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2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

The latest AI large language model (LLMs) releases, such as Claude 3.7 from Anthropic and Grok 3 from xAI, are often performing at PhD levels — at least according to certain benchmarks. This accomplishment marks the next step toward what former Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions: A world where everyone has access to “a great polymath,” an AI capable of drawing on vast bodies of knowledge to…
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Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers when building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python,” Freddy Boulton, one of FastRTC’s creators, said in an announcement on X.com. “Until…
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How big U.S. bank BNY manages armies of AI agents

The financial services industry is one of the most regulated sectors. It also manages huge amounts of data. Conscious of a need for caution, financial companies have slowly added generative AI and AI agents to their stables of services.  The industry is no stranger to automation. But use of the term “agent” has been muted. And understandably, many in the industry took a very cautious stance…
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Intel launches Xeon 6 processors with performance cores for 2X AI processing

Intel is launching its new Intel Xeon 6 processors with performance-cores, offering better performance across data center workloads and up to two times higher performance in AI processing. The company has new Xeon 6 processors for network and edge applications with built-in Intel vRAN. Boost deliver up to 2.4 times the capacity for radio access network (RAN) workloads. It’s an important launch…
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