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Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says

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Walmart CEO John Furner is pushing back on concerns that the retail giant could use digital shelf labels to employ dynamic pricing. Walmart CEO John Furner is pushing back on concerns that the retail giant could use digital shelf labels to employ dynamic pricing. Walmart says it won’t change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In a letter to customers, Walmart CEO John Furner writes that the

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:44 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

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US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified. OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions during a routine research task during training. OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed…

Ars Technica AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:43 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1

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Voice agents, interactive learning applications, accessibility tools, and customer service assistants need to respond without long silent pauses. In this tutorial, you deploy a text-to-speech (TTS) model on Amazon SageMaker AI that can start playing speech before it finishes generating the full response. You use the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC) to deploy Qwen3-TTS, stream text in and audio out over one persistent bidirectional connection, and try the workflow through a Gradio application. AWS Deep Learning Containers provide Docker images with deep learning frameworks and dependencies for training and…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2

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In this post, you turn a text prompt into an image, then animate that image into a short video on Amazon SageMaker AI. You deploy two endpoints from the same AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC): a real-time endpoint for FLUX.2-klein-4B image generation and an asynchronous endpoint for Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B video generation. The workflow sends a text prompt to generate a still image, then passes the image and a motion prompt to the video endpoint. It retrieves the MP4 from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an optional Streamlit…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Healthcare

Implementing synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act

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Synthetic monitoring emulates real user journeys through automated transactions. Rather than waiting for customers to encounter problems, teams continuously validate critical workflows (logins, purchases, form submissions) on a scheduled basis. With this approach, you detect problems faster when performance degrades or UI interactions break. For customer-facing businesses, especially in ecommerce, synthetic monitoring safeguards interactions that matter most. Organizations validate that product search works correctly, pricing and inventory display as expected, cart operations succeed, and checkout confirmations complete without error. Continuous testing identifies problems before customers encounter them. The same approach…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:56 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Automating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts

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Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and structured data from scanned documents. Organizations use Amazon Textract to automate document processing workflows such as invoice processing, mortgage application intake, insurance claim handling, and identity verification, eliminating manual data entry and accelerating downstream decision-making. Amazon Textract Custom Queries adapters extend this capability so you can fine-tune extraction for your specific document types, improving accuracy on forms with unique layouts or domain-specific terminology. For more information, see the Amazon Textract Custom Queries…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:49 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they tried and abandoned. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, leaders from Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay will come together on the AI Stage for “What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude.” The conversation will bring two sides…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

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When the call came, Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather believed he was talking to his brother. The voice on the other end of the line said he’d been kidnapped and that the only way to get him back was to pay a ransom. Her grandfather paid, only to learn later that his brother had been somewhere else entirely, with no clue any of it was happening. The voice, it turned out, was a deepfake, an AI-generated imitation. “What stayed with me wasn’t the money,” Padmanabhuni says of the incident. “It was that…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200 carefully selected startups will gather at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to exhibit, meet investors, and compete for one of the most coveted opportunities in the startup world. Only a select group will advance to the live competition, where they’ll pitch in front…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite

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Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries. The funding follows a popular trend among investors in the growing voice AI industry: backing companies that are trying to make AI voices sound more human. It also rivals other companies trying to detect the intent behind human conversation by analyzing it, and those trying to protect people and…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:05 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes

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Mike Cannon-Brookes on AI in the enterprise, Atlassian’s new org chart, and why chatbots aren’t the future of work. Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to happen. As you’ll hear Mike say, all of Atlassian’s products are actually different expressions of a…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:01 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Coding & Development

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe

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Here's how each got to where it is, a real use case and working code for both, and a side-by-side on the numbers that actually matter.

KDnuggets · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗