in the eval harness. Then it got shut down. I was in the room for the review that killed it. A mid-market SaaS company had built a customer-operations agent to handle billing and account tickets. They had instrumented it against the twelve-metric evaluation framework I published on this site two months ago. Task completion, faithfulness,…
The first Gemma model launched early last year and has since grown into a thriving Gemmaverse of over 160 million collective downloads. This ecosystem includes our family of over a dozen specialized models for everything from safeguarding to medical applications and, most inspiringly, the countless innovations from the community. From innovators like Roboflow building enterprise…
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They’re a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution. Compilers once helped humans speak to machines. Now machines…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: UnitedHealth outperformed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter and hiked its 2026 earnings outlook far higher than analysts predicted, suggesting the healthcare behemoth may have gotten a firm handle on soaring medical costs. UnitedHealth’s…
Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after raising $130 million. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Creaegis and Claypond and saw participation from Khosla Ventures,…
If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, trading agents, and the infrastructure that ties them all together. We tracked star growth, momentum, and real-world impact to identify the ten repositories that mattered most…
Inkling is a large (1T params!) open model to natively accept image, text, and audio inputs. TLDR; Inkling by Thinking Machines is out on Hugging Face. Inkling is a huge multimodal LLM that understands all modalities (image, audio, text), has agentic capabilities, and supports 1M context. It comes in full BF16 and a well-calibrated NVFP4…
You’re standing at the register. You tap your card. A tiny spinner appears for maybe half a second, maybe less, and then it says Approved. Or it doesn’t. During that time, something had to decide whether this charge looks like you, or like someone who stole your card number in a data breach six months…
What You Should Know Precision Care AI pioneer GW RhythmX has announced the formal availability of its flagship product, RhythmX Pulse, on the Microsoft Marketplace, enabling one-click discovery and rapid cloud deployment for worldwide enterprise health networks. Designed to bypass complex implementation timelines, health systems currently using Microsoft Dragon Copilot can add RhythmX Pulse directly…
Your browser does not support the audio element. Apparently James and GPT are besties This is either the clearest sign AI has gone mainstream or proof that GPT has become the ultimate roadie: always awake, knows every track list, loves every album, and somehow still wants to talk after soundcheck. P.S: A few weeks ago…