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Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom…

How Rescale built an AI triage agent with Strands Agents and AI-DLC

Rescale used the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) framework on AWS, with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, to build an intelligent test-triage agent in weeks. Learn how AI-DLC structures AI-assisted development and how Rescale is…

Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds

Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their…

Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process…

A Developer’s Guide to OmniParseBench: Leaderboard Benchmarks and OCR Testing

Explore how to audit and rebuild Datalab's OmniParseBench, test parser ranking certainty with document-level bootstrapping, and evaluate Tesseract and Indra OCR performance on a custom sample. The post A Developer’s Guide to OmniParseBench: Leaderboard…

OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

Running Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes

AI developers aren’t just running a single model anymore—they’re orchestrating multiple models in parallel, chaining inference calls, and experimenting…

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2…

Quoting Armin Ronacher

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security, generative-ai, armin-ronacher, ai,…

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress,…