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Text • Anirudh Aithal

Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs.

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Running applications in production means maintaining an “always-on” posture through disruptions. Infrastructure fails; dependencies slow down, and networks partition, not

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Text • Janakiram MSV

AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.

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AWS’s new decision model comes with a familiar address. Released October 1, Strands Decider 2B is an open-weight model built

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Text • Paul Sawers

“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters

Peter Farkas on stage at Open Source Summit Europe, Pargue. (2026)

The AI industry has enthusiastically embraced the language of open source, even as some of its most prominent “open” models

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Harness bought Augment’s coding agents. The best feature hasn’t shipped yet.

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Harness announced Thursday that it acquired Augment Code’s Cosmos software factory, Auggie CLI and Code Context Engine, along with the

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Text • Mrinal Kochar

AI data lakes are driving new storage demands

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The frenetic pace of AI development is challenging data center design and operational paradigms. The twin pillars of hyperscale computing

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Claude can now build your dashboards

A month after OpenAI gave ChatGPT Work a data agent that builds dashboards, Anthropic on Thursday shipped its own version.  Claude Dashboards,

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Text • Amanda Caswell

GitHub Copilot is going local — but Microsoft won’t say what gets sent to the cloud

Cloud object storage not as fast as local storage, but it doesn’t have to be.

GitHub Copilot will soon decide whether coding tasks run locally or get sent to cloud models, with automatic routing expected

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Text • Kimberly Fessel

You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres

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For many data aficionados, Postgres is the way to store and manage relational data. It’s efficient, it’s straightforward, and it

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Text • Charles Humble

Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans

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An AI SRE agent can help troubleshoot an incident. But can you trust it to decide on its own when

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Text • Zeen Rachidi

Your AI agent just provisioned a resource. Who owns it?

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The environment has thirty-four resources, including a VPC, subnets, an RDS instance, and a load balancer that hasn’t seen any

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Text • Naseeb Ahmed Mian

The audit log says my name: what an agent inherits when you hand it your credentials

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I measured what an AI agent actually holds when it authenticates as me. Authentication turned out to be a token

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Text • Oleg Danilyuk

The API tax: Why AI agents stall without infrastructure context

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Enterprises continue to face an autonomous cloud bottleneck that breaks autonomous operations and leads to failure. This architectural flaw leaves

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Text • Andy Gombar

AI changed how you respond to incidents. Your tabletops haven’t caught up.

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Tabletop exercises answer one question: when something breaks, will the people responsible for fixing it do the right thing, in

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs. Opus 5.5: 42% cheaper and perfect on every run

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Anthropic launched Sonnet 5.5 six days after Opus 5.5. The company says it scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of

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Text • Nacho Martínez

Building scalable, agent-friendly APIs for AI applications

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Nowadays, most of us interact with frontier AI models in a structured way, even if we do not always think

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Text • Paul Sawers

Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption

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When Redis changed its licensing in 2024, replacing its permissive BSD license with proprietary, source-available alternatives, it prompted a major

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenSSH 10.6 deliberately breaks two features in the name of security

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OpenSSH 10.6, released Tuesday, makes compression less effective and rejects some usernames that previously worked, and the maintainers knew both

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Claude’s cyber safeguards are getting more flexible — but not for everyone.

This week, Anthropic announced an expansion of its Cyber Verification Program (CVP), breaking access into three use case–based tiers and

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Decision models are suddenly everywhere. OpenAI’s is now public.

This week, OpenAI opened its Decisions API to public beta and added image inputs to make fast decisions from visual

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

Kubernetes won the orchestration wars. Its teams are still fighting.

Kubernetes won the container orchestration wars. The CNCF reports that 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production. Despite its

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI’s former safety lead says it’s shipping ‘new capability and risk every Tuesday’

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When David Robinson joined OpenAI in May 2023, the day after Sam Altman first testified before the Senate, the company’s

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 at a much lower price

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at Code with Claude 2025.

Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the first new version of its smallest and most affordable model in nearly

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

OpenSearch veterans launch Infino. Here’s why it matters for agent builders.

Software vendors like to claim unified systems that act as a so-called single pane of glass for any given coding

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

GPT-6.1 Sol vs. GPT-6 Astra: Same accuracy at 18% of the cost

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OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, just a week after it launched GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI marketed 6.1 as an

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Text • Paul Sawers

What’s up, Docsy? Google’s docs project joins the Linux Foundation as AI agents become readers

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Technical documentation is increasingly being read by AI agents, creating a new set of demands around how that information is

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

The CNCF is graduating projects faster than ever. AI agents are helping with the due diligence.

CNCF Executive Director Jonathan Bryce sees a powerful feedback loop emerging between AI and open source

Back in 2018, a scrappy startup called OpenAI used Kubernetes to balance compute loads across its own data centers and

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Your phone’s vector index might be bigger than the AI model running it

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Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 on Tuesday, putting text, code, image, video, and audio retrieval into a 740-million-parameter open model that

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Text • Paul Sawers

Copilot tops GitHub’s own AI code review benchmark. An independent one tells a different story.

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If there’s one thing the AI software engineering world doesn’t lack, it’s benchmarks. Want to know whether an agent can

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Mistral’s new AI tried to escape its test environment. In three weeks, anyone can download it

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Mistral launched Large 4 on Tuesday, its first major model release since Medium 3.5 at the end of April and

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

SAP acquires TechWolf to feed more context into its HR agents

SAP on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire TechWolf, a Belgian AI company that maps what employees work on

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