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Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced Digital Convergence Technologies (DCT), a system integration and digital transformation company that simplifies complex IT challenges through its “converge and deliver” philosophy, has joined the Akamai Partner Connect Program. DCT enables mid-market and enterpr...

The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues.

In this tutorial, we build a workflow using Outlines to generate structured and type-safe outputs from language models. We work with typed constraints like Literal, int, and bool, and design prompt templates using outlines.Template, and enforce strict schema validation with Pydantic models. We also ...

The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions."

These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services and Saal.ai, a leading provider of artificial intelligence and big data solutions, announced a collaboration to jointly deliver next-generation AI solutions, AI-ready infrastructure and industry-focused innovations for enterpr...

What if AI-assisted coding became more reliable by separating product planning, engineering review, release, and QA into distinct operating modes? That is the idea behind Garry Tan’s gstack, an open-source toolkit that packages Claude Code into 8 opinionated workflow skills backed by a persistent br...

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg said AI has uses in many fields, but not when it comes to replacing creative people in film and TV writing.

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This week's compelling image is taken from the article theme "The Blind Spots of Our Brilliant Machines". A striking visual metaphor for the future of AI: a man stands at a fork in the road, choosing between a glowing, data-driven path and a sunlit, human-centric journey. This image captures the ten...

The collaboration brings runtime protection, compliance, and vulnerability management into a seamless Azure experience, setting a new standard for enterprise security Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver a unified Azure security sol...

Strategic hires will modernize and scale brand identity and accelerate revenue growth LivTech, a leading provider of comprehensive healthcare tech solutions specifically designed for long-term care, today announced the expansion of its senior leadership team with the appointment of Tracy Kim as Chie...

Former Rune Labs and Glooko executive to lead MindMaze’s next phase of growth, focusing on U.S. market expansion and the delivery of scalable, AI-driven neurorestorative care. MindMaze Therapeutics Holding SA (SIX: MMTX) (MindMaze Therapeutics, or the Company), a global leader in brain technology an...

Behavioral AI in fraud monitoring reduces false positives and improves fraud detection accuracy using behavioral analytics. Monitoring systems on fraud have never had it easy. They have to pick suspicious activity at a fast pace and leave the transactions that are legitimate to flow freely through t...

Unifies file and object storage into a unified data fabric, eliminating the trade-offs in performance, cost, and complexity and paving the way for faster AI-readiness. CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, today announced the availability of CTERA Fusion Direct, a transformative federated ...

Channel Program Recognized for Compelling Partner Incentives and Resources to Sell Absolutely Immutable Backup Storage Object First, the ransomware-proof on-premises backup storage company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has selected Object First for inclusion in the 2026...

Award recognizes Coder’s use of AI and automation to streamline partner collaboration, accelerate co-selling, and enable partners to deliver secure development environments at scale Coder, the leader in AI development infrastructure, today announced it has been named a 2026 ChannelVision AI Award wi...

StackHawk, the company re-imagining AppSec for the AI era, today announces the addition of Joe Sullivan to its board of directors. Sullivan, who served as Chief Security Officer at Meta, Uber, and Cloudflare during critical growth periods, is one of the most respected security luminaries in the tech...

In recent times, many developments in the agent ecosystem have focused on enabling AI agents to interact with external tools and access domain-specific knowledge more effectively. Two common approaches that have emerged are skills and MCPs. While they may appear similar at first, they differ in how ...

Nvidia kicks off its GTC conference with Huang's keynote on Monday, which can be watched in person or via livestream.

In this tutorial, we implement a Colab-ready version of the AutoResearch framework originally proposed by Andrej Karpathy. We build an automated experimentation pipeline that clones the AutoResearch repository, prepares a lightweight training environment, and runs a baseline experiment to establish ...

Tinder just got a major revamp as it attempts to re-engange its user base and attract younger daters. This includes in-person events, AI enhancements, and even virtual speed dating.

Atlassian laid off 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, as the company looks to funnel more funds to AI.

Why most Enterprise AI fails before it starts