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NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK Ships for On-Device AI NPCs in Unreal Engine 5
NVIDIA released the ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 plugins for speech, language, and text-to-speech, letting game developers build responsive AI companions that run locally on RTX hardware without cloud latency.
Build a transaction foundation model, lift fraud detection 42%
NVIDIA's new tutorial shows how to pretrain a transformer on billions of transactions, then extract embeddings that boost fraud AP by 41.76% over hand-engineered features. End-to-end code and checkpoint included.
NVIDIA XR AI Beta Lets You Build Voice-First Agents for AR Glasses
NVIDIA released XR AI in public beta, a toolkit for building intelligent agents that see, listen, and access enterprise tools on AR/XR devices. Clone the repo, stream camera and audio, and deploy your first multimodal agent in six steps.
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork GA: 30-40% cheaper than Claude per task
Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork worldwide today with usage-based billing, cost controls, and nine new plugins. More than half the Fortune 500 is already using it. Here's what the pricing model actually costs.
GLM-5.2 Hits 1M Tokens for Coding Agents, Trails Claude 4.8 by 1%
ZhipuAI's new GLM-5.2 sustains 1M-token context with IndexShare architecture cutting per-token compute by 2.9×. On FrontierSWE benchmark, it matches GPT-5.5 and beats older Claude versions—but lags Opus 4.8 by just 1%.
Run robot policies from Hugging Face Hub straight to hardware
AWS Strands Robots SDK now glues LeRobot datasets, simulation, and hardware into one agent loop. Record demos, train, test in MuJoCo, deploy to physical robots—all in the same format, no format conversion needed.
UK Councils Get AI Tool to Cut Planning Decision Time by 50%
Google DeepMind and the UK government are testing an AI prototype that extracts data from planning documents and drafts assessments, aiming to halve the time officers spend on applications by 2027.
The 'Le Chaton Fat' meme techies can't stop talking about
A viral meme has captured the tech world's attention. Here's what it means, why engineers are obsessed, and what it signals about AI culture right now.
xAI releases Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with faster rendering and better audio
Elon Musk's xAI unveiled Grok Imagine Video 1.5, claiming improvements to video generation speed, audio quality, and physics simulation. Details on benchmarks and availability remain sparse.
SoftBank and OpenAI Partner on AI Security Product for Unknown Threats
SoftBank has launched a new AI security product in partnership with OpenAI designed to defend against cyber threats that don't yet have known signatures or patterns. Details on capabilities and availability remain limited.
OpenAI Adds Simulated Tool Calls to Pre-Deployment Risk Tests for Agent Code
OpenAI expanded its deployment simulation framework to test agentic coding systems before launch. The tool runs simulated interactions to catch risks in code-writing agents.
OpenAI Adds Ad Targeting and First-Party Audience Data Upload
OpenAI is extending its advertising platform with audience segmentation tools and the ability for advertisers to upload their own customer data. Here's what the tools do and who gets access first.