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Text • Meredith Shubel

OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking

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In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

How to find failures without drowning in tracing data

On The New Stack podcast, Sarah Hudspeth of Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, explains how teams can build a more effective tracing strategy

A metrics dashboard can tell you a system’s health with ease. A log can help you understand a discrete failure.

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Text • Amanda Caswell

GPT-6 Astra aced the hardest AI benchmark. The asterisk matters more than the score.

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There was no mistaking the divide in March with the release of ARC-AGI-3. While frontier AI models could do little

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Text • Boris Chabeda

The systems guide to production token optimization

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When enterprise AI applications scale, they inevitably hit a wall. For many engineering teams this wall is initially diagnosed as

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Text • Sajjan Gundapuneedi

Cut GPU inference cold start from 8 minutes to less than a minute

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We instrumented the full path from pod creation to first inference response on a GPU node running a 70B-class model.

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the “AGI era”

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest flagship model. The company describes it as “the world’s most intelligent and

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Text • Paul Sawers

“Hugging Face will remain an open platform”: Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the ‘GitHub of AI’

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Nvidia has confirmed that it’s agreed to acquire Hugging Face in a mammoth $12.9 billion deal that will bring one

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Text • Amanda Caswell

It cost $33 to build a virtual Union Square. Here’s what the agents got wrong.

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PhiloLabs wanted to see how far a group of AI coding agents could get building something where working code wasn’t

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Nvidia PAIR lets you put your idle Macs and PCs to work for AI agents

Nvidia’s bet on open models and local AI has been taking shape for a while now. Its acquisition of Hugging

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

Want to scale AI agents without breaking anything? Retrieval engineering is the answer.

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AI agents are multiplying as corporations adopt the technology in record numbers. Smarter underlying models, better tool use, and improved

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Text • Paul Sawers

“Google was ahead only a few hours”: Muse Spark 1.3 edges out Gemini as Meta claims its biggest coding leap yet

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It has been a big week for Meta in the AI sphere, formally launching its Muse Code coding agent out

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Multiverse says its 438B model is fast enough for AI agents. The benchmarks tell a more complicated story.

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A 438-billion-parameter reasoning model isn’t an obvious choice when speed is a priority. Multiverse Computing is betting that compression can

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Your next OpenAI API timeout might not be a timeout at all

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OpenAI said Tuesday that its upcoming Astra model is the company’s first to reach the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Anthropic’s Claude failures have made agent observability a security priority

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Anthropic aimed to steer its ship into safer, more carefully charted waters this week. The company announced it was improving

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Google ships its third Gemini Flash model in six weeks

Google hasn’t released a Gemini Pro model in a while, but on Wednesday, the company launched yet another set of

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Vercel built a feedback loop that treats agent instructions like software

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Vercel ran more than 200 agent runs to build design.md, a new public prompt file designed to help agents create

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Text • Manu Narayan

Your organization prioritized AI adoption, but you actually need AI fluency.

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Thanks to increasingly capable models, some parts of your business are getting faster, more capable, and more productive every month.

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Claude Fable 5.1 watermark: It has a blind spot developers can’t ignore

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Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 on Tuesday with a statistical signature embedded in its generated text, but developers shouldn’t expect

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step.

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Runway introduced Solaris on Monday, the first model of a new class of AI systems it calls Interface World Models,

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is a bit cheaper, a bit smarter, and refuses a lot less

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the latest versions of its flagship Fable and Mythos models. Anthropic promises that the updated models

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Your Mac is now part of Perplexity’s AI infrastructure

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Perplexity wants its AI agents to use more of the computing power already sitting inside a Mac. The company launched

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

GLM-5.3-Flash vs. GLM-5.3: Time and money, not the spec sheet

I always wonder about the end goal when companies launch products so close together and undercut each other by claiming

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Video • Frederic Lardinois

Meta just beat OpenAI and Google at real-time transcription

Meta’s Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday launched Muse Voice Transcribe, a new real-time speech recognition model that, at least on some

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Text • Andy Gombar

Vibe-coded apps are the new shadow IT

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Shadow IT used to be a SaaS problem. Someone on the marketing team signed up for a tool, connected it

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Text • Paul Sawers

Meta’s Claude Code rival exits beta with three new subscription tiers — and it’s pushing hard on price

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Meta has formally launched Muse Code out of beta, less than a month after first debuting the coding agent. Alongside

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Text • Max Liu

When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem

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Every application has always needed a place to keep its state. That is not new. What is new is who

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Text • Paul Sawers

SpaceX is in an “enviable position”: why Anthropic is sticking with Cursor as OpenAI cuts access

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OpenAI caused something of a stir over the weekend when it announced plans to cut Cursor’s direct access to OpenAI

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Text • Amanda Caswell

MCP was supposed to solve the agent tooling problem. It missed a step.

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Connecting an AI agent to a tool is relatively straightforward. Things get more complicated once an organization has hundreds or

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Google’s new forecasting model beats everyone. You can’t use it at work (yet).

On Monday, Google launched TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter time-series forecasting model trained on over a trillion real-world and synthetic data time

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Text • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Elon Musk chose Vera Rubin for orbit. Now it must be redesigned for space.

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SpaceX and Nvidia say they are adapting the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform for orbital use, with SpaceX targeting

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