OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.” This isn’t the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with … Read more
The bank said bitcoin lending has emerged from the 2022 crypto credit collapse with stronger risk controls, growing institutional participation and a path toward lower borrowing costs.
A scanned yearbook page contains 176 printed names, 4 portrait photographs, and zero machine-readable structure linking them. To digitize this page, you need reliable photo detection with bounding boxes and accurate name extraction. You also need a way to determine which name belongs to which face based on page layout. In this post, we show … Read more
The iPad Air supports Apple Pencil Pro, plus hover support. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider … Read more
The digital asset firm cut its odds of the market structure bill passing this year to a coin toss, pointing to a shrinking Senate calendar.
Ripple outlined how the XRP Ledger Lending Protocol would provide institutions with a novel way to structure loans directly on-chain.
Bitcoin faced its own battle for support as US stocks headed higher and analysts warned of a lack of “conviction” among BTC buyers.
Several exchanges that have already been authorized by EU regulators are attempting to bring in users from companies unlicensed under the Markets in Crypto-Assets rules, offering transfer bonuses and prizes.
At PAR Technology Corporation, we build technology for the restaurant industry, supporting over 300 restaurant businesses, from independent operators to large, multi-brand franchise groups. Across this diverse customer base, we help organizations make better decisions by unlocking the value of their data. When we set out to build a natural language text-to-SQL agent for self-serve … Read more
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
Manually processing paper-based forms remains a significant cost in the healthcare industry. Despite advancements in data extraction of scanned documents and images, human oversight is usually still needed. Entry error by the individual creating the form or lower-confidence extractions from the digitization still must be remediated. In this post, we show you how to build … Read more
The bank says Congress should pair regulatory clarity with safeguards as Senate negotiates the Clarity Act.
Production artificial intelligence (AI) agents can fail silently. They may return plausible but incorrect answers, enter infinite reasoning loops, or select the wrong tools without triggering error alerts. These failures make debugging production agent behavior difficult because standard logs and metrics do not capture how decisions are made. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability addresses these debugging … Read more
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
The Trump administration’s moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
Anthropic’s agreement makes Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, at half price.
The Govee Uplighter in action. | Image: Govee July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading … Read more
TIDAL’s new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.
The move deepens BNY’s partnership with Circle and builds on the bank’s role as the primary custodian of USDC reserves.
The Supreme Court’s decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans’ health and location information to data brokers – including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location … Read more
You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch “later this year,” in a move to make the communications … Read more
Dbrand announced Monday that it’s refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made “without a license from Valve.” Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company’s website and the … Read more
The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said.
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The short version: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows any AI application to interact with any external system — files, databases, APIs, all of it. Anthropic first put it out at the end of 2024, and within roughly 18 months MCP became the industry-wide standard for plugging AI applications into the … Read more
Picture this: you’re at a packed stadium or festival. The person next to you is watching a live stream in crisp HD while your screen is stuck on a spinning wheel. Same location, same tower, same general network. Why does one phone work and the other doesn’t? The answer comes down to a setting most … Read more