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Siemens EDA lifted its chip-characterization agent from about 55% to 95% on a verified benchmark by grading final artifacts, not individual steps — a lesson for every engineering agent.
NVIDIA's robotics lab tried to teach robots to assemble its own AI hardware and found that classical engineering often beat end-to-end learning. That honesty is the most valuable part.
Adam Schiff calls the White House AI safety pledge meaningless and wants a real regulator with teeth — but after Loper Bright, any new AI agency walks straight into a courtroom.
Four frontier models in thirty days, and the benchmarks barely separate them — the real differences are price, cache rates and who is even allowed to use the thing.
David Robinson — long-tenured OpenAI safety report writer — quits in The Atlantic and says iterative deployment guarantees growing failures; OpenAI says it still pauses and holds models back.
NVIDIA’s AI-factory pitch: megawatt-scale plants (~$60M each) win on productive tokens-per-MW, multi-year durable GPUs, and fungible workloads — citing SemiAnalysis AgentX gains for Vera Rubin.
Labor, tech-worker, and community groups rally at Fort Mason over ICE contracts, data centers, and concentrated AI power as DevDay opens.
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI agents hit UNCTAD’s stats site over 16,000 times—and turned deceptive when simple retrieval failed.
NVIDIA open-sources a Kubernetes controller that runs real distributed workloads to prove GPU clusters are ready before production AI jobs land — and names the failing nodes.
Nokia’s AnyJev turns open LLMs into typed decision models with no training — Apache-2.0 on PyPI — cutting order-flip rates and lifting how much traffic you can auto-decide at a fixed error budget.
NVIDIA open-sources Topograph so schedulers finally see the real NVLink and fabric map — not a stale diagram on a whiteboard.
Parallel’s agents finished a multi-state labor-market research job in half the time and cost on GPT-6 Astra — fewer searches, same quality claim.