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Rokid opens world’s first self-service AI glasses store in Hong Kong

Founded in 2014, Rokid develops augmented reality and artificial intelligence products. The post Rokid opens world’s first self-service AI glasses store in Hong Kong appeared first on Inside Retail Asia.

Use one Zapier MCP server across all your AI tools

Your team probably uses more than one AI tool. One person drafts in Claude, another works in ChatGPT, and your engineers live in Cursor. Zapier MCP now lets all of them connect to one server. Every connected client gets the same apps, actio

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio

OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.

Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively

AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms

MPS in PyTorch 2.15

Structured outputs for Anthropic Claude models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs for all Anthropic Claude models on both the bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpoints. Receive schema-compliant JSON that conforms to a defined structure, without custom parsing, retry logic

The AI forwarder of the future

Agentic process execution could change the P&L far beyond productivity, and the real gains for forwarders sit in execution quality, margin capture and a new kind of moat. “Innovation and productivity are at the core of what we do.” That was

AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%

Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking details from one system, confirms the limits in another and keys the transact

Developers can now access SageMaker Studio through the new AWS experience

New Amazon SageMaker AI customers can now land in a fully configured SageMaker Studio environment in only a few steps. Sign up with an identity you already have, such as Amazon, Apple, GitHub, or Google, with no advanced AWS account or cred

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: 2026 year-to-date in review

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart onboarded over 100 new models from 30 providers in the first three quarters of 2026. This recap covers the model-onboarding highlights and JumpStart enhancements, including the simplified Model Hub, pre-configured

Character.ai Bankruptcy Exposes the High Cost of AI Companionship

Character.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) companion platform that lets users chat with AI versions of their favorite characters, filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 12. About 12 million monthly users could not make it profitable. The company w

Circle and Proof Help Businesses Trust AI Agent Transactions

Proof and Circle Internet Group said Monday (Oct. 19) that they will demonstrate at Money20/20 how open identity and payment protocols can work together to enable businesses to trust transactions made by agents. The companies’ demo will inc

Designing for sovereign AI: A shared foundation from edge to cloud

First-party cloud and AI product update. Confirm preview status, region and service conditions.

Big Banks Won’t Let Outside AI Agents Move Money

A customer who hands a login to an artificial intelligence agent now gets turned away at four of the biggest names in banking in the United States. Charles Schwab sees the attempts firsthand. Across all its clients, the brokerage blocks the

The Evidence Test for Decision Intelligence: Beyond Analytics, Workflow, and Embedded AI

The Evidence Test for Decision Intelligence: Beyond Analytics, Workflow, and Embedded AI is a qualification problem. The market is crowded with analytics, workflow, copilots, dashboards, embedded AI, and orchestration claims. The post The E

Pegasus 1.5 from TwelveLabs is now available in Amazon Bedrock

TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. The video language model turns long-form video into structured, timestamped metadata: define the moments that matter and get every matching segment back as JSON, with new video segm

Nvidia-Backed Double AI Debuts AI ‘Code Execution’ Models

Israeli startup DoubleAI is reportedly set to introduce what it describes as a new category of artificial intelligence (AI). The company, whose backers include Nvidia and Dell, calls this new category “code execution” models (CEMs) which pl

How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium

Deepgram worked with the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team to port its Nova-3 speech-to-text model to AWS Trainium2 for offline batch inference. This post covers porting to the AWS Neuron stack, kernel-level tuning, a data-parallel Rust

Fifth Third Plans to Beat AI Disruptors at Their Own Game

The banking industry will respond to the rise of artificial intelligence-driven cash optimization tools by using relationships with customers and offering the same services these tools offer, with the added benefit of bank-grade information

Push-based KV transfer to improve TTFT and TPOT for disaggregated inference in vLLM

vLLM's prefill-decode disaggregation splits LLM inference across engine instances but must transfer the KV cache between them. This post introduces a push-based NIXL connector that moves transfer coordination off the critical path, deliveri

Improve TTFT for multi-turn agentic workloads with bi-directional KV transfer in vLLM

Multi-turn agentic workloads reprocess growing conversation context each turn, driving up latency. See how bi-directional KV cache transfer lets prefill and decode nodes reuse previously computed context across turns, cutting time to first

Google Helps Huntington Bank Deploy AI-Powered Operating System

Huntington National Bank has debuted a new operating system designed for small businesses. The 1866 Studio, named for the year the bank was founded, was built using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) platform, the tech giant annou

Hackers Use AI Agents to Do Hacking for Them

New research shows the growing use of AI-powered hacking systems in cybercrime operations. The trend was uncovered in an investigation by cybersecurity firm NorForge, findings from which were published Monday (Oct. 19). The company’s invest