• Author: Olga Zharuk, CPO, Teqblaze When it comes to applying AI in programmatic, two things matter most: performance and data security. I’ve seen too many internal security audits flag third-party AI services as exposure points. Granting third-party AI agents access to proprietary bidstream data introduces unnecessary exposure that many organisations are no longer willing to…

  • In a sea of agents, AWS bets on structured adherence and spec fidelity

    Despite new methods emerging, enterprises continue to turn to autonomous coding agents and code generation platforms. The competition to keep developers working on their platforms, coming from tech companies, has also heated up. AWS thinks its offering, Kiro, and new capabilities to ensure behavioral adherence set up a large differentiator in the increasingly crowded coding…

  • From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later

    When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a must-have infrastructure layer for the gen AI era. Billions of venture dollars flowed, developers rushed to integrate embeddings into…

  • Human-centric IAM is failing: Agentic AI requires a new identity control plane

    The race to deploy agentic AI is on. Across the enterprise, systems that can plan, take actions and collaborate across business applications promise unprecedented efficiency. But in the rush to automate, a critical component is being overlooked: Scalable security. We are building a workforce of digital employees without giving them a secure way to log…

  • Baidu ERNIE multimodal AI beats GPT and Gemini in benchmarks

    Baidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models. For many businesses, valuable insights are locked in engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. Baidu’s new model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is designed to fill this gap. What’s interesting…

  • Asia Pacific pilots set for 2026

    When Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. …

  • Anthropic details cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI

    Security leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected…

  • OpenAI experiment finds that sparse models could give AI builders the tools to debug neural networks

    OpenAI researchers are experimenting with a new approach to designing neural networks, with the aim of making AI models easier to understand, debug, and govern. Sparse models can provide enterprises with a better understanding of how these models make decisions.  Understanding how models choose to respond, a big selling point of reasoning models for enterprises,…

  • Google’s new AI training method helps small models tackle complex reasoning

    Researchers at Google Cloud and UCLA have proposed a new reinforcement learning framework that significantly improves the ability of language models to learn very challenging multi-step reasoning tasks. Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) reformulates problem-solving as a sequence of logical “actions,” providing rich learning signals during the training process. This approach enables smaller models to learn…

  • Alembic melted GPUs chasing causal A.I. — now it's running one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

    Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive advantage in artificial intelligence will come not from better language models but from proprietary data and causal reasoning. The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI systems that identify…