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Valuable customers? Insurers toe the line with agentic AI

Agentic AI has been heralded as a top tool for efficiently orchestrating customer engagement activities at insurance companies. It can: Automate repeatable, rule-based processes that affect customer experience (think claims processing and customer onboarding). Rapidly retrieve disparate data, analyze risks and recommend decisions. Help lower operational costs while keeping humans […] The post Valuable customers? […]

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What’s holding back AI impact in banking?

If AI ambition inside your bank is starting to collide with day‑to‑day delivery realities, this six‑minute video is worth your time. It’s a “cut through the noise” conversation about what’s shaping banks right now: risks, opportunities and the reality behind the hype. AI’s impact depends on the foundation Listen to […] The post What’s holding

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Defeating the ‘Token Tax’: How Google Gemma 4, NVIDIA, and OpenClaw are Revolutionizing Local Agentic AI: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark

Run Google’s latest omni-capable open models faster on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, from NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, GeForce RTX desktops to the new DGX Spark, to build personalized, always-on AI assistants like OpenClaw without paying a massive “token tax” for every action. The landscape of modern AI is shifting rapidly. We are moving away from

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Claude Code Leak: 16 Lessons on Building Production-Ready AI Systems

Over the past 24 hours, the developer community has been obsessed with one thing. A leak. The source code of Claude Code, one of the most advanced AI coding systems, surfaced online. Within hours, GitHub was flooded with forks, breakdowns, and deep dives. For developers, it felt like rare access. While for Anthropic, it was

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AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.

For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and applications is tested against that of individual humans completing tasks.  This framing is seductive: An AI vs. human comparison on isolated problems with clear

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Microsoft AI Releases Harrier-OSS-v1: A New Family of Multilingual Embedding Models Hitting SOTA on Multilingual MTEB v2

Microsoft has announced the release of Harrier-OSS-v1, a family of three multilingual text embedding models designed to provide high-quality semantic representations across a wide range of languages. The release includes three distinct scales: a 270M parameter model, a 0.6B model, and a 27B model. The Harrier-OSS-v1 models achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on the Multilingual MTEB

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NVIDIA AI Unveils ProRL Agent: A Decoupled Rollout-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Turn LLM Agents at Scale

NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting a ‘Rollout-as-a-Service’ philosophy, the system decouples agentic rollout orchestration from the training loop. This architectural shift addresses the inherent resource conflicts between I/O-intensive environment interactions and GPU-intensive policy updates that currently bottleneck agent development. The

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openJiuwen Community Releases ‘JiuwenClaw’: A Self Evolving AI Agent for Task Management

Over the past year, AI agents have evolved from merely answering questions to attempting to get real tasks done. However, a significant bottleneck has emerged: while most agents may appear intelligent during a conversation, they often ‘drop the ball’ when it comes to executing real-world tasks. Whether it’s an office workflow that breaks when requirements

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Tencent AI Open Sources Covo-Audio: A 7B Speech Language Model and Inference Pipeline for Real-Time Audio Conversations and Reasoning

Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by directly processing continuous audio inputs and generating audio outputs within a single architecture. System Architecture The Covo-Audio framework consists of four primary components designed for seamless cross-modal interaction: Audio

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Top 5 Free Google Certificate Courses in 2026

For different learning goals and career paths, choosing the right certification can get confusing. Some people want analytics. Others want ads. Some care about AI. And many just want something credible to add to their resume. This list is built with that in mind. A set of free Google certificate courses, each aligned to a

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