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• Zeen Rachidi

“There are no laws, only suggestions”: What AI agents do with your instructions

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Nine days into a twelve-day experiment with an AI coding agent, SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin had one instruction on file:

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• Janakiram MSV

Kubernetes won the container decade. Google’s Agent Substrate wants the next one.

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Google made GKE Agent Sandbox generally available in May 2026 and, in the same post, introduced a second project called

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• Paul Sawers

Trust, transactions and tokenomics: AI agent infrastructure begins to standardize

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As AI agents gain greater autonomy across the internet, a system of governance is emerging around three questions: how much

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• Amanda Caswell

Elon Musk: “We will make the entire codebase of X open source, with no exceptions.”

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, wants to make the social network one of the most transparent major technology

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• Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian wants developers to finally like Jira

Atlassian wants developers to spend more of their days in Jira. To get them there, Atlassian on Wednesday launched a

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• Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s first gadget is the $230 Codex Micro macropad

OpenAI’s Codex is about to hit 9 million users, and at least some of those users will soon get a

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• Paul Sawers

Anaconda buys Kilo, the open source coding agent that answers to no single model maker

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Anaconda, a company that provides governed, open-source packages and environments for enterprises, has acquired popular open-source coding agent Kilo. The

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• Yasmin Rajabi

Meta and the rise of the accidental cloud

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In the same quarter, a $1.7 trillion social network and a shoe company both became cloud providers. Nobody’s operating model

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• Ed Huang

“The database is the product”: What breaks when memory devices scale

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Imagine you just finished a two-hour meeting. You were wearing a small AI work companion that promised to capture the

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• Amanda Caswell

“We did not adapt and move quickly enough”: What IBM’s earnings miss says about enterprise AI spending

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IBM’s value has plunged after the company issued a preliminary second-quarter earnings update that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.

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• Amanda Caswell

OpenAI hits 8 million Codex users — what developers need to know

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OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 last week and folded Codex into a unified ChatGPT desktop app. Since then, the company has been

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• Frederic Lardinois

AWS will now watch Microsoft’s cloud for you 

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On Tuesday, AWS announced an expansion to Security Hub, its security operations service, to also monitor Microsoft Azure resources, in addition

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• Alex Wilhelm

What happens when your VPN meets 200 AI agents

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Providing secure access for your human staff is no simple task. For one, traditional VPNs often grant unnecessarily broad access,

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• Alex Wilhelm

The enterprise strikes back: Keep your data, ditch the AI bill.

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As the AI cost crisis begins to fade from the forefront, a related fear is rearing its head: The need

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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