Vibe Researching as Wolf Coming: Can AI Agents with Skills Replace or Augment Social Scientists?
arXiv:2602.22401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents -- systems that execute multi-step reasoning workflows with persistent state, tool access, and specialist skills -- represent a qualitative shift from prior automation technologies in social science. Unlike chatbots that respond to isolated ...
Perplexity Just Released pplx-embed: New SOTA Qwen3 Bidirectional Embedding Models for Web-Scale Retrieval Tasks
Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative to proprietary embedding APIs. Architectural Innovatio...
Nano Banana 2: Google’s latest AI image generation model
Nano Banana! The image model that took the world by storm just got eclipsed by…itself. Yes! Google did it again. After establishing standards by their release of Nano banana, they are back with its high anticipated follow-up: Nano Banana 2 (officially designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). This new ...
Google Launches Nano Banana 2: Learn All About It!
Nano Banana! The image model that took the world by storm just got eclipsed by…itself. Yes! Google did it again. After establishing standards by their release of Nano banana, they are back with its high anticipated follow-up: Nano Banana 2 (officially designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). This new ...
Microsoft Research Introduces CORPGEN To Manage Multi Horizon Tasks For Autonomous AI Agents Using Hierarchical Planning and Memory
Microsoft researchers have introduced CORPGEN, an architecture-agnostic framework designed to manage the complexities of realistic organizational work through autonomous digital employees. While existing benchmarks evaluate AI agents on isolated, single tasks, real-world corporate environments requi...
Scaling Search Relevance: Augmenting App Store Ranking with LLM-Generated Judgments
Large-scale commercial search systems optimize for relevance to drive successful sessions that help users find what they are looking for. To maximize relevance, we leverage two complementary objectives: behavioral relevance (results users tend to click or download) and textual relevance (a result’s ...
The Way We Notice, That's What Really Matters: Instantiating UI Components with Distinguishing Variations
Front-end developers author UI components to be broadly reusable by parameterizing visual and behavioral properties. While flexible, this makes instantiation harder, as developers must reason about numerous property values and interactions. In practice, they must explore the component’s large design...
Google AI Just Released Nano-Banana 2: The New AI Model Featuring Advanced Subject Consistency and Sub-Second 4K Image Synthesis Performance
In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled Nano-Banana 2 (technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Google is making a definitive pivot toward the edge: high-fidelity, sub-second image synthesis t...
By mid-morning, a typical knowledge worker is already juggling a client report, a budget spreadsheet, a slide deck, and an email backlog, all interdependent and all demanding attention at once. For AI agents to be genuinely useful in that environment, they will need to operate the same way, but toda...
Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production
A system-level perspective on architecture, agents, and responsible scale
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Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformation
For years, Industry 4.0 transformation has centered on the convergence of intelligent technologies like AI, cloud, the internet of things, robotics, and digital twins. Industry 5.0 marks a pivotal shift from integrating emerging technologies to orchestrating them at scale. With Industry 5.0, the pur...
ElastixAI Exits Stealth with FPGA AI Supercomputers
Company leverages software-ML-hardware co-design to deliver up to 50x lower TCO and 80% reduced power consumption for LLM inference ElastixAI Inc. today emerged from stealth to tackle the systemic inefficiencies and high costs of generative AI (GenAI) inference. Founded by former Apple and Meta mach...
DataJoint Launches Agentic AI Control Layer for Scientific Workflows
Company to Showcase at PMWC 2026 and Lab of the Future USA Congress DataJoint today announced the launch of DataJoint Agentic AI, a governed execution layer for scientific workflows that enables semi-autonomous AI operation on rigorously structured, provenance-rich data. As pharmaceutical and academ...
Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Extends Partnerships with 14 Hospital Systems
Client momentum comes on the heels of major platform updates in Sunrise 25.1 and new product launches Altera Digital Health, a global health IT leader, today announced that 14 clients have renewed their contracts for the Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR), reinforcing continued confidence in th...
Horror Awakens in the Cloud: GeForce NOW Unleashes Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil: Requiem’
GeForce NOW’s anniversary celebration reaches a chilling crescendo as Capcom’s Resident Evil: Requiem creeps into the cloud — and the horrors look better than ever on a GeForce NOW Ultimate membership. To mark the occasion, a special launch bundle rises from the shadows, pairing the game with a year...
Exhibit in Boston’s startup ecosystem at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
On June 9, 1,000+ founders, investors, and decision-makers will gather for TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. This isn’t just foot traffic. It’s a full day of concentrated deal flow. An exhibit table turns that energy into measurable growth. You don’t need more awareness. You need customers, capital, a...
Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise
Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.
Valant Expands AI-Powered Clinical Notes for Behavioral Care
Secure clinical notes now support the templates clinicians actually use, without asking them to change their workflow Valant, the leading provider of behavioral health EHR software, today announced expanded capabilities for its AI-powered clinical documentation tool, AI Notes Assist, enabling clinic...
VAST Data Unveils Polaris for Global AI Data Control
Industry’s first global control plane purpose-built for AI data infrastructure spanning hyperscale cloud and datacenter deployments Today at VAST Forward 2026, VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, announced Polaris, a global control plane designed to provision, operate and orchestrate distrib...
A practical guide to identifying, restoring, and transforming elements within your images
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