DeepLearning.AI launches course on evaluating agentic applications

A designer with no coding background spent two months building SOLARIA, a browser model of the Solar System and Milky Way using NASA JPL positional data. It supports slicing planets open, splitting their light into a spectrum, narrated tours, and zooming out to the galaxy.

The Audio Intelligence features arrived in the first developer betas of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3 for Apple Watch Series 12, alongside sound and song detection. Live Rewind replays the past 15 seconds of audio; Apple processes on-device where possible and redacts ID and account numbers.

AWS's post walks through how Deep Insight structures context across four layers in working code, aimed at agents doing data analysis and report generation. It notes a 200K-token window can be consumed in minutes on real tasks, leaving agents failing.

Embed 5 returns Matryoshka vectors at six sizes, 2048 by default, with 1,024-dim int8 flagged as the best quality-to-cost point. Embed 5 Pro and Fast share one embedding space, and Rerank 5 scores are calibrated so a single relevance threshold works across queries and domains.

Ai2 is developing NeuralGCM+, an open-source model extending Google Research's NeuralGCM to simulate atmosphere and ocean together, backed by three-year funding from Google.org. Focus shifts from weeks-to-months forecasts to decade-scale trends like mid-century water availability in the southwestern US.

Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) via Amazon Bedrock, giving approved customers access to GPT-5.6 Cyber for authorized cybersecurity work.