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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI and Anthropic both speak at once with dueling voice updates

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OpenAI and Anthropic both rolled out major voice updates on Thursday afternoon, but the frontier AI labs seem to be

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Nvidia’s new DNA model learns what token prediction misses

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The AI industry has largely focused on language-based approaches, using transformers trained on massive datasets to predict words or fill

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

“We love the world where we can use both”: How NVIDIA thinks about local and frontier models

The models small enough to run on the box on your desk are getting good enough that the interesting question

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Text • Paul Sawers

Cursor, Ramp, and Meta are all building model routers — but two have major model ambitions themselves

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Cursor, the AI coding tool recently acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a $60 billion all-stock deal, has launched a

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Text • Jenny Morris

Personalization is a ranking problem — architecture makes it work

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Every product team is chasing the same moment: The user opens a page and thinks, this understands me. A shopper

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Text • Ekaterina Okuneva

How regulated organizations can increase AI code velocity safely

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Many industries are excited about the possibilities AI opens up for software development. Still, for regulated industries, there’s something extra

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Text • Emmanuel Akita

Can prompt caching tame RAG costs without sacrificing accuracy?

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The AI ecosystem is drowning in tutorials on how to build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) app in five minutes. The

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Text • Amanda Caswell

White House accuses Moonshot of siphoning Anthropic data

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Top White House technology official Michael Kratsios on Wednesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot of using deceptive practices to

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Agents keep changing their answers. Harness just built delivery pipelines that don’t care.

Software delivery lifecycle company (SDLC) Harness wants to put agents through the same pipelines and controls that all application code

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Text • Paul Sawers

OpenAI built support agents for its own customer service line, now it hopes big enterprises will trust them too

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The general consensus emerging across the AI and industrial spheres is that the models themselves are no longer the bottleneck

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Text • Amanda Caswell

“Every few months, a new model made part of our roadmap unnecessary”: Why Mendral’s founders gave up their startup for Anthropic

Anthropic is bringing the team behind AI startup Mendral on board to strengthen Claude’s software engineering capabilities. As part of

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours.

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Moonshot AI became the latest AI company to discover that launching a popular model is only half the battle. Less

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Single-pass AI code isn’t dead, but “high-reasoning” is the next frontier

Ask an AI model what comes next after “bacon-double”, and the return is fairly unanimously “cheeseburger.” It’s a pattern-matched, single-pass

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Microsoft is building an AI stack it doesn’t fully own — on purpose

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Microsoft and Mistral are deepening their partnership with a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on enterprise AI infrastructure. The goal is to

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Video • Frederic Lardinois

Block built a Slack for AI agents — and gave each one its own passport

Block on Tuesday launched Buzz, a free, open-source workspace meant to give people and AI agents a Slack-like service for

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Google ships 3 new Gemini models. Just not the one everyone’s waiting for.

Google on Tuesday launched three new Gemini models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and faster 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash

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Text • Oliver Wolf

Kubernetes made deploying easy. Nobody warned you about the databases.

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The DevOps movement, set in motion nearly 20 years ago, broke down the traditional divide between software developers and IT

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Text • Tim Young

Is retrieval engineering becoming AI’s next bottleneck?

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Public AI assistants have become so commonplace that software vendors are increasingly adding AI search, conversational experiences, and AI agents

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Text • Mary Branscombe

The rise of the agent runtime: The compute platform behind production agents

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The fast pace of AI research means organizations now have a wide range of models to choose from that can

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Text • Manu Narayan

In a world of AI agents, where do we fit in?

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For more than a decade, leaders have used the phrase “Future of Work” to describe how technology is transforming business.

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Text • Paul Sawers

“Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real data

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Alibaba has revealed Qwen 3.8, its latest, greatest large language model (LLM) which, it says, is among the most powerful

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Google just bet its inference future on a chip built for one model

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The race to make AI inference cheaper is pushing chip design beyond general-purpose accelerators. We’re now moving toward silicon that

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Text • Nick Lucchesi

Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower

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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in mid-July, selling it as a serious professional coding tool that competes head-on with Claude

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Text • Janakiram MSV

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture

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Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic employees worked “literally around the clock” to keep Fable 5 from disappearing

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After weeks of extending temporary access while bringing additional inference capacity online, Anthropic has finalized Claude Fable 5 subscriptions. In

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Spark 4.2 has a feature that could retire your vector database

Apache Spark 4.2 launched last week, and it signals an expansion of Spark’s decade-plus role at the center of enterprise

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Text • Ankit Jain

Move code review before the code

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The pull request as we know it is roughly 20 years old, younger than the careers of many people now

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Text • Sajjan Gundapuneedi

Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent

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When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe

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Text • Andy Gombar

AI didn’t replace our security team — it multiplied it.

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For years, the assumption in security has been straightforward: mature detection and response programs require a Security Operations Center (SOC).

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Text • Asaf Wiener

The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer.

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There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model,

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