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Stream low-latency speech from AI agents using Kokoro TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent

Barclays Plans 5,000 Job Cuts as AI Push Reshapes Operations

Barclays plans to eliminate about 5,000 jobs this year as the British bank expands its use of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology to improve productivity and reduce costs, even as third-quarter profits rose. The reductions represent

Hallucination Detection Methods for AI Agent Workflows

AI agent hallucinations are hard to catch because they usually look like normal answers. An agent can invent a fact, misread retrieved context, or contradict itself without signaling that anything went wrong. Once that output triggers anoth

Companies Should Test AI Agents Like Job Candidates, Law Firm Says

Imagine hiring a new employee who works around the clock, never takes a break and can place orders or move money on its own. Now imagine hiring that worker without checking references. That is roughly the risk companies take when they rush

Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts

Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a paywalled article by Axios. Some of the agen

Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a

How Rescale built an AI triage agent with Strands Agents and AI-DLC

Rescale used the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) framework on AWS, with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, to build an intelligent test-triage agent in weeks. Learn how AI-DLC structures AI-assisted development and how Rescale is s

API Versioning Strategies for Stable Workflow Integrations

Compare API versioning strategies like URI, header, and date-based approaches, and learn how to handle a provider’s deprecation without breaking integration

Walmart welcomes external AI agents — with some guardrails

The mass retailer is focused on transparency and customer control with a new AI agent profile feature and updated agent terms.

OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

Stateful vs. Stateless: Managing Context in AI Agent Builds

Stateful versus stateless design changes how systems scale and remember context. Learn when to use memory nodes, state stores, or both.

Pichai Says AI Agents Will Click Through Pages And Use Protocols via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's CEO expects AI agents to reach websites by browsing pages and through protocols, and says protocols scale better but will take longer to develop. The post Pichai Says AI Agents Will Click Through Pages And Use Protocols appeared fi

AI Security Demand Propels 1Password ARR Past $500 Million

Identity security firm 1Password has seen its annual recurring revenue increase 90% year-over-year to over $500 million, driven by customers’ need to secure the artificial intelligence agents and workflows they build, the company said in a

Self-Hosted LLM vs. Cloud APIs: How to Route Between Them

A self-hosted LLM isn’t always cheaper than an API. Learn when on-prem wins, what your hardware can run, and how to route between local and cloud models.

NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories

Launched today, NVIDIA Minerva is an AIOps platform built to help teams find problems earlier and keep AI factories productive. It brings together telemetry from infrastructure and AI workloads, then applies purpose-built AI models to turn

Walmart and Amazon Expand AI Agents’ Roles in Shopping and Work

It was a big week for agentic artificial intelligence at Walmart and Amazon as the two companies outlined plans to capitalize on the technology’s momentum among consumers and enterprises. Walmart announced tools that will let customers auth

Digital Policy Office attaches great importance to latest cybersecurity vulnerability and appeals to all sectors to take early action and apply patches

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Why customers are fed up with AI chatbots

Few things will cause a customer to immediately request — or demand — a live agent like a bot that misunderstands them.

Data and AI agents give a lift to TK Elevator service technicians

The post Data and AI agents give a lift to TK Elevator service technicians appeared first on Source.

AI Shopping Metrics Considered

Successful AI shopping assistance is measured by the quality of buying decisions, not how much time customers spend interacting with the tool. The post AI Shopping Metrics Considered appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

How a three-person hiring startup built its go-to-market engine before the rush

Chris Fairley founded the hiring platform Vetano in early 2025. After a particularly challenging job-hunting experience, Chris found that a strong resume was no longer enough. Resumes get about seven seconds of attention, according to Ladde

How a recruiting agency uses Claude and Zapier MCP to find the candidates who aren't looking

Curtis Key has been building automation for about 20 years, first with basic code and scripts, then in Salesforce at a real estate brokerage that grew from 8 to 105 agents. But when hiring became the brokerage's hardest problem, he founded

We gave AI agents a mobile dev environment

We built Remote Dev so AI agents can build and test apps in parallel, without maxing out developers’ laptops.

Engineer AI Into the Decision: Optimization, Intelligence, and Autonomy

The logistics AI discussion is moving past the question of whether the technology works. The more important question is where the intelligence belongs, what decision it is supposed to improve, and how much authority the system should have w