Membership in NVIDIA’s partner program gives GoodVision AI deeper access to NVIDIA compute and software as it works to cut the cost and latency of AI inference across its Smart Routing Engine and AI Factory… Read more: GoodVision AI Joins NVIDIA Connect to Boost AI Inference at Scale

New partnership will accelerate secure, scalable and sovereign AI solutions toUK organisations Kore.ai, a global leader in enterprise AI platforms and agentic applications, today announced a partnership with Atos UK&I, a global leader in AI-powered digital… Read more: Kore.ai and Atos Partner to Deliver Sovereign Agentic AI for UK Enterprise

NASA this week released a much-anticipated document, known as a “draft Request for Proposals,” that provides some clarity about what it expects from US companies attempting to build privately operated space stations in low-Earth orbit.… Read more: NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations

The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like auto-play, infinite scroll, and highly personalized content recommendations were… Read more: Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Direct oversight of ‘critical third parties’ such as Oracle and Microsoft given to ensure resilient cyber-defences and help safeguard UK economy The Bank of England has been handed powers to regulate important tech firms including… Read more: Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google

New Model is 20x Faster Than Comparable Generative Methods While Delivering Benchmark-Leading Accuracy and No Trade-off Between Speed and Quality WitnessAI, the AI-native security platform trusted by leading enterprises, today announced the launch of a… Read more: WitnessAI Announced the Launch of NER-D

New consultancy and offerings will move organizations from pilots to production with a practical methodology and hands-on validation Presidio, a leading global digital services and AI solutions provider, today announced its largest investment in artificial… Read more: Presidio Expands AI Investment Strategy

GPU Cloud Operators can now pair Rafay’s infrastructure orchestration platform with Saturn Cloud’s AI application layer to deliver managed fine-tuning, model serving, and token-metered inference to tenants. Saturn Cloud, the AI token factory platform for GPU cloud operators,… Read more: Saturn Cloud, Rafay Partner on AI Cloud Services

Combining process intelligence, execution management, and consulting expertise to accelerate transformation, reduce costs, and enable continuous process optimization. Mythics, a leading Oracle systems integrator and consulting firm, announced a strategic partnership with Celonis, the global… Read more: Mythics and Celonis Team Up to Accelerate AI-Driven Oracle Transformations

Volkswagen Group is doing well with electric vehicle sales in its home region, but costly tariffs and eroding market share in China and North America have been hurting it badly. Europe’s largest automaker, which also… Read more: VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker

Donald Trump is now the first president to have an airport named after him while still in office. And what better way to commemorate this high honor than with lazy AI slop? Until a few… Read more: The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slop

Students cheating while using AI is a common concern among educators, but not the only one. Phiwath Jittamas/iStock/Getty Images Plus The risk of students using AI to cheat tends to get a lot of attention… Read more: Teachers are worried about students cheating with AI, but my survey suggests the deeper issue is learning

After a rush to attract data centers with incentives, more communities are pushing back against their development. AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey The fierce backlash against data centers shows no sign of easing up. Since early 2024,… Read more: Why better-off cities and towns see more benefits from data centers than rural regions

From welfare and defence spending to cost of living and geopolitics, we the look at issues leftover from Keir Starmer UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham is expected to become prime minister in… Read more: The bulging in-tray of challenges Andy Burnham faces upon entering No 10

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien megastructures: a Dyson sphere. The study finds that red dwarfs and white dwarfs are the most promising stars… Read more: The galaxy’s coldest “stars” may actually be alien megastructures

Anyone who has followed the aftermarket automotive performance industry for long enough can tell you just how dramatically it has changed over the past few decades. What once required mechanical tinkering and a lot of… Read more: Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

Welcome to Edition 9.02 of the Rocket Report! Our attention in the coming days turns to Asia, where there are a couple of notable rocket debuts. Up first is the Long March 10B on Friday,… Read more: Rocket Report: “Panic” over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada

If you’re reading this while the blinds are drawn against yet another heat wave and wondering whether it’s finally time to buy an air conditioner, you’re far from alone. At the end of June, as… Read more: Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn’t fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A new study suggests it may instead be fueled by ancient pockets of magma… Read more: Europe’s most active volcano may have a secret origin

Wally Funk, who in 2021 became the oldest woman to fly into space—60 years after she and 12 other women sought the same opportunity as NASA’s original astronauts—died on Wednesday at 87 years old. Funk… Read more: Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87

A next-generation pesticide designed to kill crop pests may also be interfering with the reproductive health of bumblebees. Researchers discovered that low-dose exposure to sulfoxaflor changed gene activity, especially in tissues involved in reproduction, raising… Read more: This common pesticide may be quietly wiping out future bumblebees

Researchers solved the mystery of how soft lithium dendrites crack the hard ceramic inside solid-state batteries, triggering short circuits. The breakthrough could help engineers build safer, longer-lasting batteries for smartphones, electric vehicles, and other electronics.

BeyondTrust launches Pathfinder NHI Governance, extending privileged access control to the non-human and AI identities that run modern environments New Pathfinder module enables organizations to establish ownership, enforce least privilege, govern AI agents, and reduce… Read more: BeyondTrust Releases NHI Governance for Every Non-Human and AI Identity

VERA, powered by Cloudera AI Studios, automates research and analysis workflows, enabling faster, more localized humanitarian insights in resource-constrained environments Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced the next phase of… Read more: Cloudera, Mercy Corps Expand Agentic AI Partnership

Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive… Read more: How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team

Civil liberties groups say Facewatch system in stores such as Sainsbury’s and B&M is ‘dangerous escalation’ Facial recognition technology in shops will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders, with… Read more: Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.

Newly created senior leadership role blends commercial, technical and people leadership to embed an AI-native mindset across the business ProofID, the pure-play identity security specialist delivering advisory, implementation and managed services, today announced the appointment… Read more: ProofID Announced the Appointment of Neil Evans as Chief AI Officer

Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to children US senator Ed Markey is worried about the perils of unregulated artificial intelligence. What… Read more: ‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms

Token per watt — not raw compute — is emerging as the defining efficiency metric for AI data centers, putting storage at the center of an infrastructure rethink that is reshaping how the industry measures… Read more: Token per watt becomes the defining metric as storage moves to AI’s critical path

Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via an application programming interface.… Read more: Meta launches flagship Muse Spark 1.1 model with multi-agent upgrades

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed… Read more: Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within… Read more: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Work, an agentic tool for automating business workflows

AI creative workflows are reshaping how teams create, moving beyond content generation to editable, collaborative experiences that boost productivity. At the same time, enterprises are demanding trusted AI solutions that balance ease of use with… Read more: Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped company has ever… Read more: Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round

Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?

Returning from annual leave, Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has faced a barrage of questions for the first time since the company’s nationwide outage on Wednesday affected train services, payment systems and triple zero calls.… Read more: Telstra CEO Vicki Brady faces questions on nationwide outage – video

Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolution Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City “skills compact” that will commit firms such as Barclays… Read more: Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI

SK hynix, a supplier of advanced memory chips, has seen profits skyrocket thanks to the global race to build AI datacentres South Korean chip maker SK hynix set pricing for its mega US listing on… Read more: South Korea chip maker SK hynix rides AI boom raising $26.5bn in huge US listing

Returning from annual leave, Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has faced a barrage of questions for the first time since the company’s nationwide outage on Wednesday affected train services, payment systems and triple zero calls.… Read more: Telstra CEO says executive bonuses to be reviewed after nationwide outage – video

Schwarzman Centre, OxfordHeadlong’s take on Karel Čapek’s 1920 tale of romance and robots is rife with timely debates about tech’s threat but at times the philosophical discussions drag on If our world is currently thinking… Read more: Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic

A newly discovered Happy-Face spider in the Himalayas closely resembles Hawaii’s iconic species but evolved independently, according to DNA evidence. Its mysterious smile-like markings, many color forms, and unexpected link to ginger plants have scientists… Read more: Hawaii’s famous “happy-face” spider has a surprising relative

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could circulate in a… Read more: This alien planet never has sunrise or sunset. It may support life

What if time doesn’t actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny “mini universe” using 24,000 ultracold atoms and showed that the flow of time can emerge naturally from… Read more: Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock

A new study debunks the long-standing claim that baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adults. Researchers found that young rattlesnakes can control their venom just like adults, while adult snakes usually inject much more venom… Read more: Scientists just debunked a dangerous baby rattlesnake myth

Chris Rogers/Getty Images This week, Andrew Charlton, the federal assistant minister for science and technology, issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking at the AI Safety Forum at the University of Sydney, he… Read more: Australia’s government has woken up to the risks of AI. More ambition is needed

Plans to build a NZ$3.5bn datacentre in Makarewa in the country’s south has drawn concern about electricity and water use, and potential noise pollution People living near the site of New Zealand’s first planned AI… Read more: ‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency

The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time advisor.

Last year, when we tested out the “Agent Mode” in OpenAI’s Atlas web browser, we complained that any automated tasks tended to stop after a few minutes, limiting its usefulness for ongoing or complex tasks.… Read more: OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Cases of an explosive diarrheal parasite continue to skyrocket in Michigan, which is reporting 1,251 cases as of July 9. Of those, 44 were hospitalized. Meanwhile, across the border in Ohio, cases are also quickly… Read more: Michigan’s explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, and giant rats. Based on the presence of hominin… Read more: Flores Hobbits’ eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past

By Arvind Narayanan and Akash Kapur Our goal in this essay is to move beyond the debate over whether AI is a bubble. We do so in two ways: clearly separating current financials from the… Read more: Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in

Newly minted rich and those anticipating huge IPOs are fueling buying and charter spree in the private jet sector Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Aviation lawyer Amanda Applegate skipped her annual… Read more: SpaceX and AI startup wealth fuels demand for private jets

Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models. “I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO… Read more: Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators’ Work for AI Training

Instagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn Meta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to generate photos of users… Read more: Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots’ movements in a… Read more: Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs

China warned organizations to remove certain Claude Code versions over alleged backdoor risks, while Anthropic called the feature anti-abuse protection. The post China Warns of Claude Code ‘Backdoor’ Security Risk appeared first on TechRepublic.

Allstate Insurance Company has accused Broadcom of haphazardly issuing audits against it because the insurance firm decided not to renew its contracts with VMware and CA Technologies. The allegations were made in relation to a… Read more: Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

Amazon raised $25 billion through a bond sale as AI infrastructure spending accelerates, highlighting the growing cost of competing in the AI race. The post Amazon Raises $25 Billion in Bond Sale as AI Spending… Read more: Amazon Raises $25 Billion in Bond Sale as AI Spending Accelerates

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered… Read more: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s… Read more: Someone Reportedly Mailed a Live Squirrel to Meta, Where It Sent an Employee to the Hospital

OpenAI is facing calls for “serious sanctions” after fighting to keep news organizations from snooping through millions of logs to find evidence of users skirting their paywalls by prompting ChatGPT to regurgitate their articles. This… Read more: OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

A federal judge reluctantly approved a $1.5 million settlement between Elon Musk and the Trump administration despite raising numerous concerns about a deal that lets Musk get off lightly for a rule violation that allegedly… Read more: Judge doesn’t like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can’t block it

Meta’s Cheyenne AI data center project was linked to the presence of rare bacteria in reclaimed irrigation water, adding scrutiny to local data center wastewater rules. The post Meta AI Data Center Linked to Rare… Read more: Meta AI Data Center Linked to Rare Bacteria Water Scare

Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.

Staggered release of ChatGPT 5.6 follows similar restrictions on rival firm Anthropic’s latest AI models OpenAI released its latest advanced AI model, called ChatGPT 5.6, on Thursday after earlier delaying the public rollout over US… Read more: OpenAI releases latest ChatGPT model after delay over White House cybersecurity concerns

The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing indication that we’re headed in the wrong direction in the midst of a… Read more: The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible

When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long (26 cm) worm snug in his abdomen. Adding to the oddity, the man told… Read more: Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man’s groin during elective surgery

The Halocene H4 quantum computer, named LUMI-IQ, will be delivered and installed in 2027 The system will be hosted at CSC – IT Center for Science in Finland and integrated into the LUMI AI Factory… Read more: LUMI AI Factory Chooses IQM to Deploy Advanced Quantum Computer

Accela®, a leading provider of cloud solutions for state, county, and city governments, today announced it has acquired the Civira AI platform, a pioneer in AI agents purpose-built for civic technology. With this acquisition, Accela… Read more: Accela® Announced the Acquisition of Civira AI Platform

Ruf has come quite a long way from its roots as a tuner of Porsches. The German company (no doubt familiar to those of us in the Playstation Generation as Gran Turismo 2‘s workaround because… Read more: Ruf debuts new flat-eight engine at Goodwood

We haven’t seen much footage to date for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, other than the broody and haunting extended teaser Warner Bros. dropped in March. But now we’ve got a shiny new trailer jam-packed… Read more: Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer

A recent AWS GraphRAG deployment reduced drug research and development cycles in pharmaceutical environments by 87 percent. This acceleration is achieved by integrating previously separated proprietary databases into a unified and queryable knowledge graph. Historically,… Read more: AWS GraphRAG deployment cuts drug research cycles by 87%

Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like construction site. Their new system, called “FloatForm,” is a swarm of small… Read more: Tiny robot boats build floating structures

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

Incedo Inc., a leading global AI and data transformation firm, today announced the availability of Incedo DataXel on Google Cloud Marketplace. Incedo DataXel is an agentic AI-powered data modernization platform that helps enterprises replace legacy… Read more: Incedo DataXel Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

Google’s new default AI training settings impact Australian workplaces. Learn how to manage data privacy and Google Search, Lens, and Translate usage. The post Google’s New Default AI Training Setting Puts Australia on Notice appeared… Read more: Google’s New Default AI Training Setting Puts Australia on Notice

Opti9, a leading hybrid cloud solutions provider, today announced the appointment of TJ Houske as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Houske succeeds co-founder Paul Butcher, who will transition to Chairman of the Board following more… Read more: Opti9 Reshapes Leadership to Accelerate Growth

freedom100m/Shutterstock The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. Most recently, its executives wrote about the threat posed by “recursive self-improvement”. This is… Read more: Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

AI companies want to capture the value created by entire industries. That concentration of wealth and power is society’s greatest risk Opposition to AI datacenters has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one… Read more: The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said… Read more: We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute | Rebecca Shaw

This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US… Read more: The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn’t actually a launch company

Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is… Read more: Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it’s causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector. Over… Read more: American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI

Wednesday, John Deere agreed to give farmers broader access to repair their tractors and farm equipment under an antitrust settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, one of the biggest wins in the long right… Read more: Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over

A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing. As much as 41 percent of longform… Read more: LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

New cluster increases available GPU capacity for enterprises running large-scale AI inference applications DeepInfra, a purpose-built cloud platform for high-throughput AI inference, today announced the opening of a new data center location in Toronto. Global… Read more: DeepInfra Launches First International Data Center in Toronto

San Francisco still gets the headlines, but New York is running its own AI economy and it is bigger than most people know. More than 2,000 AI startups now call the city home, backed by… Read more: New York’s AI scene: The 25 companies you need to know

Colorado passed a landmark artificial intelligence law that was challenged in a federal lawsuit. AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images When Colorado replaced its landmark AI law in May 2026, the move looked like… Read more: Why Colorado replaced its AI discrimination law with a transparency requirement that the feds might challenge anyway

Crypto marketplace Coinbase is under fire after sending out an AI-generated breaking news alert that Norway’s national men’s soccer team had clinched a spot in the quarter finals of the ongoing FIFA World Cup by… Read more: Coinbase AI Sends Mass “Breaking News” Alert That’s Completely Hallucinated

A surprising discovery is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how humans develop sharp central vision before birth. Instead of blue cone cells migrating away from the retina’s center, the study found they transform into red and… Read more: A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision

Oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide long after their annual growth has ended, revealing that photosynthesis and wood production are not as closely linked as scientists once believed. The finding could reshape forecasts of how… Read more: Trees keep absorbing carbon long after they stop growing

It wasn’t easy to find anyone outside of SpaceX clamoring for a rocket like Starship just 10 years ago. Today, the space industry can’t wait for Starship to finally deliver. With a payload capacity of… Read more: Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.

Scientists have rewritten the story of gallium after discovering that its unusual atomic bonds re-form at high temperatures, contradicting decades of accepted theory. The finding changes how researchers explain why the metal melts so easily… Read more: Scientists finally solved a 150-year-old gallium mystery

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover’s sophisticated instrument can detect subtle differences in two stable molecules that could preserve evidence of… Read more: This Mars rover could finally reveal whether life ever existed on Mars

Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when the universe was only about 670 million years old. Powered by supermassive black holes billions… Read more: These ancient quasars shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang

Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for possible womb cancer before invasive checks are carried out. According to The Guardian, around 90,000 postmenopausal women in… Read more: NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive womb cancer checks

If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won’t cheer your mood. The OECD found Australia was one of 11 developed countries where the real… Read more: Grattan on Friday: AI’s opportunities and risks front and centre on Albanese government’s agenda

Connect and control agents from everywhere, across any network and device, on the Blocks Network. PubNub introduces Blocks.ai today, a global network to connect and control agents across all agent frameworks, providers, and APIs. Blocks.ai lets developers… Read more: PubNub Unveils Blocks.ai: The Control Plane and Network Layer For AI Agents