Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The team’s discovery comes from their investigation of human-accelerated regions (HARs) — sections of the human genome that have accumulated an unusually high level of mutations as humans have…
We’re excited to introduce Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, a comprehensive identity and access management service purpose-built for AI agents. With AgentCore Identity AI, agent developers and administrators can securely access AWS resources and third-party tools such as GitHub, Salesforce, or Slack. AgentCore Identity provides robust identity and access management at scale so that agents can…
Chat-based assistants powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) are transforming customer support, internal help desks, and enterprise search, by delivering fast, accurate answers grounded in your own data. With RAG, you can use a ready-to-deploy foundation model (FM) and enrich it with your own data, making responses relevant and context-aware without the need for fine-tuning…
This post is a joint collaboration between Salesforce and AWS and is being cross-published on both the Salesforce Engineering Blog and the AWS Machine Learning Blog. The Salesforce AI Platform Model Serving team is dedicated to developing and managing services that power large language models (LLMs) and other AI workloads within Salesforce. Their main focus…
Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth forward, pretty soon billions of people a day will be talking to ChatGPT,” said the CEO of OpenAI during a dinner with journalists in San…
Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of the personal styling agent Alta, told WIRED the model appears to be better at completing complex coding tasks in one shot than other models. She compared it to OpenAI’s o3 and 4o, which she uses…
KFF and ESPN today jointly released a first-of-its-kind, in-depth polling and reporting project that sheds new light on the health issues and other challenges facing NFL players after they leave the game. The KFF/ESPN Survey of 1988 NFL Players draws on a novel survey of 546 respondents who were among the 1,532 players from the…
This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do? Source link
To fulfill their tasks, AI Agents need access to various capabilities including tools, data stores, prompt templates, and other agents. As organizations scale their AI initiatives, they face an exponentially growing challenge of connecting each agent to multiple tools, creating an M×N integration problem that significantly slows development and increases complexity. Although protocols such as…
Stromatolites are rock-like structures formed by bacteria in shallow water lkonya/Shutterstock Microbes from a remote bay in Western Australia seem to connect to each other with tiny tubes, forming a relationship that may reflect an early step in the evolution of complex life. In Shark Bay, or Gathaagudu in the Indigenous Malgana language, microbes form slimy…
