-augmented generation by combining semantic embeddings with explicit graph structure. We show how we can organize knowledge in a tree-like hierarchy that mirrors how humans l...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers.

We’re launching Google AI Plus in 35 new countries and territories including the US, making it available everywhere Google AI plans are available.

Generative Voice AI is transforming digital interaction in 2026, from emotional prosody and real‑time streaming to ethical voice cloning and democratized audio creation.

AI systems now see images, hear speech, and process video, understanding information in its native form.

AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models. The post UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning...

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Building a chatbot prototype takes hours.

Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.

In this article, you will learn three practical ways to protect user data in real-world ML pipelines, with techniques that data scientists can implement directly in their workflows.

“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.

Recognize data science as an engineering practice and structure education accordingly. The post Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity appeared first on Towards Data Science.

This article lists 7 under-the-radar Python libraries that push the boundaries of feature engineering processes at scale.

How relationship-aware graphs turn connected forecasts into operational insight The post From Connections to Meaning: Why Heterogeneous Graph Transformers (HGT) Change Demand Forecasting appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How real-time content velocity and modern storage reshape intent quality, AI scalability, governance, and performance across the data lifecycle. Jeronimo, you’ve built a career at the intersection of AI and product management. What initially drew you into this space and ultimately to your role at Ba...

AI driven expertise leads to Company’s recognition as a top MSSP provider for sixth year in a row ECS, a provider of advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, and one of six ASGN brands that will be unifying under the new Everforth brand (NYSE: ASGN)...

Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners follows 900% revenue growth and 200% logo growth year-over-year as enterprises adopt runtime-powered cloud security Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundin...

“We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said.