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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper

A quiet revolution is brewing in the AI model space. The dominance of proprietary closed frontier models has been cemented

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“Vibe coding slop”: Port’s CEO on the problem with ungoverned AI dev

Vibe coding, left alone on the dance floor without any steps, shimmy, or syncopation, lacks the rhythm it needs to

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Text • Amanda Rueda

The MCP debate has a context problem

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Every few months, a new technology gets its premature obituary. Across many developer circles, MCP’s has already been written. Too

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

AI can finally read your handwriting — here’s why enterprises care

The seemingly unquenchable thirst of the AI data ingestion pipeline spans language, numerical, and tabular data in the first instance, while

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model.

Sunny Gupta spent a decade and a half building Apptio into the system of record for enterprise technology spend. His

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Text • Paul Sawers

Prefect just bought Dagster, another big Airflow rival — and it’s not a data pipeline story

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Prefect, best known for the eponymous open-source data pipeline and workflow orchestrator, has announced that it’s acquiring Dagster, one of

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says you’re paying for AI twice — the second price is worse

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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella took to the internet to share his thoughts about the hidden cost of enterprise

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic extends Fable 5 again — and won’t talk about what developers found inside Cursor

Anthropic has extended its enhanced access to Claude Fable 5 for all paid subscribers through July 19, marking the third

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Text • Carly Page

What an ex-NSA red teamer wants every SOC to stop doing

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Security teams have spent years trying to see more. More endpoints, more cloud services, more identities, more telemetry. For the

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Text • Laureano Gonzalez

Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down

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I use AI every day, and I would not want to go back. That is probably the simplest way to

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Text • Hannah Culver

APIs aren’t dead. Here’s where MCP fits alongside them.

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The allure of emerging technology is undeniable, but adopting it rarely means completely ripping out what already works. Instead, new

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Text • Pekka Enberg

How async processing hides latency and improves responsiveness

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Editor’s Note: This article contains an exclusive excerpt from Latency by Pekka Engberg, which helps readers diagnose latency problems and

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic’s newest enterprise partner is training 20,000 people on Claude — here’s the shift it signals

The clearest signal of a major pivot in enterprise AI came this week when Anthropic announced its second Global Premier Partner in the

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Meet Brain, the AI that decides when Azure is officially down

Microsoft recently took the wraps off Brain, the internal AI system that continuously monitors Azure’s health and, increasingly, acts on

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Text • Arjun Iyer

85% say code review is the new bottleneck. Here’s what the AI coding narrative leaves out.

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A merge is a contract. The moment a change lands on main, every other team in the organization starts building

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Text • Andrew Sellers

The impressive AI demo is dead. Here’s what actually reaches production

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Most engineering teams I talk to can ship an AI demo. The prototype works, stakeholders are impressed, and everyone agrees

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Text • Paul Sawers

Microsoft joins Google in backing Go for AI agents — OpenAI and Anthropic lag

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Go has emerged as the lingua franca for cloud infrastructure, used for everything from container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines to

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Text • Matthew Burns

In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price

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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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Text • Amanda Caswell

Meta’s Iris push signals the next phase of AI infrastructure

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Meta is preparing to manufacture its own AI chip for the first time. According to an internal memo, the company

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Text • Isaac Flath

Why retrieval quality is becoming the defining challenge in AI agent architecture

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Agentic systems usually have two jobs: Build context, then use that context to produce an answer or action. Many failures

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Text • Raghav Tripathi

What running Kubernetes across millions of clusters taught AWS about zone failures

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Handling the obvious failures is the easy part: a server goes down, you spin up another. The failures that actually

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Anthropic wants you to use AI to decide whether or not you should use AI.

On Thursday, Anthropic released reflection, a new feature that lets users track and review their Claude activity. Available now in beta

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Text • Janakiram MSV

OpenAI, Microsoft & Anthropic agree on who runs the agent. They disagree on what you can take back.

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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9 and began rolling it out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users. It runs

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Text • Meredith Shubel

“Every IC engineer is really a front line manager now.” But are they productive?

Saying AI has changed the way software engineers work is an understatement, but Cameron Etezadi, CTO, LaunchDarkly and former VP

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Why zero vulnerability code packages could still be your biggest software supply chain risk

The unwelcome specter of software supply chain security threats has been the main character in the narrative security specialists have

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Meta debuts Muse Spark 1.1 and it isn’t free

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Meta on Thursday rolled out Muse Spark 1.1, a major update to its AI platform, just three months after launching

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI is folding Codex into the ChatGPT app — and taking aim at Claude Cowork

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch on Thursday was widely expected, but in addition to the new models, the company also made a

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 is now live

As expected, OpenAI on Thursday made its family of GPT-5.6 models available to its app and API users globally. This

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Enterprise AI benchmarks are broken

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Every enterprise software vendor claims its AI agent is production-ready, but how to measure it remains up in the air. The

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Jensen Huang says traditional coding is dead. Here’s what comes next.

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Traditional coding is at a crossroads. The manual process of writing syntax like Python is rapidly being replaced by agentic

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