Microsoft and Hugging Face's ThinkingBox-Training, now on GitHub, uses the same executable database checks that grade agents as training rewards. In one run, Qwen3.8-27B's average success rose from 51.70% to 60.78% after 50 GRPO steps, and tasks it completed correctly on all twenty attempts rose from 38 to 107.
This is a follow-up to the team's first post on ThinkingBox, a benchmark that tests whether an agent's work actually changed the database it was supposed to change. In that earlier post, a model closed a customer's ticket as resolved while the carrier exception behind it was still...
Corsair has announced the SABRE v3 PRO PureVector Wireless Gaming Mouse series, six models built around PureVector, a Corsair-exclusive technology codeveloped with aim training platform Aimlabs. Corsair says PureVector is designed to significantly increase aiming speed and overall accuracy through personalized directional sensitivity. The pitch starts with a premise about DPI: one static value is an inherently flawed way to play, because every player's aim is unique and has directional biases from natural biomechanical variations or musculoskeletal differences. Swiping left uses different...
Google is updating AI Search so people can dive deeper into the web from their answers. The push comes as users turn to tools that give them more choice: the number of people who use Google's Preferred Sources feature has grown by more than 7x since the start of the year. The changes cover inline links, official web pages, news carousels, related-article links, and creator profiles.
Inline links are links embedded in words or phrases in an AI response, so they let you explore a topic at the moment you're reading about it. Google says it has made continued and substantial increases to their...
Tens of millions of small business owners already use Gemini to brainstorm products, manage customer feedback, and analyze business performance. Google is adding tools meant to give these entrepreneurs their time back so they can focus on their passion.
A central hub for small business owners
Google is introducing a business landing page where owners can streamline daily tasks. From this hub, they can build their brand, analyze finances, understand customer insights, and more. Gemini also connects to Google tools, including Google Business Profile, Google Ads, and Google Workspace, as well...
AMD and Intel are combining their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, an open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL). The collaboration gives developers a common software path for optimized AI workloads across AMD and Intel CPUs, which the companies say reduces fragmentation in the x86 AI ecosystem.
Following a recommendation from the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, the two companies have aligned on oneDNN as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration within PyTorch. AMD is integrating its ZenDNN optimizations into oneDNN and...
Anthropic is investing $100 million in Claude Frontier Academy to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. Cohorts from Accenture, Bain, CBA, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk are already underway. The effort addresses the enterprise AI talent gap, and the announcement pairs it with two smaller science programs.
Three Programs in One Announcement
The engineering academy is the largest of the three. It aims to build a pool of Frontier Deployed Engineers, with the goal of 10,000 trained by the end of 2027.
On the science side, Anthropic says that starting...
AMD is expanding support for FSR Upscaling 4.1, its machine learning-based upscaling technology, to a broad range of platforms. The technology reconstructs crisp, high-quality visuals from lower-resolution frames, and AMD says it delivers “a significant leap in image quality over AMD FSR™ 3.1.”
The rollout builds on earlier steps. AMD launched FSR 4 exclusively on Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs in 2025. In July 2026, it delivered FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs and promised arrival on more platforms. AMD says it has since further streamlined and optimized the...
A Wi-Fi dead zone is a part of your home where the signal is too weak to use, and the right fix depends on what's causing it and how your home is laid out. Dead zones show up as slow speeds, lag, and dropped calls in one or two rooms while the rest of your home works fine. Your video call freezes in the back bedroom, or a show buffers in the basement. Where your router sits is a common cause, so moving it is often a good, free first step.
Several causes often combine to create dead zones: router placement, distance, thick walls and floors, interference, and an outdated or provider-supplied...
Muse Spark Open is an open-weight model from Meta. It is a mixture-of-experts model that accepts text, images, audio, and video, with approximately 816 billion parameters, around 42 billion active per token, and a context window of up to one million tokens. It generates text, giving developers a common interface for asking questions about different kinds of input.
Following Muse Glimmer, Muse Spark Open introduces a mixture-of-experts architecture at a much larger scale, and it is the most capable US open-weights model to date.
Meta trained Muse Spark Open for agentic coding: reading a...
