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Nicholas Bloom of Stanford and Josh Lerner of Harvard co-direct the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative. On its program page, the NBER says the group studies “firm-level and economy-wide forces that determine productivity,” with emphasis on innovation, patenting, entrepreneurship, and the formation of new firms. The same page now highlights […]
Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs now plug into LangChain’s LangSmith so teams can trace and score agents across stacks, the company says. According to LangChain’s product page, the framework-agnostic platform spans observability, evaluation, and deployment, with a new Engine layer that prioritizes production issues and proposes fixes for review. What LangChain LangSmith actually offers […]
3.4 million job seekers, 4 million applications, 1,700 postings. On May 26, 2026, Stanford HAI published the first large-scale look inside third‑party hiring algorithms, and the findings are stark: AI screening can magnify racial disparities and carry rejections across employers. The algorithmic hiring study argues that when many firms depend on the same vendor, one […]
Where SAS Viya Copilot fits in daily work SAS says a global survey of 1,600 small and midsize business leaders shows a gap between AI ambition and action. That is the setup for SAS Viya Copilot, a conversational tool the company positions inside the data and AI life cycle. The pitch is straightforward: bring chat-style […]
AMD is pitching its Vitis AI software as a single toolchain for embedded inference on its adaptive SoCs, bundling NPU IP, a compiler, a runtime, and developer tools. The promise: higher throughput and lower power on the device, without stitching together separate flows for CPUs, accelerators, and programmable logic. That’s a bold swing at the […]
LangChain has introduced LangSmith Engine, a new layer on its agent engineering platform that clusters production failures, surfaces root causes in traces and code, and proposes fixes for review, according to the company’s site (LangChain). The pitch is blunt: make agent reliability measurable and fixable, fast. “Observe, evaluate, and deploy agents with LangSmith.” — LangChain […]
As of July 2026, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) is spotlighting two moves in plain sight: a research tool called PsychAdapter and a policy brief on real-time oversight in hospitals. The first promises finer control over how AI talks. The second pushes for continuous checks on algorithms that read medical images. Taken together, […]
On July 2, 2026, The Guardian reported that OpenAI is in early talks to grant a 5% stake to the U.S. government. CEO Sam Altman has framed the idea as a way to share AI’s gains with the public and suggested other firms may follow. If it advances, the OpenAI government stake would chart a […]
Deep Questions with Cal Newport holds a 4.8 rating from 1.3K reviews on Apple Podcasts. The latest episode, titled “Can I Be a Digital Minimalist in 2026? | Monday Advice,” asks whether advice from his 2019 playbook still works amid TikTok and ChatGPT, according to the show’s listing on Apple Podcasts. On the Deep Questions […]
