The Pulse of Artificial Intelligence

Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink

With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through partnerships with comp

17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million

Dream bigger, babe. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site for

Gemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system

AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-powered features that can summarize home events, search your vi

Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.

Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat against Ken Paxton. Gina Hinojosa won the r

Use decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

Some agent-evaluation questions are narrow and repeatable, and decision models answer exactly that kind of question. This post shows how to connect two decision models, Jev and Strands Decider, to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations through code-based evaluators, and how to vali

Nothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month

Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system. He didn't give away much about what exactly the new device is, onl

Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out

Smart Approvals in Amazon Quick: Human oversight where it matters

Smart Approvals in Amazon Quick reviews eligible agent actions within your existing controls, reducing unnecessary approval prompts while keeping consequential decisions with a person. See how policy sets the boundary, how a classifier reviews actions, and how AWS CloudTrail and

Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code

In production AI agents, context management is the real bottleneck. This post presents a four-layer context engineering framework (architecture, prompts, file-based tools, and verification agents), implemented in working code from Deep Insight, an open source multi-agent data ana

How Indegene is modernizing and scaling enterprise data quality in life sciences

This post explores how Indegene built a production-grade, LLM-powered Data Quality Agent in its NEXT Unified Data Platform on AWS. The agent generates context-aware data quality rules, validates them, and produces ready-to-run SQL and Python under human-in-the-loop governance, he

Predicting and detecting failures: How Azure strengthens reliability for mission-critical workloads

Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) helps reduce interruptions by predicting hardware failures, moving eligible workloads, and notifying customers when action is needed. See what that means for SAP on Azure and other mission-critical workloads. The post Predicting and d

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.

OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.

Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal fo

A thousand fewer paths to root

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.

Alignment Faking Depends on the Value, Not Just the Model

arXiv:2611.03650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models can follow a directive when they believe they are monitored and abandon it when they believe they are not, a pattern termed Alignment Faking. Prior work establishes this for harmful-content objectives and a handful

CARD: A Proof-Carrying Certificate-to-Action Interface for Relative-Measurement Graphs

arXiv:2611.03651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometric certificates make mathematical claims about specified estimator objects, while robotic action requires a physical transform, a service decision, and timely proof support. We present CARD, a proof-carrying interface that k

MCPGuard: Finding Conformance Gaps in MCP SDKs via Dual-Track Analysis and Dynamic Adjudication

arXiv:2611.03662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) connects large language model agents to external tools and services through official SDKs that implement message validation and session logic. Specification constraints omitted by these SDKs may pro

Functional-Group Knowledge Is Structured in Language Models Before It Is Spoken

arXiv:2611.03684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models serve as the reasoning core of agents for chemistry and materials science, where they must interpret molecular structure before planning syntheses or proposing materials. Yet their outputs show only what they say, n

Introducing Images 2.6

Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.