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Researchers from MIT and Microsoft developed an intelligent system that automatically optimizes agentic workflows, reducing computational resources and energy usage while maintaining performance.

Simon Willison created a tool to convert Mozilla's browser compatibility data into a downloadable SQLite database, hosted with open CORS headers for easy exploration via Datasette Lite.

Tom MacWright observes that LLM-generated job applications and portfolios make candidates feel anonymous and impersonal, lacking genuine personal expression.

Gemini 3.5 Flash now natively supports computer use as a built-in tool, enabling developers to build agents that can interact across browser, mobile, and desktop environments for long-horizon automation tasks like software testing and knowledge work.

NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel leverages HuggingFace Transformers v5 to deliver 3.4-3.7x higher training throughput and 29-32% less GPU memory for fine-tuning Mixture-of-Experts models, with no code changes beyond a single import.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM-optimized inference chip that promises substantially better performance per watt than current state-of-the-art, designed from the ground up for current and future AI models.

NVIDIA and AWS announce new EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs and GPU-accelerated vector search in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, enabling enterprises to deploy AI at production scale with improved performance and reduced operational complexity.

Introduces the FFASR Leaderboard, an open, community-driven benchmark for evaluating automatic speech recognition models under realistic far-field acoustic conditions, highlighting the significant performance gap between near-field and far-field scenarios.

Momentic announces a major platform update with an AI-powered knowledge base and autonomous testing agents to address the growing gap between code velocity and software quality.

Fluree DB is an open-source, temporal graph database with git-like branching, integrated vector/text/geo search, fine-grained access control, and support for SPARQL, JSON-LD, and Open Cypher. It is optimized for AI agent memory and achieves high performance on billion-scale graphs.

The Trump administration is urging Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for federal review, as Meta remains the only major US AI developer without such an agreement.

OpenAI is rolling out a new bidirectional voice model (Bidi 1) for ChatGPT that allows simultaneous speaking, hearing, and listening, real-time translation, and improved conversation context handling. The upgrade is appearing in the web interface and app for some users, with a broader release expected soon.

Krea 2 is a series of foundation models for creative image generation, built with a large-scale data infrastructure and multi-stage training pipeline. It introduces a prompt expander and style-reference system to improve steerability and enable creative exploration.

Graphsignal is a production-scale inference profiling platform that provides detailed timelines, LLM generation tracing, and system-level metrics to help engineers optimize AI performance across models, GPUs, and other accelerators.

Zico Kolter and Matt Fredrikson, leaders at Gray Swan and experts in AI security, discuss the state of AI red-teaming and indirect prompt injection, a critical vulnerability for AI agents. They explain why AI security requires a different mindset, how automated red-teaming can beat humans, and introduce tools like Shade for adversarial testing.

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that can generate 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt or up to 50 reference pieces, rivaling OpenAI and Google's offerings.

Datasette 1.0a35 alpha release introduces a new create table interface and alter table JSON API, along with stable template context documentation.

The MIT AI and Society Forum convened experts to discuss AI's societal impacts on labor, work, civil discourse, and arts, featuring keynotes from economists and computer scientists, panel discussions, and a musical performance exploring generative AI in the arts.

A test harness for experimenting with the Origin Private File System (OPFS) in browsers using Pyodide, built to explore persistent SQLite storage for Datasette Lite.

OpenAI's GPT-5 Pro helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a three-year-old mystery about how glucose affects T cell specialization by suggesting that deoxyglucose interferes with IL-2 protein construction, leading to increased inflammatory Th17 cells.