Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights
Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they […]
What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance
Presented by F5 Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption embedded in that work is that the path between storage and compute will keep up. In production, that assumption increasingly does not hold. Real traffic introduces latency spikes, network jitter, and […]
Google’s DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes
GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a process known as diffusion. For years, applying that same principle to text generation had remained out of reach at scale. […]
Why AI that works in the lab often fails in production — and what actually fixes it
Presented by Capital One Enterprises aren’t struggling to experiment with AI; they’re struggling to make it work in the real world. Moving from promising prototypes to reliable, production-scale systems is where most efforts stall. In my role within Capital One’s AI Foundations organization, I’ve seen firsthand that successful AI implementation isn’t just about adopting the […]
Surprise upset: GPT-5.5 beats Claude Fable 5 on brutal new Agents’ Last Exam benchmark
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), alongside an advisory committee of over 300 domain experts, have launched Agents’ Last Exam (ALE)—a grueling new benchmark built to measure whether artificial intelligence can actually execute economically valuable, long-horizon professional workflows. In a shocking upset, OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 from April, operating through […]
On-device AI agents hit a hard memory limit. Apple’s new architecture routes around it.
On-device AI models have stayed small because the entire weight set has to live in DRAM, capping practical parameter counts well below what server-side deployments use. Enterprise architects evaluating agentic workloads have had to choose between capable cloud-dependent models and limited on-device ones. Apple’s third-generation foundation models, announced at WWDC26, break that constraint by moving […]
Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever
Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously made available only to participating organizations in its restricted cybersecurity program, Project Glasswing, which it announced two months ago. The company says Fable 5, which […]
Apple’s new Siri AI is more than just a smarter assistant — it’s a new enterprise app layer
Apple’s new Siri AI, unveiled yesterday at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), may look like a consumer product story on the surface. But for enterprise developers and IT leaders, the bigger news from WWDC26 is that Apple is turning Siri into a systemwide AI interface for apps, data and workplace actions across iPhone, […]
Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100
Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere’s North Mini Code, which launched Tuesday, generated three times the output tokens of comparable models in independent testing, a verbosity cost that compounds in high-volume […]
Every World Cup fan deserves a seat. Norton Neo says its free browser is the ticket
Presented by Norton For 39 days this summer, the planet will be doing roughly the same thing at the same time. The 2026 World Cup spans 104 matches across 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with billions of people likely to watch over the course of the tournament. It could very well […]