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Linux Foundation Takes Charge of AGNTCY to Build the Open Internet of AI Agents
Two of the most influential interoperability standards for AI agents are now under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, marking a major step towards an open, interconnected agent ecosystem. The nonprofit organization announced on Tuesday that it is now custodian of the AGNTCY project, an initiative backed by Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Gaileo, and Glean. This […]
Developer Confidence in AI Is Dropping, Even as Use Rises
AI has become a go-to tool for writing code, but the developers using it are growing more skeptical of its output. New research from Stack Overflow reveals 84 percent of programmers saying they’re planning to or are using AI in their workflows, up eight points from last year. Yet nearly half—46 percent—say they no longer […]
Ai2’s FlexOlmo Lets You Co-Develop AI Language Models Without Sharing Data
Ai2 has unveiled FlexOlmo, a new framework that lets multiple organizations jointly develop language models without requiring centralized data pooling. Ideal for those in regulated industries, it provides developers with granular control over how and when their data influences the model, addressing long-standing concerns regarding privacy, IP protection, and data sovereignty in collaborative AI projects. […]
Genies’ AI Avatar Tech Coming to Unity Editor in 2026
Genies, a gaming technology company, is partnering with Unity to bring its customizable AI avatars and asset creation tools to Unity’s Asset Store and Unity Editor. Developers will now have access to game, entertainment, celebrity, and sports IP-driven avatars that they can incorporate into games. The expectation is that this will free resources up to […]
Ai2 Brings OLMo, Molmo, and Tülu AI Models to Enterprise Teams with Cirrascale Deal
Non-profit AI lab Ai2 is partnering with infrastructure platform provider Cirrascale in a move to commercialize its open-source models. OLMo 2, Molmo, and Tülu 3 can now be run via API on Cirrascale’s Inference Platform, enabling companies to avoid the need to deploy the models themselves and the associated costs of in-house systems or expertise. […]
Ai2’s SciArena Benchmarks AI for Science, Inspired by ChatBot Arena
Nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has launched a new platform to help researchers evaluate which AI models perform best on scientific literature tasks. Called SciArena, it’s an open, collaborative service that enables head-to-head comparisons of large language models. Think ChatBot Arena—but built for the scientific research community. “Measuring progress in using AI agents for literature-grounded scientific […]
Salesforce Wants to Scale Digital Labor. Agentforce 3 Is the Plan.
Salesforce is scaling up its agentic development platform, adding features to help organizations embrace the hybrid workforce paradigm. Agentforce 3 is the latest in a series of rapid-fire innovations from the enterprise tech giant. This release introduces a new Command Center for overseeing AI agents, adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across Agentforce […]
HubSpot Connects Its CRM With ChatGPT to Deliver Smarter Customer Insights
HubSpot is bringing more artificial intelligence into its CRM platform through a new integration with OpenAI. The company has introduced a “deep research connector” with ChatGPT, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to perform advanced analysis and generate deeper insights using their customer data and context. “We’re building tools that help businesses lead through the AI […]
Ai2’s RewardBench 2 Is a Tougher Benchmark for Testing How Well AI Models Reflect Human Judgment
Ai2 has released an update to its RewardBench benchmark, making it more capable of evaluating reward models. The next-generation test is built using new, more complex examples to assess how accurately AI models can produce answers that are as accurate as those of a human. In its first round of testing, RewardBench 2 ranks Google’s […]
Microsoft’s Project Amelie Is an Experiment in ‘AI Developing AI’
Microsoft Build featured a flurry of product announcements. But beyond the official launches, the company also offered a glimpse into its frontier projects—experimental inventions that may never be released to the public but serve to showcase the ideas Microsoft is exploring. One such effort is codenamed Project Amelie, an AI agent capable of building machine […]