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title: "AI"
description: "491 posts about AI, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# AI
> 491 posts about AI, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-fable-5-and-claude-mythos-5.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are presented as a joint launch of the same underlying model, with Fable 5 intended for general use and Mythos 5 initially reserved for selected cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers. Fable 5 uses conservative safeguards that route some sensitive queries to Claude Opus 4.8, while Mythos 5 lifts safeguards in selected areas through Project Glasswing and a planned trusted-access program. The post reports strong results in software engineering, knowledge work, vision, long-context tasks, cybersecurity, protein design, molecular biology, and genomics, including a reported 50-million-line Ruby migration completed in a day. Both models are priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with Fable 5 available through the Claude API and staged subscription access.


### [How to measure the customer experience as AI scales](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-to-measure-the-customer-experience-as-ai-scales.md)
- Company: [Intercom](https://yomu.fyi/company/intercom.md)
- Author: William Lane
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Explainer

CSAT captures fewer than 10% of conversations, and its responses skew toward delighted or furious customers. Most customers say nothing, leaving teams to assess customer experience from an unrepresentative sample that compresses product, policy, and service issues into one score. As AI handles more conversations end-to-end, the post argues for scoring every AI and human interaction on service quality, resolution, customer effort, and related attributes rather than relying on survey responses alone. Fin’s CX Score assigns each interaction a 1–5 score and surfaces reasons behind it, providing roughly five times more coverage than CSAT for most teams. Fin sets targets from CX Score attributes, operational correlations, historical performance, modelling, and team ambition, then uses recurring patterns to route fixes to support, product, or workflow owners.


### [Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale](https://yomu.fyi/post/meta-s-ai-storage-blueprint-at-scale.md)
- Company: [Meta](https://yomu.fyi/company/meta.md)
- Author: By Sidharth Bajaj, Venkatraghavan Srinivasan
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Meta describes how its BLOB-storage architecture evolved to address AI workloads' storage bottlenecks, which can stall GPUs and slow research iteration as datasets and GPU deployments expand. Legacy requests traversed multiple stateful metadata layers, sometimes across regions, producing latencies of hundreds of milliseconds even when flash made millisecond access possible. The redesign consolidates metadata into a flat schema backed by ZippyDB for O(1) path resolution, removes the dataplane proxy in favor of a fat client SDK, and deploys regional BLOB-storage stacks beside GPUs. For data loading, Meta combines host memory and flash with regional flash and global HDD-backed storage as tiered caches, using ordinary and deep prefetch, on-demand hydration, and TTL or LRU eviction policies. Production rollout saw rapid adoption, while both data-loading paradigms remain supported.


### [Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-our-800m-series-c-to-accelerate-the-shift-to-open-source-ai.md)
- Company: [Together AI](https://yomu.fyi/company/together-ai.md)
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Together AI announces an $800M Series C to accelerate its open-source AI platform as production demand for inference grows. The company says the round includes $800 million from investors including Aramco Ventures, NVIDIA, Vista Equity, General Catalyst, and others, plus commitments for more than 500 MW of compute capacity to be capitalized independently by new investors. Together argues that closed frontier-model economics become unsustainable as agents and workflows scale, while open-weights models such as DeepSeek, Nemotron, MiniMax, Kimi, and GLM can provide equal or better performance at lower cost. Its full-stack approach spans models, kernels, compilers, inference systems, training infrastructure, hardware utilization, and software, with cited work including FlashAttention-4, Together Megakernel, together.compile, and expanded post-training APIs for tool calling, reasoning, and vision-language models.


### [Together AI at ICML 2026: frontier research across the full stack](https://yomu.fyi/post/together-ai-at-icml-2026-frontier-research-across-the-full-stack.md)
- Company: [Together AI](https://yomu.fyi/company/together-ai.md)
- Published: Jun 30, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Together AI says nine papers from its researchers and peers were accepted to ICML 2026 in Seoul, spanning frontier agents, model shaping, algorithmic and systems optimization, and kernels. The collection is presented as a full-stack view of AI research, with work ranging from DSGym’s unified evaluation and training API for more than 1,000 data-science tasks to ThunderAgent’s program-aware scheduling, TTT-Discover’s test-time reinforcement learning, and RARO’s verifier-free adversarial training. Reported results include up to 3.6× agent throughput, state-of-the-art discoveries from an open 120B model, a 25% expert-response win rate without a verifier, and 5M-token context on one node for Untied Ulysses. Aurora illustrates the research-to-production loop: its adaptive speculative-decoding work ships as the ATLAS speculator on the Together platform.


### [The Builder Revolution: Why We're Shifting to Builder Advocacy](https://yomu.fyi/post/the-builder-revolution-why-we-re-shifting-to-builder-advocacy.md)
- Company: [Okta](https://yomu.fyi/company/okta.md)
- Author: Michael Palermo
- Published: Jun 30, 2026
- Type: Announcement

The team formerly known as Developer Advocacy, within Developer Success, has been renamed Builder Advocacy within Builder Experience (BX). The change responds to an expanded definition of who builds with technology: alongside traditional developers, AI builders and no-code or low-code automators are creating production-level experiences and mission-critical infrastructure. The organization says its advocacy will serve developers, prompt engineers, LLM integrators, AI-agent creators, ML practitioners, and automation-focused builders, while continuing support for traditional coders, engineers, and architects. The announcement cites GitHub’s 180 million developers, 36 million new developers in 2025, and Stack Overflow’s finding that 84% use or plan to use AI tools. The rename is effective immediately and begins broader investments in resources, content, and community programs for this wider builder community.


### [TCS and Anthropic bring Claude to regulated industries](https://yomu.fyi/post/tcs-and-anthropic-bring-claude-to-regulated-industries.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 26, 2026
- Type: Announcement

TCS and Anthropic are partnering to bring Claude to regulated industries, with TCS providing access to 50,000 employees across 56 countries and developing client offerings. As the partnership’s “customer zero,” TCS will use Claude across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales, then apply those lessons through a dedicated practice of consultants, engineers, and industry specialists. The practice will package and operate industry-specific systems, including claims processing for insurers and lending advisory for banks, while TCS teams contribute reusable Claude Code skills and plugins focused initially on claims adjudication and lending advisory. Other announced work includes Diligenta using Claude for more than 22 million policyholders and TCS iON delivering training and certification after conducting more than 75 million annual assessments.


### [Anthropic opens Seoul office](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-opens-seoul-office.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 26, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has opened its Seoul office and announced partnerships with Korean enterprises, startups, researchers, and the Ministry of Science and ICT. Through an MOU, the company will collaborate on AI safety and cybersecurity, including Korean-language model-safety evaluation with the Korea AI Safety Institute and information exchange on AI-enabled cyber threats. Korean deployments described include Claude Code across NAVER’s engineering organization, Claude at LG, Hanwha, Samsung SDS, and Nexon, plus Claude-powered products and nonprofit use. Anthropic will provide Claude access to up to 60 NAIRL-affiliated researchers, launch Claude for Startups in Korea, and support developer events and a hackathon. The office is led by KiYoung Choi and is hiring across a range of roles.


### [Scaling out Distroless adoption With AI](https://yomu.fyi/post/scaling-out-distroless-adoption-with-ai.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Jia Yee Chong
- Published: Jun 22, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

Grab is migrating from heavy base images to Distroless images to reduce security risks, despite runtime failures caused by missing shared objects, utilities, or expected directory structures. Its medium tests run services in Docker, leave internal dependencies unmocked through Testcontainers, mock external dependencies with a network proxy, and execute in CI to catch Dockerfile regressions before deployment. For services without this setup, an agentic workflow detects candidates, scaffolds tests, fixes repository-specific failures, raises GitLab merge requests, and monitors CI while processing batches in parallel. Claude Code uses MCP integrations for GitLab, Glean, and Sourcegraph, with guardrails limiting changes to test files and CI configuration and humans reviewing every draft merge request. In roughly 1.5 months, the agent raised more than 100 medium-test merge requests and reduced work for 400 services from 400–1,200 engineer-days to approximately 0.1 days per service; Distroless adoption also grew substantially.


### [You're Spending Too Much on AI. You're Also Using Too Little.](https://yomu.fyi/post/you-re-spending-too-much-on-ai-you-re-also-using-too-little.md)
- Company: [Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp.md)
- Author: Anand Kuchibotla, Kedar Thakkar, Rahul Sengottuvelu
- Published: Jun 17, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

The post argues that a large AI bill does not show excessive use: companies can overspend on routine work while using too little AI where advanced models could create value. It proposes measuring work in atomic tasks—such as invoices coded or pull requests reviewed—rather than tokens, with cost defined by tasks attempted and value by successful tasks. The operating model uses defaults that pair routine work with the cheapest model meeting quality benchmarks, medium reasoning, and flexible latency, while escalating ambiguous, high-stakes work to frontier models at higher effort. It also recommends attributing spend by provider, product, team, and workflow, finding concentrated costs, benchmarking repeated tasks, repricing after model releases, and centralizing controls in one gateway. The conclusion is that efficiency should be treated as an engineering achievement, so cheaper routine execution funds ambition on rare tasks where extra intelligence can materially change outcomes.


### [Cart Assistant: Agentic Grocery Shopping on Uber Eats](https://yomu.fyi/post/cart-assistant-agentic-grocery-shopping-on-uber-eats.md)
- Company: [Uber](https://yomu.fyi/company/uber.md)
- Published: Jun 16, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Cart Assistant addresses grocery requests that begin as lists, recipe images, or vague plans and turns them into draft carts shoppers can review and edit. It uses a multi-prompt state graph that assigns planning, candidate retrieval, semantic relevance, constraint enforcement, quantity selection, guardrails, assembly, and content refinement to focused stages. LLMs handle ambiguity and structured outputs, while backend APIs, deterministic arithmetic, validation, optimization, and aggregation manage inventory, pricing, eligibility, sellable units, and cart construction. The design separates retrieval language from reasoning context, preserves quantity provenance, supports parallel item processing, and uses deterministic checks plus an LLM judge against synthetic and production-derived cases. According to the conclusion, this decomposition makes the system more controllable and inspectable while producing useful draft carts without removing shopper review, editing, and decision-making.


### [Announcing the new Databricks Startup Program](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-the-new-databricks-startup-program.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Brad Van Vugt, Arjun Rajeswaran
- Published: Jun 16, 2026
- Type: Announcement

The Databricks Startup Program has been updated for venture-backed, early-stage startups building with data and AI. Qualifying companies can receive up to $200,000 in credits across Databricks and Neon, along with hands-on technical guidance, partner and community access, and connections to go-to-market teams and founder communities. The program is aimed especially at startups that recently raised institutional funding from pre-seed through Series A, and it is intended to provide an app backend, data, and AI stack from idea through product-market fit. Databricks and Neon are presented as providing a database and access to foundation models on day one, while Databricks supplies analytics, data warehousing, AI systems, and enterprise-grade governance as companies launch. Applications are available through the Databricks Startup Program.


### [Building Production-Scale Visual AI for Claims and Returns at Swiggy Instamart](https://yomu.fyi/post/building-production-scale-visual-ai-for-claims-and-returns-at-swiggy-i.md)
- Company: [Swiggy](https://yomu.fyi/company/swiggy.md)
- Author: Harshit Juneja
- Published: Jun 16, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

Swiggy Instamart built two vision-language-model systems to handle more than 40,000 daily claims involving wrong, expired, poor-quality, damaged, and packaging-related items, while reducing reliance on human verification. The Image Validation Model (IVM) compares customer uploads with catalog images, routes each category through a specialised LangGraph StateGraph handler, and combines its structured verdict with fraud, confidence, and business-rule signals. Reverse Quality Check (RQC) compares delivery executives’ pickup photos with the original claim images, allowing matching returns to proceed and prompting retries when they do not. The architecture keeps visual assessment probabilistic but makes routing, aggregation, escalation, and financial decisions deterministic, with traces for category, outputs, confidence, cost, and latency. After more than six months in production, the systems are associated with a 6% customer-satisfaction increase, 20,000 fewer weekly Image Validation tickets, 98.5% RQC accuracy, and over 5,000 daily RQC tickets resolved without human intervention.


### [Databricks announces 2026 global partner awards](https://yomu.fyi/post/databricks-announces-2026-global-partner-awards.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Kori O'Brien, Stephen Orban
- Published: Jun 15, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Databricks announced its 2026 Partner Awards at Data + AI Summit, recognizing more than 65 achievements across its global partner network of over 8,000 organizations. The awards cover consulting and system integrators, independent software vendors, technical champions, learning and enablement, industry categories, and product-focused contributions. Accenture/Avanade received Global Partner of the Year for an eighth consecutive year, citing more than 15,000 trained practitioners, 9,500+ certified resources, and over 1,000 joint engagements. Other cited results include Capgemini’s Unity Catalog migration of 25,000 tables, 10,000 notebooks, and 2 petabytes across 150+ countries, while Kraken Technologies reduced data-processing costs eightfold and cut load times from three days to eight hours using Databricks and Delta Sharing. The announcement frames the winners’ work as supporting data and AI adoption through software, services, integrations, and consulting.


### [Skip the learning curve: rethinking data migration for real outcomes](https://yomu.fyi/post/skip-the-learning-curve-rethinking-data-migration-for-real-outcomes.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Vijay Anala
- Published: Jun 15, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Data migrations are presented as high-risk, costly initiatives whose technical completion can delay adoption and strategic value, especially during infrequent warehouse transitions. The proposed alternative combines migration, modernization, and value creation in parallel, using experienced specialized partners and AI-enabled automation for code conversion, data-quality validation, and pipeline modernization. Rather than lifting and shifting legacy workloads, teams are urged to simplify architectures, retire unnecessary components, reduce technical debt, and align data with business needs while validating progress continuously. Progressive decommissioning reduces the “double-bubble” period in which old and new systems run together, helping costs fall as workloads move instead of waiting for final completion. The Migrate & Modernize Program connects organizations with partners, and the post reports faster cutovers, reduced migration costs, and complex workloads entering production ahead of schedule among early participants.


### [Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Fin](https://yomu.fyi/post/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-fin.md)
- Company: [Intercom](https://yomu.fyi/company/intercom.md)
- Author: Eoghan McCabe
- Published: Jun 15, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin says it began as Intercom 15 years ago and, nearly four years ago, shifted toward modern LLMs to create and define the Customer Agents category. The companies plan to join forces, with Salesforce’s resources intended to help bring Fin to more consumers, while Fin says little will practically change for customers: the author will remain CEO and Des Traynor will continue running R&D. The announcement also points to recent work including the Apex model and the Operator internal agent, and describes the deal as a pivotal moment for Fin’s employees, founders, and leadership team.


### [Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5](https://yomu.fyi/post/statement-on-the-us-government-directive-to-suspend-access-to-fable-5.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 13, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic says the US government issued an export-control directive requiring it to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access for every foreign national, including foreign-national Anthropic employees, inside or outside the United States. The directive arrived at 5:21 p.m. ET and did not specify the national-security concern; Anthropic says it understands the basis to be a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak involving a request to inspect a codebase and fix software flaws. The company says it reviewed the underlying report, found only previously known minor vulnerabilities, and judged the demonstrated capability widely available from other models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5. Anthropic is complying by disabling both models for all customers and says it is working to restore access.


### [From Wall Street to Data Platforms](https://yomu.fyi/post/from-wall-street-to-data-platforms.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Andrea Fernández, Kim Hatton
- Published: Jun 13, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Kim Hatton, Databricks’ Global Financial Services Marketing Leader, describes how two decades in regulated financial-services marketing led her toward technology and data-centered strategy. She says financial institutions still need to unlock value while navigating compliance, but their divisions and systems make a unified customer view difficult. Her account points to Unity Catalog’s unified governance and single source of truth for breaking down silos and supporting requirements including GDPR, customer identity, and sensitive workloads. It also describes Lakebase’s separation of compute and storage for faster ML/AI agent experimentation, alongside Genie’s plain-language data analysis, which can reduce work that otherwise takes months and expensive third parties. Hatton connects these tools with faster, more confident marketing and accurate decision-making in regulated workflows, while also describing Databricks’ inclusive, high-energy culture.


### [What is enterprise intelligence?](https://yomu.fyi/post/what-is-enterprise-intelligence.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Databricks Staff
- Published: Jun 12, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Enterprise intelligence (EI) is presented as an organization-wide capability combining business intelligence, knowledge management, enterprise search and AI to turn structured and unstructured data into decisions and actions. Unlike traditional BI, which centers on dashboards, reports and structured data, EI connects these capabilities through a shared architecture and governed business context. The described stack includes a lakehouse-based data foundation, batch and streaming pipelines, governance, semantics, analytics, search, machine learning, generative AI and a decision layer. Shared definitions such as “active customer” and “monthly revenue” are intended to keep dashboards, queries and AI agents aligned, while maintained context addresses knowledge that becomes stale as the business changes. The result described is a common trusted source from which people, applications and agents can produce insights and initiate actions.


### [Results from first Anthropic Public Record](https://yomu.fyi/post/results-from-first-anthropic-public-record.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 12, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Anthropic’s first Public Record survey measures how Americans viewed AI in November and December 2025, using a nationally representative online sample of 51,993 people aged 16 and over. Respondents most often hoped AI would help cure diseases (48%), while job loss was the leading concern (64%), followed by cognitive dependency (56%) and misinformation (52%). More than 70% supported government involvement in AI, especially around privacy, child safety, and liability, but only 15% trusted AI companies to decide how AI should be developed and used. The results describe broad agreement across partisan, geographic, and educational groups, with differences usually reflecting intensity rather than direction; Anthropic says the survey will be repeated to track changing attitudes as capabilities and adoption develop.


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