Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic devices. AuraStack, a super-agent within the company’s Allegro AI studio, provides agentic…
Connecting MCP servers to Claude allows it to work with external tools, files, databases, repositories, and other systems instead of operating only within the chat window. The setup differs slightly between Claude Desktop and Claude Code, but both can be configured in just a few steps. In this article, you’ll learn how to connect MCP…
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments. At Microsoft Build, NVIDIA…
This post is co-written with Eric Jiang from xAI (SpaceXAI). xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving teams that build agents and AI workflows a model that reasons reliably over long inputs. With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider. Grok 4.3 is a model with configurable reasoning…
For the last year, a small California startup has been making extraordinary claims about the ability of its technology to potentially treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy — and maybe a slew of other genetic diseases, too. The company, Sonothera, does not yet have clinical data. But it’s presented data in animals so stunning that other experts…
Fireworks’s growth accelerates as companies look beyond expensive closed models from frontier labs and move to building specialized AI that can better reflect the knowledge, workflows, and customer context unique to their businesses SAN MATEO, Calif., July 16, 2026 — Fireworks today announced a $1.505 billion Series D round at a $17.5 billion valuation. The round…
AI has spent years in the spotlight for training: the massive, GPU-intensive process of building models. But for most teams deploying AI today, ongoing inference costs are what actually shape their unit economics. Estimates put inference at 80-90% of the total lifetime cost of a production AI system, simply because it runs continuously across every…
August 09, 2023 — Posted by Alan Kelly, Software EngineerOne of our previous articles, Optimizing TensorFlow Lite Runtime Memory, discusses how TFLite’s memory arena minimizes memory usage by sharing buffers between tensors. This means we can run models on even smaller edge devices. In today’s article, I will describe the performance optimization of the memory…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Name: Amanda Chawla Previous title: Senior VP, chief supply chain and post-acute care officer, Stanford Medicine New title: Chief supply chain officer, Providence Chawla’s appointment, which follows a national search, will take effect Aug. 24, Providence announced…
Humanoid robots are not taking Hyundai factory jobs in South Korea yet, but workers are already fighting for protection before they can. Hyundai Motor employees staged a three-day partial strike after wage talks stalled. Alongside demands over pay and retirement, the union wants guarantees against job losses and lower income as the automaker prepares to…