Building with Modal and the OpenAI Agent SDK
Modal's blog post covers how to build and deploy AI agent applications by combining Modal's serverless cloud infrastructure with OpenAI's Agent SDK, enabling scalable execution of agentic workflows. T
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Modal's blog post covers how to build and deploy AI agent applications by combining Modal's serverless cloud infrastructure with OpenAI's Agent SDK, enabling scalable execution of agentic workflows. T
Juro Osawa / The Information: ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China — ByteDanc
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code — ZDNET's ke
Israeli agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security Ltd. today launched with 7 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and accelerate product development across its
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Claude Opus 4.7 on Vertex AI. What’s new: Anthropic’s newest Opus model delivers advanced performance across coding, long-running agents, and profes
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Thiébaut Meyer and Lia Wertheimer from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO share Thiébaut’s conversation with Matt Rowe, chief securit
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises
AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there would be no Google Cloud. In this regul
Today, we're announcing sheet tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight. Dashboard authors can now design custom tooltip layouts using free-form layout sheets. These layouts combine charts, key performance indic
Vultr's Startup Scripts feature allows users to automatically run custom scripts on new VPS instances at the time of deployment, streamlining server configuration and setup. This eliminates the need f
From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a pi
How to join LLM traces with billing, infrastructure, and customer data using Iceberg and BigQuery If you run AI agents in production, you’ve probably run into a simple problem: you... The post Data Fa
Discover how Vultr prioritizes data security and compliance, ensuring your data is protected across 32 cloud data center regions worldwide. Explore comprehensive compliance reports and robust certific
Release: datasette 1.0a27 Two major changes in this new Datasette alpha. I covered the first of those in detail yesterday - Datasette no longer uses Django-style CSRF form tokens, instead using modern
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a1 This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie. Tags
Release: datasette-ports 0.3 A small update for my tool for helping me figure out what all of the Datasette instances on my laptop are up to. Show working directory derived from each PID Show the full
Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research division, Tuesday introduced a new foundation robotics AI model designed as a significant upgrade for understanding and precise spatia
Vultr offers Elasticsearch as a one-click deployment option through its Marketplace, allowing users to quickly set up and run Elasticsearch instances on Vultr's cloud infrastructure without manual con
As enterprises push to eliminate latency and guarantee continuous availability, distributed multicloud architectures have become the foundation of a new data reality. In this new world, AI is mission-
Vercel's Elastic Build Machines feature has reached General Availability (GA), offering dynamically scalable compute resources for building and deploying projects on the Vercel platform. The feature a
Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding platform for building production-ready software, today announced the launch of Wingman, a personal, autonomous artificial intelligence agent that helps people manage
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to 17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY — European ventu
Netgear became the first retail consumer router company to receive a conditional FCC exemption from the agency's ban on foreign-made routers, allowing it to introduce new models and push software upda
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tra
Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated 25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over 51M — Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and B
Florida surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70-year-old Alabama man, after prosecutors allege that during
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the 10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts. It's presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-pr
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is a text-to-speech model delivering improved controllability, expressivity, and quality for developers, enterprises, and everyday users building AI-speech appli
Introducing instance tagging for better organization and easier server management on Vultr. Try tagging now and stay tuned for upcoming features like scheduled backups! Share your feedback on Twitter
IDC: Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record hi
Prime Video released the official trailer for *Good Omens* Season 3 — a 90-minute series finale special rather than a full season — in which Michael Sheen and David Tennant's angel-demon duo Aziraphal
Google LLC is enhancing the version of its Gemini assistant that is embedded in Chrome with a new time-saving tool called Skills. The capability started rolling out today. It’s accessible on Mac, Wind
Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 — For robots to be truly h
Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull u
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more — Gemini now has a native Mac app
Google launched its 'Google app for desktop' for Windows 10 and 11 users globally on April 14, 2026, bringing Google Search, Drive, files, and apps directly to the desktop via a keyboard shortcut (Alt
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control — The compa
Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was
Customer data platform maker GrowthLoop Inc. today introduced a composable artificial intelligence analytics platform designed to help better understand the causal drivers of customer behavior. The Ne
Today, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, our latest text-to-speech model, is available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. It delivers precise controllability and expressivity, empowering developers and enterprise
Madison Mills / Axios: Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a 28M Series A led by a16z — Hilbert, an AI startup rethinkin
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, implemented Vercel's Microfrontends and Feature Flags infrastructure to build a rapid growth iteration loop that enables independent team deployments and controlled
Quantum computing is moving from theoretical promise to practical infrastructure, increasingly woven into high-performance computing environments through hybrid quantum-HPC computing approaches. For o
The European Union is taking ambitious steps to coordinate efforts by its member countries to achieve global leadership in quantum computing. The EU Quantum Computing Act, which is scheduled to take e
Vultr informs customers about a security incident involving unauthorized access to a third-party vendor's marketing data affecting limited customer information. No Vultr systems, customer subscription
VAKRA (Versatile Agent and Knowledge Reasoning Assessment) is a benchmark developed by IBM Research to evaluate AI agents on complex reasoning, tool use, and multi-step task execution across diverse d
Databricks has released a connector that enables Google Sheets users to access real-time data directly from Databricks lakehouses with built-in governance controls. The connector allows seamless integ
ISSCC 2026 previews cutting-edge semiconductor research and industry presentations covering co-packaged optics (CPO) developments from NVIDIA and Broadcom, next-generation memory standards including H
As of Tax Day 2026, the IRS has issued no formal guidance on how to classify and report prediction market winnings, leaving traders and tax professionals in a grey area where gains could plausibly be
A Manhattan federal jury found on April 15, 2026, that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market , following a lawsuit brought by over 30
Danish agentic artificial intelligence startup Leapwork ApS has announced the launch of its fully automated Continuous Validation Platform, aiming to help enterprises keep up with the velocity of gene
Vultr provides guidance on managing and limiting bandwidth overage charges on their cloud infrastructure platform. The article likely covers strategies such as monitoring bandwidth usage through the V
Load balancing and scaling LLM serving involves distributing inference requests across multiple model instances or GPUs to prevent bottlenecks and ensure consistent response times under varying traffi
Vercel has introduced logs filtering functionality for Vercel Workflows, allowing users to more efficiently search and narrow down log output within their workflow executions. This feature enables dev
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a 22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an A
HoloTab is an AI-powered browser companion developed by HCompany that integrates directly into web browsing to assist users with tasks, information retrieval, and productivity. It leverages AI models
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap
Meta Platforms Inc. has announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artifici