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[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)
Yay Kimi!!!
Accelerate Generative AI Inference on Amazon SageMaker AI with G7e Instances
Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. You can provision nodes with 1, 2, 4, and 8 RTX PRO 6000 GPU instances, with each GPU providing 96 GB of GDDR7 memory. This launch provides the capability to use a single-node GPU, G7e.2xlarge instance to host powerful open source foundation models (FMs) like GPT-OSS-120B, Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B (NVFP4 variant), and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, offering organizations a cost-effective and high-performing option.
ToolSimulator: scalable tool testing for AI agents
You can use ToolSimulator, annbsp;LLM-powered tool simulation framework within Strands Evals, to thoroughly and safely test AI agents that rely on external tools, at scale. Instead of risking live API calls that expose personally identifiable information (PII), trigger unintended actions, or settling for static mocks that break with multi-turn workflows, you can use ToolSimulator's large language model (LLM)-powered simulations to validate your agents. Available today as part of the Strands Evals Software Development Kit (SDK), ToolSimulator helps you catch integration bugs early, test edge cases comprehensively, and ship production-ready agents with confidence.
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 (moonshotai/kimi-k2.6)
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...
Omnichannel ordering with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
In this post, we'll show you how to build a complete omnichannel ordering system using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, an agentic platform, to build, deploy, and operate highly effective AI agents securely at scale using any framework and foundation model and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic.
Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?
Cybersecurity Funding Holds Up At Robust Levels
This past quarter, funding to security- and privacy-focused startups dipped slightly on a sequential basis, but remained well above year-ago levels. Overall, investors put $4.9 billion into global companies in the space in Q1, per Crunchbase data, a comparatively solid performance relative to recent quarters.
Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back
Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters. Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill” their colleagues’ skills and personality traits and replicate them with…
How do teens really use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think
In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
AI 'agent' fever comes with lurking security threats
Artificial intelligence agents promise to save users time and energy by automating tasks, but the growing power of systems like OpenClaw is setting cybersecurity experts on edge.
Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that “Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠” and includes a 14-second video showing Tesla vehicles driving without human monitors or drivers in the front seat. The company now […]
Unpredictable AGI may resist full control, making diverse AI safer
Public concern about AI safety has grown significantly in recent years. As AI systems become more powerful, a key question is how we make sure they do what we actually want. Now, researchers suggest that rather than trying to eliminate misalignment between AI and humans, we should embrace and manage it through a diverse ecosystem of AI systems that can balance and correct one another.
[AINews] The Two Sides of OpenClaw
a quiet day lets us reflect on openclaw this week.
What could your voice give away?
With AI, the voice has acquired a new significance. Behind the words lies data that can be used both to diagnose a health problem and to steal someone's identity. Speaking to machines is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Alexa (Amazon) has been present in homes for over a decade, and an increasing number of users now favor voice interactions with chatbots.
From hours to minutes: How Agentic AI gave marketers time back for what matters
In this post, we share how AWS Marketing’s Technology, AI, and Analytics (TAA) team worked with Gradial to build an agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock for accelerating content publishing workflows.
Simple robots inspired by ants collectively build and excavate
When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous for their ability to collectively build massive, intricate, climate-controlled structures, despite having neither a blueprint nor a worksite foreman.
Sector Snapshot: Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples In 2026 To Hit Record Amount
Several multibillion-dollar megadeals drove a spike in first-quarter investment in autonomous vehicles, signaling that investors aren't just paying for research, but betting on companies that are ready to scale up and put their AI technology into actual cars people can buy or hail.
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the robot of science fiction—one…
[AINews] Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 - literally one step better than 4.6 in every dimension
The new SOTA model asserts its dominance.
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