BMW is finally getting the next-generation Alexa voice assistant and it’s coming with a generative AI upgrade. Amazon said Monday that the 2026 BMW iX3 will be equipped with Alexa+, the same generative AI tech that launched in millions of the e-commerce giant’s smart devices last year. This will be the first vehicle to come […]

Lucid built more than 18,000 EVs in 2025 and delivered more than 15,000 after a tough start to the year -- still a far cry from the high bar it set in 2021.

Fire TV's new interface focuses on your content and offers easier, speedier navigation, Amazon says.

Amazon is bringing Alexa+ to the web with a new Alexa.com site, expanding its AI assistant beyond devices and positioning it as a family-focused, agent-style chatbot.

Google TV will let you ask Gemini to find and edit your photos, adjust your TV settings and more.

Finding the most informative points in images The post Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From single to multi-core on your local PC and beyond The post Ray: Distributed Computing for All, Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Instead of using shift as an excuse for poor performance, use Inverse Probability Weighting to estimate how your model should perform in the new environment The post Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift appeared first on Towards Data Science.

An explanation of how YOLOv1 measures the correctness of its object detection and classification predictions The post YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Running a code-free comparison in Azure The post Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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 for complex tasks.

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.

Parallel agents, Git worktrees, multi-pane Cascade, dedicated terminal, and SWE-1.5 Free

GPT-5.2 is now live in Windsurf! Available for 0x credits for a limited time (paid and trial users). The version bump undersells the jump in intelligence: Biggest leap for GPT models in agentic coding since GPT-5, SOTA coding model at its price point, Default in Windsurf

The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time

GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex Mini deliver a solid upgrade for agentic coding with variable thinking and improved steerability

SWE-1.5 is our latest frontier model, delivering near-SOTA coding performance at unprecedented speed.

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.

Debug Mode helps you reproduce and fix the most tricky bugs.

How we updated our agent harness to support GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.

Applications are now open for OpenAI Grove Cohort 2, a 5-week founder program designed for individuals at any stage, from pre-idea to product. Participants receive $50K in API credits, early access to AI tools, and hands-on mentorship from the OpenAI team.

OpenAI is strengthening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks using automated red teaming trained with reinforcement learning. This proactive discover-and-patch loop helps identify novel exploits early and harden the browser agent’s defenses as AI becomes more agentic.

More than one million customers around the world now use OpenAI to empower their teams and unlock new opportunities. This post highlights how companies like PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, BBVA, Cisco, Moderna, and Canva are transforming the way work gets done with AI.

OpenAI introduces a new framework and evaluation suite for chain-of-thought monitorability, covering 13 evaluations across 24 environments. Our findings show that monitoring a model’s internal reasoning is far more effective than monitoring outputs alone, offering a promising path toward scalable control as AI systems grow more capable.

OpenAI is updating its Model Spec with new Under-18 Principles that define how ChatGPT should support teens with safe, age-appropriate guidance grounded in developmental science. The update strengthens guardrails, clarifies expected model behavior in higher-risk situations, and builds on our broader work to improve teen safety across ChatGPT.

Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.

Google DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research

Agents still face challenges working across many context windows. We looked to human engineers for inspiration in creating a more effective harness for long-running agents.

Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform

Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents

Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous

Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills

NVIDIA will join the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission as a private industry partner to keep U.S. AI both the leader and the standard in technology around the world. The Genesis Mission, which is part of an Executive Order recently signed by President Trump, aims to redefine American leadership in AI across three Read Article </span

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing robust agentic and generative AI capabilities powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture to more desktops and professionals across the world.

Step out of the vault and into the future of gaming with Fallout: New Vegas streaming on GeForce NOW, just in time to celebrate the newest season of the hit Amazon TV show Fallout. To mark the occasion, GeForce NOW members can claim Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 as special rewards, completing a wasteland-ready trilogy Read Article

Physical AI is moving from research labs into the real world, powering intelligent robots and autonomous vehicles (AVs) — such as robotaxis — that must reliably sense, reason and act amid unpredictable conditions.

The Hao AI Lab research team at the University of California San Diego — at the forefront of pioneering AI model innovation — recently received an NVIDIA DGX B200 system to elevate their critical work in large language model inference. Many LLM inference platforms in production today, such as NVIDIA Dynamo, use research concepts that Read Article

Meta-learning aims to leverage information across related tasks to improve prediction on unlabeled data for new tasks when only a small number of labeled observations are available ("few-shot" learning). Increased task diversity is often believed to enhance meta-learning by providing richer information across tasks. However, recent work by Kumar et al. (2022) shows that increasing task diversity, quantified through the overall geometric spread of task representations, can in fact degrade meta-le

In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and thus a tight communication budget. In this work we focus on distributed learning of a sparse linear regression model, under severe communication constraints. We propose several two round distributed schemes, whose communication per machine is sublinear in the

Left ventricle (LV) segmentation is critical for clinical quantification and diagnosis of cardiac images. In this work, we propose two novel deep learning architectures called LNU-Net and IBU-Net for left ventricle segmentation from short-axis cine MRI images. LNU-Net is derived from layer normalization (LN) U-Net architecture, while IBU-Net is derived from the instance-batch normalized (IB) U-Net for medical image segmentation. The architectures of LNU-Net and IBU-Net have a down-sampling path

We present a training-free method for detecting valid mathematical reasoning in large language models through spectral analysis of attention patterns. By treating attention matrices as adjacency matrices of dynamic graphs over tokens, we extract four interpretable spectral diagnostics, the Fiedler value (algebraic connectivity), high-frequency energy ratio (HFER), graph signal smoothness, and spectral entropy, that exhibit statistically significant differences between valid and invalid mathemati

Federated data sharing promises utility without centralizing raw data, yet existing embedding-level generators struggle under non-IID client heterogeneity and provide limited formal protection against gradient leakage. We propose FedHypeVAE, a differentially private, hypernetwork-driven framework for synthesizing embedding-level data across decentralized clients. Building on a conditional VAE backbone, we replace the single global decoder and fixed latent prior with client-aware decoders and cla

By decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for developers to improve agent performance with almost zero code changes. The post Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites appeared first on <a h

Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without writing long instructions. The post Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls appeared first on Microso

Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using virtual population generated by multimodal AI appeared first on <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea

As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating the field of ML, and their work in responsible AI. The post Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI appeared first on <a href="https://ww

New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL. The post Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity appeared first on <a href="https://www.mi

The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Python’s type system and developer tooling. With 1,241 responses (a 15% increase from last year), the survey captures the evolving sentiment, challenges, and opportunities around Python typing in the [...] <a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://engineering.fb.com/2025/12/22/developer-tool

Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is a root cause analysis (RCA) platform, designed by Meta, to programmatically automate the investigation process, significantly reducing the mean time to resolve (MTTR) for incidents and alleviating on-call toil Today, DrP is used [...] <a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://engineering.fb.c

We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG wristband packaged with the Ray-Ban Display. Now we’re delving into the glasses themselves. Kenan and Emanuel, from Meta’s Wearables org, join Pascal Hartig on [...] <a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://engineering.fb.com/2025/12/17/virtual-reality/meta-ray-ban-display-from-zero-to-poli

Meta’s secure-by-default frameworks wrap potentially unsafe OS and third-party functions, making security the default while preserving developer speed and usability. These frameworks are designed to closely mirror existing APIs, rely on public and stable interfaces, and maximize developer adoption by minimizing friction and complexity. Generative AI and automation accelerate the adoption of secure frameworks at [...] <a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://

We’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI. Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at Meta and provides deep performance insights that enable energy savings, workflow acceleration, and efficiency gains in our AI infrastructure. Zoomer has delivered training time reductions, and significant QPS improvements, making it the [...] <a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://enginee

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Part 3) appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt. The post Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For... The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance. The post 1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Part 1) appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

TL;DR Spotify’s experimentation platform, Confidence, scaled product decision-making across hundreds of... The post Beyond Winning: Spotify’s Experiments with Learning Framework appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Gitanjali Venkatraman does wonderful illustrations of complex subjects (which is why I was so happy to work with her on our Expert Generalists article). She has now published the latest in her series of illustrated guides: tackling the complex topic of <a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/documents/blog/mainframe_modernisation_illust

If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a bunch of little, unconnected segments. These are usually a reference to something I’ve found on the web, sometimes a small thought of my own. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have covere

Why does AI write like… that (NYT, gift link). Sam Kriss delves into the quiet hum of AI writing. AI’s work is not compelling prose: it’s phantom text, ghostly scribblings, a spectre woven into our communal tapestry. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ <a href="https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test-desidera

Rob Bowley summarizes a study from Carnegie Mellon looking on the impact of AI on a bunch of open-source software projects. Like any such study, we shouldn’t take its results as definitive, but there seems enough there to make it a handy data point. The key point is that the AI code probably reduced the quality of the code base - at least if static code analysis can be trusted to determ

I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar. Again it’s dominated by the AI wave, with lots of blips capturing our explorations of how to use LLMs and similar technology. “Agents” are the big thing these days but we’re also seeing grow

Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days, and DevDays and, recently, adding that cherry on the cake, re:Invent 2025, we have lived through a year filled with exciting moments and technology advancements […]

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 that you can […]

Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges by viewing the state of our infrastructure through a graph interface on top of multiple data sources and metrics pipelines.

We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happens again.

Cloudflare's H1 2025 Transparency Report is here. We discuss our principles on content blocking and our innovative approach to combating unauthorized streaming and copyright abuse.

Cloudflare’s R2 SQL, a distributed query engine, now supports aggregations. Explore how we built distributed GROUP BY execution, using scatter-gather and shuffling strategies to run analytics directly over your R2 Data Catalog.

We present our 6th annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances and metrics that defined 2025.

From exciting updates to Frozen Ever After, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Soarin', and more, The Magic of Disney Animation, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, the return of Cool Kids' Summer, and a ton of other experiences to look out for, here is everything planned so far for Walt Disney World in 2026.

From the ongoing celebration of the resort's 70th anniversary, new experiences for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and Soarin', the long-awaited arrival of Bluey, and some great events and festivals to plan ahead for, here is everything planned so far for Disneyland in 2026.

Matt Firor, the former studio head and founder of ZeniMax Online Studios, has confirmed his resignation from the company as a direct result of the cancelation of the studio's unannounced game, Project Blackbird.

Jack Black has revealed his regret at turning down the role of Syndrome in The Incredibles, admitting he shouldn’t have been so difficult and just accepted the part.

After 15 years, Super Meat Boy has now been played from start to finish in a perfect deathless run.

Boruto's powerscalling has been ruined by the latest chapter. Very weak characters keep defeating the strongest.

An RPG doesn't have to be stuffed full of content to be great, as shown by these great western RPGs that focus on quality over quantity.

It's already a huge year for the Pokemon series with its 30th anniversary on the horizon, but one creature has quietly broken a major record.

Players who are trying to decide between setting Final Fantasy 7 Remake's bomb timer to 20 or 30 minutes can find details here.

There are many powerful new Gen Pirates. Some of them even have Yonko-level potential in One Piece.