2026-07-15
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid t [...]
2026-07-15
Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026
The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn't better benchmarks.Silverthorn, who joined Amazon through its acquisition of Adept AI and now l [...]
2026-07-15
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from across the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services
Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars. The increases apply only to new sign-ups, meaning existing subscribers will keep their current […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]
2026-07-15
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
"Players using CryoTherm Palm felt 60% cooler, held 2.45% higher speeds and preserved sprint velocity 4.7% better" — I asked Therabody's Chief Science Officer how England's World Cup squad is using a new cooling device to combat heat and boost performanc
Therabody's Chief Science Officer tells us about the high-tech cooling gadgets his company supplied to England's World Cup squad — which work by cooling the user's palms. [...]