Connecting an agent to a new tool used to mean custom integration work every single time. MCP is the standard that removes that.
Terms covered:
– MCP (Model Context Protocol): a standardized way for AI models to communicate with external tools and data sources. One standard, many integrations.
– MCP Runner: the runtime component that manages those connections and makes sure the interactions happen reliably at scale
In practice: a healthcare organization connects an agent to patient records, scheduling and compliance tools through the same protocol. A financial services firm links market data, risk systems and reporting without rebuilding the connection layer each time.
MCP defines how agents talk to the world. The MCP Runner makes those conversations happen.
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Pengyuan Li of IBM Research returns to OpenCV Live, following his August 2025 appearance where he introduced Granite Vision, IBM’s lightweight open vision-language model built for enterprise document understanding. This time the focus shifts from the model to the workflow: how Granite Vision pairs with Docling, IBM’s open-source document conversion toolkit, to turn PDFs, scans, tables, and charts into structured data that downstream applications and LLM pipelines can use. Expect a look at recent work, including chart-to-data extraction integrated into Docling, along with practical guidance for anyone building document processing systems.
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At PyTorch Conference North America 2026, Nicolò Lucchesi, Research Engineer at Mistral AI and vLLM maintainer, will present joint work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat on how disaggregated serving in vLLM has evolved to support the latest generation of hybrid models.
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Interactive Spark at Your Fingertips: Integrating SparkConnect into Kubeflow Notebooks – Vikas Saxena, RAICS.AI
Background Apache Spark is indispensable for large-scale data processing and feature engineering in ML pipelines. However, running Spark interactively within a Kubeflow Notebooks environment has historically relied on tools like Jupyter Enterprise Gateway and Apache Toree — both of which are no longer actively maintained, making them a security risk, a source of operational debt, and unlikely to support future Spark versions. Why SparkConnect (and Almond for Scala users)? SparkConnect is a Spark-native, actively maintained alternative which, combined with the Spark Operator, makes Spark a true native service inside Kubeflow — no third-party gateway, no external process management. Because the connection is interactive, data scientists can run exploratory analysis and quick proof-of-concepts against large datasets without spinning up dedicated jobs — iterating cell by cell, at scale, just like working with a local DataFrame. What we’ll cover A live walkthrough of: Deploying SparkConnect as a Kubernetes service Connecting to the deployed service using PySpark Connecting to the deployed service using the Scala API
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$1.75. That’s what the model usage came to for HYPERFORM, the VR rhythm game you’re watching. 👀
Muse Code built the arena, the hand interactions, the scoring, and the whole gameplay loop with Immersive Web SDK (IWSDK), all in about four hours of agent runtime, with a developer making the architecture calls along the way.
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The Agents API brings a hosted version of the Codex harness to your applications. See how to build an agent that investigates production incidents, connects to tools through MCP, follows a runbook, and delivers a shareable report with evidence and suggested next steps.
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