
Nearly a year into the agentic coding explosion, many teams now use AI to write software as their de facto
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• Alex Wilhelm

Nearly a year into the agentic coding explosion, many teams now use AI to write software as their de facto
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The argument over whether engineers should stop reading code is over, because we already have. Faros AI’s new report shows
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DeepSeek has open-sourced the inference engine it uses to serve its models in production, a step it said last year
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• Matthew Burns

Beam is a new Mac app that takes a window running on one Mac and puts it on another, where
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• Steve Fenton

Every team that adopted Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to produce more code has the same problem: When output is
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• Amanda Caswell

MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on Monday, saying it cuts agent costs by 70 percent. Per-token prices fell by half, which
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• Amanda Caswell

Anthropic is reportedly developing a model that can infer what users want from incomplete instructions. According to The Information, a
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Not content with challenging the major frontier AI labs with lower-cost models, Chinese AI company DeepSeek is setting its sights
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• Lily Rivers-Klee

Ever tried to shrink your container images to reduce their attack surface? If you have, you’ve likely discovered a frustrating
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• Jessica Wachtel

When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark
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• Amanda Caswell

Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub,
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Three clusters in trouble, and they look nothing alike. The first is a training fleet. It sat at a few
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• Cynthia Dunlop

Live sports involve myriad unknowns, but one thing is certain: the live video feed must play flawlessly, and simultaneously, for
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For most of software’s history, building meant writing code. Not just understanding it, but producing it. The entry point was
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• Amanda Caswell

Christian Schaller, a Red Hat engineering director and longtime GNOME and Fedora contributor, had a box of old family negatives
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• Vikram Seshadri

Kubernetes has always relied on agents, just not the kind dominating today’s AI conversations. A controller watches the current state,
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• Bill Doerrfeld

Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon, where we’re tracking interesting movements in the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystem as
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• Mayank Ahluwalia

While enterprise leaders overwhelmingly believe in the promise of synthetic data, adoption lags. As a result, synthetic data has great,
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Many companies are keen to let employees build their own applications using AI, even those with little or no programming
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• Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft is positioning the new Surface Laptop Ultra as an alternative to Apple’s MacBook Pros for creatives and developers —
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• Jessica Wachtel

Meta launched Muse Wonder on October 12, about three months after Muse Spark 1.1 opened Meta’s paid Model API. Meta
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• Adrian Bridgwater

Every time an AI agent has to trawl Slack threads, Jira tickets and old pull requests to piece together something
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• Amanda Caswell

Hackers accessed roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts, then used them to slip credential-stealing workflows into more than 30,000 repositories. The malicious
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• Frederic Lardinois

Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco
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• Amanda Caswell

OpenAI is retiring four GPT-4 models from its API on January 14, 2027. The deprecation notice the company sent developers
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• Frederic Lardinois

Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is
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• Frederic Lardinois

Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for
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• Walid Abu-Hadba

Every company is under pressure to become “an AI company.” Over the past several months, we’ve been undertaking that transformation
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• Meredith Shubel

Anthropic’s done it again. On Tuesday, Opaque Systems announced a new agreement with Anthropic that “carries Opaque’s work forward.” Vague
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AI is making it easier than ever to find potential security vulnerabilities in open source software. But finding something that
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