Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month.
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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How does Pangram work?
How our model works, and the reasons we are confident in our AI detection
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Claude make Fable 5 permanent
An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and …
Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full …
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Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
I know. As if what the world needed was yet another blogpost about LLMs and AI tech. Yet there is a pile of things which have been on my mind, and I haven't seen them laid out elsewhere in the way I'm going to write them, and so here we go.
Tech builds on AI. Finance protects the margin.
- The challenge: In AI-native companies, agents now shape compute costs, usage pricing, and revenue recognition by the hour. Finance tools built on monthly extracts and spreadsheets surface what moved the margin weeks after it moved. - The solution: Genie One gives finance a data-smart AI coworke...
The Protocol Wars in Factories, Nvidia's Thor Modules for Robotics and Edge AI, 'Mind of the Engineer' survey: Embedded Week Insights
This week’s roundup covers the challenges of using different protocols in factories, Nvidia’s latest Thor modules, AI-powered custom test design, and the Mind of the Engineer survey.
OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again…
Get $500 in Hyperagent credits to build agents that can ship real work - https://hyperagent.com/invite/FIRESHIP500 OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit, this time at the hands of Apple. In today's video, we'll take a look at exactly what they're being accused of and why Apple are only stepping i...
Following the questions where they lead
A profile of MIT Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan explores how she develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens
NadMesh scans exposed AI services for AWS keys, Kubernetes tokens, model access, and MCP tools while Docker and Jenkins lead observed exploit traffic.
Building a soccer coaching app on Databricks
* Coach’s Corner is a Databricks App that turns 25 fps match tracking data into a sub-second 2D/3D tactical bench with replays, event analytics, a scout chat, and an opponent-dossier agent. * It runs on one platform, powered by Databricks end-to-end. Lakeflow pipelines refine 51 million rows thr...
The cost of saying yes has changed
The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight
Open-weight model Kimi K3 tops Arena's frontend coding leaderboard, challenging proprietary AI coding tools and pushing IDE vendors to rethink model lock-in.
1Password’s new browser integration for Claude changes how AI uses your credentials
1Password's new Claude integration lets AI agents authenticate without ever seeing passwords, using on-device decryption and per-task user approval.
What a $20 coding subscription actually buys
Someone's subsidizing your coding agent. Aperture shows whether it's you.
13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Here are 13 demos that walk you through what Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform can do. Each one teaches a concept, a pattern, or an architecture you can put to work immediately.
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers
A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
“They’re dead if they don’t offer this”: DoorDash’s CLI for agents may be out of necessity
DoorDash announced a terminal tool to let AI agents order food — whether it's good for business is another question.
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Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 252 # Comments: 173
How Far Behind the Frontier are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber?
We evaluated the cyber capabilities of leading open and closed weight AI models, and found that recent open models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro perform similarly to frontier closed models released 4 to 7 months before them – a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months we measured through most of 2025.
Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry
Ben O'Mahony shares how to build a data flywheel for AI agents using OpenTelemetry, explaining how behavioral user signals can be mined to distill and fine-tune smaller, localized language models.
Meta’s Spark Muse 1.1 is now available on Databricks, fully governed by Unity AI Gateway
• Get day-one access to Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 (and any model) through Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway. Register providers once in Unity Catalog to eliminate API key sprawl and centralize access across every team. • Teams can use familiar Unity Catalog permissions, rate limits, an...
Why every AI agent decision needs a receipt
AI agents need more than raw data. Learn how structured evidence packets ensure trustworthy, auditable, and verifiable AI decision-making.
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.
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LLM cliché highlighter
Detect and highlight common clichéd phrases in text that frequently appear in language model outputs. Paste text into the analyzer to identify patterns like "no X, no Y" chains, "sit …
Agentic AI Security: Defending Against Prompt Injection and Tool Misuse
In this article, you will learn what prompt injection and tool misuse are in the context of agentic AI systems, and which defense strategies experts recommend to mitigate them.
Arm and Google offer a smarter option to run agentic AI workloads
Here's how Google Axion CPUs and the GKE Agent Sandbox optimize agentic AI costs.
Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI
A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native
AI frenzy losing steam leaves bitcoin less volatile than South Korean stocks
The day ahead in crypto: July 17, 2026
E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
EU orders Google to open 11 Android 18 features to rival AI assistants by August 2027, while sharing anonymized Search data under DMA rules.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.
The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?
Autonomous defense systems need trusted infrastructure to move telemetry, command data, and AI outputs across platforms, classifications, and allies.
PhpStorm 2026.2 is Now Out
Welcome to the PhpStorm 2026.2 release overview. This version advances PhpStorm as a platform for your preferred coding agents, models, and AI subscriptions, improves PHP and Laravel support, and deli
Guide to AI Tokenomics: Eleven Principles for Token Efficient Software Engineering
Optimize your software engineering with our Guide to AI Tokenomics. Explore 11 actionable principles to improve coding assistant performance, reduce latency, and control costs effectively.
QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals
QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring
The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
GLM 5.2 is 35% off via Novita on AI Gateway
GLM 5.2, the open-weights coding model from Z.ai, is 35% off on AI Gateway through July 24 when routed through Novita. After the discount ends, it stays at standard provider rates with no markup.
Chat SDK adds native Slack agent support
Build native Slack agents with Chat SDK. Get suggested prompts, streamed replies, status messages, and feedback buttons with a declarative config.
Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP
Vocalizer is a native PHP extension for local speech synthesis, embedding sherpa-onnx and audio.cpp to run eight TTS model families — including Chatterbox voice cloning — behind one API.
Your AI is ready. Your data foundation probably isn’t
* Cushman & Wakefield built its enterprise AI core over four years by embedding technologists directly into business units under a product operating model — prioritizing trust and human behavior over the "AI pilot craze." * A capital investment model that requires technology initiatives to be co...
From experiment to insight: how Dotmatics Luma and Databricks make AI-ready science a reality
* Getting the data foundation right (continuous capture, harmonization, and governance) is what actually unlocks trustworthy AI in science; AI trained on fragmented data can't be trusted. * Luma and Databricks are complementary by design: Luma brings scientific context and instrument connectivit...
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
Using AI to build your own software
A few years ago, a friend of mine was stuck. He needed to quickly process over a hundred high-quality images according to a complicated sequence. He was using Photoshop, but it was going to take him days. Initially, he asked for my help, could I do the manual labor? I spent 15 minutes writing a …...
Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms.
We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits
Here’s the plan. I reckon it’ll take about five years in all, and I think we’re about 1.5 to 2 years in already.
Unified context: The missing layer for enterprise AI coworkers
* Unified context makes AI decision-ready. Generic assistants stall on real decisions because context is scattered; a shared, governed layer lets AI coworkers work from the same view of the business as leaders and frontline teams. * Genie One is the AI coworker for real work. Genie One uses unif...
What happens in the milliseconds after you tap pay
* A sample Databricks App (FastAPI + React) that scores credit card transactions for fraud in real time using Model Serving route optimization for low-latency inference and Lakebase Postgres for online feature and profile lookups. * Fast inference alone is not enough. The app pairs route-optimiz...
The skills gap behind agentic AI — and how Databricks is closing it with a new context engineer certification and agent trainings
* Industry-first Context Engineering certification: Launched at Data+AI Summit, the new Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam validates the technical depth required to curate optimal context windows and build reliable agentic systems * Expanded learning catalog: Databricks ha...
AI hasn’t shifted the bottleneck from coding to code review
Think AI shifted your bottleneck to code review? Think again. The real issue is downstream deployment batches blocking your value stream.
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled …
Open Protocols with the Strands Agents SDK
If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as useful as the systems it can reach: interna...
The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
To a sceptic, spending $165K to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust sounds very expensive. But to a realist, shortening a 1-2 year migration down to 11 days opens amazing new opportunities for devs. However, a thoroughly-tested project is required to pull it off.
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
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Decoy Font
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
Integrating Context-Aware Video AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows
A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and applications to be useful.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval
A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Connect more of your apps to Search
You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.
CNCF Strengthens Partnership with Broadcom as a Platinum Member to Advance AI-Ready Cloud Native Infrastructure
Collaboration with CNCF reflects Broadcom’s continued investment in open source innovation, cloud native resilience and the technologies powering the next generation of AI workloads Key Highlights SAN…
What 10 autonomous film crews taught us about agent teamwork
As part of an internal Google generative media hackathon (for humans), we put this question to the test – specifically, to uncover whether AI agents could work collaboratively in a domain less innately familiar than software development.
Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades
In this blog, we’ll show you our approach and three lessons you can apply to accelerate your own foundation model upgrades using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Google Antigravity,
Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage
Francis deSouza explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders.
Why smarter AI caching sometimes makes everything slower
Learn why semantic AI caching can degrade performance and how a hybrid Redis-vector database architecture solves the latency trap.
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Inkling: Our open-weights model
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is "a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active" - an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on …
Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to walk away from Linux, or go fork it
Linus Torvalds says Linux welcomes AI tools, telling critics to fork the kernel or walk away - a sharp reversal from his 2024 skepticism.
How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions
Build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions with Durable Functions and the MCP Tasks extension for reliable, asynchronous AI workflows.
30 to 70 PRs a Day: How We Managed to Not Wreck Our Systems
The Honeycomb engineering team set out to double our productivity in a year. This is how we did it, what we did to keep things stable, what it cost us, and what we’re still figuring out.
AI Amplifies Your Existing Practices: Lessons from Our Shift to an AI-First Strategy
In this two-part blog series, I give a detailed report-out on how our Honeycomb engineering team 2. 5x-ed our throughput using AI without breaking everything or lowering our standards for quality.
OpenAI’s GPT-Red automates prompt injection testing to harden AI agents
OpenAI's GPT-Red uses self-play reinforcement learning to automate prompt injection testing at scale, already hardening GPT-5.6 against attacks without increasing over-refusals.
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
DataGrip 2026.2: AI Agent Skills, MCP Tools and CLI Commands for Data Source Management, Bundled JDBC Drivers, and Improved Session Control
DataGrip 2026.2, the second major update of the year, is here! Let’s take a look at what’s inside. AI This release introduces three AI agent skills for working with databases: database-tools, da
WebStorm 2026.2: TypeScript 7 Support, GitHub Copilot Integration, Agent Skills, and More
WebStorm 2026.2 is now available!If you work on a large TypeScript codebase, this release is a meaningful upgrade. TypeScript 7 support ships out of the box for projects already using it, delivering f
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
Kimi K3 is now live
Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
Protecting Privacy in an AI Era
Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measure...
Demystifying AI Exploits: A Blueprint for AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management
Details the architectural risks of integrating LLM agents into CI/CD pipelines for automated vulnerability discovery.
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
The Developer Has Changed. So Should Developer Conferences
Discover why Docker is co-hosting WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America and how AI agents are transforming software development and developer communities.
AI Agents Explained: How to Build with Them Safely
Learn what AI agents are, how they work, and what it takes to build and run them safely in production.
“There are no laws, only suggestions”: What AI agents do with your instructions
Why AI agents delete production databases despite direct commands, and how to build the structural safeguards needed to stop them.
Run a Local AI Model with Ollama in 15 Minutes
In this article, you will learn how to get a small language model running locally on your own machine in under 15 minutes using Ollama.
Code in Space: Redefining Tech Creation with AI and XR
The main message Advances in AI are already single-handedly changing how we interact with technologies. This moment might become the first interaction revolution in roughly 60 years, since the mous
New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands
Agent data injection forges trusted fields across six AI models, redirecting web and coding agents while bypassing prompt injection defenses.
Securing AI at Enterprise Scale: The Google Kubernetes Engine Blueprint
Learn how to secure AI workloads at enterprise scale with the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security blueprint. Discover best practices for protecting infrastructure, model integrity, and inference paths to build secure AI applications.
AI Changes the Conversation: The Network-on-Chip Strikes Back
I bet you woke up this morning saying something like, “I wonder what the latest and greatest interconnect technologies are for System-on-Chip (SoC) devices and multi-die system (MDS) solutions.” We…
Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes
A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomo
AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them
AI speeds offensive testing, but unproven findings increase triage noise unless teams verify reachability, impact, and deployed context.
Our approach to bioresilience
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience, using AI models to support prevention, detection and response.
OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI says GPT-Red automates prompt injection testing and helped GPT-5.6 Sol record sixfold fewer direct injection failures than GPT-5.5 in benchmark
At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
It’s time to rethink how we measure engineering productivity
The metrics used to measure engineering productivity are obsolete in the AI era. Shifting from velocity to validation fixes roadmaps that keep slipping.
Introducing Apache Spark 4.2
* Define trusted context for analytics and AI: Metric views create governed business definitions, while vector retrieval, geospatial types, and richer SQL primitives bring AI-native analytics into Spark. * Reach Spark from more applications: Spark Connect, Arrow-first Python execution, improved...
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
“GIFT” is a new system that teaches vision-language generative AI models to produce accurate, computer-aided design (CAD) programs that can be used to simulate and test 3D objects. The method is more accurate than competing techniques, using a fraction of the computation.
Elastic’s guide to AI in the interview process
As the Search AI Company, we understand the value of AI. We use it. We build with it. We believe in its power to augment human potential. But when you’re applying to join Elastic, we’re searching for ...
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Bring GitLab Duo Agent Platform to your terminal
Duo CLI is now generally available with GitLab 19.2 – stay in the shell for code, pipelines, and multi-step work.
GitLab Duo Security Review spots logic flaws scanners miss
Use AI-driven security reasoning to detect authorization gaps, business-logic errors, and race conditions while code is still under review.
Turn multi-step software delivery into agentic flows you can trust
GitLab Duo Agent Platform's Custom Flows are now generally available.
A Bootiful Podcast: Russ Miles on Safer, More Productive Interactions with AI
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
Project x402 Opens AI Agent Payments to the World, Now Live Under the Linux Foundation
Project x402, the standard and open protocol for internet-native payments and AI Agents payments moved to the Linux foundation and available in Github for public.
Elastic achieves the AWS AI Security Distinction, securing AI-specific risks
Elastic has achieved the AWS AI Security Distinction, awarded to partners with tech depth and real customer outcomes in AI and security. Elastic Security includes an AI agent, Elastic Workflows, LLM s...
Kimi K3 is now available on AI Gateway
Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway, an open-source model with a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding of images and video.
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Forrester Consulting: GitLab Duo Agent Platform delivers 400% ROI
New study shows GitLab's agentic infrastructure accelerates time to value with increased productivity, faster security remediation, and efficient developer onboarding.
Nvidia Expands Thor Modules for Scalable Robotics and Edge AI
Nvidia brings the Thor architecture to mainstream robotics and edge AI with the launch of the Blackwell-powered T3000 and T2000 modules.
Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents
OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation assets, and real-world telemetry into a…
Build a Multi-Camera 3D Tracking Application with NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 Skills
Developers building video analytics applications across large spaces must track the same object as it moves between camera views. Single-camera 2D tracking lacks reliable depth information and…
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Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 280 # Comments: 98
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
MIT Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.
Grok Build is open source
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. - xai-org/grok-build
Why I Left Google DeepMind
I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks
* Inkling, the open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab, is now available on the Databricks platform through Unity AI Gateway, making it easy to build and deploy AI agents and coding applications on enterprise data. * Build with an open-weights model optimized for coding, agentic reasoning,...
Kubernetes won the container decade. Google’s Agent Substrate wants the next one.
Google's Agent Sandbox and Substrate concede Kubernetes was never built for AI agents. Inside the new runtime taking shape on top of the cluster.
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
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Killing Coding Agent Slop With Adversarial Self-Play
Long-running coding agents need more than persistence. Adversarial verification is the feedback loop that lets software begin to maintain itself.
Trust, transactions and tokenomics: AI agent infrastructure begins to standardize
In six weeks, the Linux Foundation has stood up three bodies covering AI's token costs, compliance, and payments. Here's why.
Atlassian wants developers to finally like Jira
Atlassian is betting new Jira coding agents, AI planning, and Slack integration will finally get developers to spend their days in the ticket tracker.
Building Faster Cryptography with Carryless Multiplication in NVIDIA CUDA 13.3
For over fifteen years, x86 CPUs have shipped with a dedicated hardware instruction for carryless multiplication. It’s a small but stubborn primitive that sits underneath authenticated encryption…
AI-Enabled Advisory Services for Higher Education
* Educational institutions face challenges in scaling the review of call center quality for adviser services (financial aid, admissions, enrollment), which involves both manual and automated tasks, such as transcribing and analyzing conversations. * Databricks applies GenAI to transcribe calls a...
Data-Native AI Agents: Why Agents Must Move to Your Data
* External agents break at scale: When AI agents run in a separate stack, enterprises face compounding penalties: fragmented governance, rising egress costs, sluggish multi-hop latency, and observability gaps that make production deployment risky. * Governance cannot be retrofitted: Post-hoc con...
Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization
Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – l…
OpenAI’s first gadget is the $230 Codex Micro macropad
OpenAI's first hardware is a $230 macropad built with Work Louder. The Codex Micro's Agent Keys light up to show what your coding agents are doing.
How to solve PostgreSQL multilingual full-text search limitations with AlloyDB AI
Learn how AlloyDB integrates multilingual world knowledge of Gemini models natively in your database tier with AlloyDB AI Functions.
How to Analyze and Govern Gemini Enterprise App Usage at Scale with BigQuery
Learn how to use BigQuery to analyze Gemini Enterprise usage logs, audit compliance, and build Looker dashboards at scale for your organization.
Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)
In this blog, we’ll explore why AI apps fail in production, and how a Google engineering team built a culture and tech stack to solve it.
IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI
According to IDC research, many of the delays in moving AI projects from pilot to production are related to concerns about networking.
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were there.
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Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation
Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end
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How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
I've been impressed by the way the Claude web_fetch tool is designed to avoid data exfiltration attacks. Ayush Paul found a hole in that design. To recap: regular Claude chat …
Anaconda buys Kilo, the open source coding agent that answers to no single model maker
CEO David DeSanto says most enterprises are stuck choosing between total lockdown on one AI model, or a total free-for-all. But neither is a real strategy.
Meta and the rise of the accidental cloud
Meta and a former sneaker company both became cloud providers this quarter. Why fragmenting compute supply means the winning move is above the suppliers.
Run Ultralytics YOLO on Raspberry Pi with OpenVINO
A practical guide to deploying Ultralytics YOLO computer vision models at the edge with Raspberry Pi and OpenVINO.
Presentation: Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI
Gwen Shapira discusses how to power enterprise AI features using Postgres, explaining advanced relational SQL context retrieval, pgvector semantic tuning, and transitioning to agentic workflows.
Scikit-Ollama for Scikit-LLM/Ollama Integration
In this article, you will learn how scikit-ollama bridges the scikit-learn interface with locally running Ollama models to perform zero-shot text classification; no cloud API required.
New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech
Approved marketing tags can load unvetted fourth-party scripts with access to forms, checkout fields, and customer data after the initial review.
AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop
AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. T
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Real-time context: keeping agent inputs fresh on every step
Stale context makes AI agents fail even when retrieval works. Learn how to keep agent inputs fresh at every step with a real-time data layer.
Inkling from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway
Inkling from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway, an open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M token context window and controllable thinking effort.
Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Elastic was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. In our opinion, Elastic Observability helps teams investigate faster with agentic AI with full context and reduc...
CEO Rowan Trollope’s organizational announcement to Redis employees
Rowan Trollope shares an organizational change at Redis and explains why the company is realigning to focus on the AI and agent era ahead.
Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of …
Take insights anywhere with Genie One on mobile
* Genie One is now available as a native mobile app for iOS and Android, putting the data-smart AI coworker in everyone's pocket so business users can get answers wherever they work. * From your phone, users can chat with Genie, schedule tasks, explore dashboards, and use apps, all grounded in t...
Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks Extension Connects VS Code to Google Cloud's Jupyter Notebooks
The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud.
KeycloakCon Japan 2026: Navigating cloud native identity and the AI frontier
The countdown is officially on. In just a few weeks, the cloud-native ecosystem meets in Yokohama for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. Taking place on Tuesday, July 28 from 09:00 – 12:30…
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“We did not adapt and move quickly enough”: What IBM’s earnings miss says about enterprise AI spending
IBM's earnings miss reveals enterprises are cutting software budgets to fund AI hardware, forcing dev teams to build custom integrations with open-source tools.
Helping AI models to meet the real world
Through research and entrepreneurship, MIT Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.
Microchip Releases Free VectorBlox 3.0 SDK
Microchip upgrades its VectorBlox Accelerator SDK with new capabilities to improve AI inference on PolarFire FPGA and SoC devices.
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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft…
OpenAI hits 8 million Codex users — what developers need to know
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch pushed Codex past 8 million users in days, broke scaling limits, and forced Anthropic to respond — reshaping AI coding's competitive map.
What happens when your VPN meets 200 AI agents
Legacy VPNs weren't built for AI agents or how modern teams work. See how identity-based networking and PAM close real access gaps at scale.
Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources
Assistant can query and read your data using natural language, correlate signals across more than 30 sources in a single investigation, and visualize results directly as Grafana dashboards.
Verifiable AI inference
What is verifiable inference and why it would make AI outputs much more useful.
Lessons From the Leaderboard: What 5,000+ Kagglers Taught Us About Improving AI Reasoning
The NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge invited the Kaggle community to explore a focused question: What techniques can improve reasoning accuracy when everyone starts from the same open model…
The enterprise strikes back: Keep your data, ditch the AI bill.
As AI labs push into enterprise software, a new fear takes hold: is your data training the models your rivals will use? Inside the open-model pushback.
Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software
Google has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Foundation Model Software 2026 Vendor Assessment.
Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering
MIT's JARVIS Challenge (Jet-engine AI Research and Validation Intensive Sprint) is a new academic competition asking MIT students to explore whether AI can compress the design-build-test cycle so engineers can build faster and better.
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Today, we're announcing Bonsai 27B, based on Qwen3.6 27B, the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family and the first model of its capability class to run on a phone.
How Spotify Deployed Kong's AI Gateway to Power Generative AI at Scale
Spotify's goal for AI is bold, but simple: make it as intuitive and indispensable to daily work as email or Google Docs. And not just for engineers, but for every Spotifier across every function.
Wikipedia blackout could hurt how AI engines like ChatGPT understand crypto
Wikipedia observes guidelines on cryto coverage which date back many years, and may now be outdated, according to the report.
Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper
Open-weight models like GLM 5.2 trail frontier AI by months, not miles — and cost far less. Experts weigh lock-in, safety and real developer results.
How To Build Your Own RAG AI System - Better Results Than Claude
Checkout Neon: https://get.neon.com/HALyXNV Checkout Vercel Workflows: https://vercel.plug.dev/wMxDguF Checkout CodeRabbit: https://www.coderabbit.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=coderabbit_june26&utm_term=webdevsimplified&dub_id=li2pPKNg5Sz8P8ey RAG (Retrieval Augmented Gen...
Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production
To achieve frontier AI at scale, Claude brings the reasoning and Google Cloud brings the managed infrastructure, global reach, and compliance posture that enterprises already run on.
How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
It only took a little prompting to hijack the biggest AI models
AlphaClaw: OpenClaw without the laptop
Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
Liquid Instruments Unveils GenInst Studio for Custom Test Design
Liquid Instruments launches AI-enabled GenInst Studio, enabling engineers to design and deploy custom instruments on Moku hardware.
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