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Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with their existing tools, handle multi-step processes, and make decisions independently. This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through LibreChat’s familiar interface to drive immediate user adoption across your institution. Challenges with basic AI chat interfaces Although basic AI chat interfaces can answer questions and generate content, educational institutions need capabilities that simple chat can’t provide: Contextual decision-making – A student asking “What courses…

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as its $750,000 grant was restored. Prior to any legal action, Woodmere had requested that the IMLS review its grant termination. The museum confirmed via email that, as it was preparing to go to court on Friday, September 12, its grant was instead restored. Woodmere received a Letter of Reinstatement of the grant on September 4, stating, “The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has completed the termination review process and will be reinstating your federal…

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. ASML (ASML, Financials) is taking a major stake in French startup Mistral AI after leading a $2 billion funding round that values the company at $11.7 billion, people familiar with the deal said. The Dutch chipmaking equipment giant is putting in about $1.5 billion, making it Mistral’s biggest shareholder and securing a board seat. The move ties together two of Europe’s most important tech players as the region pushes to reduce reliance on U.S. and Chinese AI leaders. For ASML, the deal could bring Mistral’s AI tools into its chipmaking systems, while giving Mistral…

Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their…

You knew it was bound to happen, and now, it has. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI is lending its services to the production of a feature-length animated film called Critterz, which is aiming to be done in time for next year’s Cannes Film Festival. That would put its production time at nine months, which is unheard of for a feature-length animated film, but that’s because it’ll be created using AI. According to the paper, using OpenAI’s resources, production companies Vertigo Films and Native Foreign will hire actors to voice characters created by feeding original drawings into generative AI…

Don’t jump the gun on buying more GE Vernova just yet. Despite a new buy-the-dip call from Goldman Sachs, Jim Cramer said Monday that the Club stock could still be weighed down by President Donald Trump ‘s fight against wind energy. Instead, he advised members to wait for more clarity on how the White House’s policies may impact GE Vernova’s overall sales. “The wind business is not going to grow as much,” Jim said during Monday’s Morning Meeting , citing Trump’s criticism of the wind power industry and promotion of fossil fuels. He added, “The president is not going to be giving…

AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected to be at Disrupt, this AI Stage fireside chat and presentation is a must-attend session. The future of AI isn’t more data — it’s better retrieval As AI becomes more embedded in every workflow, the real differentiator isn’t just the algorithm — it’s…

Advertising and the open web Google objects to this characterization. A spokesperson calls it a “cherry-picked” line from the filing that has been misconstrued. Google’s position is that the entire passage is referring to open-web advertising rather than the open web itself. “Investments in non-open web display advertising like connected TV and retail media are growing at the expense of those in open web display advertising,” says Google. If we assume this is true, it doesn’t exactly let Google off the hook. As AI tools have proliferated, we’ve heard from Google time and time again that traffic from search to…

Just hours after Independent 20th Century art fair closed its doors to the public, the fair announced that Sotheby’s will host its 2026 edition in the auction house’s soon-to-be flagship headquarters in Manhattan’s historic Breuer building. The move, first reported by the New York Times, will be a significant expansion for the fair and a first-of-its-kind collaboration between an art fair and an auction house in the art market’s modern era. Founded in 2022, Independent 20th Century spotlights overlooked and celebrated artists of the last century, with curatorial programming that reframes movements from women in Surrealism to Arab Modernism. Its move…

Google made three major updates to its Gemini-powered products on Monday: The Gemini app now accepts audio files; Search can handle five new languages; and NotebookLM creates reports in the form of blog posts, study guides, quizzes, and more.According to a Monday post on X by Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, audio file compatibility was the “#1 request” to the Gemini app.Free Gemini users max out at 10 minutes of audio, and five free prompts each day. AI Pro or AI Ultra users, meanwhile, can upload audio up to three hours in length. All Gemini prompts…