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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeaways Fable 5 accelerates AI’s success rate on remote tasks to 16%. AI capabilities remain all over the map.Still, agent skills have “quadrupled in under eight months,” said CAIS. After a brief hiatus, Anthropic’s lauded Fable 5 model is back, and it’s resetting the bar for automating work. The US government re-authorized the model — which Anthropic said shares capability similarities with Mythos 5, still only available for select organizations’ use — on June 30. But before it was pulled, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) tested Fable 5 on its Remote…

  # Introduction  Agentic AI frameworks are no longer just wrappers around a large language model (LLM) and a few tools. The better options now help developers manage things like state, memory, tool usage, evaluations, and deployment without having to build everything from scratch. TBH, there is no single best framework for every project. Some frameworks give you explicit control over agent workflows, while others help you ship a working prototype with much less code. I have spent a lot of time researching the latest agentic AI frameworks, reading GitHub discussions and Reddit threads, and I have personally worked with a…

Most crypto investors still obsess over price charts. But in 2026, a growing share of attention is shifting back to improving the fundamentals of the protocols. Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche are preparing some of their largest protocol upgrades in years, while Coinbase’s Base network rolled out its Beryl hard fork last Friday in a bid to streamline the network, with a native token standard and shorter withdrawal windows.Bitcoin development however, remains frozen, with developers still arguing over controversial covenant proposals and post-quantum computing upgrades.Tim Sun, a senior researcher at Hong Kong-based asset manager HashKey Group, told Cointelegraph that protocol upgrades…

Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access. “Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through use of legitimate Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tooling, credential access, and hands-on-keyboard procedures used for lateral movement,” Arctic Wolf said in a report published this week. “Anubis affiliates repeatedly abused legitimate remote access and administration tools, including ScreenConnect, Zoho Assist, MeshAgent, Remotely, UltraVNC, and Total Software Deployment, to blend in with normal IT activity while maintaining control of victim systems.” Anubis is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group…

Search drives most experiences on the web. It’s how we get things done, and how nearly everything on the web gets found — the creators, the merchants, the answer to whatever you just typed into a box. For nearly 30 years, that discovery journey ran on a simple bargain: let a search engine crawl your content, and it sends you visitors. You turned those visitors into a business — through ads, subscriptions, or just the audience itself. Being discoverable and getting paid were the same thing. A year ago, on the first Content Independence Day, we drew a line to…

By Juha Laurila, Director, Licensing, Nokia IoT devices are now integrated into most connected households. Whether in the form of smart speakers, lighting systems, or home security devices, IoT has become embedded in modern households across the world. This adoption has seen the number of connected devices grow at an exponential rate. The number of connected IoT devices is expected to reach around 39 billion by 2030, and over 50 billion by 2035, reflecting a shift from standalone devices to distributed sensing across homes, cities, and industries. And this growth, alongside enhanced reliability, is seeing IoT move beyond household convenience…

Walk the floor of any active facility today and you see the same stress points. The machines are faster. The placement heads are more precise. But getting a product from a schematic to a boxed unit on a pallet is harder than it was ten years ago. We are dealing with parts that look like specks of dust, supply chains that break if someone sneezes in the wrong time zone, and clients who expect prototypes turned around in days. The physics of putting copper and silicon on a fiberglass board haven’t changed. The business of doing it profitably has entirely…

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research.Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientists to converse directly with digital agents using natural language to execute end-to-end research workflows. This system connects natively to the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, exposing high-performance computing resources as callable skills within the Claude environment.NVIDIA has established what most would consider to be the world’s most comprehensive GPU-accelerated computing stack containing physical hardware, software frameworks, operational libraries, scientific models, microservices, and domain-specific tools. This hardware…

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Terry Gerton Certainly one of the topics that a lot of people are concerned about as they age is a loss of hearing. And there are advanced hearing aids, implants, but still it’s tough in noisy environments. ARPA-H has just rolled out a new program called the Hearing Enhancement Through Artificially Intelligent Neurotechnology — you guys get an A+ for acronyms — the HEARING Program. Tell me about what the HEARING Program is and what problem it’s trying to solve that current hearing aids can’t really address. Calvin Roberts So as you said, hearing [loss] is ubiquitous among older people.…