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Text • Paul Sawers

Astro’s GitHub issue backlog is heading to zero for the first time in 5 years. Now Cloudflare is open-sourcing the tool that did it.

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Most open source maintainers will know the feeling of opening GitHub to a growing pile of issues that can’t feasibly

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Text • Carly Page

AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents!

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The next database scaling problem may not be how big a database gets, but how many databases an enterprise suddenly

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Apple and Bynario agree GPT-5.5 found a real macOS bug. They disagree on the report cap.

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Apple now caps how many security reports some researchers can have open at once. And once they hit that cap,

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal model with 2.4 trillion parameters and built for complicated tasks that may take several

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Text • Amanda Caswell

DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship

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DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, delivering a significant boost in agent performance without changing the model’s core architecture. Following an announcement

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Text • Spyros Angelopoulos

Kubernetes upgrades don’t have to break things: How EKS is making cluster lifecycle management simpler and safer

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Kubernetes moves at a pace of three minor version releases per year, and staying current is not optional if you

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Text • Yan Xie

Designing APIs for agents

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In early 2025, Webflow started building for MCP before there was a clear playbook for agent-ready APIs. We publicly announced

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Text • Amanda Caswell

What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests

This week, just days after OpenAI announced that two of its advanced AI models had interacted with real-world systems during

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Text • Matthew Burns

Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.

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For the final two weeks of the year, Temporal clears its calendars. The company calls it a reading period: no

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Text • Jennifer Riggins

Forget humans “in” the loop. Harness engineering puts humans “on” the loop.

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AI has us quickly forgetting humans as the software delivery loop. Now, forget humans in the loop. For Thoughtworks’ distinguished

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Nscale just bought Anyscale. Here’s why it matters for multi-cloud neutrality.

Cloud platform company Nscale announced this week a definitive agreement to acquire AI workload scaling specialist Anyscale, in a move

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Gemini Robotics 2 brings us one step closer to physical AGI

This week, Google DeepMind revealed Gemini Robotics 2, an intelligence layer comprising three new models to power more adaptable physical

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Text • Nick Lucchesi

Why your company should (try to) build its own AI SRE

. In this episode of The New Stack podcast, Sam Farid and Nate Heinrich of Chronosphere argue that AI agents should also be used for root-cause analysis, helping teams diagnose failures more quickly as model capabilities continue to improve.

Companies ship more code today than ever, thanks to agentic coding tools. For product teams, this accelerated pace of development

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Chinese AI competitors may have forced OpenAI’s hand on pricing

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OpenAI has lowered API prices for two GPT-5.6 models only three weeks after their launch. On Thursday, the company announced

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Text • Jennifer Riggins

AI-generated software is forcing yet another another platform rethink

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“Raise your hand if your team is actively using AI to write and review code. Now keep it up if

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI and Elastic are tackling the AI problem enterprises can’t ignore

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It’s undeniable that enterprise AI has a context problem. Although frontier models are incredibly capable, if they can’t securely access

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Text • Venus Kohli

DNS is infrastructure. It’s time to manage it that way.

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Attackers aren’t always the reason for DNS failures — they can often be something much more routine. For example, the

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Text • Robert Curlee

Why linting alone can’t govern agentic development

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There’s no question that AI agents are changing software development. They can move from an idea to a working implementation

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Text • Freddy Daniel Alvarez Pinto

When do AI agents need permission boundaries?

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An AI agent feels harmless when it only produces text, but the risk profile changes the moment it calls a

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

IBM says quantum computers are getting harder to verify. That’s progress.

IBM and its partners say quantum computers are now getting to the point where they can run calculations that can’t

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI fixed GPT-5.6 Sol’s most frustrating flaw: Burning limits while it waits

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OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Sol earlier this month as a model built for more demanding coding tasks. But it didn’t take

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic backs urgent call for the most powerful AI labs to hit the brakes

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Less than a week after OpenAI disclosed that two experimental AI models escaped their testing environment during a cybersecurity exercise

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“The beast needs a cage”: Why PortSwigger’s agentic pentesting is kept safe behind bars

As agentic services diversify across the entire enterprise technology stack, the rise of agentic coding tools is being challenged by

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Text • Paul Sawers

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor all localized pricing for India. Only two focused on value.

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Cursor is the latest AI company to target India with localized pricing, announcing on Tuesday a dedicated plan that sits

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Opus 5 vs Fable 5: What does half the price buy?

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 last week, with this pitch: It comes “close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable

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Text • David Eastman

The AI “vibe shift”: Why NanoClaw and Echo have teamed up to stop the next Hugging Face Breach

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Gavriel Cohen describes this moment in four words.  “There’s been a clear vibe shift,” the NanoClaw co-founder and CEO tells

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

“Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes

Sandboxes for AI agents may feel like a solved problem. After all, projects like Firecracker, the open-source microVM technology AWS built

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Text • Bryan Ross

Turning 10x developers into 10x value

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When I sit down with leaders and ask why they’re investing in AI, the answer almost always comes back to

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Text • Megan Carnegie

Your team isn’t “ignoring security.” They’re just underwater.

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A cloud security finding becomes useful only when someone decides what matters, assigns an owner, and follows it through. For

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Text • Janakiram MSV

GPT-5.6 kernel of truth: Sol can cut its own costs, says OpenAI

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OpenAI has detailed, in a new engineering blog post, how the GPT-5.6 model family balances capability and cost across its

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