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IBM Bob llega en versión autoalojada para entornos aislados

IBM ha lanzado una versión autoalojada de IBM Bob, su plataforma agéntica de desarrollo de software. Las empresas ya pueden hacer desarrollo asistido por IA y modernizar aplicaciones en su propia infraestructura, sin enviar código a un servicio externo. La opción abarca centros de datos propios, nubes privadas, nubes soberanas y entornos totalmente aislados. Una nube soberana mantiene los datos bajo la jurisdicción de un país o una región concretos. Un entorno aislado, o air-gapped, está completamente desconectado de redes externas.

El cliente al que apunta está claro. Son organizaciones cuyo código fuente es sensible, cuyos datos están regulados o cuyos sistemas son demasiado críticos para exponerlos a una herramienta de IA alojada fuera. IBM dirige el lanzamiento a servicios financieros, administraciones públicas, sanidad e infraestructuras críticas, y a cualquier empresa preocupada por proteger su propiedad intelectual.

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IBM Bob Goes Self-Hosted for Air-Gapped AI Development

IBM has released a self-hosted version of IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform. Companies can now run AI-assisted development and application modernization on their own infrastructure instead of sending code to an outside service. The option covers on-premises data centers, private clouds, sovereign clouds and fully air-gapped environments. A sovereign cloud keeps data under a specific country's or region's jurisdiction. An air-gapped environment is cut off from external networks entirely.

The target customer is clear. These are organizations whose source code is sensitive, whose data is regulated, or whose systems are too critical to expose to an externally hosted AI tool. IBM is pitching the release to financial services, government, healthcare and critical infrastructure, and to any business worried about protecting its intellectual property.

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AI Beats CPAs at Bookkeeping, but Still Needs Oversight

AI models now handle structured bookkeeping work faster, more accurately and far more cheaply than trained accountants. That is the main result of a new study from Mercor. The same study also shows that these systems still cannot finish a full accounting cycle without a human checking the work.

The two findings point in different directions, and both matter. Below is what the study measured, what it left out, and why the gap between the two is the real story.

The head-to-head test

Mercor recruited 12 licensed CPAs. CPA stands for certified public accountant, the main professional accounting credential in the United States. On average, the participants had five and a half years of experience. They worked through simplified tasks taken from the APEX Accounting Benchmark, Mercor's test suite for accounting work.

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Google Suncatcher: Space AI Needs 1,800 Starship Launches

Google has put one of its own AI chips into orbit for the first time. A prototype compute satellite carrying a Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) lifted off on a SpaceX rocket from California. It is the first hardware test of Project Suncatcher, the company's plan to build large compute clusters in space.

On the same day, Google published a peer-reviewed version of its white paper on orbital data centers. The paper sets out how much has to change before the idea becomes practical, and much of that depends on SpaceX's Starship flying far more often than it does today.

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Flux 3 Image Brings Multi-Step Edits That Keep Scenes Intact

Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released Flux 3 Image, the image-generation part of its new Flux 3 model family. The main selling point is editing. According to BFL, users can make several edits in a row without the model changing parts of the picture they never asked it to touch.

That is a narrow claim, but an important one. Most people who refine an AI image over several rounds want each change to stay contained, so that fixing a background does not also alter a face or a product label. BFL says Flux 3 Image handles that kind of step-by-step workflow. So far, that comes from the company itself and has not been independently tested.

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