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Latest story• May 4, 2026

Building an agentic AI strategy that pays off - without risking business failure

Agentic AI promises massive productivity gains, with KPMG estimating $3 trillion annually, but rushing in without a solid strategy can be costly. Over 40% of projects may be canceled by 2027 due to runaway costs, rogue agents, unpredictable results, and vendor hype — less than 13% of so-called agentic tools are genuinely agentic. The smartest path forward is starting small, targeting repetitive internal processes,...

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Smile-Serve – Inference Server for ML, ONNX, and LLM

Smile-Serve is a Quarkus-based inference server supporting classic ML, ONNX, and Llama 3 chat models via a unified Java platform with a built-in React UI.

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The part of building an AI receptionist nobody talks about

Building an AI receptionist sounds simple — pick a voice, write some prompts, connect a phone number — but the real challenge lies in the infrastructure underneath. Telephony compliance, latency optimization, API reliability,...

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What do we lose when AI does our work?

As AI takes over more tasks, there's a hidden cost — losing the meaning that comes from doing the work yourself. Starting a task isn't just getting started; it involves commitment, identity, and goal-forming that creates personal...

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File-to-Markdown Conversion Is Becoming an AI Input Layer: Here's Why

Most teams treat document conversion as a chore. Drop in a PDF, get out some text, feed it to an AI. But Microsoft's open-source tool MarkItDown suggests that framing is dangerously small. The tool converts files like PDFs,...

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Llama.ttf: a font file which is also a large language model and inference engine

Llama.ttf is a font file that secretly contains a fully functional AI language model and inference engine. By exploiting HarfBuzz's built-in WebAssembly support — used in Firefox, Chrome, and text editors — it runs an LLM locally...

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Why GPT’s Mathematical Foundations Cannot Guarantee Reliable Outputs

GPT models are built on ten unproven mathematical shortcuts stacked on top of each other, and no one has formally proven how errors from each layer combine. This isn't a fixable bug — it's a structural problem baked into the...

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Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors

AI models trained to be warmer and more emotionally considerate make significantly more errors — about 60% more than standard models. When users expressed sadness, error rates jumped even higher. Models trained to be "colder,"...

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In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors

OpenAI's o1 model correctly diagnosed ER patients 67% of the time, beating internal medicine doctors at 55–50%. Experts caution the AI wasn't tested against ER specialists and lacks accountability for real-world use.

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The Secret Behind AI Pricing Most People Ignore

AI companies can silently raise costs by tweaking their tokenizer — the tool that breaks text into billable units. This lets them charge more without announcing a price increase, making the hike nearly invisible.

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Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Unified Understanding and Generation

Researchers developed Tuna-2, a multimodal AI model that handles both image understanding and generation by using simple pixel embeddings instead of complex visual encoders. Stripping away traditional encoding components actually...

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Pixelle-Video – AI Fully Automated Short Video Engine

Pixelle-Video is an AI-powered engine that automatically creates short videos from just a text prompt or pre-written script. It handles everything from writing the narration and generating images to producing voiceovers and...

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So, About That AI Bubble

Six months ago, AI looked like a bubble — all spending, no returns. But AI coding tools like Claude Code changed everything, letting small teams do the work of large ones. Anthropic's revenue doubled to $30 billion annually in...

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The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards

The Academy now requires Oscar-eligible performances to be human-performed and scripts to be human-written, effectively banning AI-generated content from winning awards, though productions can still use AI.

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AI Takes the Wheel at Europe’s Biggest Carmakers

Europe's top automakers — BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi — are aggressively embedding AI across factories, supply chains, and vehicles to stay competitive against U.S. and Chinese rivals. BMW launched a $300 million investment fund...

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UAE Plans to Run 50% of Government on Agentic AI Within Two Years

The UAE plans to have 50% of its federal government run by autonomous AI within two years. All federal employees will be retrained to oversee these systems, which will independently analyze data and make decisions.

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Amid Mythos' hyped cybersecurity prowess, researchers find GPT-5.5 is just as good

A startup called Mythos generated major buzz by claiming its AI model had unique, dangerous cybersecurity capabilities — but new findings from AISI show GPT-5.5 performs just as well, suggesting Mythos' edge wasn't a true...

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Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B Brings Reasoning, Coding, and Vision Into One Model

Mistral AI's new 128-billion parameter model combines reasoning, coding, and image understanding into one system, replacing several separate models. It features a 256k context window, adjustable reasoning depth, and multilingual...

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obscura: The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

Obscura is a Rust-based headless browser for web scraping and AI automation. It runs real JavaScript, replaces headless Chrome, uses only 30 MB of memory, and loads pages nearly 10x faster.

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auto-round: A SOTA quantization algorithm for high-accuracy low-bit LLM inference, seamlessly optimized for CPU

AutoRound is an advanced toolkit that compresses large AI language models down to 2–4 bits of precision while keeping accuracy high — making powerful models faster and cheaper to run. It works across major hardware platforms and...

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Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI

Most companies fail with AI not because the technology is lacking, but because they can't clearly define their own goals, strategies, or workflows. Companies that already understand themselves are thriving with AI, while chaotic,...

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I used Photoshop's new AI tool to rotate objects in 3D, and it's pure magic

Photoshop's new Rotate Object feature, available in version 27.6, uses AI to rotate 2D objects in 3D space and generates unseen sides that were never photographed. Combined with the Harmonize tool, it can realistically blend...

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Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines

Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup focused on robotics AI, as part of its push into humanoid machines. The startup's staff is joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs, signaling Meta's growing ambitions in...

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Google is testing new Omni model for video generation ahead of I/O

Google's upcoming Omni model for Gemini may unify its fragmented AI image and video generation into a single system, potentially rivaling ByteDance's benchmark-leading Seedance 2.0, ahead of Google I/O 2026.

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