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Agentic AI bot helps scientists speak to robots, speeding up experiments

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and ...

Agentic-Native Platforms Are Creating A New Technology Business Model

For decades, the enterprise technology industry operated on a simple principle: software companies built products, and ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to ...
The Washington Post

This agent sent models to meet Jeffrey Epstein. Now he’s trying to explain why.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had just been released from jail in 2009 when a friend suggested a possible “coming out gift”: a 5-foot-11-inch model with an “amazing” body. “I was blown away ...
Microsoft

Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

By: Ahmed Awadallah, Sahil Gupta, Yash Lara, Yadong Lu, Hussein Mozannar, Akshay Nambi, Zach Nussbaum, Yash Pandya, Aravind Rajeswaran, Corby Rosset, Alexey Taymanov, Luiz do Valle, Vibhav Vineet, ...
TechNode

Alibaba introduces Qwen3.7-Max as next-gen AI agent model

Alibaba’s Qwen on Wednesday unveiled Qwen3.7-Max, its new flagship AI model designed for the agent era, with API access set to roll out soon. The company said Qwen3.7-Max is its most advanced and ...
C&EN

AI companies introduce new agent-based tools for scientific discovery

Close-up on the pipetting arm of a robot; some hydraulics and the top of a 96-well plate are also visible. A pipetting robot handles liquid in a laboratory in 2023. Researchers developing autonomous ...
Thurrott

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI agents. But an Anthropic engineer argues that HTML is a better choice for output. And despite my love of ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...
Reuters

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training ...
eLife

Agent-based modeling reveals how bats navigate dense group emergences

This important model-based study seeks to mimic bat echolocation behavior and flight under conditions of high interference, such as when large numbers of bats leave their roost together. The ...