AI Lab

A weekend to explore health technologies at EPFL

EPFL hosts a weekend event exploring vaccine mechanisms, disease spread prediction, and AI-assisted medical diagnosis.

More Performance From Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge

Larger models, longer contexts and agentic applications increase GPU memory pressure as supply tightens and prices rise, a trend expected to continue through the near term.

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system corrects unreliable object descriptions in a robot’s memory, improving environmental interaction.

Centcom Benefits From Project Agincourt, Drone Dominance Efforts

U.S. Central Command troops have received over 25,000 unmanned aerial systems and counter-UAS equipment this year to enhance mission execution.

Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq

Agility Robotics becomes the first U.S.-based legged humanoid company to be publicly listed on Nasdaq.

How Circle K accelerated DevOps incident triage to under 15 minutes with Amazon Bedrock

Circle K's DevOps team reduced incident triage from 45-60 minutes to under 15 minutes using an agentic system on Amazon Bedrock.

How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season

Ambi Robotics COO Stephen McKinley says the company is installing eight new systems at customer sites before peak season.

AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the EU’s New Rules

EU mandates AI text watermarking for identification as required regulation.

Are Drone Ports the Next Annoying Tech Neighbor?

Rick and Marcia LeCompte observed Cooper’s hawks visiting a sweetgum tree in their Baton Rouge yard.

NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support".

Cisco IQ: Engineering APIs for the Agentic Era

Cisco IQ provides developers and AI agents with one canonical model, deterministic guardrails, and platform-level correlation via its APIs and MCP server.

How U Mobile built agentic telco operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

U Mobile built AiDaH, an agentic AI operations platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for autonomous telco operations.

LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in Robot Action

LiberAI introduces Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on over 2.2 million hours of human experience to support zero-shot robot manipulation.

“I'm an accidental computer scientist!”

Margo Seltzer wins 2026 Erna Hamburger Award for pioneering software systems.

NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

completed simulated lunar descent and landing maneuvers.

Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Daybreak Red GPT-5.6 Cyber is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) via Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.

How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot

GlobalLogic designed Haystack Robotics' UV disinfection robot to avoid single-use-case limitations.

AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)

AWS Weekly Roundup highlights agentic launches on Bedrock, noting model capability is unrelated to the featured launches.

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Google DeepMind Blog reports that Antigravity and cheminformatics skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, compound search, and novel rigidified macrocycle proposals.

Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

Cities generate massive data from sensors and cameras, but converting it into actionable insights for planning and services remains a challenge.

New ISO interoperability standard covers collaboration among mobile robots from multiple vendors

The ISO 21423:2026 standard enables interoperability and coordination among mobile robots from multiple vendors.

How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026

UK Amazon Quick User Group 2026 roundup featured three quarterly meetups with 150+ attendees and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on agentic AI and Amazon Quick.

Keep Distributed Training Running with Automated Workload Recovery

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "Keep Distributed Training Running with Automated Workload Recovery".

Inside CMU’s Robotics Innovation Center

CMU's 150,000-square-foot Robotics Innovation Center rises on the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood.

Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale.

Top Arm-based innovations advancing on-device AI, cloud infrastructure, and physical AI in October 2026

Arm ecosystem showcased AI-powered wearables and autonomous vehicles in October 2026.

Improving Quality of Life for Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Through AI-Based Monitoring and Intervention Planning

Pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis and is among the most aggressive cancers, according to Fraunhofer Research News.

UK and Ukrainian industry unite to accelerate drone innovation

UK and Ukrainian defence firms unite at Larkhill Garrison to showcase battle-proven drone technology.

Top 10 robotics developments of October 2026

RoboBusiness celebrated its 20th anniversary last month and is rebranding to Robotics Summit & Expo West.

The Robot Report: “Tutor Intelligence raises Series B to scale model training, robot deployments”

Tutor Intelligence secured Series B funding to advance picking robot development, networked intelligence, and commercial deployments.

Guarding the Gates of Knowledge

Social media feeds contain AI slop that astute users identify as machine-generated, often causing embarrassment for unwitting spreaders.

Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw

NVIDIA NemoClaw requires a model, harness, and domain-specific tools to build autonomous agents.

Agentic engineering intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Bedrock AgentCore enable a multi-agent engineering assistant that compresses aerospace component substitution evaluation from days to minutes, preserving the engineer as the decision-maker.

New Technology Optimizes Enzymes for Industry

Enzymes offer industry potential for efficiency and new production methods, according to Fraunhofer Research News.

Gentherm designs ThermAffyx to protect, move patients during robotic surgeries

ThermAffyx secures and heats patients for robot-assisted surgery with a minimal OR footprint.

Powering Partner Potential in a World of Agentic AI

Cisco advances AgenticOps and secure networking at Partner Summit to enhance partner capabilities for network modernization.

Solving the Interconnect Challenge in Modern Robotics: How 3M Is Engineering for Motion, Density, and Uptime

3M engineers interconnects to support faster, more precise AI-driven robotics motion and density while targeting uptime.

Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals

AI agents now assist in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, focusing on detecting artificial signals.

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model combining reasoning, tool use, and multimodal understanding.

Why physical AI is the next lucrative frontier

Physical AI must transition from funding enthusiasm to production environments to prove commercial value.

Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream

Qualcomm Technologies' article reports that personal AI is becoming mainstream for consumers.

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands".

Unusual robotic animals can prove their utility

Robotic animals designed to be helpful show promise in disaster recovery, utility inspection, and companionship.

IEEE Spectrum — Robotics: “Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole Body Manipulation”

IEEE Spectrum robotics presents Video Friday, a weekly selection of robotics videos featuring Spot demonstrating whole-body manipulation.

Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo

NVIDIA Developer Blog reports teams need a repeatable path from model configuration to a working inference endpoint for building AI applications.

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US).

From AI models to deployment: Five developer takeaways shaping the future of AI

Developer events in September and October highlighted the challenge of making AI work efficiently across software, hardware, cloud infrastructure, and the physical world.

Percepto launches Axion AI platform to unify inspection data analysis

Percepto launched Axion, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform for mission-critical infrastructure inspection data analysis.

Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act

Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool.

A Little Wiggle Helps Robots Learn the Ropes

A Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute study finds wiggling a rope helps robots estimate its physical properties.

White House makes Section 232 determination regarding foreign-made robots

U.S. Secretary of Commerce's Section 232 investigation concluded foreign robotics dependence poses a national security risk.

A soft robot could help doctors diagnose and treat disorders of the small intestine

MIT engineers designed a soft robotic enteroscope that inches through the small intestine for easier biopsies and drug delivery.

ANYbotics begins delivering ANYmal X legged robot for explosive atmospheres

ANYbotics designed the ANYmal X inspection robot to meet strict oil, gas, and chemical industry safety standards.

NVIDIA Blog: “NVIDIA Open Models Advance Europe’s Sovereign Intelligence Across Industries”

NVIDIA expands open models across language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing, adding Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt models.

Using AI Agents to Teach Robots Like Microduck to Walk in Simulation

Teaching Microduck to walk requires more than a walking policy, as navigating an obstacle course demands additional AI agent training.

Build, test and optimize faster: Arm and GitHub accelerate agentic AI development

Arm and GitHub integrate AI coding agents into native development workflows for faster iteration and optimization.

NVIDIA Developer Blog: “Unlocking Tensor Core Performance for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials”

NVIDIA Developer Blog reports atomistic simulations help researchers understand molecular and material behavior, including chemical reactions and phase transitions.

Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS

Ray Train DLC ships full CUDA-through-EFA stack, eliminating custom image builds.

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3

As QA test automation spreads across an organization, organizing tests and controlling ownership becomes the real work.

A new tissue atlas will help AI understand cancer

EPFL researchers released the world's largest open-access spatial proteomics tissue image collection from over 5,000 cancer patients to aid AI understanding of cancer.

Systems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI

Modern engineering projects combine human judgment with machine capability.

3 Ways to Boost MoE Inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark

NVIDIA Developer Blog reports that identifying inference performance limits starts faster token generation for MoE on DGX Spark.

AMD Expands AI and Cloud Infrastructure Collaboration with Oracle

AMD 6th Gen EPYC processors power Oracle Compute E7 instances, with AMD Pensando technology enabling Oracle Acceleron converged NICs for AMD compute and accelerator instances on OCI.

Groundhog Day for AI agents: Prompt caching patterns for using OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock prompt caching lets OpenAI agents reuse context across steps, reducing input cost and latency without resending tools, instructions, or history each turn.

I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

Academic publishing faces a growing problem of AI-generated low-quality content overwhelming peer review.

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model, and our remediation with SGLang

A GLM 5.3 configuration mismatch on Workers AI triggered an SGLang bug exposing cross-request KV cache pages.

Agentic AI explained: How agentic AI changes computing from cloud to edge

Agentic AI workloads create new demands across cloud, edge, and physical systems.

How NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "How NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes".

Teradyne Robotics partners with Sereact to scale physical AI in retail and logistics

Sereact and Teradyne have shipped hundreds of UR robots in dual-arm systems to live customer sites across Europe.

Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots

Eka Robotics raises $150M to develop a vision-force-action model for robot physics intuition at scale.

Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube By Itself

IEEE Spectrum robotics presents Video Friday, featuring a quadruped robot solving a giant Rubik's Cube autonomously.

Resilience takes centre stage at the NAVISP Industry Days

ESA NAVISP Industry Days in Rome featured 350 participants discussing resilience, maritime and drone applications, and alternative navigation technologies.

Dream Labs raises $90M and launches Dream API

Dream Labs raises $90M and launches Dream API, claiming its Dream-1 AI model enables cross-manufacturer robot learning transfer.

NASA News Releases: “NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers”

NASA reports crewed and robotic lunar rovers will support Moon Base development through technology demonstrations, transport, terrain mapping, scientific investigations, and resource prospecting.

Video Friday: When Two Robots Become One

IEEE Spectrum robotics presents Video Friday, a weekly selection of robotics videos.

Europe’s Industrial Leaders Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing With NVIDIA

Europe's industrial leaders adopt NVIDIA CUDA-X, Omniverse, Cosmos and Nemotron to accelerate engineering and manufacturing innovation.

State of Observability 2026 Reveals How Leaders Are Restoring Predictability to the Agentic Era

Splunk research shows leaders use observability to restore control and drive business value in the Agentic AI era.

Introducing Agentic Evaluation in FAITH

Cisco blogs state that as AI agents grow more capable across cybersecurity, effective evaluation becomes increasingly necessary.

How Bayer Crop Science built an agentic decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with AWS Unified Operations

Bayer Crop Science built the Agentic Decision Engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to enable natural language analytics queries.

Running Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "Running Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes".

NVIDIA Blog: “NVIDIA Transforms European Retail, From Digital Discovery to Physical Operations”

European retailers deploy open models and physical intelligence to cut inference costs and simulate robotic fleet collaboration in digital twins.

Powering Agentic AI with the Arm AGI CPU Software Ecosystem

Arm's open-source and commercial software building blocks for agentic AI span the Arm64 ecosystem.

NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories

NVIDIA launched Minerva, an AIOps platform designed to help teams identify problems earlier and maintain AI factory productivity.

Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3 in January 2026 and conducted a researcher-led retirement interview with the model.

Adaptive agentic intelligence framework using Strands Agents

AWS introduces the Adaptive Agentic Intelligence Framework using Strands Agents to handle routine tasks locally with small language models and route complex requests to cloud models via Amazon Bedrock.

Securing AI Agents Across the AI Factory

Cisco explores DPU-based security to help enterprises scale AI agents, control access and data flows, isolate inference workloads, and improve visibility.

Design Proteins with RFD4-Proteina Using Reward-Guided Inference-Time Search

Protein design involves searching over 25 billion amino acid combinations for an eight-residue sequence.

Turn Distributed Capacity into AI Infrastructure

Cisco and NVIDIA launch an AI inference routing blueprint to help service providers transform distributed capacity into carrier-grade, sovereign AI services.

AGCO to deploy Agility Digit humanoid in Kansas factory

AGCO plans to deploy Agility Digit humanoids at a Kansas factory starting in 2027.

llm-d 1.0 Advances Open, Cost-Efficient AI Inference for Production Scale

IBM announces llm-d 1.0 consolidates a hardened core for distributed inference validated for day 2 production deployments to improve AI serving efficiency and scale enterprise workloads.

Reservoir launches new agricultural robotics incubator for Washington growers

Reservoir launches agricultural robotics incubator to support Washington growers and researchers.

Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

Electric truck battery design simulation enables same-day package deliveries.

Edge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action

Edge AI enables cities to transition from passive monitoring to cognitive action.

RoboBusiness rebrands as Robotics Summit & Expo West

Robotics Summit & Expo West rebrands from RoboBusiness to sharpen real-world robotics and AI deployment focus.

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with Denodo and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS and Denodo build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization

Cloudflare reduced AI code reviewer costs by 68% after identifying token usage as the cause of doubled per-run expenses.

How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium

Deepgram optimized its Nova-3 speech-to-text model for AWS Trainium2 offline batch inference through collaboration with the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team.

Securing the agentic insider

Microsoft reports a growing number of publicly disclosed AI safety incidents in recent months.

Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

MIT News Engineering reports new research enabling AI models to understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.

Daimon Robotics building the infrastructure layer for tactile intelligence

Daimon Robotics connects tactile sensing, real-world data collection, simulation, and AI models to improve robot task reliability.

Bajcsy Named 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Andrea Bajcsy, a Robotics Institute assistant professor, joins Akari Asai and Daniel Fried as a 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.

ADI explains the race to make AI physical

ADI whitepaper examines challenges and opportunities in moving physical AI from labs into production machinery.

The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build

Agility Robotics launched Digit 5, a new robot from the company cofounded in 2015.

How to choose a BLDC motor for robotic arms and mobile robots

Brushless DC motor selection depends on sensors, safety, and robotic arm or mobile platform factors.

Building agents that transact with Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments

AWS and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources and APIs.

Manage private pricing offers for Amazon Bedrock with managed entitlements

AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers require individual acceptance per account, creating friction across dozens or hundreds of accounts.

The rise of the machines is canceled: Why humanoids with AI are helpers, not enemies

Columnist argues humans remain essential for developing humanoid robots and training AI to maintain control.

How Tamnoon built AI-powered cloud security remediation with Amazon Bedrock

Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic cloud remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that autonomously investigates and safely remediates cloud security findings from CNAPP and cloud-native sources.

The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic

EU enterprises and small businesses are increasing agentic AI adoption, with deeper use potentially unlocking additional value.

Continuous accountability for Verified bots

Cloudflare introduces continuous evaluation to ensure Verified bots honor site preferences like robots.txt and HTTP 429s over time.

Bajcsy Awarded Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Andrea Bajcsy, a Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor, received a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

Q&A: Mars Perseverance Rover Sets a Distance Record

Perseverance rover reached 28.10 miles total distance on Mars on October 11.

Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots

White paper proposes decoupling motion planning and tracking to preserve humanoid robot athletic style via adaptive, speed-aware control.

Agents at the Edge: Extending AI Security Governance to Physical AI with DefenseClaw

AI agents are moving beyond screens and servers into the physical world, controlling robots, drones, factory equipment, and building systems.

How ADI is helping robotics startups scale

Analog Devices Inc. helps robotics startups scale amid rapid innovation challenges.

RoboBusiness 2026 panel to discuss reshoring with robots

RoboBusiness 2026 panel will examine how to promote manufacturing reshoring with robots.

EPFL is serving up the agriculture and food systems of tomorrow

EPFL will participate in Olma, Switzerland's autumn fair in St. Gallen from 8 to 18 October 2026.

Planning system ensures a robot’s flight path will remain collision-free

MIT News Engineering reports a new method called SANDO could help disaster-response robots navigate dangerous, unknown environments.

5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models".

Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS

AWS introduces Reflection Beam, an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks.

Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio

Apple MLX enables local AI research on Mac Studio with Apple silicon.

Arm at the OCP Global Summit 2026: How Arm AGI CPU is scaling agentic AI infrastructure from CPU to rack

Arm AGI CPU and ecosystem demonstrate open infrastructure scaling from CPU to rack at OCP Global 2026.

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

MIT News reports an AI model decodes how cells communicate to assemble into tissues.

Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, an 816B mixture-of-experts model with 42B active parameters and a 1M token context window.

Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Muse Spark Open, Meta's coding-optimized open-weight model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.

Cisco Takes the Court: Powering a More Connected Future Across the NBA

Cisco partners with Hawks, Cavaliers, and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment to build secure, AI-ready digital infrastructure for NBA venues.

Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

Small multimodal models generate lengthy reasoning that provides little action guidance while incurring substantial inference cost.

Build self-improving document processing using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables self-improving document processing that automatically handles new formats without manual template configuration.

The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models

Apple researchers design discrete diffusion models as strong autoregressive alternatives for bi-modal generation.

From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA

French companies deploy agentic computing across space, finance, public sector and scientific research.

Cryptography Rarely Fails Because of the Math

Cisco warns cryptography often fails due to deployment, not math, emphasizing post-quantum migration and AI-scale risk as core controls requiring open-source stewardship.

How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours

OpenAI News reports this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use, using GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity.

Shield AI Delivers First V-BATs to Taiwan, Deepening its Partnership with Taiwan Coast Guard Administration

Shield AI delivered the first V-BAT to the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration via partner AIDC on October 13, 2026.

OCP 2026 Keynote Replay: Building the Next Era of AI Infrastructure

AMD CEO Lisa Su highlights the company's open, full-stack compute portfolio to support agentic AI at every scale.

Self-Compacting Language Model Agents

Apple ML research finds long agent traces accumulate stale content that anchor generations and eventually outgrow the context window.

Closing the reality gap: Why real-time execution has become the new competitive advantage

Daifuku's Cecile Dick-Calmes states success is no longer measured solely by automation density or equipment utilization.

Will ‘boring’ robots win in the real world? Why robotic form should follow workflow

To advance physical AI beyond social media, robotic form must follow workflow, reversing the current approach.

The Robot Report: “Groceryshop 2026 shows that retail robots are ready to scale, use AI”

Groceryshop 2026 demonstrated retail robots ready to scale with AI integration.

How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?

Recent autonomous machine learning engineering agents have made significant progress on public leaderboards, according to Apple Machine Learning Research.

Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze

MIT engineers designed a paper-thin biohybrid robot powered by muscle cells that swims through watery mazes.

GE Aerospace, Shield AI, and Poland’s WZL-2 Sign MOU to Advance F110 Engine MRO Support in Poland

GE Aerospace, Shield AI, and Poland's WZL-2 signed an MOU on October 12, 2026, to advance F110 engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul support in Poland.

ReplaySSM: Rethinking State Storage for Faster Hybrid-Model Decoding

Hybrid models interleave state-space model layers with attention layers for faster decoding.

Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments

Microsoft Corporate Blog reports Azure Maia 200 is in production with Azure Maia 300 slated for 2027 deployment.

Splunk .conf26: Tracking the Triage Agent in the Agentic SOC

Cisco used Splunk as a SOC data platform at .conf26 to unify security telemetry and track the AI Triage Agent with human-validated workflows.

Why dexterity is physical AI’s real bottleneck

The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work.

New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent

Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference introduces the aws-ai-ml skill through the Agent Toolkit for AWS, giving coding agents deep expertise in inference optimization and benchmarking.

Boston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid hand

Boston Dynamics director Alberto Rodriguez explains the redesigned humanoid hand's capabilities and design intent.

Shield AI and U.S. government investment in X-BAT reaches $400 million

Shield AI announced a $150 million U.S. Navy modification to its Other Transaction agreement to advance the AI-piloted X-BAT VTOL fighter aircraft.

Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash

Cloudflare expands the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, a natively multimodal pipeline processing audio, video, images, and text.

Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents

Developers assemble assets, connect physics and rendering, and verify scene behavior when turning simulation ideas into applications.

The Zero-Day Blind Spot: Why Your Agentic SOC needs Retrospective Packet Replay

Cisco Blogs reports that the .conf26 Agentic SOC paired Endace full PCAP with Cisco Secure Firewall and Talos rules to retrospectively replay wire data against zero-days.

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations using false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Introducing ESA’s Earth Virtual Expert

ESA released Earth Virtual Expert, an AI-powered platform to make Earth observation information more accessible and easier to understand.

Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test

Humanoid robot demos fail to generalize due to insufficient data and overreliance on human judgment, limiting real-world deployment.

One Cisco in Action: Inside the Agentic SOC at .conf26

Cisco Cloud Control and Splunk Enterprise Security powered the live Agentic SOC at .conf26 to deliver unified TDIR across live event traffic.

Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments enables AI agents to pay for services on demand with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure.

Admin in the Loop: Firewalls and the Agentic SOC

Cisco Secure Firewall and Cloud Control stream Snort 3 and EVE telemetry into Splunk ES to power the Agentic SOC pipeline.

RISED: Rubrics for Agentic Multi-Environment Selection and Self-Distillation

Apple ML research proposes joint LLM agent training across diverse interactive environments as a route to generalist agents.

Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare

Cloudflare Managed Defense uses AI agents on Workers to analyze security alerts via global network telemetry.

Teradyne Robotics, Elite Robots settle cobot dispute

Teradyne Robotics and Elite Robots settled their software dispute without disclosing agreement terms.

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Microsoft Research reports that training AI agents with reinforcement learning is challenging due to complex frameworks managing tools, context, and decision-making.

Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation

Agentic automation delivers value beyond hours saved, enabling AI center of excellence leaders to size full business cases across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance economics.

How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock

Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to provide grounded answers across enterprise data for over 40,000 customers.

Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026

Cloudflare celebrated its 16th birthday with 46 announcements across open source, post-quantum security, AI agents, and developer platform upgrades.

Beyond the model: Securing the path from intelligence to action in the agentic AI era

AI security must extend beyond the model to protect the complete system enabling intelligent actions in the agentic AI era.

Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models

Telecom operators are building AI strategies on open models for reasons beyond cost savings.

Shield AI and Innovaero collaborate on sovereign, autonomous loitering munitions for Australia

Shield AI and Innovaero Technologies collaborate to provide the Australian Defence Force with sovereign autonomous loitering munition capabilities.

Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock

GLM 5.3, a 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Z.ai, is now available on Amazon Bedrock for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)

Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI entered public preview, built on a customized OpenAI Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources.

Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems

Apple ML research states designed artifacts are ontological, shaping, and at times limiting what becomes possible or imaginable.

Sovereign AI, same landlord — thoughts on the physical AI race

NVIDIA pursues a sovereign strategy to secure its role amid growing physical AI architecture alternatives.

Pegasus 1.6 brings video understanding to physical AI, says TwelveLabs

TwelveLabs states its Pegasus 1.6 model understands first-person video and supports robotics labeling workflows.

Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock

Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on autonomous fleets

ASI and SoftBank invest $225 million to scale brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment for infrastructure projects.

One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

Cloudflare reports 750+ early-career builders shipped real products across 48 teams one year after announcing a goal to hire 1,111 interns.

FCC robot restrictions could accelerate shift to local AI

Robot manufacturers must decide which AI workloads to deploy locally versus in the cloud, balancing security, safety, and supply-chain transparency requirements.

Agentic retrieval with LangChain and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base supports agentic retrieval with LangChain to handle multi-part questions that single-shot retrieval answers poorly.

How robotics and physical AI can responsibly tackle key physical security challenges

Robotics and AI can responsibly address evolving cyber and physical security threats.

Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

Cloudflare Blog introduces Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows.

How AI agents are informing JIATF-401’s procurement plans after Falcon Peak

JIATF-401 director details new AI agent procurement plans following Falcon Peak counter-drone hub deployment

ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale inspections

ANYbotics designed Shift to help maintenance teams run industrial inspections, detect failing equipment, and turn data into work orders.

The Robot Report: “Innodata opens motion-capture lab to help humanoids move more like people”

Innodata uses Vicon cameras to measure movements with sub-millimeter accuracy and collect real-world training data for robots.

Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

Cloudflare AI Gateway now supports native web search API integration with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.

How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is available now in the API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

When security moves at machine speed, campus networks can’t afford to stop

Cisco Live Protect and xFSU help campus teams reduce exposure, maintain connectivity, and deploy software updates with fewer disruptions as AI-assisted threats accelerate the need for faster security response.

Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples

NVIDIA Developer Blog states that adding AI models to local applications requires a portable model format, a reliable runtime, and acceleration across target systems.

Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots

Software, safety, and fleet management are as important as the robot itself in mobile robotics, per an OMROM project manager.

Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?

A robot can follow safety rules while executing manipulated input, highlighting a vulnerability in current testing protocols.

How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time

Maven Robotics raised $100 million to mass produce its mobile manipulator robot.

Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness

Eli Lilly and Purdue University experts will present field findings on manufacturing floor robot perception at RoboBusiness.

The Robot Report: “Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics”

Runway plans to ship Praxis-1 publicly with open weights rather than as a closed model.

Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand

Boston Dynamics engineers taped pinkies and ring fingers together to identify functional limitations.

Beyond Operational Obsolescence: The New Paradigm of IT Management in the AI Era

Cisco's three-pillar strategy—Services as Code, AIOps, and AI-powered DevOps—enables autonomous, self-healing infrastructure to reduce risk and accelerate innovation.

NVIDIA Developer Blog: “NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring”

To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology: the rise of the internet in the 90s.

Forecasting space weather risks on power grids

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations, according to Microsoft Research.

From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI

CoreWeave and NVIDIA close the loop on agentic AI with purpose-built cloud infrastructure returning investment across deployment generations.

Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

Cloudflare Blog announces AI Gateway User Insights adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisions.

IBM Study: As AI Scales Enterprise-Wide, CFOs Play an Expanded Role in Transformation

Most CFOs report their role has expanded into enterprise technology or AI strategy leadership, per IBM study.

AMD Brings the Power of Agentic AI to Embedded Design and Development Cycle

AMD Ross agentic AI assistant accelerates embedded system design, optimization, debug and deployment across software, silicon and board design.

Arm and NVIDIA: Building the trusted compute foundation for the agentic AI era

Arm powers both sides of the trust boundary for agentic AI, enabling CPUs and infrastructure security.

The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers navigating AI

Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform with news desk, conference, research, and advisory board.

We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found

Cloudflare built a WAF tester that adapted requests based on WAF blocking or passing behavior.

Media Alert: AMD CEO Lisa Su to Lead Keynote at 2026 OCP

AMD CEO Lisa Su will highlight the company's open, full-stack infrastructure for agentic AI at the 2026 OCP keynote.

Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account

Cloudflare expands Threat Events Platform access and introduces Threat Signals for all accounts.

ForceN to give a crash course on force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusiness

ForceN will present a crash course on force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusiness.

State of Robots in Manufacturing

Robotics in manufacturing has evolved from rigidly programmed automotive robot arms to advanced systems.

Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents

Flourish releases a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot targeting busy parents with personalized cloud-trained chore automation.

Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1

Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI using the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection.

Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team

NASA states that human-robot collaboration in space could become reality as missions grow increasingly complex deeper into space.

Cloudflare Blog: “Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API”

Cloudflare releases cf, a new command-line tool mirroring the entire Cloudflare API with programmatic TypeScript configuration support.

Shield AI and Kraken Technology Group demonstrate Hivemind-enabled autonomous maritime teaming

Shield AI and Kraken Technology Group demonstrated autonomous maritime teaming between the K3 SCOUT USV and Hivemind AI pilot on September 28, 2026.

The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update

Cloudflare Blog updated Kitesurf with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering.

Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness

Raise Robotics will present a decision rule for allocating engineering capacity and a vocabulary for two hidden failure modes at RoboBusiness.

Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2

AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on SageMaker AI enables deployment of two generative media models for simultaneous image and video generation.

Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe

Asimov's Three Laws are insufficient for modern robotics and AI safety, according to tech observers.

Tiny robot can precisely control its jump height

A tiny robot can precisely control its jump height, offering a new approach to aerial navigation amid increasing drone traffic.

Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help

CNH states farmers face pressure on labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency, which technology can address.

With AMD Ryzen AI Max Series Processors, Perplexity Brings Portable Computer to Agentic PCs

AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors enable Perplexity subscribers to run Portable Computer on agentic PCs.

Accelerating a ROS 2 Node with an AI Agent and NVIDIA Isaac ROS

GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph.

Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS

AWS and Agentforce enable public sector agencies to process large volumes of unstructured evidence, including body camera footage and scanned documents.

Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

AWS blog demonstrates running SkyRL on SageMaker HyperPod to post-train Qwen3-VL-8B with GRPO.

LLM Security Leaderboard Now Ranks Every Modality Where Agent Risk Lives: Text, Image, and Audio

Cisco launched the LLM Security Leaderboard to provide tested data on model resilience against attacks across text, image, and audio modalities.

Building a trusted foundation for confidential AI

Cisco and VAST enable confidential AI by protecting sensitive data and models during use without relinquishing control.

Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS

AWS demonstrates an agentic architecture for building conversational video intelligence solutions.

How SWE-Serve Exposes the Gap Between Local Tests and Live Serving

SWE-Serve reveals AI coding agents pass local tests but fail when serving real models.

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed the UN Security Council on AI safety, human control, and international cooperation.

From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis?

Robotaxis demonstrate driving capability, but scaling globally requires solving the unglamorous challenge of fast, local vehicle servicing.

Robot dog runs a marathon on a single battery charge

KAIST team demonstrates a four-legged robot completing a marathon on a single battery charge.

MIRROR robot reflects future of in-orbit assembly

MIRROR robot crawls across a dark laboratory, gripping equipment to build a structure piece by piece.

General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain

General Robotics composes specialized capabilities rather than training one model to do everything, enabling robot adaptation across tasks and form factors.

Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility

Amazon invests $100 million in a new Indiana facility to power its North American fulfillment and robotics network.

Media Alert: AMD to Showcase Physical AI and Robotics Innovation at ROSCon 2026

AMD will showcase how high-performance compute and open software enable developers to train, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotic systems from the cloud to the edge at ROSCon 2026.

Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer

ABI Research projects 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles by 2035, while Omdia estimates 60 million industrial robots deployed between 2026 and 2035.

Can you lend me a hand? Researchers are developing wearable robotic limbs

Researchers are developing wearable robotic limbs to assist with door opening and key handling when carrying items.

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Microsoft Research finds offloaded AI inference improves robot task success and efficiency for physical AI workloads.

Practicing for Safe Landings on the Moon and Beyond

An Alta-X drone tested SPLICE guidance and navigation near NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on Aug. 27, 2026.

How to Guide Your Language Flow

Apple researchers introduce probe guidance, using frozen diffusion model states to construct flow matching signals.

5 million robots are now at work in factories worldwide, reports the IFR

China leads global industrial robot installations, while the U.S. and Germany remain significant markets, per IFR data.

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic's most capable model for agentic coding and knowledge work, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS.

NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development

NVIDIA Blog states developers need new physical AI models and tools to build sophisticated robotics applications that perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments.

NetOps is already deploying agentic autonomy – trust will decide how far it goes

Cisco and Omdia research of 1,000 IT leaders confirms a shift to AI-led networks managed by autonomous agents.

“With AI, we need to reconsider what it means to learn”

EPFL Research News reports that artificial intelligence is forcing universities to reinvent how they teach and assess students’ knowledge.

‘Advanced Insights’: How ‘Zen’ Architecture Evolves for the Agentic AI Era (Video)

AMD Newsroom video features Mark Papermaster and Mike Clark discussing Zen architecture evolution and CPUs' growing role in AI.

With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier

Arduino's new VENTUNO Q board marks its first intentional step into robotics, leveraging over 20 years of experience working with robotics developers.

How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Reactiv built a multi-agent AI Scheduler with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that autonomously refreshes Shopify merchants' mobile apps, reducing configuration time by 80% and accelerating time to production by 33%.

Enabling Private High-Performance Production AI Inference with NVIDIA Confidential Computing

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "Enabling Private High-Performance Production AI Inference with NVIDIA Confidential Computing".

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads

Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads.

From Love Letters to AI Agents: Cybersecurity’s Evolution

Discover how Cisco security solutions and the four pillars of agentic security protect organizations against autonomous AI risks.

Simplifying Model Serving Across Multiple GPUs with NVIDIA TensorRT Multi-Device Integration in NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton

Generative AI compute and memory demands exceed single-GPU capacity, requiring multi-GPU integration.

Pentagon unveils top performers in latest ‘Gauntlet’ for Drone Dominance Program

Pentagon plans to purchase approximately 60,000 drones from UAS vendors.

Cisco Blogs: “Partner Study Shows a Maturing AI Market, Expanding Opportunity for Partners”

Cisco Blogs reports the 2026 Global AI Partner Study surveyed 1,702 partners navigating the rise of agentic AI.

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, Efficient, and Unified Image Creation

Qwen Research opensources Qwen-Image-2.1, a compact, efficient, and unified image model balancing quality and cost.

Industry’s first MLPerf™ Inference benchmarking across multi-vendor accelerators

Cisco submitted the industry's first MLPerf Inference benchmark across multi-vendor GPU accelerators, optimizing data center unit economics without workload penalties.

IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca

Unimore Racing won the Indy Autonomous Challenge at Laguna Seca, marking the IAC's first autonomous car overtakes on a road course.

What do you do with a humanoid robot when it breaks down?

Decommissioning a humanoid robot requires a highly technical, high-stakes surgical approach rather than traditional scrapping.

Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS.

A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Wood Mackenzie built APEX, a shared agentic AI platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to enable teams to ship production agents without rebuilding runtime, identity, observability, and guardrails from scratch.

Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review

Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches year-to-date across fully managed endpoints and HyperPod Inference.

F-Prime Capital to give insights on the state of robotics investments at RoboBusiness

F-Prime Capital's Sanjay Aggarwal and Betsy Mulé will unveil the State of Robotics Investments report at RoboBusiness.

Benchmarking LLM Inference at Scale with AIPerf

NVIDIA Developer Blog reports that model deployment begins with prompt responses on the target system.

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Omni Senses. Agentic Delivery.

Qwen Research launches Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a next-generation native omnimodal model.

How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation

Agentic AI workflows prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems.

Hirebotics adds line tracking and linear rail capabilities to its cobots

Hirebotics adds line tracking and linear rail capabilities to its cobots, extending working range and giving manufacturers greater flexibility.

The picks-and-shovels strategy behind the robotics boom

The real robotics opportunity isn’t a humanoid in every home—it’s packaging robots for the jobs businesses need done today.

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock as an open-weight model for coding and knowledge work.

Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

AWS migrates multi-model healthcare AI agents from self-managed ECS to Bedrock AgentCore, preserving triple-model orchestration and vector-enhanced knowledge retrieval while reducing infrastructure management.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

A robotic lab autonomously sets up and runs optics experiments on demand could speed up testing of high-tech materials.

Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video

Skild AI uses NVIDIA Physical AI to enable robots to learn new tasks from a single video, adapting to changing manufacturing floors and production lines without reprogramming.

Reimagining robotics for sustainability

Robots are often promoted for their increasing intelligence and autonomy, according to EPFL Research News.

Cloudflare Blog: “When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts”

See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-side attacks for analyst investigation from malicious JavaScript that silently siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics.

Build a serverless PII redaction pipeline with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

AWS Bedrock Data Automation automates end-to-end PII detection and redaction from scanned documents at scale using a custom blueprint, Step Functions, and Lambda.

Glyph: A Multi-Strategy Agentic System for Column Description and Sensitivity-Ontology Tagging of Enterprise Data Catalogs

Enterprise data lakes accumulate tables faster than human stewards can document or classify them, leaving columns with missing descriptions and unassigned governance labels.

$3.5M to advance autonomous trauma robotics

DARPA awards $3.5 million to advance autonomous trauma robotics for mass casualty events.

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

MIT News reports xvr is a patient-specific AI method enabling X-ray use for surgical navigation in orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Translating CUDA Tile Operations from Python to Rust Using Agentic AI

cuTile Rust (cutile-rs) enables safe, idiomatic GPU kernel authoring in Rust, translating CUDA tile operations from Python.

Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale

Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for billion-message email threat detection, detailing sandbox design decisions and practical lessons for builders.

Shared Selective Persistent Memory for Agentic LLM Systems

Apple researchers identify that agentic LLM systems lose productive context across sessions, requiring persistent memory to retain configuration and tool-use patterns.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

NVIDIA Blog reports system performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers determining AI inference economics.

How NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX Deterministic Execution Drives Power-Efficient High-Interactivity Inference on NVIDIA Vera Rubin

NVIDIA Developer Blog states power is a defining constraint for AI factories.

Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization

Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization enables cost-efficient product tagging by fine-tuning Qwen3-8B with supervised and reinforcement learning on catalog data.

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

MIT hosted a weeklong summer workshop for higher education faculty to explore adapting AI and machine learning materials for classroom use.

AI takes root in university curriculum

More than 12,000 students have returned to classes at EPFL. How has the advance of artificial intelligence transformed higher education?

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

MIT News reports the The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements for safety-critical situations.

AMD Newsroom: “F-Secure and AMD Silo AI Help Secure Agentic AI Journeys”

F-Secure and AMD Silo AI explore adaptive AI routing across local, private and cloud infrastructure to help keep user data secure as AI agents work.

Powering the AI era: How wave energy can complement a 24/7 energy mix

CorPower Ocean, a Cisco Investments portfolio company, has explored how wave energy technology could complement other sources for 24/7 energy needs.

High-Throughput Structure Prediction with BioNeMo Inference Runtime

BioNeMo Inference Runtime enables proteome-scale biomolecular structure prediction for efficient worklist processing.

IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model to Support Lunar Exploration

IBM and NASA release open-source Lunar Foundation Model to surface patterns across decades of lunar observations.

NASA, IBM Launch AI Foundation Model for Lunar Science

NASA and IBM launch AI foundation model to transform lunar surface analysis.

Satellite imagery gives experts a better understanding of conflict

Satellite data supports humanitarian conflict analysis to reduce civilian war toll.

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2

AWS blog states governing models across accounts follows automatic model registration.

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 1

Managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker AI now syncs richer model metadata, including training metrics, evaluation results, inference specs, and lineage, into the SageMaker AI Model Registry with lifecycle stage promotion.

Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod

Building a Physical AI system requires a continuous pipeline, not a single training job.

Reduce inference cold starts on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with model caching

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for inference, pre-loading model weights and container images onto cluster nodes for local NVMe storage access.

Evolving With Agentic Risk: Updating Our Integrated AI Security & Safety Framework

Cisco introduced nine months ago a unified taxonomy to identify and mitigate AI security and safety risks.

Simplify and support your TorchServe workloads using Ray Serve Deep Learning Containers

TorchServe is no longer maintained, requiring teams to own the entire GPU inference stack.

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

Robotaxi market projected to reach $400 billion by 2035 with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation.

Monitoring production agent lifecycle with AWS DevOps Agent and AgentCore Evaluations

AWS presents a dual-layer monitoring approach for production agents using Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations and DevOps Agent, demonstrated on a four-agent airline reservation system.

Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload

Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock prioritizes outcomes over price per million tokens.

Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference

Amazon SageMaker Inference introduces prefix-aware routing to keep KV cache warm for shared prompt prefixes.

When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving

NVIDIA Developer Blog covers the topic: "When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving".

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026

AWS launched million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, 14-day agent compute, and expanded GovCloud availability in August 2026.

d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment

d-Matrix announced it will use NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA's AI infrastructure platform.

MVICAD2: Multi-View Independent Component Analysis with Delays and Dilations

Machine learning techniques in multi-view settings face challenges integrating heterogeneous data, aligning feature spaces, and managing view-specific biases, particularly in neuroscience applications.

The yield imperative: Turning AI infrastructure into useful intelligence

Microsoft asks what defines progress in the next era, naming yield as the semiconductor industry's defining measure and questioning how elegance, time and infrastructure shape useful intelligence.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the open source analytical database that executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV and JSON while remaining under its independent foundation.

AWS announces GPT-6 Astra availability on Amazon Bedrock

AWS presents the OpenAI model as generally available through its Bedrock inference platform.

Cisco shares a first-time analyst’s account of the Black Hat SOC

The account connects agentic workflows and technical tools with human mentorship during security investigations.

MIT presents a way to explain autonomous-driving AI decisions

CW-Net translates an autonomous vehicle’s AI reasoning into concepts people can understand.

NVIDIA presents local AI tools and RTX Spark PCs at IFA

NVIDIA, Microsoft and partners describe tools for running agents locally, with compact RTX Spark Windows PCs announced for October.

Cloudflare links robots.txt to AI bot preferences

Bot Preference Sync aligns the file with policies for search, agent and training bots.

Cisco outlines its Security Cloud role at Black Hat

Cisco presents its Security Cloud contribution to the Black Hat conferences and its work on agentic security operations.

AWS connects Outlook workflows with Amazon Quick

The account covers email, calendar and workflow automation using Amazon Quick's agents, Flows and Automate.

EPFL and NYU study robotic swimmers in different sizes

The research describes fish-inspired robots intended for aquatic environments ranging from shallow creeks to open water.

Qwen-Drive-1.0 connects vision and language for autonomous driving

The project combines 3D perception and visual question answering during pretraining, with an extension to motion planning.

AWS connects HyperPod operations to an agent-driven control plane

AWS describes HyperPod InstantStart as an open-source control plane combining Amazon EKS orchestration with SageMaker HyperPod capabilities.

Cisco describes ThousandEyes' shift towards continuous promotion

Cisco reports that ThousandEyes moved from fragmented manual release cycles towards a centralised, GitOps-driven deployment model.

AMD reports progress towards its AI energy-efficiency target

AMD reports an estimated fourfold improvement in AI energy efficiency between 2024 and 2026.

Google outlines AI tools for advertising and analytics workflows

Google describes new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics.

Frontier Reasoning Reaches the Edge: How to Deploy and Optimize Models on NVIDIA Jetson

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

DeepMind announces its most advanced and accurate global weather AI model to date.

Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules, making automated

Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

An agent that works in a notebook is not an agent in production. This post walks through migrating a LangGraph customer support agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in two stages: onto Runtime, Gateway, and Memory, then to model-driven planning on Strands Agents, retiring operational burdens along the way.

NVIDIA PAIR Virtual Inference Router Expands Available Compute on Your Local Network

A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents, learning to do more by working together.

Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference

Australian teams can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference from the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. This post shows how to invoke the models, use prompt caching, set up Codex with OpenID Connect authentication, and monitor

Co-Designing AI Models Using Speculative Decoding for Faster LLM Inference

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and...

NVIDIA Nemotron powers adaptive agentic cybersecurity system

Agentic systems coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons; security teams are beginning to deploy adaptive defences.

t54 builds x402-secure trust layer for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Session budgets, credential isolation and deterministic trust gate govern over 20 million agent-initiated transactions with no human in the loop.

From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI

When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on AWS through an AI League event. This post explains why Atos chose the format, what engineers built and learned, and what other enterprises should consider.

MIT engineers create system for building shape-changing smart devices

Bifur-circuits interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices.

Build observable enterprise agentic retrieval using Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with AWS CloudFormation

This post builds an enterprise agentic retrieval solution on the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. An agent reasons, routes across multiple knowledge bases, and returns cited answers, with seven layers of observability and both on-demand and continuous evaluation, all deployed with a s

Agentic AI is changing how research is done

AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next, as described in the NVIDIA Developer Blog overview of BioNeMo NIM Microservices.

Building the systems behind the next generation of intelligent robots

As robots expand capabilities and intelligence, the next challenge is integrating AI inference, sensing, control, safety, and orchestration into systems that can operate reliably at scale in the real world.

IDEA Prune: An Integrated Enlarge-and-Prune Pipeline in Generative Language Model Pretraining

Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token efficiency compared to training target-size models from scratch.

Build multi-tenant agentic chat applications on enterprise data with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

Learn how to build a multi-tenant agentic document chat application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, where users upload documents and immediately ask grounded questions. This post covers the ingestion and retrieval flows, the asynchronous indexing lifecycle, per-user data isolation, and best practices for oper

Deploy an Open Model from Checkpoint to Inference in Two Commands with NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect

Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing,...

How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2

Decathlon, one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, forecasts weekly demand for tens of thousands of products across multiple continents. Learn how they deployed Chronos-2 on AWS to improve forecast accuracy by 11-15 points while cutting operational complexity and running weekly inference for about $0.03.

With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with fast token generation for agentic systems.

Intel Outlines Architectures for Agentic AI at Hot Chips 2026

Intel is showcasing three architectures for Agentic AI and Enterprise-scale workloads, combining the Diamond Rapids processor for high-performance orchestration, the Crescent Island GPU for efficient inference and the Wildcat Lake SoC for intelligent client and edge computing.

Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components

Learn how Salesforce used Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Component placement (the SchedulingConfig parameter) to distribute model copies across multiple Availability Zones, meeting their Multi-AZ high availability compliance requirements without sacrificing the cost efficiency of multi-model co-hosting.

From Isolated Agents to Collective Intelligence: Why A2A Is the Protocol the Agentic SOC Has Been Waiting For

The Agentic SOC needs two protocols, not one. Learn how MCP and A2A work together as the vertical and horizontal layers of multi-agent security operations

OpenAI discontinues model provision to Cursor following SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI announces it is winding down its contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps being taken to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning

Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments, with internalized visual thinking emerging as a proactive approach for video reasoning.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

OpenRouter data shows agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than simple chat requests, driven by multi-step research and sub-agent coordination.

Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Preview and Agentic Coding on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Developers can experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, previewing the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for agentic coding tasks.

Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent harness with Amazon Quick and fal, connected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using two hands-on workflows: an eight-panel storyboard and a music-video c

Amazon Bedrock adds India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models

New capability allows scale processing of Terra and Luna models while keeping data within India for local compliance requirements.

Amazon Bedrock Expands OpenAI GPT-5.6 Model Access in India

New geographic cross-Region inference capability allows local data processing requirements to be met while keeping inference requests and data within India.

Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Preview Released on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Model weights released as preview of upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate agentic coding capabilities.

Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally run MCP server lets your agent move from alert to trace to logs to root cause in one conversation, and how you can verify every step inline without leaving your

Why Agentic AI is a Systems Challenge

As AI agents move from generating answers to autonomously achieving increasingly complex goals, performance depends on how effectively compute, memory, software, networking, security, and power management work together as a system.

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets provide the infrastructure for searching papers with code, enabling researchers to find and experiment with models efficiently.

AWS SageMaker HyperPod adds managed Ray support on Amazon EKS

AWS Machine Learning Blog announces new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod, enabling managed Ray clusters on Amazon EKS with out-of-the-box observability and resilient distributed training and accelerated inference.

Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño inference chip for AI workloads

OpenAI News reports Jalapeño is a custom inference chip delivering faster, more power-efficient AI inference with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.

Restore LLM Inference Capacity in Seconds with Shadow Engine Recovery in NVIDIA Dynamo

When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels,...

Six in 10 Leaders Bet Big on Robots. Only Four in 10 Are Ready.

Intel Newsroom reports that 60% of senior business and IT leaders, robotics specialists, government and healthcare officials expect their organizations to operate robot fleets within five years, with leaders predicting full-scale robotics deployment could double operational output.

Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions

Apple Machine Learning Research explores methods for transferring knowledge across languages when target language data is scarce, focusing on scientific reasoning, commonsense inference, and world knowledge.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell Set a New Standard for Agentic AI Performance per Watt

NVIDIA Developer Blog outlines advancements in AI agent hardware and performance efficiency for multi-step workflows.

AWS Agent Registry Introduces Open Agentic Resource Discovery Standard

Centralized catalog for agents, tools, and skills enables cross-environment discovery and governance at scale.