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DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday, claiming its agent capabilities rival those of Anthropic’s supported Opus-4.8 system. The release marks the latest salvo from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms seeking to close the gap with foreign rivals while offering drastically lower API pricing. The newly deployed model, named DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, builds upon the…
Amazon Web Services has made available a programming language for applying policies to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, dubbed Dogwood, as an open source project under an Apache 2.0 license. Dogwood is a governance language specifically designed to limit what an AI agent is allowed to do by programmatically applying policies over sequences of actions and [...] The post AWS Open Sources Dogwood…
Fueled by a surge in artificial intelligence (AI) hiring, New York City has claimed the top spot as the largest technology talent hub in North America, overtaking the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in more than a decade. According to a report released by commercial real estate services firm CBRE, New York [...] The post New York Overtakes San Francisco as Top North American Tech Hub…
A new WisdomAI survey found that 93% of enterprise data leaders are using or experimenting with AI for analytics. Yet only 7% said AI analytics has been adopted across every line of business, revealing a major gap between testing the technology and making it a standard enterprise tool. The research surveyed 201 VP- and C-level [...] The post Survey: Enterprise AI Analytics Faces Gap Between…
A child’s education does not end when the school bell rings. Some of the most consequential parts of it happen later, at the kitchen table, in the back seat of a car or during a quick conversation before bedtime. The National Parent-Teacher Association has long emphasized that schools and families should communicate regularly and meaningfully, [...] The post The New AI Bringing School Home…
A doctor sees a patient with high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. Another patient walks into the same office with the same diagnosis. On paper, they may look remarkably similar. But they aren’t. One may be on a path toward heart disease. The other may be at greater risk [...] The post Your Medical History May Soon Tell AI What Happens Next appeared first…
As organizations accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence, many are overlooking a critical risk embedded within their own infrastructure: the model registry (MR). Once considered a benign repository for storing and versioning machine learning artifacts, the model registry has quietly evolved into one of the most vulnerable targets in modern cybersecurity. In an era where [...] The post…
OpenAI will offer eligible API customers Zero Data Retention for frontier-model deployments and introduce a new safety mechanism designed to identify misuse patterns without exposing underlying customer content. OpenAI's new Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is aimed at organizations handling sensitive material, such as people's health data and financial records, and confidential business plans and…
Salesforce has shared an analysis that finds organizations are running, on average, 13 artificial intelligence (AI) agents across its software-as-a-service (SaaS) application portfolio. The second edition of the Salesforce Agentic Enterprise Index also finds that, on average, each agent deployed is now able to automate six distinct business actions, with the "Action-to-Output" ratio now growing…
Cloudera has launched Anywhere Cloud, a data and AI platform created to run AI applications across hybrid cloud environments without requiring enterprises to relocate their data. The platform gives companies a single control plane for deploying and managing data and AI services across these environments. It can operate as a standalone platform or work with [...] The post Cloudera Debuts Hybrid…
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, workers braced for artificial intelligence (AI) to take their jobs. Now, a former Google project manager has flipped the script, launching a satirical digital experiment that trades large language models for human labor — and it is taking Silicon Valley by storm. Tucker Bryant, 32, is the creator of ChatTJB, [...] The post ChatTJB is the Viral San Francisco AI Chatbot…
Virginia spent twenty years courting data centers. This June it started taxing their electricity instead. That reversal is a clue to something bigger, and it's not really about Virginia. Here's the thing about Virginia. For twenty years the state did everything short of building a shrine to get data centers to move in: tax breaks, [...] The post The AI Future Everyone’s Arguing About Isn’t a…
Snowflake this week revealed it has added a dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) model routing capability that enables organizations to switch between providers of proprietary and open-weight services. The Cortex AI Gateway that Snowflake makes available within its cloud service can now be used to dynamically route prompts between AI models, including open-weight models such as DeepSeek-V4-Flash…
In a rare display of cross-generational consensus, Americans across all age brackets are uniting around a shared sentiment: Growing skepticism and alarm over artificial intelligence (AI). A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that public distrust of AI has hit a record high, driven largely by a sharp surge in anxiety among younger adults. According [...] The post Americans United in Skepticism…
Every technology revolution changes the workforce. The internet created web developers. Cloud computing created cloud architects. Cybersecurity became its own profession. Artificial intelligence will undoubtedly create new roles too, but I think we're making one fundamental mistake: we're assuming we already know what those roles are. Companies everywhere are trying to hire "AI developers."…
Facing legal pressure, safety concerns, and mounting public scrutiny over the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on young users, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of the popular AI chatbot with automated age-gating, educational tools, and strict content safeguards designed to protect adolescent users. According to the San Francisco-based AI giant, ChatGPT will [...] The post…
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting an antitrust investigation into venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over whether its partners are improperly occupying board seats at competing artificial intelligence (AI) and data management startups. The nearly year-old confidential inquiry centers on the firm's overlapping representation on the boards of Databricks Inc. and Fivetran Inc. — two…
The Futurum Group is reporting that at the close of 2025 the overall size of the managed artificial intelligence (AI) services for the first time became larger than the AI training market. The managed inference market reached $23.1 billion at the end of 2025, while training accounted for $16.3 billion. Overall, the Futurum Group projects [...] The post Report: Size of Managed AI Inference Market…
Techstrong.ai is now providing a weekly AI jobs report through which opportunities for AI professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for AI professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of [...] The post Ten Great AI Job Opportunities appeared first on…
