OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT. The GPT-4.1 models should help software engineers who are using ChatGPT to write or debug code, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo told TechCrunch. GPT-4.1 excels at coding and instruction following compared to GPT-4o, according to OpenAI, but is faster than its o-series of reasoning models. The company says it’s now rolling out GPT-4.1 to subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team. Meanwhile, OpenAI is releasing GPT-4.1 mini for free and paying users of ChatGPT. As a result of this update, OpenAI is removing GPT-4.0 mini from ChatGPT for all users. “GPT-4.1 doesn’t introduce new modalities or ways of interacting with the model, and doesn’t surpass o3 in intelligence,” said OpenAI’s Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke in a post. “This means that the safety considerations here, while substantial, are different from frontier models.” Now, OpenAI is releasing more information about GPT-4.1 and all its AI models. OpenAI has committed to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more frequently as part of an effort to increase transparency. Those results will live in OpenAI’s new Safety Evaluations Hub, which it launched on Wednesday.
Capgemini’s mainframe modernization offering automates legacy code analysis and extraction of business rules using a set of generative AI agents
Capgemini has launched a new offering that enables organizations to unlock greater value from their legacy systems at unprecedented speed and accuracy. The new approach, powered by generative and agentic AI, allows organizations to gain cost savings, agility, and a significant improvement in data quality. It converts legacy mainframe applications into modern, agile, and cloud-friendly formats that can run more efficiently either on or outside of a mainframe. Capgemini’s automated mainframe application refactoring uses tools and techniques to automatically convert legacy mainframe applications, such as those written in COBOL, into modern architecture. The approach is supported by rigorous automated testing for faster, higher-quality transformations and reduced risk for businesses. Capgemini’s experience in delivering large and complex mainframe modernization programs, market leadership in AI, deep domain knowledge, and broad understanding of complex industry regulations has already delivered tangible results for blue-chip clients.
Boomi and AWS partner to offer a centralized management solution for deploying, monitoring, and governing AI agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with built-in support for MCP via a single API
Boomi announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS to help customers build, manage, monitor and govern Gen AI agents across enterprise operations. Additionally, the SCA will aim to help customers accelerate SAP migrations from on-premises to AWS. By integrating Amazon Bedrock with the Boomi Agent Control Tower, a centralized management solution for deploying, monitoring, and governing AI agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, customers can easily discover, build, and manage agents executing in their AWS accounts, while also maintaining visibility and control over agents running in other cloud provider or third-party environments. Through a single API, Amazon Bedrock provides a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI in mind, including support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data and AI-powered tools. MCP enables agents to effectively interpret and work with ERP data while complying with data governance and security requirements. Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO at Boomi. “By integrating Amazon Bedrock’s powerful generative AI capabilities with Boomi’s Agent Control Tower, we’re giving organizations unprecedented visibility and control across their entire AI ecosystem while simultaneously accelerating their critical SAP workload migrations to AWS. This partnership enables enterprises to confidently scale their AI initiatives with the security, compliance, and operational excellence their business demands.” Apart from Agent Control Tower, the collaboration will introduce several strategic joint initiatives, including: Enhanced Agent Designer; and New Native AWS Connectors and Boomi for SAP.
JPMorgan Chase and Infleqtion reduce the hardware overhead in QC by 100X to as few as 20 physical qubits through use of error-correction techniques
JPMorgan Chase and quantum technology company Infleqtion have released an open-source software library to reduce the hardware requirements for practical quantum computing applications. The new qLDPC library introduces error-correction techniques that reduce the number of physical qubits needed to create reliable logical qubits by a factor of 10 to 100x. This development addresses one of quantum computing’s key challenges, the substantial hardware overhead in qubit numbers typically required for fault tolerance. “This library makes it possible to bring that number down by 100x – down to as few as 20 physical qubits per logical qubit,” Pranav Gokhale, general manager of computing at Infleqtion, told. Depending on the implementation, the new library reduces the requirement to between 15 and 150 qubits. The tools are specifically designed for Infleqtion’s neutral atom-based quantum computing hardware, which offers customizable qubit layouts, enabling more efficient error-correcting codes. The library has been released as open-source software, an uncommon approach for a financial institution partnership. For JPMorgan Chase, the development could enable new applications in financial optimization, risk analysis and fraud detection by making quantum computing more practical. The reduction in required physical qubits makes quantum approaches to complex financial problems more viable. The qLDPC library is now available for developers, researchers and hardware partners to explore methods for improving error correction and optimizing quantum workloads across various platforms. According to Gokhale, the open-source software approach, combined with finding talent in unexpected places, is helping bridge the workforce gap by making quantum computing more accessible.
Apple Vision Pro’s new eye-tracking feature to let users move around the app simply by looking around without requiring any hand gesture for selecting or interacting
Owners of the Apple Vision Pro will soon have the option of scrolling through apps using their eyes, without lifting a finger. Apple is working on a feature that builds upon the existing eye-tracking functionality of the Apple Vision Pro. Allegedly being tested for possible inclusion in visionOS 3, it will let users move around the app simply by looking around. The Apple Vision Pro already uses eye-tracking to determine what a user is looking at, with a pinching hand gesture used to select what is being focused upon. This seems like it would be a fairly reasonable progression of the functionality, and could be a boon for users who don’t necessarily wish to keep raising and lowering their hands to interact with an app. Apple will be making the functionality available across its own app collection. Developers will also be able to use the feature in their visionOS apps. The Apple Vision Pro is not the only device with eye-tracking functions. In June 2024, Apple introduced eye-tracking features to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as an accessibility feature, using the front-facing camera. In that iteration, Dwell Control automatically selects an item for a user once they have rested their gaze on a selectable element for a period of time. Smoothing and Snap-to-Item were also configurable to help with hands-free navigation.
Arete Wealth to integrate Orion’s portfolio management, reporting, trading, compliance, and client engagement tools into its advisory platform to enable RIAs to optimize workflows and offer superior client management
Arete Wealth, a leading broker-dealer and registered investment advisory firm, has partnered with Orion, a leading provider of wealthtech solutions for financial advisors and enterprise firms. The strategic collaboration aims to enhance advisory services and streamline operations for Arete Wealth’s Corporate RIA and affiliated Independent RIAs. Orion’s platform integrates portfolio management, reporting, trading, compliance, and client engagement tools, enabling financial professionals to drive efficiencies, improve client experiences, and scale their businesses effectively. Arete Wealth’s new partnership with Orion is a significant step in its strategy to provide advisors with the most innovative tools available, ensuring they can optimize their practices and better serve their clients. The partnership comes at a time of substantial growth for Arete Wealth, which has nearly doubled its Advisory Assets Under Management (AUM) since 2022. Orion’s platform will play a crucial role in supporting this trajectory, delivering seamless integration, advanced analytics, and superior client engagement capabilities to Arete’s growing network of financial professionals.
Lithic expands its card issuing platform to enable fintechs to issue debit, credit and prepaid cards on the American Express network
Lithic announced the expansion of its platform to enable fintechs to issue cards on the American Express® network. Fintechs of all sizes now have the opportunity to apply to develop and scale innovative payments solutions for consumers and businesses with access to the American Express network. “By empowering fintechs to issue cards on the American Express network, our customers now have a differentiated product choice that can deliver exceptional value to their users,” said Bo Jiang, CEO of Lithic. Lithic will unlock a new network option for fintechs looking to launch card products, with the global acceptance and trusted reliability of the American Express network, paired with Lithic’s modern and scalable card issuing platform. “The partnership helps fintechs and other industry disruptors launch payment products and capabilities quickly and easily on the Amex network, while providing access to our differentiated brand, assets and expertise,” said Will Stredwick, SVP and GM of Global Network Services for North America at American Express.
PayPal and Venmo to enable instant in-chat checkout, supporting agentic commerce within Perplexity’s AI answer engine; account linking, tokenized wallet and passkey checkout flows would eliminate the need for passwords
Perplexity has partnered with PayPal to power agentic commerce across its Perplexity Pro platform. Starting this summer in the U.S., consumers can check out instantly with PayPal or Venmo when they ask Perplexity to find products, book travel, or buy tickets. ”This partnership unlocks new possibilities, where conversations now drive commerce,” said Alex Chriss, President and CEO of PayPal. ”We’re making it easy and secure to shop right in the chat when inspiration strikes. It’s a powerful step in making conversational commerce a reality.” The entire process, including payment, shipping, tracking, and invoicing will be handled behind the scenes with PayPal’s account linking, secure tokenized wallet and emerging passkey checkout flows, which could eliminate the need for passwords and streamline the experience to a single user query or click. Key features include: Agentic Commerce: Integration of PayPal’s commerce solutions, enabling users to buy products or services directly in Perplexity’s chat interface. Global Reach: Expanding Perplexity’s commerce tools to PayPal’s 430+ million active accounts across approximately 200 markets. Secure Transactions: Leveraging PayPal’s robust fraud detection and data security protocols.
Twilio’s new ConversationRelay, allows developers to build voice agents using their choice of LLMs; plans to make RCS messaging and WhatsApp Business Calling generally available
Communication tool provider Twilio announced updates including a next-generation customer engagement platform built for an artificial intelligence and data-driven future, along with a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to advance conversational AI. Leading the list of announcements was a next-generation platform designed to unify communications, data and AI into a single, flexible infrastructure for customer engagement. The platform integrates omnichannel communication tools, including voice, SMS, email, video and over-the top, with contextual data from Twilio’s Segment Customer Data Platform and a growing portfolio of native AI capabilities. The enhancements unveiled by Twilio span three core areas — conversational AI, compliance and personalization. The updates are designed to help businesses deliver more intelligent, compliant and tailored customer engagement at scale. ConversationRelay, a tool that allows developers to build voice agents using their choice of large language models. The service includes features such as real-time streaming, advanced speech recognition, interruption handling and human-like voice rendering. Conversational Intelligence is now generally available for voice and entered private beta for messaging, allowing companies to turn conversations into structured insights. Twilio introduced a new Compliance Toolkit, now in public beta, to help businesses manage requirements such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act more easily. The company also announced plans to make RCS messaging and WhatsApp Business Calling generally available later this year. For personalization and insights, Twilio updated its Segment Customer Data Platform with a redesigned Journeys architecture that now supports event-triggered workflows and richer contextual payloads. The improvements are complemented with new integrations for SMS and SendGrid, as well as new partnerships with Amplitude Inc. and Attribution App. Twilio is also expanding data residency options in the EU for email and SMS, further strengthening its global compliance capabilities. Along with product updates, Twilio announced a new strategic partnership with Microsoft to jointly develop and deploy conversational AI experiences at scale. Under the partnership, Twilio will integrate its engagement platform with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry to power AI-driven communications, including multi-channel AI agents, advanced contact center assistants via Twilio Agent Copilot and multi-modal customer interaction tools.
Foxit’s AI platform enables redaction at scale by adding batch document processing, scheduled compliance scans, multi-cloud integration, and team collaboration tools
Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the launch of Smart Redact Server, a powerful new AI-driven platform built to automate the redaction of sensitive data at scale across enterprise environments. Designed for organizations that manage large volumes of regulated content, the solution enables legal, financial, healthcare, and compliance teams to detect and redact classified, personally identifiable (PII), and other sensitive information quickly, accurately, and securely. Smart Redact Server equips teams tasked with data privacy and regulatory compliance, including (but not limited to) enterprise administrators, legal and compliance departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations with a fast, reliable, and scalable way to identify and redact sensitive content, whether it’s personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, or protected health data. Building on the success of Foxit’s Smart Redact feature within its flagship PDF Editor+ platform, Smart Redact Server extends these capabilities beyond individual documents to an enterprise-grade, cloud-native solution. This new offering leverages the proven redaction technology of PDF Editor+ and enhances it with robust features, including batch document processing, scheduled compliance scans, multi-cloud integration, and team collaboration tools. Key Features:
- AI-powered detection and redaction of PII, financial, legal, and medical data with over 99% accuracy
- Batch processing and scheduled scans to automate compliance workflows and reduce manual effort
- Support for 47 file types, including PDF, DOCX, scanned images, HTML, JSON, XML, and more
- Cloud-native SaaS platform with integration across OneDrive,