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The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

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On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…

How AI Is Reshaping the Way Enterprises Build Software - With Tim Sears of HTEC

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Individual AI productivity gains are already here, but they are uneven, and they are not the main event. In this episode, Tim Sears, Chief AI Officer at HTEC, argues that the real transformation in software development will arrive when AI becomes a catalyst for teamwork rather than an enhancer of individual performance. The conversation examines why software development is the clearest...

Build an agent that writes its own tools

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The third post from Build Club, our weekly live build session. The companion GitHub repo can be found here, docs here and you can try the agent live in the hosted playground. Your agent framework is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is that every new external system your agent needs to talk to requires another... The post Build an agent that writes its own tools appeared first on...

Google Gemma 4 12B: Architecture, Benchmarks, Access, and Hands-on Guide for Developers 

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On June 3, 2026, Google introduced Gemma 4 12B Unified, an open-source multimodal model designed to understand text, images, audio, and video within a single architecture. It combines a 256K context window with an efficient, laptop-friendly design aimed at agentic workflows and local deployment. The release also raises interesting questions about Google’s broader AI strategy, […] The...

From entity resolution to industry solutions: How AI‑driven entity resolution is evolving on SAS Viya

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Explore how SAS AI-Driven Entity Resolution on SAS Viya combines no-code configuration, probabilistic matching, and industry-specific integrations to create trusted identities, improve data quality, and support critical decisions across sectors such as public services and financial crime prevention. The post From entity resolution to industry solutions: How AI‑driven entity resolution...

Reviving the promise of AI with RAG, data and agentic

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A quick search through headlines reveals a range of AI-related disappointments. Consider that 95% of GenAI pilots fail, according to MIT. Amazon’s Kiro agent recently sparked a 13-hour outage by deleting a production environment. And we can’t forget that the resource and energy strain from a new wave of AI [...] The post Reviving the promise of AI with RAG, data and agentic appeared...

How Industrial Service Leaders Are Closing the Knowledge Gap Before It's Too Late with Mike Hughes of Peak International Group

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The skilled labor crisis in industrial equipment service is not a future problem; it is eroding operational performance now, as retiring engineers take decades of institutional knowledge with them and incoming technicians cannot fill the gap at speed. In this episode, Mike Hughes, Group Service Director at Peak International Group, outlines how service organizations can close the expertise...

How to Choose the Right AI Model for Your Needs

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A few years ago, choosing an AI model was relatively simple. You probably didn’t even know the term AI model as ChatGPT was used synonymously with it. It was the obvious (and maybe the only) choice at the time.  But times have changed. ChatGPT is no longer the one-stop for AI models. Claude, Grok, Gemini, […] The post How to Choose the Right AI Model for Your Needs appeared first on...