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Google says its new agent can keep working even when your phone or laptop is off. That line from the Gemini Spark page sets clear expectations: persistent, background help with guardrails. The question for users isn’t whether it works, but what Gemini Spark productivity looks like in real jobs—and where to keep a human in […]
StartupHub.ai says its database spans 65 million-plus company profiles and more than 5 billion AI-enriched data points. The site bills itself as “The World’s #1 AI Startup Directory,” with search across startups, investors, founders, funding rounds, patents, and research, all cross-linked so “one query maps an entire market,” per its homepage. That scale, combined with […]
On August 8, 2026, The Guardian reported that OpenAI will pause some work on its Astra model because of security concerns. The move is brief on detail, but it’s a clear signal: speed is giving way to safety. The OpenAI Astra pause won’t just slow a release cadence; it reframes how frontier AI is launched […]
Over 100,000 developers have earned CrewAI certifications, according to the project’s GitHub page. That crowd is rallying around one idea baked into the framework: pair autonomous agents with hard rails. The feature doing the heavy lifting there is CrewAI Flows, which stitches event-driven steps together with calls to single models and with role-based agent teams […]
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — the AI Act — sets the world’s first comprehensive AI law, aimed at safe, human‑centric systems that protect fundamental rights, according to the European Commission’s policy brief. The rules take a risk‑based approach and frame AI as a trust project for Europe, with expectations for both builders and deployers of systems […]
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, better known as the EU AI Act, brings risk‑based rules to AI builders across the bloc. For teams deploying on AMD’s embedded stack, the question is practical: what does Vitis AI compliance look like when your models run on-device? This field guide connects the Act’s duties with AMD’s toolchain, and shows where […]
On July 13, 2026, McKool Smith published a fresh roundup in its AI Litigation Tracker focused on media and entertainment disputes. Read across the past six months, the entries sketch a quiet but clear pivot in media AI lawsuits: less headline‑grabbing dismissal drama, more patient trench work in discovery and procedure. What McKool Smith’s tracker […]
On March 24, 2026, Google Research introduced TurboQuant, a family of quantization methods built to shrink large language model artifacts and vector indexes without the usual overhead that blunts gains. In its announcement, Google frames TurboQuant as “theoretically grounded” and designed for both LLM serving and vector search. The pitch is simple: TurboQuant compression aims […]
Gemini Spark works in the background 24/7, even if your phone and laptop are off, and asks before taking big steps. Google pitches it as a background AI assistant for real tasks across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and Sheets. The promise is simple: give it a job once, and it keeps going. What Spark can do […]
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