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Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers

While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away — whether on vacation or in a different time zone — the rest of the team must delay progress until that person…

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ServiceNow AI Research Releases DRBench, a Realistic Enterprise Deep-Research Benchmark

ServiceNow Research has released DRBench, a benchmark and runnable environment to evaluate “deep research” agents on open-ended enterprise tasks that require synthesizing facts from both public web and private organizational data into properly cited reports. Unlike web-only testbeds, DRBench stages heterogeneous, enterprise-style workflows—files, emails, chat logs, and cloud storage—so agents must retrieve, filter, and attribute…

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7 LLM Generation Parameters—What They Do and How to Tune Them?

Tuning LLM outputs is largely a decoding problem: you shape the model’s next-token distribution with a handful of sampling controls—max tokens (caps response length under the model’s context limit), temperature (logit scaling for more/less randomness), top-p/nucleus and top-k (truncate the candidate set by probability mass or rank), frequency and presence penalties (discourage repetition or encourage…

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Razorpay, NPCI, and OpenAI partner to launch AI-powered UPI payments on ChatGPT

Razorpay, NPCI, and OpenAI have joined forces to introduce “Agentic Payments” – a groundbreaking initiative that integrates AI-powered commerce with India’s UPI payment network. The pilot aims to allow users to discover products, compare prices, and make secure UPI payments – all within the ChatGPT interface through natural, conversational interactions. The feature enables users to…

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Telegram rolls out Video Call Live Comments, Contact Notes, AI Bot Enhancements, and more

Telegram has rolled out a new update packed with features designed to improve communication, contact organization, and overall app personalization. The latest version (v12.1 and above) introduces interactive tools for group calls, new AI bot capabilities, contact management upgrades, a redesigned gift system, and visual improvements for iOS users. Live Comments and Reactions in Group…

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vivo unveils OriginOS 6 based on Android 16

vivo has announced OriginOS 6, its next-generation operating system based on Android 16, in China. The new version focuses on a redesigned interface, improved performance, advanced AI capabilities, and enhanced security across the ecosystem. Redesigned Interface and Visuals OriginOS 6 debuts the “Light and Shadow Space” design language, inspired by natural light and depth to…

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