Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant
The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.
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Engineering more resilient crops for a warming climate
Scientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.
Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%
The proposal reflects the overall lack of interest in products like Meta's social virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds.
Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake’s customers
AI research lab Anthropic inked a $200 million deal with Snowflake to bring its AI models to Snowflake's 12,600 customers.
EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
The European Commission is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta's move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.
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AWS launches Kiro powers with Stripe, Figma, and Datadog integrations for AI-assisted coding
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Kiro powers, a system that allows software developers to give their AI coding assistants instant, specialized expertise in specific tools and workflows — addressing what the company calls a fundamental bottleneck in how AI agents operate today.AWS announced K
AI finds its way into Apple’s top apps of the year
Although Apple has continued to avoid naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as its app of the year, AI was showcased among this year's winners.
Delivering securely on data and AI strategy
Most organizations feel the imperative to keep pace with continuing advances in AI capabilities, as highlighted in a recent MIT Technology Review Insights report. That clearly has security implications, particularly as organizations navigate a surge in the volume, velocity, and variety of security d
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Gong study: Sales teams using AI generate 77% more revenue per rep
The debate over whether AI belongs in the corporate boardroom appears to be over — at least for those responsible for generating revenue.Seven in 10 enterprise revenue leaders now trust AI to regularly inform their business decisions, according to a sweeping new study released by revenue intelligenc
The Download: LLM confessions, and tapping into geothermal hot spots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior What’s new: OpenAI is testing a new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language mo
How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources
Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet’s surface. But in other places, they’re obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power. A startup company called Zanskar announced today that it’s us
AWS re:Invent 2025: Frontier AI agents replace chatbots
According to AWS at this week’s re:Invent 2025, the chatbot hype cycle is effectively dead, with frontier AI agents taking their place. That is the blunt message radiating from Las Vegas this week. The industry’s obsession with chat interfaces has been replaced by a far more demanding mandate: “fron
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Why Smallest.ai Took a US First Approach and Not India
“I think there’s a lot more to do, and it’s still superficial in my opinion,” Apoorv Sood said. The post Why Smallest.ai Took a US First Approach and Not India appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.
Nexus isn’t going all in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups
Nexus Venture Partners manages $3.2 billion in capital across its funds and has invested in more than 130 companies over the years.
Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter
As many of us are ramping up with shopping, baking, and planning for the holiday season, nuclear power plants are also getting ready for one of their busiest seasons of the year. Here in the US, nuclear reactors follow predictable seasonal trends. Summer and winter tend to see the highest electricit
Decart uses AWS Trainium3 for real-time video generation
Amazon Web Services has scored another major win for its custom AWS Trainium accelerators after striking a deal with AI video startup Decart. The partnership will see Decart optimise its flagship Lucy model on AWS Trainium3 to support real-time video generation, and highlight the growing popularity
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GAM takes aim at “context rot”: A dual-agent memory architecture that outperforms long-context LLMs
For all their superhuman power, today’s AI models suffer from a surprisingly human flaw: They forget. Give an AI assistant a sprawling conversation, a multi-step reasoning task or a project spanning days, and it will eventually lose the thread. Engineers refer to this phenomenon as “context rot,” an
AI memory hunger forces Micron’s consumer exodus: A turning point in semiconductor economics
In the basement of a Boise, Idaho, dental office in 1978, four engineers founded what would become one of America’s semiconductor giants. Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman started Micron Technology as a modest design consultancy, backed by local investors including potato
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AI Interview Series #4: Transformers vs Mixture of Experts (MoE)
Question: MoE models contain far more parameters than Transformers, yet they can run faster at inference. How is that possible? Difference between Transformers & Mixture of Experts (MoE) Transformers and Mixture of Experts (MoE) models share the same backbone architecture—self-attention layers follo
How to Build a Meta-Cognitive AI Agent That Dynamically Adjusts Its Own Reasoning Depth for Efficient Problem Solving
In this tutorial, we build an advanced meta-cognitive control agent that learns how to regulate its own depth of thinking. We treat reasoning as a spectrum, ranging from fast heuristics to deep chain-of-thought to precise tool-like solving, and we train a neural meta-controller to decide which mode