
Platform engineering has won the argument. Some 90% of organizations have adopted at least one internal platform; golden paths are
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Platform engineering has won the argument. Some 90% of organizations have adopted at least one internal platform; golden paths are
The post Platform engineering’s new job: serving environments at agent speed appeared first on The New Stack.
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• Jessica Wachtel

Can Grok 4.5 really match Opus for a quarter of the tokens? xAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8. It
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• Matthew Burns

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,
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• Amanda Caswell

Developers building with AI have largely relied on proprietary models like Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol for their most
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• Amanda Caswell

As AI agents tackle more tasks, such as managing online accounts, authentication has become a practical engineering problem. For example,
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As AI agents evolve beyond writing code toward handling everyday tasks for people, the infrastructure required to keep them on
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• Manveer Chawla

A conversion-rate alert fires 30 minutes after a pricing engine deploys updated discount rules. The analytics platform holds millions of
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• Sri Saran Balaji Vellore Rajakumar

Kubernetes controllers are what make the platform’s declarative model real. They observe the state, reconcile toward the intent, and keep
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• Poornima Apte

As enterprise leaders start deploying agentic workflows, they must establish the infrastructure to build and run them, one capable of
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Comic Sans has been mocked, memed, and muzzled from corporate communications since time immemorial, but most people won’t know that
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• Steve Fenton

Why we’ve stopped noticing the real improvement opportunity Since AI arrived, many people have mentioned that the bottleneck has shifted
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• Amanda Caswell

On Wednesday, GoDaddy launched its new developer platform, giving developers a way to manage domains without leaving their development environment.
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Ask a platform team about their deployment capabilities, and you will usually hear a genuinely impressive story. Progressive rollouts that
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• Zziwa Raymond Ian

Caching was one of the most critical optimizations in modern AI systems long before most teams realized it. Early prototypes
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• Adrian Bridgwater

Creator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, has refreshed his stance on the use of AI in software development with
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• Amanda Caswell

Now that AI agents are performing real tasks rather than just generating text, the old methods of manual security testing
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• Zeen Rachidi

Nine days into a twelve-day experiment with an AI coding agent, SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin had one instruction on file:
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• Janakiram MSV

Google made GKE Agent Sandbox generally available in May 2026 and, in the same post, introduced a second project called
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As AI agents gain greater autonomy across the internet, a system of governance is emerging around three questions: how much
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• Amanda Caswell

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, wants to make the social network one of the most transparent major technology
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• Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian wants developers to spend more of their days in Jira. To get them there, Atlassian on Wednesday launched a
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• Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s Codex is about to hit 9 million users, and at least some of those users will soon get a
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Anaconda, a company that provides governed, open-source packages and environments for enterprises, has acquired popular open-source coding agent Kilo. The
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• Yasmin Rajabi

In the same quarter, a $1.7 trillion social network and a shoe company both became cloud providers. Nobody’s operating model
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Imagine you just finished a two-hour meeting. You were wearing a small AI work companion that promised to capture the
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• Amanda Caswell

IBM’s value has plunged after the company issued a preliminary second-quarter earnings update that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.
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• Amanda Caswell

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 last week and folded Codex into a unified ChatGPT desktop app. Since then, the company has been
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• Frederic Lardinois

On Tuesday, AWS announced an expansion to Security Hub, its security operations service, to also monitor Microsoft Azure resources, in addition
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• Alex Wilhelm

Providing secure access for your human staff is no simple task. For one, traditional VPNs often grant unnecessarily broad access,
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• Alex Wilhelm

As the AI cost crisis begins to fade from the forefront, a related fear is rearing its head: The need
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