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Text • Alex Wilhelm

Scripted tests can’t keep up with AI-written code. Datadog is betting agents can.

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

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Text • Ankit Jain

How to review AI code without reading the code

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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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Text • Paul Sawers

DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine behind its API. And Huawei gets equal billing with Nvidia.

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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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Text • Matthew Burns

Beam pulls single app windows off the Mac Mini running your agents

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

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Text • Steve Fenton

AI’s Midas problem: When code is free, features are worthless

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

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Text • Amanda Caswell

MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow.

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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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Text • Amanda Caswell

One sentence changed Claude Code’s overreach rate from 0% to 17.1%

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Anthropic is reportedly developing a model that can infer what users want from incomplete instructions. According to The Information, a

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Text • Paul Sawers

DeepSeek made its name with cheap AI models. Now it’s undercutting search API rivals, too.

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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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Text • Lily Rivers-Klee

The distroless security gap: Why bottom-up containers are the next evolution in OCI images

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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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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate

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

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox

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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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Text • Joe Betz

Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room

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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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Text • Cynthia Dunlop

Here are the engineering lessons we learned when live-streaming sports to 32 million people

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Live sports involve myriad unknowns, but one thing is certain: the live video feed must play flawlessly, and simultaneously, for

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Text • Matt Waxman

AI has lowered the barrier to building. Here’s what that means for engineers.

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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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Text • Amanda Caswell

His scanner wouldn’t work on Linux — so he let Claude study the Windows driver

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

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Text • Vikram Seshadri

AI agents vs. Kubernetes: where each belongs in the control loop

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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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Text • Bill Doerrfeld

AI agents turn one request into about 20. Kubernetes is evolving to handle it.

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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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Text • Mayank Ahluwalia

Only 34% trust synthetic data’s referential integrity — and it’s holding adoption back

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While enterprise leaders overwhelmingly believe in the promise of synthetic data, adoption lags. As a result, synthetic data has great,

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Text • Paul Sawers

Employees are vibe-coding their own apps. Cloudflare open-sources Void to give IT a handle on them

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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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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Running local AI models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What we found

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

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Muse Wonder vs. Claude Fable 5.1: Meta’s new model came closer than I expected

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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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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain

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

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Hackers hijacked 1,900 GitHub accounts. Then they went after 30,000 repos.

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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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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend

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

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI promised developers six months’ notice. GPT-4o users got three.

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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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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models

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

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop

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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Text • Walid Abu-Hadba

What it takes to become an AI company: Four lessons from the top

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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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Text • Meredith Shubel

Anthropic’s been eyeing confidential AI. It just made its move with another acquihire.

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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Text • Paul Sawers

“Everybody with a $20 account is now a researcher”: How Akrites is tackling the flood of AI bug reports

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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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