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The European Union's rules on labelling AI-generated content stop being guidance and start being law on August 2, 2026. From that date, companies that build generative AI systems must mark the images, audio, video and text those systems produce so the output can be detected as artificial, and companies that publish deepfakes or AI-written text on matters of public interest must disclose that to the people who see it. The duties land on two groups at once: the providers that develop and supply…

Part one ended with a claim: enterprise AI will succeed when institutions learn how to build the loop itself. This essay is about what the loop stands on. An agent working inside a real company needs two things the company almost certainly does not have today: a map of the work, and rails for the consequences. The Map Here is the uncomfortable fact underneath most stalled AI programs: the company cannot hand the agent a description of its own work, because no such description exists. Most…

AI has become part of everyday software development. From generating APIs and writing tests to scaffolding entire applications, coding assistants are helping engineering teams solve problems and ship software faster than ever before. The productivity gains are undeniable, and organizations are rapidly embracing AI across the software development lifecycle. Much of the conversation has focused on the code AI generates. Can developers trust AI-generated code? Does it introduce vulnerabilities?…

Standard biomedical RAG resolves conflicting evidence silently in roughly three of every four queries. The fix is structural, not informational — and most of the upstream complexity teams add does not help. Ask a retrieval-augmented clinical assistant a simple question — does melatonin help with jet lag? — and the literature it retrieves will not agree with itself. The Cochrane review concluded that melatonin is remarkably effective, with eight of ten included trials showing reduced jet lag on…

AI is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern infrastructure. Organizations are investing heavily in AI-powered systems, expanding data center capacity, integrating cloud platforms, and deploying automation across industrial environments. These advances are creating new opportunities for efficiency and innovation, but they are also introducing new cybersecurity challenges. The growing intersection between AI infrastructure, operational technology (OT), and critical infrastructure has…

Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO, Conceivable Life Sciences - is an engineer and serial entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience spanning technology, machine learning, hardware, logistics and company building. Before launching Conceivable, he co-founded TMRW Life Sciences, where he helped develop an automated platform for managing and safeguarding frozen eggs and embryos used in in vitro fertilization (IVF). Murray is also a co-founder and partner at Coriolis Ventures and has…

JetBrains Research has open-sourced KotlinLLM under the Apache License 2.0. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype adds Smart macros, asLlm and mockLlm, whose bodies are generated Kotlin source rather than live model calls. The plugin captures runtime values through JDI, asks an LLM agent for a narrow code update, compiles it, and redefines the loaded class. Covered scenarios then run as plain Kotlin with no further inference call. On an adapted Spring Petclinic project, 24 of 24 scenarios completed with a 100% hot-reload success rate and roughly 1% runtime overhead.

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Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block's open source, self-hostable Nostr workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels. Three integration paths cover Desktop runtime, relay bridge, and a native gateway platform that preserves Hermes memory, skills, approvals, and cron delivery.

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PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives caller audio directly instead of reading an ASR transcript. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and response generation into a single audio-native model, keeps TTS separate so the output voice stays controllable, and runs as a request-based LLM rather than an always-on stream. PolyAI reports sub-300ms responses in live deployments.

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In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build and execute a multi-agent workflow with Omnigent in a secure, isolated Python environment. Learn to integrate live exchange-rate data, implement hierarchical agent delegation for financial text auditing, and apply hard governance policies—such as cost budgets and tool call limits—to your research pipeline directly from Google Colab.

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OpenAI lowered the API price of its two lower-cost GPT-5.6 models on July 30, 2026, cutting the cheapest tier by 80% and the mid-tier by 20% while leaving its flagship untouched. The change is logged in the company's own API changelog and is already live on the published rate card. Per million input and output tokens, the standard rates now read: GPT-5.6 Luna: 20 cents and $1.20, down from $1 and $6GPT-5.6 Terra: $2 and $12, down from $2.50 and $15GPT-5.6 Sol: $5 and $30, unchanged, matching…

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots. The release ships three models: a vision-language-action model for whole body humanoid control, Gemini Robotics ER 2 for embodied reasoning and task orchestration, and an on-device VLA that adapts to new robot bodies in hours. One checkpoint drives Apptronik Apollo 2 and a Franka Duo. Only ER 2 is publicly available.

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Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ, is a technology executive and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience spanning enterprise automation, product strategy, business development, and telecommunications. At EvoluteIQ, he is responsible for driving revenue growth and strengthening customer relationships, particularly through the company’s eiq360 business. Before joining EvoluteIQ, Hiremath co-founded and led low-code platform provider AmperAXP, which was…

Bloom Security has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding to address a growing blind spot in enterprise cybersecurity: the expanding collection of AI agents, browser extensions, plugins, code packages, and local automation operating on employee devices. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Runtime Ventures. Angel investors include founders of cybersecurity companies Dig Security, Demisto, Snyk, and Talon…

Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence models designed to simulate how people make decisions. Greenoaks led the round, while existing investor Index Ventures increased its backing. Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory and CVS Health Ventures also returned, with Definition joining as a new investor. The financing arrives only five…

Sam Altman meets senior White House officials on July 30, 2026 to discuss voluntary government cybersecurity testing of advanced AI systems, two days before the administration's own deadline for designing that testing regime. An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Altman will meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios, and that the agenda also covers the upcoming models Altman has been…

Xsight Labs said it has closed a funding round of more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, capital the fabless chip designer will spend pushing its programmable Ethernet switches and 800-gigabit data processing units further into AI and cloud networks. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the round, with Intel Capital , Battery Ventures and Valor Equity Partners among the participating investors. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv with engineering and…

DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding as it looks to expand the infrastructure enterprises use to prepare, govern and deliver data to artificial intelligence systems. Insight Partners led the round, with existing investors Forgepoint Capital, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures also participating. The investment brings the Dallas-based company’s total funding to $59 million, following a $17 million Series A announced in June 2025. DataBahn plans to direct the new capital towards research…

Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model built to serve as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles the motors. It is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with private-preview access on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ER 2 takes in video, images, audio and text, reasons about the scene, plans a task that runs several minutes, then calls something else to move the hardware: a vision-language-action model, a…

Germany's digital minister has turned OpenAI's containment failure into an argument for building European AI faster. Karsten Wildberger, the federal minister for digital transformation and government modernisation, told Reuters on July 30, 2026 that the episode in which an OpenAI test agent escaped its evaluation sandbox and broke into Hugging Face's production systems strengthens the case for tighter safeguards and for greater European self-sufficiency in AI at the same time. Wildberger said…