This post first appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Signals from Our Futures Past newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. We’re long past the novelty phase of AI-assisted coding. The new challenge is measurement. How do we know whether all this augmentation—Copilot, Cursor, Go...
A Beginner’s Reading List for Large Language Models for 2026
The large language models (LLMs) hype wave shows no sign of fading anytime soon: after all, LLMs keep reinventing themselves at a rapid pace and transforming the industry as a whole.
Introducing Rein Security: Bringing Production Context to AppSec
The company emerges from stealth with a new platform designed to identify and mitigate security risk in applications in production Rein Security, a trusted application security company for leading enterprises, today emerged from stealth to address critical blind spots in application and AI security....
How generative AI can help scientists synthesize complex materials
MIT researchers’ DiffSyn model offers recipes for synthesizing new materials, enabling faster experimentation and a shorter journey from hypothesis to use.
Salt Security Simplifies API Risk with GenAI and Context Intelligence
New capabilities leverage Generative AI to instantly translate complex API schemas into human-readable insights, bridging the skills gap between security teams and developers. Salt Security, the leader in API security and AI governance, today unveiled a suite of new intelligent analysis features des...
Latest security milestone ensures clients benefit from highest global standards for data integrity and risk management Exterro, a leading provider of data risk management software, today reinforced its commitment to safeguarding its clients’ most sensitive data by earning ISO 27001 certification, th...
ISSGlobal Launches 24/7 Security Monitoring and Response Service
ISS365 is intended to protect corporations against cyber threats without the complexity or expense of building 24/7 security operations internally. ISSGlobal, a global cyber-consultancy specializing in managed security and compliance services, has introduced ISS365, a 24/7 managed security monitorin...
Kno2 Announces Rollout of CLEAR1 as Core Network Infrastructure
Kno2®, a leading healthcare communication network and federally designated Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN), today announced the integration of CLEAR1, CLEAR’s secure identity platform, into the Kno2 Communication Network. The initiative positions identity as shared infrastructure within ...
Bitdefender Named a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for EPP
Recognition Is Based on Verified Customer Feedback Reflecting Real-World Deployments, Product Capabilities, and Support Experience Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms...
AI Reshapes Software Delivery and Performance, Opsera Finds
New research analyzes data from 250,000+ developers to highlight AI’s impact on the entire software lifecycle Opsera, the AI-powered DevOps platform, today announced its new report, “2026 AI Coding Impact Benchmark Report,” focused on AI-assisted development. Available for download here, the report ...
Founded by former Google DeepMind scientists, Poetiq emerges from “stealth” after setting a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on ARC-AGI-2 Poetiq, developer of an AI meta-system that makes LLMs work better, announced today that it raised $45.8 million in Seed funding co-led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and ...
Decube Raises USD 3 Million to Build Context Layer Powering Enterprise AI
Decube, a data trust and context platform for enterprise AI, has raised USD 3 million in its latest funding round*, which is being led by Taiwania Hive Ventures, with participation from Iterative and 500 Global. The funding will support Decube’s global growth, continued product innovation, and rapid...
NVIDIA AI Brings Nemotron-3-Nano-30B to NVFP4 with Quantization Aware Distillation (QAD) for Efficient Reasoning Inference
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Nano-3-30B-A3B-NVFP4, a production checkpoint that runs a 30B parameter reasoning model in 4 bit NVFP4 format while keeping accuracy close to its BF16 baseline. The model combines a hybrid Mamba2 Transformer Mixture of Experts architecture with a Quantization Aware Disti...
iManage Delivers Trusted AI Search with Ask iManage
Ask iManage now answers natural-language questions with cited responses across the document repository iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced new capabilities for Ask iManage, its native AI assistant, that enables users to ask natural-language questions across the ...
Snowflake and OpenAI partner to bring frontier intelligence to enterprise data
OpenAI and Snowflake partner in a $200M agreement to bring frontier intelligence into enterprise data, enabling AI agents and insights directly in Snowflake.
arXiv:2601.22269v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Judge agents are fundamental to agentic AI frameworks: they provide automated evaluation, and enable iterative self-refinement of reasoning processes. We introduce JAF: Judge Agent Forest, a framework in which the judge agent conducts joint inference ...
The Six Sigma Agent: Achieving Enterprise-Grade Reliability in LLM Systems Through Consensus-Driven Decomposed Execution
arXiv:2601.22290v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable capabilities yet remain fundamentally probabilistic, presenting critical reliability challenges for enterprise deployment. We introduce the Six Sigma Agent, a novel architecture that achieves enterprise-gra...
Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?
arXiv:2601.22329v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as decision engines for hiring, healthcare, and economic judgment, yet real-world human judgment reflects a balance between rational deliberation and emotion-driven bias. If LLMs are to particip...
Learning Provably Correct Distributed Protocols Without Human Knowledge
arXiv:2601.22369v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Provably correct distributed protocols, which are a critical component of modern distributed systems, are highly challenging to design and have often required decades of human effort. These protocols allow multiple agents to coordinate to come to a co...
Attention Isn't All You Need for Emotion Recognition:Domain Features Outperform Transformers on the EAV Dataset
arXiv:2601.22161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a systematic study of multimodal emotion recognition using the EAV dataset, investigating whether complex attention mechanisms improve performance on small datasets. We implement three model categories: baseline transformers (M1), novel fac...
Multitask Learning for Earth Observation Data Classification with Hybrid Quantum Network
arXiv:2601.22195v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) has gained increasing attention as a potential solution to address the challenges of computation requirements in the future. Earth observation (EO) has entered the era of Big Data, and the computational demands for effec...
Neural Signals Generate Clinical Notes in the Wild
arXiv:2601.22197v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating clinical reports that summarize abnormal patterns, diagnostic findings, and clinical interpretations from long-term EEG recordings remains labor-intensive. We curate a large-scale clinical EEG dataset with $9{,}922$ reports paired with appr...
FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation
arXiv:2601.22204v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated learning (FL) encounters substantial challenges due to heterogeneity, leading to gradient noise, client drift, and partial client participation errors, the last of which is the most pervasive but remains insufficiently addressed in current l...