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Traditional automation is no match for today's complexity. Agentic workflows [5]—autonomous, goal-driven agents collaborating to achieve business goals—require more than prompt engineering. They need a powerful workflow engine to orchestrate tasks, decisions, and outcomes at scale—with humans in the loop when it matters most. .
Amazon is building a 'humanoid park' to test robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers. The indoor obstacle course is about the size of a coffee shop. The company is developing artificial intelligence software that can power the robots. It will use hardware developed by other companies. Amazon is aiming for the robots to be able to travel in its Rivian vans and make deliveries from them.
Google has started tests of its AI Mode's new 'Search Live' experience, which lets users have real-time conversations with Google. The feature can answer questions while surfacing the sites used to inform the answer. It may ask clarifying questions to refine queries, and users can ask follow-up questions. The feature is currently rolling out to the Google app in Android and iOS.
Nucleus Genomics is a DNA testing and analysis company that plans to provide DNA testing for embryos to predict and reduce chronic diseases. It will analyze up to 20 embryos for $5,999, providing an analysis of up to 900 conditions. The embryos will be given probabilities for the likelihood they will get these chronic conditions and then it will be up to the parents to decide which embryos to use. Nucleus also provides possibility assessments for attributes such as IQ, height, and eye color.
Wing and Walmart have announced plans to roll out drone delivery to more than 100 Walmart stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, Tampa, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Walmart appears to be becoming confident in drone delivery - the expansion is a nearly five-fold increase in Wing's operations with the retailer. Wing is now decidedly out of the pilot and trial phase and scaling up its business.
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Delve ran 4 placements across 2 TLDR newsletters and brought in 66 leads, with a meaningful chunk from enterprise. The result: $1M in attributed pipeline and a 52x ROI.
The founders of Clearspace, a startup that builds tools to help people reduce their screen time, have released an API that makes iOS Screen Time accessible on the web. The API allows developers to build tools that leverage screen time data. Example use cases include apps that auto-report large deviations in screen time, show group visibility, and automatically complete tasks every time a limit is passed.
Claude Composer CLI is a wrapper for Claude Code that adds enhancements around automation, UX, and configuration. It automatically handles permission dialogues based on configurable rules and uses rulesets to define exactly which actions to allow automatically. Users can configure which tools Claude can use and stay informed without switching contexts through system notifications.
Google has released an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro. It will be generally available in the coming weeks. The model leads in coding across benchmarks like AIDER Polyglot and has top-tier performance on GPQA and Humanity's Last Exam. It has an Elo score of 1460 on LMArena and 1443 on WebDevArena.
AMC plans to use AI company Runway's technology to both generate marketing images and help pre-visualize shows that have yet to be produced. The AI production images could help showrunners figure out what would or wouldn't work on the air without the high cost of shooting the material or designing from scratch. They are not intended to be used in shows at this point. Other studios are also tinkering with AI models, but they are staying silent about it due to the early nature of the tech and the sensitivity of the issue with Hollywood guilds.
Speedometer 3, created collaboratively by Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and Mozilla, was designed to measure web responsiveness through several workloads like HTML parsing, JavaScript and JSON processing, pixel rendering, CSS application, and more.
Apple says that 90% of the billings and sales on its global App Store business did not involve paying Apple a commission.
The AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month.
SCIM (the System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard used by identity providers for communicating three kinds of changes to other software.
The new feature will display a callout box that shows when a post has been widely liked by users with differing opinions.
Layer is a screen designed to showcase digital art in the best quality possible.