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DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs

DeepSeek makes its AI inference engine open source.

Students protest at State House, call for AI regulation

Students rallied at the State House to push lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence and address its risks.

AI agents drive up telemetry costs, complicate network observability

Chicago startup Elanor Labs closes $1.1M round with AI-powered sales grading tool

Chicago founder Elan Yudkowsky just closed an oversubscribed $1.1 million round for Elanor Labs — a startup that grades sales reps like credit scores. Here's how he got the idea off the ground for "probably 1/25 of what it would have cost three years ago.

AI-powered personal assistants could reshape the digital economy

Cisco Splunk research finds more than half of organizations spend more on observability than on the infrastructure being monitored, as AI agents add cost and complexity. The company’s State of Observability 2026 report found that 57% of organizations have observability costs that exceed the cost of the infrastructure being monitored. Another 60% said unexpected billing spikes create more operational strain than consistently high costs, and 55% cannot accurately control their AI expenses.

IRONSCALES Report Finds AI Agents Are Becoming a New Target for Phishing

A phishing message no longer needs to persuade the employee who owns an inbox. It can target the software reading that inbox on their behalf. That is the central warning of IRONSCALES' new From Deepfakes to Double

RBC weighs blocking Meta's AI agent from accessing customer accounts

McKay said RBC must balance customer needs with privacy and security risks before deciding whether to restrict AI agents. His comments follow moves by the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab to block or limit outside agents' access to customer data.

Nvidia Faces a New Threat as Amazon Targets Its Biggest AI Advantage

Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN is working to reduce a key barrier to using its artificial intelligence chips by introducing software that lets developers transfer existing code to its processors with minimal changes.The new TorchNeuron system enables PyTorch-based applications to run on Amazon's Trainium chips…

IBM-Backed llm-d 1.0 Adds Controls for AI Inference Workloads

Enterprise technology provider IBM NYSE:IBM advanced to $238.95, up approximately 1.08%, at 11:52 a.m. ET on October 20 as investors weighed the release of llm-d 1.0. The open-source project aims to make running AI models at scale more efficient and reliable. For shareholders, the opportunity comes…

Real unveils Leo Pro AI platform, agent-to-agent referral tools