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Why it matters: Function calling in LLMs, explained clearly: how models call tools, why strict schemas hit 100% reliability, and the security risks you cannot ignore.

Why it matters: LangGraph vs CrewAI vs AutoGen compared on control, pricing, benchmarks, and 2026 roadmaps, with a selector to pick the right AI agent framework.

In a field where patience is required, a new system pushes us a little nearer to live-streamed human simulation without frustrating rendering rounds. The state-of-the-art in full-length human simulation has come a long way since the possibility of full-body deepfakes first appeared in 2022. By now we have become habituated to the formidable and often-controversial…

Microsoft is combining its consumer Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single application that handles both personal and work accounts, with a worldwide rollout for mobile and web versions beginning in mid-August 2026. The consolidation, detailed in an update posted to Microsoft’s support documentation, is the first structural step toward the…

Hippocratic AI announced on August 13, 2026 that it is shipping Agentic Orchestrators, a product line that packages its healthcare voice AI agents into coordinated teams aimed at clinical and business outcomes rather than individual tasks. The Menlo Park company is launching more than 30 orchestrators spanning payers, providers, and life sciences customers, according to…

When the earth shakes, the clock starts ticking. For first responders in urban environments following an earthquake, the first minutes and hours are crucial for locating survivors and assessing damage. Following a pair of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, emergency technology high above the earth snapped into action…

For most of the history of software, the expensive bit was building it. Teams spent months turning ideas into working code, and that scarcity shaped everything about how the work got organized. Roadmaps got sequenced around whatever engineering capacity was available; architects earned their seat at the table because they understood systems nobody else did;…

Open pretty much any marketing technology vendor’s homepage today, and you will find the same three words somewhere above the fold: “powered by AI.” It has become such a universal claim that it has stopped meaning much of anything. Gartner has started calling the practice “agent washing” – repackaging conventional rule-based automation as autonomous agents…

Hospitals did not adopt artificial intelligence in a single, deliberate moment. It arrived in pieces: an imaging algorithm, a documentation assistant, a staffing forecast, a patient-message generator, a denial prediction model, a scheduling tool. Each product entered through a different department, answered a different need, and was evaluated against a different budget. That fragmented path…

IBM announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI on August 13, 2026, that embeds OpenAI’s frontier models, including GPT-5.6, and products such as Codex and ChatGPT Work directly into IBM Consulting Advantage, the delivery platform its consultants use on client engagements. The deal pairs the deepest enterprise distribution channel in the consulting business with the industry’s…