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The AI browser wars are heating up. OpenAI and other AI companies like Perplexity have gotten a lot of attention with their new AI-first and agentic browsers. They’re being positioned as direct competition to Google, which currently holds a 70%…
AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas,…
Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: “How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?” The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a Snowflake schema, asks “What is our…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leaning into the growing trend toward custom models with a new service that it says will let enterprises bring more personalization and internal knowledge. The move comes alongside the release of AWS’s new models as part…
For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Chinese research labs including Alibaba’s Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Baidu have rapidly set the…
When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest on-device foundation models on the market using the new…
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next two weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global…
Large language models (LLMs) are mainly trained to generate text responses to user queries or prompts, with complex reasoning under the hood that not only involves language generation by predicting each next token in the output sequence, but also entails…
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes. Securus Technologies president…
With some needed infrastructure now being developed for agentic commerce, enterprises will want to figure out how to participate in this new form of buying and selling. But it remains a fragmented Wild West with competing payment protocols, and it’s…