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Epsilon's Agentic Platform team used Amazon Nova Act together with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser to turn intent-driven UI testing into a multi-tenant platform service layered on top of its existing Playwright regression suite. Test steps are written in natural language, executed by Nova Act over a CDP WebSocket, with per-step screenshots and pass-rate statistics, and results stored in Amazon S3. The solution provides managed temporary browser sessions, AWS IAM-based authentication, and cross-

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The UK Amazon Quick User Group held three quarterly meetups in 2026, drawing more than 150 attendees in total. The events took place at Amazon's UK office in Shoreditch, London, where attendees built custom chat agents with Amazon Quick, tried out Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon Quick Apps, and practiced automation and research through Quick Flows, Quick Automate, and Quick Research. Customers such as Arriva UK Trains and Carsa shared their experiences implementing role-based dashboards and a un

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Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which scored 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 leaderboard, surpassing Claude Opus 5.5's 58 points and GPT-6 Astra's 57 points. The model achieved 88.2%, 54.8%, and 71.0% on SEC-bench Pro, ExploitGym, and CWE-bench, respectively, and Google says it can handle engineering problems in large codebases continuously for several days. The model this week is first being made available to some cybersecurity defenders, then expanded to trusted p

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SK Hynix released its Q3 2026 earnings report, with revenue of 104.6155 trillion won (about $78 billion), operating profit of 83.3338 trillion won (about $63 billion), and net profit of 39.7756 trillion won (about $30 billion). Revenue and operating profit grew 32% and 38% quarter-over-quarter, respectively, and quarterly revenue exceeded 100 trillion won for the first time. Growth came mainly from server DDR5 memory sales, while HBM4 shipments have only just begun. The company said AI data cent

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The environmental nonprofit Sierra Club, in a report obtained by Bloomberg, estimates that planned AI data centers in the US will add 618 million tons of carbon emissions to the power sector between 2025 and 2030, an increase of 42%, equivalent to reversing 15 years of emissions reductions and bringing the sector's 2030 emissions to 2.1 billion tons. The report also notes that these data centers building their own off-grid power sources could bring more than 460 million tons of additional emissi

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At its inaugural India Summit, ElevenLabs signed an MoU with the Government of Karnataka, India, to explore the use of voice AI for citizen services, voice security, and voice restoration. The collaboration will begin with pilots in grievance handling, public hotlines, and welfare applications, covering Kannada and the 13 other official Indian languages already supported by the platform. ElevenLabs will also deploy a security framework covering deepfake detection, watermarking, authorization, an

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ElevenLabs has released the forced alignment model Cue, which can pinpoint the exact time point for each character in audio and has already been used in the Scribe speech-to-text model family. Cue covers more than 90 benchmark languages, processes recordings of any length in a single pass, and takes about half a second to align 1 hour of audio on production GPUs; on benchmarks across 29 languages, its accuracy is higher than all alignment tools tested by ElevenLabs. The model is also available s

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ElevenLabs announced a partnership with the Spanish ALS association adELA to give ALS patients diagnosed in Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology. This is the first project of the ElevenLabs Impact Program in Spain, and Spain is the first country to offer this technology through a nationwide patient association. Patients whose speech has not yet noticeably changed can record new samples, while those whose speech has changed can upload old recordings to generate t

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ElevenLabs has released a guide introducing the use cases and benefits of conversational AI in banking: NLP-based agents can handle routine inquiries, identity verification, and payment disputes 24/7, escalating to a human agent only when they cannot resolve the issue or when the customer requests it. The article compares the differences between IVR, rule-based chatbots, and conversational AI agents, and lists high-value scenarios such as account opening, repayment reminders, dispute intake, and

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On October 26, US House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter to Delaware Governor Matt Meyer requesting documents related to the proposed "AI company" (AIC), including safety assessments and details of industry participation, and warned that the investigation could push federal legislation to restrict state-level AI initiatives. According to the draft, Delaware would establish a 30-month regulatory sandbox in which AICs could have AI agents handle business decisions without rou

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has reviewed multiple cases in which police pulled over vehicles based solely on data from automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras such as Flock, with the earliest dating back to 2025. In one case, a woman traveling across state lines was stopped by someone claiming to be an FBI agent who checked her plate, on the grounds that she was from out of state and her itinerary did not match database records; another man was stopped for traveling back

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Google DeepMind has released the Genie 4 world model as a research preview to trusted testers; it can generate explorable worlds in real time from text and image prompts, and natively generate ambient sound, music, and character dialogue. The model introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash as a planner within the simulation loop, responsible for breaking down goals, inspecting frames, and replanning, which DeepMind calls an early step toward hybrid world models. Genie 4 is hosted only on Google's platform and

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ElevenLabs has released its next-generation sound effects model SFX v3, now live on ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI. According to the company, in benchmark tests it handles prompts describing multiple sounds more reliably than SFX v2, generates music and voices more convincingly, and produces less noise in sound effects such as gongs, bells, and whistles. Users can generate sound effects via text prompts in Flows, the Sound Effects tab, Studio, and Music Editor, and developers can access it through

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ElevenLabs has released a user guide explaining turn-taking in conversational AI: the model must switch among three actions—replying, holding the floor, and listening to silence—relying on adaptive timing, VAD, and semantic analysis to determine whether the user has finished speaking, rather than depending on a fixed silence timer. When Eleven v4 Turbo is paired with ElevenAgents, the median latency from request to audible speech is 142 ms. Engineering teams can measure conversational fluency us

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Check Point launches Firewall-as-a-Subscription, turning network firewalls into a cloud subscription service. Customers no longer need to purchase hardware devices upfront, but must commit to at least 36 months. The service is based on its latest firewall platform R82.20 and includes an agentic console for managing firewall devices and services, Force hardware firewalls, SandBlast's AI threat protection, and instant security updates. Check Point says the move is intended to address emerging thre

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On October 28, MiniMax open-sourced MCode Stack under the MIT license, including the 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists its team used to build MiniMax Code, but not the MiniMax Code source code. The skills are grouped into planning and decomposition, context and tools, long sessions and commands, review, and experiments and hotfixes, among which independent-review provides reviewers only with the diff, requirements, and test results. It can be installed into MiniMax Code by copying the skill di

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NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight large speech model that supports 40 languages and up to 1 hour of audio per pass, and can select output formats such as verbatim, written, speaker-labeled, contextual, and translation via text instructions. The model has approximately 34B total parameters and about 4.3B activated parameters, adopts a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture, can run in BF16 on a single H100 80GB, and the NVFP4 version at about 21GB can run on an RTX 50

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AssemblyAI has released its first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, and officially opened it up, targeting real-time telephony voice agents, priced at $15 per million characters, with no annual contracts and no concurrency tiers. The model is offered only as a hosted API in us-east-1 and eu-north-1, supports HTTP, WebSocket and OpenAI-compatible interfaces, and comes with more than 4,000 voices, instant voice cloning and 6 languages. The vendor's own testing shows 93.7% entity accuracy and

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Infini-AI-Lab has released the open-source framework Hermit, which adapts AI agents by training external harness adapters while keeping the model and harness frozen; v0.1.0 was released on October 25, 2026. The framework is implemented in Python under the Apache-2.0 license and can be installed via pip install hermit-harness, and it includes five evolution methods: GEPA, SkillOpt, MetaWorld Model, Harness², and Continual Harness. On GLM 5.3 Flash, the MWM adapter achieved 0.795 accuracy on the C

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