TDS Newsletter: Beyond Prompt Engineering: The New Frontiers of LLM Optimization
Let's zoom in on recent approaches that push AI-powered workflows to the next level
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Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.
New research looks at how leading AI models hold up doing actual white-collar work tasks, drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law. Most models failed.
Microsoft Releases VibeVoice-ASR: A Unified Speech-to-Text Model Designed to Handle 60-Minute Long-Form Audio in a Single Pass
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-ASR as part of the VibeVoice family of open source frontier voice AI models. VibeVoice-ASR is described as a unified speech-to-text model that can handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass and output structured transcriptions that encode Who, When, and What, ...
Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it
Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.
NVIDIA DRIVE AV Raises the Bar for Vehicle Safety as Mercedes-Benz CLA Earns Top Euro NCAP Award
AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The recent recognition of the Mercedes-Benz CLA as Euro NCAP’s Best Performer of 2025 underscores this shift, as the vehicle combines traditional passive sa...
“Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?
For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker “Dr. Google.” But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. Acco...
Google’s AI Mode can now tap into your Gmail and Photos to provide tailored responses
The company notes that AI Mode doesn’t train directly on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. Instead, it trains on specific prompts and the model’s responses.
From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing
Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.
Open Notebook: A True Open Source Private NotebookLM Alternative?
Open Notebook is an open-source, AI-powered platform designed to help users take, organize, and interact with notes while keeping full control over their data.
From Pilot to Profit: Survey Reveals the Financial Services Industry Is Doubling Down on AI Investment and Open Source
AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately detect fraud and money laundering — all while improving risk management practices and expediting document processing. The sixth annual “NVIDIA State of ...
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of lega...
Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, today announced it has joined the Linux Foundation’s newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member, reinforcing its commitment to enabling scalable, secure, and governed data connectivity for next-generation agentic AI systems. As o...
AiStrike Raises $7M to Accelerate AI-Native, Preemptive Cyber Defense
Funding led by Blumberg Capital to accelerate the shift to AI-native, preemptive cyber defense operations The era of purely reactive security operations is over. AiStrike, a cybersecurity company pioneering AI-native, preemptive cyber defense, today announced it has raised $7 million in Seed funding...
OpenEvidence Raises $250 Mn to Build Medical Superintelligence for Doctors
OpenEvidence, the most widely-used AI platform by doctors in America, announced today that it closed a Series D round of funding, valuing the company at $12 billion. This makes OpenEvidence the most valuable Healthcare AI company in the world. OpenEvidence is a specialized AI-powered medical search ...
2025 Marks Major Advancements in Auvik’s IT Management Platform
Auvik Supports 6,000+ Customers Across 110,000+ Networks With Advanced Visibility and Smarter IT Workflows Auvik, an award-winning IT management software provider, today announced that it has delivered enhanced visibility, automation, and advanced insights to over 6,000 global customers across 110,0...
ZeroPoint Technologies Appoints Brett Cline as Chief Executive Officer
ZeroPoint Technologies today announced the appointment of Brett Cline as the company’s CEO. Brett brings more than two decades of executive and go-to-market leadership in advanced semiconductor, IP, and electronic design automation (EDA) software, with a track record of helping deep-technology compa...
5 Breakthroughs in Graph Neural Networks to Watch in 2026
This article outlines 5 recent breakthroughs in GNNs that are worth watching in the year ahead: from integration with LLMs to interdisciplinary scientific discoveries.
Improving Model Accuracy with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Boost AI reliability in 2026. Learn 5 strategic steps to improve model accuracy using RAG, semantic chunking, and the RAG evaluation framework. The world enterprise AI market has evolved into an accountability landscape by the year 2026. In a landmark 2025 study, researchers found that AI hallucinat...
TDengine Achieves 100% Growth and Key Product Milestones in 2025
TDengine today announced steady growth across key markets in 2025, closing a year defined by product expansion, ecosystem development, and continued adoption by industrial customers modernizing their data infrastructure. In 2025, TDengine achieved over 100% year-over-year growth in both recognized r...
Integrated EHR, Telehealth, Revenue Cycle Management, and AI Clinical Automation Addresses All Five RHT Goals: Technology Innovation, Sustainable Access, Workforce Development, Innovative Care Models, and Population Health CureMD Healthcare today announced the Rural Health Accelerator Package, a com...
The 2026 Time Series Toolkit: 5 Foundation Models for Autonomous Forecasting
Most forecasting work involves building custom models for each dataset — fit an ARIMA here, tune an LSTM there, wrestle with <a href="https://facebook.