Can CEO John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?
Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the…
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Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the…
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was…
Large language models can hold knowledge they do not report. A model may sandbag on a capability evaluation, or answer against what it internally knows, and its outputs alone cannot tell whether it is hiding an answer or simply does not have one. We borrow the Concealed Information Test, a forensic method that identifies guilty knowledge by presenting a suspect with the true detail among plausible decoys and measuring a stronger response to the item they recognize. Our method, Probe of Internal Recognition (PIR), does the same inside a model. It presents a question with its candidate answers and reads, from the model's internal states, which candidate the model recognizes as correct. PIR is reference-free, needing no honest reference model and no labeled truth corpus. Across eight models from five families (Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, and Phi), PIR recovers the recognized answer at 0.70 to 0.87 balanced accuracy, well above the 0.28 to 0.40 unknown-item baseline and the 0.25 chance rate. It stays readable across every form of concealment we test, from prompted deception and trained sandbagging to external password-locked and circuit-broken checkpoints, with recognition between 0.85 and 0.93. When the model hides a known answer, recognition stays high. When unlearning removes the knowledge, recognition drops to the level of a question the model never knew. PIR therefore separates a model that will not answer from one that cannot, which supports sandbagging audits and unlearning verification. The signal is causal, adds information beyond black-box behavioral cues, and extends from multiple-choice questions to free-form generation.
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned…
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But…
Effective troubleshooting agents in enterprise customer support depend on retrieving actionable guidance from similar historical cases, yet existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems treat support cases as static documents and overlook their multi-stage, stateful nature. We introduce RAFT (Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Troubleshooting Agents), a stateful RAG framework that abstracts each closed historical case into a directed chain of timeline entries and retrieves at the entry level, surfacing cases whose intermediate states match the active case and returning the parent-case trajectory anchored at the matched state; an optional case-level graph links cases through a configurable similarity representation. We evaluate this retrieval layer directly, which, unlike evaluating a full agent system, requires no production deployment. Because public multi-stage troubleshooting data is extremely rare, we pair a synthetic benchmark built from Microsoft Learn Windows Server documentation with real Apache Jira issues carrying human-created duplicate labels. RAFT improves Case Hit over vanilla RAG and GraphRAG baselines at every stage of case progress, with statistically significant gains over the strongest baseline; the Jira results provide directional evidence that the advantage transfers to real case histories. We release our benchmark, implementation, and the Apache Jira evaluation set.
Learn how to build a fully serverless pipeline that automatically collects Git metrics from GitHub and GitLab and visualizes them in interactive Amazon Quick Sight dashboards, giving engineering teams near-real-time delivery analytics at low cost.
Learn how MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, gave about 400 employees secure, self-service access to AI agents in its first month of production - using Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat to meet the security, data residency, and compliance requirements of the German financial sector.
Learn how to enforce defense-in-depth authorization for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on Amazon Quick. This walkthrough wires Microsoft Entra ID group and claims-based JWTs through an Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptor to apply per-user, per-tool role-based and attribute-based access control, with a server-side check and an immutable audit trail.
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the…