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AWS says Salesforce used a new SageMaker Inference Components placement capability to balance Agentforce model copies across Availability Zones while preserving GPU-sharing savings.
Technetbook reports that Tencent has previewed Hy4, a foundation model it says has 770 billion parameters and a one-million-token context window. The outlet also reports internal and third-party comparisons with Chinese rivals, but those results have not been independently confirmed.
ETEducation reports that Goa University has introduced an artificial-intelligence elective open to postgraduate students across disciplines, while the report leaves the syllabus, staffing and implementation details unconfirmed.
Crunchbase News reports that AI-focused startups accounted for most of the largest announced U.S. funding rounds from Aug. 22 through Aug. 28, led by Instinct’s reported $250 million Series B. The roundup also includes financings for AI tools, physical AI, data-center energy management and creative software.
Kobaran reports that Chillisoft CEO Alex Teh warned at the Cybersec Fiji 2026 Symposium that hackers are using AI-generated phishing and deepfakes to target employees with privileged access. The report cites a recent Qilin ransomware attack on Fiji-based Pacific Building Solutions, but the incident and broader…
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a large-language-model chatbot on its Contact Us page, with plans to add sign-in, live-agent support and broader website coverage later this year, FedScoop reports.
The Guardian reports that Labour rejected Green leader Zack Polanski’s proposed moratorium on major AI datacentres, arguing that a pause would threaten jobs, investment and national-security capabilities. The dispute highlights growing concern over datacentres’ use of electricity and water during a severe UK drought.
EXL has completed its acquisition of iMerit, a company that provides expert-led data annotation, model evaluation and reinforcement-learning support for robotics, autonomous mobility and other AI applications, The Robot Report reports.
Business Insider reports that Hugging Face says customers ordered more than $2.6 million worth of its programmable Microduck robot in its first 24 hours, pushing estimated delivery times for new orders to four to six months.
Mexico Business News reports that WSO2 launched a self-managed AI Workspace for organizations that need to control AI models, agents, policies and costs inside their own infrastructure.
Reuters reports that Tencent released a preview of Hy4, a 770-billion-parameter open-source model intended for software engineering, research and financial-analysis tasks.
Anthropic reports that Claude autonomously developed and tested methods that improved models on 10 alignment-failure categories, including deception, privacy violations and sycophancy, while preserving measured capabilities. The company says the methods transferred to withheld tests and models up to 4.7 times…
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