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Ai4 2026 Opens in Las Vegas With a Keynote Debate on AI Risk and Alignment
America's largest AI conference opens today at The Venetian with 12,000 attendees, 1,000 speakers, and four headline themes covering Agentic AI, AI Alignment, frontier models, and societal implications. The opening session features a rare joint stage appearance by three of the field's most prominent voices holding opposing views on whether AI poses an existential threat.
read →CrowdStrike Warns AI Systems Are Now a Direct Target as Attackers Turn to LLMjacking
CrowdStrike mid-year threat report finds AI model access now makes up 16 percent of observed attack techniques, including one LLMjacking incident that fired nearly 200,000 API requests in a two minute flood, while attackers weaponized public exploits within 48 hours in 88 percent of cases.
read →White House Finalizes Its Frontier Model Testing Framework but Keeps the Contents Classified
The administration completed its voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models on deadline and will walk OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google through a draft this week, though it has not disclosed the benchmarks or thresholds, which remain classified.
read →June Emerges From Stealth With $20 Million to Fix Enterprise AI Agent Deployment
Founded by former Salesforce AI leaders and backed by Marc Benioff Time Ventures, June scans a company existing systems to map processes and automatically build agent-powered workflows that replace the bottlenecks, targeting the gap between agent pilots and production.
read →Hermes Agent v0.20.0 Ships Agent-to-Agent Protocol, Streaming Voice, and Self-Recovering Tools
The Herald Release introduces A2A v1.0, letting Hermes discover and communicate with compatible agents, plus streaming conversational voice with barge-in interrupts, grounded research citations, and tools that diagnose and repair their own failures. Cold startup drops from 14 seconds to under 2 seconds across 3,650 commits from 647 contributors.
read →US States Move to Repeal Data Center Tax Breaks, Threatening to Raise AI Compute Costs
The Information reports that governors and legislatures in states that once courted data centers are now rolling back sales tax exemptions, a shift that could add roughly 7 percent to equipment costs and reshape where enterprises build AI capacity.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
03 / Latest project
MomMe, a lifestyle community, web & iOS
A full lifestyle community platform, web portal and native iOS app, taken end to end, with an AI moderation flow keeping the community safe at scale.
- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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