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Amazon is putting more guardrails around AI coding after AWS outages.

Amazon’s eCommerce SVP, Dave Treadwell, called an all-hands meeting on Tuesday to address recent outages linked to AI coding agent errors, the Financial Times reports. That includes more oversight around AI coding, with Treadwell announcing that “junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off on any AI-assisted changes.”

Why HP is Sourcing AI DRAM Chips from China

HP is making smart procurement decisions to mitigate risk, diversifying DRAM chip sourcing from China as prices hike due to unprecedented AI demand

Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legaltech boom endures

Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D led by Accel to fuel its growth in the U.S.

Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts

Meta says that Moltbook's approach to "connecting agents through an always-on-directory" is novel.

Google and Tesla are working together to make power grids more efficient.

They joined a new initiative called Utilize that aims to use strategies like battery storage and virtual power plants to make more use of the electrons already available to the grid. It’s a plan that’s supposed to make electricity more affordable as opposition grows to data centers blamed for higher utility bills.

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists

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How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time

Niantic's AI spinout is using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players to train a new world model.

Thinking Machines Lab is partnering with Nvidia.

The AI startup, founded by ex-OpenAI executive Mira Murati, will team up with Nvidia on a “long-term gigawatt scale strategic partnership” to power TML’s AI model training. The news comes after multiple founding members of the startup left for OpenAI at the same time earlier this year.

Qevlar AI: Can Autonomous AI Handle SOCs?

Qevlar AI has secured US$30m worth of funding to support its proactive, autonomous AI SOC platform which improves enterprise security posture

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Adobe is debuting an AI assistant for Photoshop

Adobe is also adding new AI-powered image editing features to Firefly.

Executive Briefing: When Each Person Produces $2M a Year, the Sixth Team Member Costs Millions in Lost Productivity

Your meetings aren’t the problem. Your team sizes are. And the math just changed in a way most leaders haven’t caught up to yet.