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Cisco research: Trust, not technology, is now the speed limit on enterprise AI

For several years, the conversation about enterprise artificial intelligence has focused on capability: which model is smartest and which GPU is fastest. That made sense when technology was the constraint. It isn’t anymore. AI can now do far more than most organizations will allow, and the gap is trust. That’s the core finding of “Permission […] The post Cisco research: Trust, not technology, is now the speed limit on enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

How CrossnoKaye grounds physical AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

CrossnoKaye brought physical AI to heavy industry with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Its ATLAS platform and AURA agentic system ground AI reasoning in live plant data and run verifiable Python in isolated AgentCore sandboxes, giving plant engineers checkable, math-backed answers instead of model guesses.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter multimodal vision-language model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Deploy the NVFP4 or BF16 variant in a few steps, then run text, image, and video inference for document intelligence, computer-use agents, and multimodal agentic workloads.

Contextuality and Contradictions: Exploring Real-World Identifications of AI-Generated Writing

arXiv:2611.08704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI-generated content spreads into nearly every domain of human interaction, practices and discourses of AI detection, both formal and informal, have become an everyday part of how people interact with text and with each other. In this paper, we explore the real-world practices and discourses of AI identification that have emerged in response to a shifting discursive landscape where the human provenance of a text can no longer be taken for granted. We pair qualitative coding with computational analysis of lexical change, grounded in linguistic anthropological perspectives on language and communication, to investigate AI identifications among English Wikipedia editors and students. We find that these identifications draw on a diversity of evidentiary types, from discrete textual features and judgments about content to circular sense-making claims and presumptions about the author's moral character, and that they are contradictory, dynamic, and contextually dependent. In practice, what often motivates an AI identification is not the presence of any specific textual element, but pragmatic infelicity: a perceived mismatch between the elements present and those deemed appropriate within the text's particular context. Consequently, real-world identifications of AI-generated writing do not merely neutrally point out the perceived presence of "AI-like" features, but can be leveraged as a discursive resource to maintain and define sociolinguistic norms: what can be said in a given context, what is appropriate, and, ultimately, what is human. Further, the design and implementation of systems and tools that treat AI-likeness as a context-free property of text may therefore inherit, and enforce at scale, the norms of whichever contexts they were trained on.

Guardrail Erosion in Domain Fine-Tuned Large Language Models: A Paired Audit of Knowledge-Centric Abstention in Biomedical LLMs

arXiv:2611.08780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The number of domain fine-tuned models, particularly in the biomedical domain, is rapidly expanding. Fine-tuning promises high-performing models at a fraction of the cost of training a base model, but it can also produce unintended behavioral changes. Multiple studies have shown that safety guardrails can erode with fine-tuning, yet large-scale studies across model architectures, data mixtures, and fine-tuning methodologies remain limited. Where prior work in this space has studied value-centric refusal, this work focuses on knowledge-centric abstention. We audit 25 biomedical domain fine-tuned large language models against 11 paired base checkpoints on MedAbstain and ClinDet-Bench to evaluate the impact of fine-tuning on knowledge-centric abstention. We find that defined appropriate abstention measured by these benchmarks, already low in base models (median 8.3% on MedAbstain), falls further after fine-tuning (median 4.2%, decreasing in 21 of 25 pairs on MedAbstain), and that the magnitude and direction of change are heterogeneous across pairs. These results motivate fine-tuning methods that improve domain-specific capability while preserving appropriate caution.

Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan: A Synthetic Dataset Capturing Japan's Demographics and Financial Context

NVIDIA and Elith have released Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan, a large-scale open-source synthetic dataset featuring 9 million personas based on Japan’s official demographic, labor, and financial statistics. Built using NVIDIA’s NeMo Data Designer and SDG-PGMs framework, the dataset includes 50 fields per record with natural Japanese text, covering demographics, household finances, occupations, financial literacy, and personality traits. Designed for commercial and non-commercial use under CC BY 4.0, it enables privacy-safe development of financial AI applications such as conversational agents, customer simulations, and bias testing, while aligning with Japan’s cultural and regulatory context.

Show HN: Open-source customer-facing agents

Hi, Dmitri from Radioso here, an open-source platform to design AI agents for customers and visitors in any channel, in the style of Fin/Ada/Decagon. The repo is https://github.com/radioso-ai/radioso and our website is https://radioso.aiToday, your choices are:1. Buy a very expensive service for your vertical (usually starting with $$ five figures monthly) 2. Get a cheap off-the-shelf chatbot that mostly answers FAQs 3. Build your own, and then also build the inbox, human handoff, audit trail and integrations around itAt Radioso we wanted an open-source option that combines the best of all 3. You can integrate it with your own software via API/SDK or your CRM, or run it standalone, either self-hosted or in our cloud.The engine runs multi-step interactions and takes actions: calling your APIs, updating records, booking things. Maybe you’ve tried Parlant; Radioso is the alternative “with batteries included”: RAG, audit trail, customer service inbox, and integrations like Slack and email.Under the hood it’s plain TypeScript + PostgreSQL, works with OpenAI/Anthropic/other models, and is licensed under Apache 2.0 which includes all features (The only thing we keep under EE license is the multi-tenant layer we use to run our own cloud).We have existing customers running it for technical Q&A, course booking, online product recommendations and goods returns, among others, some reaching 92% of conversations automated. We’re currently working on voice support so we can offer a call center.Our ambition is to be “the WordPress of customer-facing AI” :), where people can contribute their favorite plugins and benefit from the ecosystem.Longer term, we think browsing the web will mostly mean talking to your own agent, and when you need a service or a purchase, your agent will talk to the vendor’s agent to get things done. For this, Radioso already publishes an A2A Agent Card and we’re working on the rest. Your Radioso services are also callable over MCP, for customers who already use it.Thanks for your attention. We’d especially love to hear which integrations you’d want, whether you’d self-host it, and what’s stopped you from deploying a customer-facing AI agent so far. Tell us what you think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50423820 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Record, branch, and compare command runs in stdlib-only Python

Hi, this is a package I developed for keeping track of short toy-model development cycles and explaining what changed between runs.The core idea: commands run through the package, and their declared parameters (or injected parameters with --substitute) and outcomes go into a dependency-free ledger stored in the project. Because that ledger lives in the project directory, it has worked well for passing context between different agents. I’ve also found some use for it in CI work. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50417782 Points: 3 # Comments: 0