Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent

Nvidia has introduced a new reasoning-focused AI model that combines multiple neural network architectures in a bid to improve how enterprise systems handle complex tasks and automation. The company said its Nemotron 3 Super model combines Mamba sequence modeling, transformer attention, and Mixture-of-Experts routing to support so-called “agentic” AI systems that can plan and execute

While Amazon Bedrock helps you build and scale generative AI applications, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides an enterprise-grade infrastructure and operations layer for deploying and managing AI agents at scale. AgentCore itself is completely agnostic about models, frameworks, and integrations, although its starter kit CLI only supports the most prominent of these. That CLI can generate

AI has made writing code feel like cheating. The real trouble shows up right after git push. That is the part almost no one is talking about, and it is where most AI-assisted projects quietly die. It is not usually the code that fails. It is everything around it, because the cloud is unforgiving. Developers

Microsoft is urging a federal court in California to temporarily pause the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) effective ban on Anthropic’s AI offerings, arguing that the government’s “supply chain risk” label could have significant knock-on effects for its own defense technology business. In a filing backing Anthropic’s request for emergency relief, the company said the

It isn’t often that we see an interface addition so significant — so shape-shifting — that it has the potential to completely change the way you use your phone. It may sound like hyperbole, but that very sort of enhancement is absolutely on its way into Android. After a comical amount of hemming, hawing, flippin’,

Zoom Communications said it is expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration capabilities across Zoom Workplace, Zoom Phone, and Zoom CX. The aim is to help organizations automate tasks and trigger workflows based on interactions across its services. The update includes new capabilities such as custom and prebuilt AI agents that can be

For as long as most junior coders have been alive, tech vendors have talked up performance guarantees even though they neglect to detail just what happens if they don’t deliver as promised.  I have been begging vendors to knock off these deceptions for a long time — a very long time.  Last week, I briefly

Google on Wednesday introduced several new ways for Gemini AI assistant to create and edit content in Workspace apps such as Docs, Slides and Sheets.  The changes, said Julie Geller, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, represent “incremental improvements more than revolutionary features, but they address real workflow gaps. The actual value is that

If I happened to be one of Apple’s newly-introduced M5 MacBook Pro systems, I would feel a bit as if the equally new MacBook Neo had just strutted into the party like the star of the song. Yes, the incredibly disruptive Neo is a strong option for almost anyone who needs an affordable general purpose computer. But let’s not