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LangChain’s CEO argues that better models alone won’t get your AI agent to production

As models get smarter and more capable, the “harnesses” around them must also evolve. This “harness engineering” is an extension of context engineering, says LangChain co-founder and CEO Harrison Chase in a new VentureBeat Beyond the Pilot podcast episode. Whereas traditional AI harnesses have tended to constrain models from running in loops and calling tools,…

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New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss

Enterprise AI applications that handle large documents or long-horizon tasks face a severe memory bottleneck. As the context grows longer, so does the KV cache, the area where the model’s working memory is stored. A new technique developed by researchers at MIT addresses this challenge with a fast compression method for the KV cache. The…

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Google PM open-sources Always On Memory Agent, ditching vector databases for LLM-driven persistent memory

Google senior AI product manager Shubham Saboo has turned one of the thorniest problems in agent design into an open-source engineering exercise: persistent memory. This week, he published an open-source “Always On Memory Agent” on the official Google Cloud Platform Github page under a permissive MIT License, allowing for commercial usage. It was built with…

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Google Workspace CLI brings Gmail, Docs, Sheets and more into a common interface for AI agents

What’s old is new: the command line — the original, clunky non-graphical interface for interacting with and controlling PCs, where the user just typed in raw commands in code — has become one of the most important interfaces in agentic AI. That shift has been driven in part by the rise of coding-native tools such…

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren’t slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgrade: GPT-5.4. Actually, GPT-5.4 comes in two varieties: GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro, the latter designed for the most complex tasks. Both will be available…

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Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Most enterprise RAG pipelines are optimized for one search behavior. They fail silently on the others. A model trained to synthesize cross-document reports handles constraint-driven entity search poorly. A model tuned for simple lookup tasks falls apart on multi-step reasoning over internal notes. Most teams find out when something breaks. Databricks set out to fix…

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Black Forest Labs’ new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external “teachers”—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the semantic understanding they couldn’t learn on their own. But this reliance has come at a cost: a “bottleneck” where scaling up the model no longer yields better…

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Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while consuming a fraction of the compute and training data. The release marks the latest and most technically ambitious chapter in the software giant’s year-long campaign to prove…

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Pentagon vendor cutoff exposes the AI dependency map most enterprises never built

The federal directive ordering all U.S. government agencies to cease using Anthropic technology comes with a six-month phaseout window. That timeline assumes agencies already know where Anthropic’s models sit inside their workflows. Most don’t today. Most enterprises wouldn’t, either. The gap between what enterprises think they’ve approved and what’s actually running in production is wider…

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Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release

Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized generative models starting last summer, most of them entirely open source and free. But now, just 24 hours after shipping the open source Qwen3.5 small model series—a release…

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