The Potential of CoT for Reasoning: A Closer Look at Trace Dynamics
Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a de-facto standard technique to elicit reasoning-like responses from large language models (LLMs), allowing them to spell out individual steps before giving a final answer. While the resemblance to human-like reasoning is undeniable, the driving forces underpinni...
Beyond a Single Extractor: Re-thinking HTML-to-Text Extraction for LLM Pretraining
One of the first pre-processing steps for constructing web-scale LLM pretraining datasets involves extracting text from HTML. Despite the immense diversity of web content, existing open-source datasets predominantly apply a single fixed extractor to all webpages. In this work, we investigate whether...
AMUSE: Audio-Visual Benchmark and Alignment Framework for Agentic Multi-Speaker Understanding
Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) such as GPT-4o and Qwen3-Omni show strong perception but struggle in multi-speaker, dialogue-centric settings that demand agentic reasoning tracking who speaks, maintaining roles, and grounding events across time. These scenarios are central to multimo...
Beyond Simple API Requests: How OpenAI’s WebSocket Mode Changes the Game for Low Latency Voice Powered AI Experiences
In the world of Generative AI, latency is the ultimate killer of immersion. Until recently, building a voice-enabled AI agent felt like assembling a Rube Goldberg machine: you’d pipe audio to a Speech-to-Text (STT) model, send the transcript to a Large Language Model (LLM), and finally shuttle text ...
Use Claude Code to quickly build completely personalized applications
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MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix
Avneesh Saluja, Santiago Castro, Bowei Yan, Ashish RastogiIntroductionNetflix’s core mission is to connect millions of members around the world with stories they’ll love. This requires not just an incredible catalog, but also a deep, machine-level understanding of every piece of content in that cata...
Pure Storage Becomes Everpure; Announces Intent to Acquire 1touch
From revolutionizing storage to redefining data management, Everpure unleashes the power of data for the AI era Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the company revolutionizing storage and data management, today announced its new name: Everpure™. This change reflects the company’s greater impact from reshapi...
Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, today launched Phoenix-4, a real-time behavior generation engine that generates emotionally responsive, context-aware human presence in live conversation. Phoenix-4 is the first real-time mod...
AI-powered contact center reduces administrative burden by 80% for South Carolina practice by managing everything from scheduling to prescription refills, expanding after-hours coverage, and supporting practices with secure, clinician-vetted workflows New data shows healow GenieTM, the AI-powered co...
The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most valuable company, proclaimed that we are entering the era of physical AI, when artificial intellig...
Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
7Rivers, a pioneering technology services company that helps customers harness the power of data and AI to deliver real business value, today announced a $5 million Series A investment led by Inoca Capital Partners who took a minority position in the company. A certified Snowflake Elite Partner, 7Ri...
Over the past three years, we’ve experienced phenomenal momentum, continuing a 3X annual growth rate to reach $68 million in ARR and achieve a $1.4 billion valuation. With this rapid growth comes an even greater responsibility. Despite the exciting prospects, we recognize the inherent challenges of ...
New Research from Rein Security finds most security teams struggle to detect AI agent misuse in production Rein Security, a trusted application security company for leading enterprises, today released “The Great AppSec Reality Check: What Security Pros Really Think of Their Existing Tools” Based on ...
Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.
Who has ever had a great idea about an application, only to be confronted with the reality of the development dread, which may take weeks, or even months. The path between the idea and a working product can be tiresome. Imagine that you could fit that whole procedure into the amount of time you spen...
Data Storytelling using AI: 5 Techniques to Present AI-Generated Insights
AI can generate insights faster than any analyst ever could. But speed isn’t the problem anymore. The real problem is value. In 2026, the gap isn’t between companies that use AI and those that don’t. It’s between those who can explain AI-generated insights clearly and those who just copy-paste model...
5 Essential Design Patterns for Building Robust Agentic AI Systems
Build robust AI agents with design patterns for ReAct loops, multi-agent workflows, and state management essential for moving from prototype to reliable production.
Agentic AI has clearly moved beyond buzzword status. McKinsey’s November 2025 survey shows that 62% of organizations are already experimenting with AI agents, and the top performers are pushing them into core workflows in the name of efficiency, growth, and innovation. However, this is also where th...