
The DevOps movement, set in motion nearly 20 years ago, broke down the traditional divide between software developers and IT
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The DevOps movement, set in motion nearly 20 years ago, broke down the traditional divide between software developers and IT
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Public AI assistants have become so commonplace that software vendors are increasingly adding AI search, conversational experiences, and AI agents
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• Mary Branscombe

The fast pace of AI research means organizations now have a wide range of models to choose from that can
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• Manu Narayan

For more than a decade, leaders have used the phrase “Future of Work” to describe how technology is transforming business.
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Alibaba has revealed Qwen 3.8, its latest, greatest large language model (LLM) which, it says, is among the most powerful
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• Amanda Caswell

The race to make AI inference cheaper is pushing chip design beyond general-purpose accelerators. We’re now moving toward silicon that
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• Nick Lucchesi

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in mid-July, selling it as a serious professional coding tool that competes head-on with Claude
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• Janakiram MSV

Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all
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• Amanda Caswell

After weeks of extending temporary access while bringing additional inference capacity online, Anthropic has finalized Claude Fable 5 subscriptions. In
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• Amanda Caswell

Apache Spark 4.2 launched last week, and it signals an expansion of Spark’s decade-plus role at the center of enterprise
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The pull request as we know it is roughly 20 years old, younger than the careers of many people now
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• Sajjan Gundapuneedi

When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe
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For years, the assumption in security has been straightforward: mature detection and response programs require a Security Operations Center (SOC).
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There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model,
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Platform engineering has won the argument. Some 90% of organizations have adopted at least one internal platform; golden paths are
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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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