Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?

As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differentiation threatening th...

Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse.

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Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.

Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples.

A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don't work.

"Noncitizens" lost after-hours access to a NIST lab last month.

“We’re now targeting March 6 as our earliest launch attempt ... there is still pending work."

Microsoft CoreAI exec Asha Sharma will take over in surprise executive shake-up.

OpenClaw, the open source AI agent that excels at autonomous tasks on computers and which users can communicate with through popular messaging apps, has undoubtedly becom...

For four weeks starting January 21, Microsoft's Copilot read and summarized confidential emails despite every sensitivity label and DLP policy telling it not to. The...

For the past three months, Google's Gemini 3 Pro has held its ground as one of the most capable frontier models available. But in the fast-moving world of AI, three...

CX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that tri...

Late last year, Google briefly took the crown for most powerful AI model in the world with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro — only to be surpassed within weeks by OpenAI and An...

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

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The New Rules of Entrepreneurship in the Era of Commoditized Magic The post Donkeys, Not Unicorns appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The guide to automated improvement of scientific and industrial repositories using open-source AI agents The post An End-to-End Guide to Beautifying Your Open-Source Repo...

A pragmatic journey using website analytics as a real-world example The post From Monolith to Contract-Driven Data Mesh appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI can write the code, but you have to steer the ship. Master the knowledge to keep you relevant in the age of AI. The post Code Smells: Essential Concepts For Data Scien...

The best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, with meaningful improvements to everyday tasks like slides and spreadsheets.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new benchmark records in coding, reasoning, and computer use while being Anthropic's most aligned model.

Claude Haiku 4.5 matches state-of-the-art coding capabilities from months ago while delivering unprecedented speed and cost-efficiency.

Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a $183 billion valuation to expand enterprise offerings, safety research, and international growth.

Anthropic's response to the White House AI Action Plan supports infrastructure and safety measures while calling for stronger export controls.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf with Low and High thinking variants. For a limited time, enjoy promotional pricing on credit usage.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 2x credits without thinking and 3x credits with thinking.

GLM-5 from Zhipu AI and Minimax M2.5 are now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing. Both models are included in Arena Mode's Frontier Arena and Hybr...

OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model optimized for real-time coding, is now available in Windsurf's Arena Mode Fast and Hybrid battle groups.

We are releasing the initial results of the Windsurf Arena Mode leaderboard today — with some surprising upsets.

A comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.

As models improve as agents, we've found success by providing fewer details up front, making it easier for the agent to pull relevant context on its own.

We're partnering with ecosystem vendors who have built hooks support with Cursor.

Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.

Bringing design and engineering closer together.

We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.

A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.

Research papers point to the growing impact of Deep Think across fields

The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of t...

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform

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AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time,...

The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud —...

From AI infrastructure leaders to frontier model developers, India is teaming with NVIDIA to drive AI transformation across the nation.

Agentic AI is reshaping India’s tech industry, delivering leaps in services worldwide. Tapping into NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Nemotron models, India’s tech...

India is entering a new age of industrialization, as AI transforms how the world designs, builds and runs physical products and systems. The country is investing $134 bil...

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) incur high inference cost due to iterative denoising, motivating efficient pruning. Existing pruning heuristics largely inherited from au...

Reward modeling is a core component of modern alignment pipelines including RLHF and RLAIF, underpinning policy optimization methods including PPO and TRPO. However, trai...

We propose a two-stage "Mine and Refine" contrastive training framework for semantic text embeddings to enhance multi-category e-commerce search retrieval. Large scale e-...

As humans increasingly rely on multiround conversational AI for high stakes decisions, principled frameworks are needed to ensure such interactions reliably improve decis...

Black-box adversarial attacks on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are challenging due to missing gradients and complex multimodal boundaries. While prior state-of-the...

As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods,...

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing...

This research looks at why Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models often outperform standard Behavior Cloning in imitation learning. By using simple predictions of what happen...

Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52...

AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance o...

WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means t...

We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thous...

We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of...

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s exp...

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new U...

When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural... The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising ap...

In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. The post How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Par...

TL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify... The post Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify...

The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appea...

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (H...

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter...

AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custo...

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-...

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my atten...

AWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offe...

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet w...

The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools a...

ecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source.

The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to conside...

The number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.

As the dust settles on Microsoft's dramatic changes at the top of its gaming team, fans are digesting the shock resignation of Xbox President Sarah Bond, after nearly a d...

Microsoft's new gaming CEO Asha Sharma has responded to concerns around her background in AI and lack of previous roles in gaming, as part of her first major interview si...

From Peter Moore to Reggie Fils-Aime, key gaming industry figures talk about Xbox's leadership changes as Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond exit Microsoft's gaming brand.

Sony is reportedly making another Venom movie, and this time, it’s going to be animated.

Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch next week. And while The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have already answered a number of questions about the re...

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ARC Raiders director comments on Embark Studios' approach to introducing new enemy types that resemble humans, and it might be bad news for some fans.

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