7 Local LLM Families to Replace GPT-5.4/Codex for Everyday Tasks

by Adi Insights and Innovations — Frontier API bills are real. These 7 families now handle most of what you’re burning Codex credits on — and they run on hardware you…

Towards AI·4h ago

Escaping the SQL Jungle

by Mike Huls — Most data platforms don’t break overnight; they grow into complexity, query by query. Over time, business logic spreads across SQL scripts, dashboards, and scheduled jobs until the system becomes a...

Towards Data Science·3d ago

v2.1.79

What's changed Added --console flag to claude auth login for Anthropic Console (API billing) authentication Added "Show turn duration" toggle to the /config menu Fixed claude -p hanging when spawned...

Claude Code Releases·5d ago

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

We are pleased to announce Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15 billion parameter open‑weight multimodal reasoning model, available through Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), HuggingFace (opens in new...

Microsoft Research·Mar 4

Horizon 1000: Advancing AI for primary healthcare

OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot advancing AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028.

OpenAI·Jan 20

Update on the OpenAI Foundation

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.

OpenAI·9h ago

The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead,...

MIT Tech Review·1d ago

'Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat' Almost Makes Corporate Culture Seem Fun

The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.

Wired AI·3d ago

Kick off Nova customization experiments using Nova Forge SDK

In this post, we walk you through the process of using the Nova Forge SDK to train an Amazon Nova model using Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs.

AWS ML Blog·6d ago

openclaw 2026.2.2

Changes Feishu: add Feishu/Lark plugin support + docs. (#7313) Thanks @jiulingyun (openclaw-cn). Web UI: add Agents dashboard for managing agent files, tools, skills, models, channels, and cron jobs....

OpenClaw Releases·Feb 4

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent...

VentureBeat AI·Jan 16

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

TechCrunch AI·2d ago

Agentic RAG Failure Modes: Retrieval Thrash, Tool Storms, and Context Bloat (and How to Spot Them Early)

by Mostafa Ibrahim — Why agentic RAG systems fail silently in production and how to detect them before your cloud bill does The post Agentic RAG Failure Modes: Retrieval Thrash, Tool Storms, and Context Bloat (and How to...

Towards Data Science·4d ago

Using Simulation to Build Robotic Systems for Hospital Automation

Healthcare faces a structural demand–capacity crisis: a projected global shortfall of ~10 million clinicians by 2030, billions of diagnostic exams annually... Source

NVIDIA Developer·Mar 16

clawdbot 2026.1.21

Highlights Lobster optional plugin tool for typed workflows + approval gates. docs Custom assistant identity + avatars in the Control UI. docs docs Cache optimizations: cache-ttl pruning + defaults...

OpenClaw Releases·Jan 22

Expert reveals 11 AI-proof jobs that will keep you in demand for decades

UNILAD·Jan 16