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The Verge Tech

Apple Maps has ads now

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the ads began rolling out this week, and more users in the US and Canada will start seeing them over the next few weeks. They're marked with a blue "ad" icon, similar to the ads Google'

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AWS Architecture Blog

Closing the AI agent trust gap with graduated autonomy

Most teams give AI agents either full access or read-only, leaving value unused or risk unmanaged. This post describes graduated autonomy, an architectural pattern in which agents earn expanded permissions through sustained reliability and lose them when performance degrades, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS CodePipeline.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreThought Leadership
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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B Model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s... Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 176B total parameters, including 51B N-gram embedding parameters, and activates 6B parameters per token. It has a native 262,144-t

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