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Denodo expands AWS integrations to power agentic AI with governed enterprise data

Denodo announced new integrations with AWS — including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker Catalog and Amazon Quick — to give agentic AI governed, real-time access to hybrid and on-prem enterprise data. The SageMa

ComputerWeekly.com · May 24, 2026 · Business Adoption

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Kore.ai unveils AI-native platform for enterprise multiagent systems

Kore.ai launched the Agent Platform Artemis edition: an AI-native foundation for building, governing, and operating production multiagent systems. Core elements include Agent Blueprint Language (ABL), Arch (an agent arch

Help Net Security · May 24, 2026 · Agents

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California to explore possible subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing state agencies to explore subsidies for companies that retain workers rather than replace them with AI. The order calls for expanded retraining (customer s

SiliconANGLE · May 24, 2026 · Societal Impact

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Boiling the Frog: a multi-turn benchmark for agentic safety

Boiling the Frog introduces a stateful, multi-turn benchmark that tests whether tool-using office agents can be incrementally driven to unsafe final artifacts by initially benign edits that later introduce a risky reques

arXiv · May 24, 2026 · Prompt engineering

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Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Omni Flash, the first Gemini Omni model for conversational video generation and editing from mixed image/audio/video/text inputs. It’s rolling out to the Gemini app and Google Flow for Goo

The Next Web · May 24, 2026 · GenAI models

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AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure

Monitoring Analytics, PJM's federally mandated market monitor, reports a 75.5% jump in PJM wholesale electricity prices—from $77.78/MWh in Q1 2025 to $136.53/MWh in Q1 2026—linked to data-center demand. The watchdog crit

Tom's Hardware UK · May 24, 2026 · Environment

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Microsoft's MDASH AI found 16 critical Windows flaws before hackers could exploit them

Microsoft says its Multi-model Agentic Scanning Harness (MDASH) discovered 16 Windows vulnerabilities—patched on May 12—including four critical remote-code-execution flaws. Several were kernel-mode and reachable over the

Notebookcheck.net · May 24, 2026 · Security

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NIST aims for summer release of AI cyber guidelines

NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) plans to publish an AI-specific cybersecurity framework profile “sometime this summer,” issuing sequential draft control overlays for different AI system types: a pre

Nextgov · May 24, 2026 · Regulation

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Gov. Jared Polis signs new law rewriting Colorado AI regulations targeting discrimination

Gov. Jared Polis signed SB-189 on May 14, 2026, overhauling Colorado's AI law to require companies and agencies to notify job applicants, prospective students, and loan applicants when AI is used starting Jan. 1; allow r

The Denver Post · May 24, 2026 · Ethics

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Windows 11 policy lets admins block Chrome and Edge from auto-downloading a 4GB AI model

Microsoft added a Windows 11 registry policy, GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings, that lets admins block browsers from automatically downloading or reinstalling local foundational models (e.g., the ~4GB Gemini Nano weig

Windows Central · May 24, 2026 · Data governance

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Benchmarking scale-out AI fabrics with Cisco N9000 and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 NICs

Cisco and AMD published a validated scale-out AI fabric reference using Cisco N9364E-SG2 (N9000 family) switches, AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs and AMD Pensando Pollara 400G NICs. They benchmarked 2x2 and 4x2 Clos topologies

Cisco.com · May 24, 2026 · Hardware

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