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Dmytro Spodarets·Sep 14, 2026
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SIFT uses pairwise LLM judgments and asynchronous tree search to rank proposed coding-agent harness changes before assigning costly benchmark evaluations.

Google Research says Gboard has deployed a federated-learning system that lets outsiders verify which protected server workloads can process encrypted user data.

AWS has published a managed SageMaker AI workflow for training search agents across multi-step trajectories, reporting nDCG@10 gains on three of four held-out datasets but a small regression on FreshStack.

NetApp's Workload Factory AI agents start in read-only mode and need explicit approval before acting through selected AWS credentials.

Nscale named longtime Meta executive Justin Osofsky chief operating officer, giving him responsibility for global operations and eight organizational functions as the AI infrastructure company pursues expansion.

Meta has released open-source Muse Gadget SDK code and firmware for ESP32 boards and Linux devices, giving developers two ways to connect hardware to its Muse agent. Pairing still requires a separate token.

Amazon launched the five-year Built Together program for U.S. data-center communities while critics continued to press the company over energy, water and pollution.

Ai2 released open-weights AstaBrief 8B, two training datasets and workflow code for turning retrieved scientific literature into cited reports.