New agent framework matches human-engineered AI systems — and adds zero inference cost to deploy

A new group-evolving agent framework from UC Santa Barbara matches human-engineered AI systems on SWE-bench — and adds zero ...

Rapidata emerges to shorten AI model development cycles from months to days with near real-time RLHF

Rapidata treats RLHF as high-speed infrastructure rather than a manual labor problem. Today, the company exclusively announced to us at VentureBeat its emergence with an $8.5 million seed ...

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

These speed gains are substantial. At 256K context lengths, Qwen 3.5 decodes 19 times faster than Qwen3-Max and 7.2 times ...

When accurate AI is still dangerously incomplete

LexisNexis' chief AI officer explains why standard RAG fails in high-stakes legal AI — and how graph RAG, planner agents, and ...

The 'last-mile' data problem is stalling enterprise agentic AI — 'golden pipelines' aim to fix it

Empromptu's "golden pipeline" approach tackles the last-mile data problem in agentic AI by integrating normalization directly into the application workflow — replacing weeks of manual data prep with ...

How agent-native identity is becoming the missing layer in enterprise AI

This is the problem Agentic Fabriq, founded by CEO Paulina Xu and CTO Matthew Xu, is working to solve. The company positions ...

CIBC Innovation Banking Provides AlayaCare with $50 Million Growth Capital Facility

CIBC Innovation Banking announced today the provision of a $50 million growth capital facility to AlayaCare Inc., a leading provider of innovative home and community care software solutions. The ...

The Identity Security Shake-Up

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Fluz Launches Embedded Payment Platform to Bring Native Money Experiences Into Software Products

The launch addresses a persistent challenge for software companies: delivering intuitive, in-product payment experiences while navigating the complexity of payment rails, compliance, controls, and ...