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The White House Releases National AI Strategy Focused on Innovation, Infrastructure, and Global Lead
The White House has published America’s AI Action Plan, outlining a national strategy to enhance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. The plan follows President Trump’s January Executive Order 14179, which directed federal agencies to accelerate AI development and remove regulatory barriers to innovation.
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From Hadoop to Kubernetes: Pinterest’s Scalable Spark Architecture on AWS EKS
Pinterest revamped its data infrastructure by transitioning from a legacy Hadoop system to the Moka platform, leveraging Kubernetes and Spark on AWS EKS. This strategic shift enhances job isolation, simplifies deployment, and optimizes resource management, leading to reduced costs and improved efficiency.
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Databricks Agent Bricks Automates Enterprise AI Development with TAO and ALHF Methods
Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, a new product that changes how enterprises develop domain-specific agents. The automated workflow includes generating task-specific evaluations and LLM judges for quality assessment, creating synthetic data that resembles customer data to supplement agent learning, and searching across optimization techniques to refine agent performance.
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Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-Coder, a Large Agentic Coding Model with Open Tooling
Qwen Team has announced Qwen3-Coder, a new family of agentic code models designed for long-context, multi-step programming tasks. The most capable variant, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, is a Mixture-of-Experts model with a total of 480 billion parameters and 35 billion active parameters per forward pass.
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AWS Introduces Vector Capabilities on Amazon S3
At the recent AWS Summit in New York City, AWS announced the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, claiming to be the first cloud object store with native support for storing large vector datasets. The new option offers subsecond query performance, reducing the cost of storing AI-ready data compared to traditional vector databases.
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State Space Models Can Enable AI in Low-Power Edge Computing
At the the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit, Tony Lewis, chief technology officer at BrainChip, presented research done by his company into state space models (SSMs) and how they can provide LLM capabilities with very low power consumption in limited computing environments, such as those found on dashcams, medical devices, security cameras, and even toys.
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Perplexity Launches Comet: a Browser Designed around AI-Assisted Interaction
Perplexity has introduced Comet, a new web browser designed to integrate natural language interaction directly into the browsing experience. Unlike conventional browsers built around navigation and search, Comet aims to support users in research, comparison, and task execution by combining browsing with persistent context and AI assistance.
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Mistral Voxtral is an Open-Weights Competitor to OpenAI Whisper and Other ASR Tools
Mistral has released Voxtral, a large language model aimed at speech recognition (ASR) applications that seek to integrate more advanced LLM-based capabilities and go beyond simple transcription. For two variants of the model, Voxtral Mini (3B) and Voxtral Small (24B), Mistral has released the weights under the Apache 2.0 license.
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OpenAI Announces Generalist ChatGPT Agent to Take on Excel, PowerPoint, and Chrome
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent merges advanced browsing and summarization for seamless data handling. Developers can now generate editable spreadsheets and presentations with simple prompts, integrating outputs directly into productivity tools. With impressive accuracy and connectivity, it enhances workflow efficiency while automating complex tasks, heralding a new era in AI-driven productivity.
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Amazon Launches Bedrock AgentCore for Enterprise AI Agent Infrastructure
Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a collection of enterprise-grade services that help developers deploy and operate AI agents at scale across frameworks and foundation models. The platform addresses infrastructure challenges developers face when building production AI agents.
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Inaugural MCP Dev Summit Charts AI Integration's Future
Developers and contributors of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) converged in San Francisco in May 2025 for their first developer summit, charting the future of this rapidly adopted open standard to enable seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Discussions focused on a roadmap for MCP, including critical enterprise features.
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Amazon S3 Adds Sort and Z-Order Compaction to Improve Apache Iceberg Query Performance
AWS has recently announced that Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables. The new features reduce scan times and engine costs, and are available for both S3 Tables and traditional S3 buckets using AWS Glue Data Catalog optimization.
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Google DeepMind Announces Robotics Foundation Model Gemini Robotics On-Device
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model designed to run locally on robot hardware. The model features low-latency inference and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks with as few as 50 demonstrations.
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Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction
Hugging Face has launched its Reachy Mini robots, now available for order. Designed for AI developers, researchers, and enthusiasts, the robots offer an exciting opportunity to experiment with human-robot interaction and AI applications.
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Microsoft Adds Deep Research Capability in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Unlock the future of research with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, featuring Deep Research—an innovative tool that empowers knowledge workers in complex fields. This advanced AI capability autonomously analyzes and synthesizes web data, automating rigorous research tasks while ensuring traceability and transparency. Sign up for the public preview today!