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Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of…
MIT Technology Review ·A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different?
Campaigns for social media and AI safety for kids are both playing out on legal and legislative fronts. The post A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different? appeared first on Boston.com .
Boston.com Technology ·Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without…
MIT Technology Review ·From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer…
NVIDIA ·Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter…
Crunchbase News ·Issue spotlight: North Dakota US House candidates discuss AI regulation, data centers
North Dakota’s Republican and Democratic U.S. House candidates agree artificial intelligence is powerful and in need of guardrails, but they differ on the level of accountability for AI products and their parent companies. Republican…
North Dakota Monitor ·Can AI agents produce real news reporting in Rhode Island? A human journalist has some thoughts.
Since July, a Rhode Island news site has been publishing stories by authors that don’t exist. Kelly Lockhart, a housing reporter for Uprise RI, wrote about the widening gap between earnings and housing costs in the Ocean State.…
Rhode Island Current ·People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my…
MIT Technology Review ·EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the…
MIT Technology Review ·Will Kids Pay the Price for AI Panic?
A backlash against classroom AI is sweeping public schools. But as New Mexico shows, blanket bans risk robbing students of early literacy interventions.
EdSurge ·Artificial intelligence in the classroom
A considered approach to AI is necessary if we want teachers to make classroom-level decision rooted in student learning, three Central Washington University experts say.
Washington State Standard ·The AI data center push has roiled Kansas politics. It may also define the race for governor.
Cindy Holscher has something she would like you to know. She changed her mind on data centers because she listens. “The subject was coming up over and over again,” she said of the 80 or so town halls she held in the last 12 months across…
Kansas Reflector ·How Vermont is leveraging AI across government, one ‘power tool’ at a time
Josiah Raiche, Vermont’s chief data and AI officer, told StateScoop that rather than allowing AI to replace state employees, his strategy aims to free them from “drudgery.”
StateScoop ·NC election experts warn about voter trust as AI makes political misinformation easier to create
SALISBURY — Artificial intelligence is making it easier to create realistic political images, videos and audio, leaving voters with a new question as they head toward the midterm elections: How do they know what they are seeing is real?…
NC Newsline ·Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to…
MIT Technology Review ·The latest AI news we announced in September 2026
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Google AI ·NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month,…
NVIDIA ·NJ lawmaker wants to blunt impacts of AI in the workplace
Sen. Andrew Zwicker is behind a bill that would retrict when employers can use algorithms, models, computations, and other such tools.
New Jersey Monitor ·AI companies could learn safety lessons from the history of nuclear weapons
An AI model built by US tech company OpenAI has hacked into the Australian government healthcare portal, Medicare. The news, which emerged on Sept. 23, follows a string of similar incidents reported over the summer by OpenAI and its main…
Arkansas Advocate ·‘Super intelligence,’ featuring Speaker Mike Johnson, adds to worries over potential AI disaster
President Donald Trump’s attempt to rebrand artificial intelligence and place himself in lockstep with the industry’s leaders this week are the latest examples of how the administration has taken a hands-off regulatory approach to the…
Louisiana Illuminator ·As AI political deepfake advertisements go viral, state lawmakers struggle to keep up
Imagine watching a political campaign video in which a candidate admits to taking a bribe. You recognize the face and voice. But the confession is entirely fabricated, thanks to artificial intelligence. Now imagine that your state has…
Kansas Reflector ·Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some…
MIT Technology Review ·How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the…
NVIDIA ·New Mexico attorney general and state lawmaker announce push to rein in rogue AI models
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and state Rep. Linda Serrato (D-Santa Fe) on Thursday announced that they will push a bill this legislative session that aims to rein in advanced artificial intelligence systems, an effort they…
Source NM ·Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment
AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit capital on that scale with a clear view of the return on investment. Three key things…
NVIDIA ·Nvidia program on pause year into deal with Oregon to get AI education in schools, colleges
Computer chip company Nvidia paused its AI ambassador program that, in an agreement with Oregon, was meant to promote AI lessons in schools, college campuses.
Oregon Capital Chronicle ·Put the AI servers within sanctuaries
This summer, while University of Michigan leadership defended a proposed data center with Los Alamos National Laboratory, my family gathered for my late sister Rachana’s birthday at a different kind of infrastructure. Decades ago, my…
Michigan Advance ·Barrett pushes for international AI agreement as health professionals back Doctors Not AI Act
As the U.N. General Assembly concludes its High-Level Week meetings and discussions, U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett is calling on officials to work towards an agreement with other nations regarding AI development. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of…
Michigan Advance ·How will AI reshape life in New Hampshire? There are no real words.
On Monday, the Concord Monitor published an opinion article by Republican state Sen. Dan Innis about the rising opposition to data centers in New Hampshire — even when they are cleverly marketed as “server farms” or “innovation hubs.” It’s…
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