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Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (Mistral AI)
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

Introducing Mistral OCR 3 | Mistral AI
Achieving a new frontier for both accuracy and efficiency in document processing.

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (SAM Audio) https://ai.meta.com/samaudio/

SAM Audio
With SAM Audio, you can use simple text prompts to accurately separate any sound from any audio or audio-visual source.

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent creativity)
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2026-02-17-introducing-dreamer/

RE: https://phpc.social/@preinheimer/116081169786071628
It's gonna be super fun to see the "market" react to AI companies introducing "surge pricing" for compute: Oh, you need to get this project done till Friday and all your staff …

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-evmbench/

Introducing #Markdown for #Agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/

Quick pod tip for #teachers #educators - The podcast click here has an episode called Introducing the homework machine that discuss #AI in

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0…

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

Introducing #Mistral 3
#LLM

Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/957c7438-b2e0-4605-a276-caa8a7ec363c

Decades into enriching webpages with semantic meaning, taxonomies, JSON-LD, etc... and 2026 is "why not plain text tho"
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/

Introducing Markdown for Agents
The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…

Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/aws-announces-new-capabilities-for-it…

AWS announces new capabilities for its AI agent builder | TechCrunch
AWS is introducing new capabilities for its AI agent-building platform, including memory and evaluation tools.

Introducing #Claude Opus 4.5
#LLM

Oh great... thanks Cardmarket 😔
"With the change to our Privacy Policy, we are introducing an AI-powered assistant."

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with "enhanced access" to Gemini 3 Pro and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/google-ai-plus-us/

Google AI Plus comes to US for $7.99, Google One 2 TB upgraded
After introducing the plan internationally in September, Google is bringing its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries, including the US. 

Senior Microsoft Product Manager Wendy Breiding discusses in this recent post how you can now customize your IDE to include agentic AI to your project that is focused on tasks related to a specific language or UI stack, in this case: C# and WinForms. The results have been positive when comparing these agents to previous more general approaches.
"Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert"

“The promise of AI for engineers is getting rid of engineers.
Tools like GitHub’s Copilot write code, specs, review, and create pull requests. They create and run tests, and do so in the background while the developers engage in more productive activities, such as meetings.”
From my latest blog on @…

How To Use LLM-Powered Coding Assistants Safely: Risks & Best Practices
Learn how to gain the productivity benefits of LLM-powered coding assistants without introducing technical debt or security risks. Discover real-world pitfalls, expert insights, and governance best practices from Xebia.

Uh, I'm seriously starting to wonder if I should start filing bugs to people "please move away from autobahn / txaio, it's turned into complete #AI #slop, with every release introducing major issues, and depending on it is plain dangerous."
#Python #NoAI #LLM

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣
The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉
WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛
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How To Use LLM-Powered Coding Assistants Safely: Risks & Best Practices
Learn how to gain the productivity benefits of LLM-powered coding assistants without introducing technical debt or security risks. Discover real-world pitfalls, expert insights, and governance best practices from Xebia.

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.