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Databricks and the Linux Foundation announced that Delta Sharing is evolving into OpenSharing, an open protocol governed by the Linux Foundation that can share not only tables but also Agent Skills, AI models, and unstructured data. The protocol specification is hosted on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, adds a Share → Schema → Asset hierarchy and Apache Iceberg REST Catalog client support, and existing Delta Sharing configurations require no migration—simply enabling it on a Unity Catalog m

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Reflection has released the safety technical report for Beam, describing how it balances refusing harmful requests with answering normal ones through pre-training data filtering, a safety-aligned teacher model, and multi-teacher online policy distillation (MOPD). In its self-built Iris Safety Evaluations, Beam's refusal rate for harmful requests is 89%, and its compliance rate for safe, harmless requests is 82%, placing it on the Pareto frontier of safety and helpfulness. The report also shows t

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Through five co-designs—NVFP4, Wide-EP, Dynamo, Vera CPU, and CMX—NVIDIA enables Vera Rubin NVL72 to achieve up to 30x the per-megawatt throughput of GB300 NVL72 on SemiAnalysis AgentX while keeping 288 GB of HBM per GPU unchanged. NVFP4 reduces model footprint by about 3.5x versus FP16 and 1.8x versus FP8, and NVFP4 KV cache cuts it by up to another 50% versus FP8. TensorRT-LLM's Wide-EP spreads experts across 8 or more GPUs, while Dynamo manages KV cache as a cluster-level resource across GPUs

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Sierra announced the acquisition of Anon, which focuses on enabling enterprise AI agents to log in, navigate pages, and fill out forms on websites without APIs, just like humans. Anon had previously raised over $13 million, served hundreds of customers with its product, and deployed agents in the banking, healthcare, and enterprise software sectors. Its team and technology will be integrated into Sierra to enable Sierra agents to drive tasks to completion when they need to log in to websites or

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Debezium Server 3.7 adds a Zerobus Ingest sink that can push CDC events directly into Delta tables in Unity Catalog, without the need for an intermediate Kafka cluster or pull-based connectors. The sink was jointly developed by NVIDIA and Databricks and contributed to the open source Debezium project; NVIDIA added delivery guarantees such as envelope mode, idempotency keys, and persistent acknowledgment before source offset advancement. This push-based architecture also enables environments rest

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Code investigator pdfu found in the iOS 27.3 beta that the HomeView software used to display iPhone/iPad apps has added a "Conversational Apps" category, along with preparations for bidirectional audio routing, session management, and interruption handling, but it is not yet fully connected, and Apple has not announced support for chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude. HomeView also has built-in anti-deception protection: after three deception attempts on the same profile, iPhone authentication is

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9to5Google reports that Google's changes to the school search experience require schools to actively opt in to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and AI Overviews; Google's rationale is that search and AI are now deeply integrated, so turning off one means turning off the other. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan criticized Google on X for using its search monopoly to force schools to adopt AI. The article also notes that the AI boom has driven up component prices, and some low-income school

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Hugging Face has released the on-device TTS model Phonon, offering two sizes of approximately 65 MB and 75 MB, covering English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with more than 100 built-in voices. Among them, Phonon 31m supports only English and is open-sourced under Apache 2.0, allowing use in commercial products; Phonon 40m covers five languages but uses a non-commercial license. The company states that it ranks first in German and Spanish intelligibility on the Open TTS Leaderboard a

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Browser Use officially compared two types of AI agents, computer use and browser use: the former relies on screenshots to locate screen coordinates and operate the entire desktop, while the latter directly reads the page structure and operates elements via CDP. Browser Use believes that web tasks should prioritize browser use, because page structure allows direct element targeting and headless browsers can run in parallel, with Browser Use Cloud costing $0.02 per browser hour; only desktop appli

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Sun Chenghao, associate research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Security Studies at Tsinghua University, believes that Southeast Asia's choices in the AI field will be shaped by the China-US rivalry over the long term, but that countries can strengthen their capacity for independent choice through their own investments and regional cooperation. The SEA-LION project of AI Singapore used Llama and Gemma from US companies and Alibaba's Qwen from China to develop Southeast Asian language mod

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Goodfire Research has released a paper proposing a mechanism shaping framework that, through two methods—dependency shaping and expression shaping—adds penalty terms on the model's internal concepts to the training objective, specifying what the model should depend on and what it should not express. In a chest X-ray diagnosis experiment, this method reduced the model's reliance on spurious features such as chest tubes, with accuracy exceeding the soft ceiling of training on balanced data; in DPO

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NVIDIA has released the AI Factory Operations Agent, which collaborates through multiple domain sub-agents to locate root causes across the compute, network, hardware, and scheduling layers, and provides recommendations through a chat interface for its own DGX SuperPOD operations. The framework is built on the NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprint and OpenShell, is fully locally deployed, uses the local open-source NVIDIA Nemotron model for inference, and runs on DGX H100, DGX B200, and DGX GB300 production

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Oracle Executive Vice President Juan Loaiza said at Oracle AI World that the company obtained early access to the Mythos model in March of this year and used it to scan its own code, discovering a large number of serious security vulnerabilities. The fixes were subsequently included in quarterly patches, and one quarterly security update this year fixed more than 1,400 vulnerabilities. Oracle uses Real Application Testing to capture real workloads to validate patches, and through Deep Data Secur

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Cognition has released the SWE-2 Flash coding model, trained on Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small (276B total parameters, 12B activated parameters), marking the first time a mid-training stage before reinforcement learning was added to the training pipeline. The company claims Terminal-Bench 4.0 improved from 0.9% to 20.0%, FrontierCode 2.0 from 3.2% to 24.0%, and ExploitBench from 11.3% to 34.8%. The model is now available on Devin Desktop and the CLI, priced at one-fifth of its larger sibling S

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Google Research proposes the Agile Deliberation framework, which turns the construction of subjective image classifiers into an iterative dialogue between humans and LLMs: users first break down subcategories and exclusions, then the VLM proactively selects semantically borderline images, and the feedback enters an automatic prompt optimization loop. The team validated this in 18 real-human experiments of 1.5 hours each; the process reduced user fatigue and anxiety, and the resulting classifiers

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At the Engage 2026 conference, Smartsheet announced vsActual, an AI-driven planning and execution platform that uses AI agents to continuously monitor work progress across enterprise systems, compare it against strategic goals, and recommend adjustments. Its core Execution Graph is built on roughly 20 years of workflow data and 9 PB of information, underpinned by an AWS Neptune knowledge graph of about 100 million nodes, and can connect to systems such as Oracle, SAP, Workday, Atlassian, and Ser

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Figma built a centralized sandbox management platform called Nimbus. Through namespace configuration files and three APIs—GetOrCreate, Get, and Delete—engineers can create, reuse, and delete sandboxes without needing to understand cloud provider details. Nimbus uses a unified base image, sandbox-base, and a daemon, sandboxd, to manage processes, networking, and health checks. Its goal is to return a fully configured sandbox within 1 second and to load-balance across multiple cloud providers to h

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In the US midterm elections, multiple candidates advocating strict regulation of data centers won, including Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, as well as Democrats Keisha Lance Bottoms and Gina Hinojosa in the Georgia and Texas gubernatorial elections, both of whom advocated a moratorium on data center construction. NBC News exit polls show that nearly a quarter of voters listed data centers as a key factor in their vote, and nearly two-thirds said it was a major or minor factor. In data center refere

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Actor Henry Cavill used Googlebook's built-in AI tools Antigravity and Rambler to turn a spoken idea into a playable 16-bit game, "Mustache Protocol." Antigravity converts natural-language prompts into game mechanics, Rambler handles speech-to-text to organize ideas, Magic Pointer is used to select and combine visual elements, and Continue On supports seamless switching between an Android phone and Googlebook. After the game was completed and launched, for every play during November, Google will

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