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GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

This episode of AINews from Latent Space likely discusses strategies for optimizing token usage and efficiency in AI models, focusing on practical approaches to maximizing computational value while ma

Databricks announced the public preview of Lakeflow Designer, a tool designed to simplify data pipeline creation and management within the Databricks platform. The feature likely provides a visual int

Project Poseidon is DigitalOcean's initiative focused on achieving zero-downtime reliability in cloud infrastructure and services. The project addresses the technical challenges of maintaining continu

DigitalOcean transitioned from traditional incident counting metrics to Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for measuring and managing availability, adopting a more nuanced approach to understanding syste

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Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of its AI Observability capability, adding native support for agentic AI systems fully compatible with Google Verte

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to ad

As AI models improve, technical practitioners are increasingly turning to agentic AI tools to build with Google Cloud products, from Firebase and the Gemini API, to BigQuery and GKE. But how can you e

Vector Space Day 2026: Powered by Qdrant About We’re hosting our second-ever full-day in-person Vector Space Day (https://luma.com/vsd-sf) on June 11th at The Midway in San Francisco, and you’re invit

Today’s developer experience is often spread across dozens of consoles, documentation pages, and sites to stay informed. We know that the friction of jumping between surfaces can slow down the most im

ReasoningBank is a memory framework that distills generalizable reasoning strategies from an agent's successful and failed experiences, which the agent retrieves at test time to inform interactions wh

NASA's next-generation spacesuit for the Artemis III mission, the AxEMU developed by Axiom Space, has passed a contractor-led technical review and continues undergoing testing with NASA astronauts and

André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to

Rogue Trooper is an upcoming adult animated military science fiction film based on the 2000 AD comic strip, written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows 19, a 'Genetic Infantryman' who is th

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Maria Davidson, who heads California Renewal, a pro-business political group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100M i

The agentic artificial intelligence era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents that take action go well beyond analyzing data sitting in lakehouses. When agents operate on behalf of hum

In support of our mission to accelerate the developer journey on Google Cloud, we built Dev Signal: a multi-agent system designed to transform raw community signals into reliable technical guidance by

This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, Cal

Bloomberg: Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about 2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than 50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startu

This article discusses how dbt integration with Databricks enables unified data transformation pipelines by combining dbt's open-source transformation capabilities with Databricks' lakehouse platform.

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When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people

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

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

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Googl

Understanding the relationships within your data is crucial for uncovering hidden insights and building intelligent applications. However, managing operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) graph workl

NVIDIA NVbandwidth is a performance analysis tool designed to measure memory bandwidth and latency between various components in GPU-equipped systems, providing detailed measurements of data transfer

Laura Bratton / The Information: Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use

Databricks has partnered with Lovable, an AI-powered app development platform, to enable users to build data-driven applications quickly by combining Lovable's natural language interface with Databric

MiniMax M2.7 is an enhancement of the MiniMax M2.5 model, built as a 230B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 10B active parameters per token and a 200K context length, designed for agentic

'The Infinity Man' is likely a profile or biographical piece published in The Chip Letter, a Substack newsletter focused on the history of semiconductors and computing, examining a key figure in the c

GLM 5.1 from Z.ai is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway with no markup and no separate provider account required. Designed for long-horizon autonomous tasks, it handles planning, execution, testi...

Databricks Research introduced **MemAlign**, a memory framework for AI agents that stores past interactions as episodic memories and uses an LLM to distill them into generalized semantic rules, whi...

MiniMax M2.7 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway in two variants: standard and high-speed, accessible without requiring separate provider accounts. It represents a significant improvement over pr...

The OpenAI Academy 'Personalizing ChatGPT' tutorial covers several methods users can employ to tailor ChatGPT's behavior to their needs, including custom instructions, memory, and prompt engineerin...

SERHANT., an AI-native real estate brokerage, built its internal AI platform S.MPLE on Next.js and Vercel, scaling it from a 200-agent pilot to over 900 agents without replatforming or rebuilding i...

Cloud Run has long provided developers with a straightforward, opinionated platform for running code. You can easily deploy request-driven web applications using Cloud Run services, or execute run-to-

Zencoder, a startup building an artificial intelligence orchestration layer for software development and business, today announced the launch of Zenflow Work, a major expansion of its platform that fo

Building and serving models on infrastructure is a strong use case for businesses. In Google Cloud, you have the ability to design your AI infrastructure to suit your workloads. Recently, I experiment

Google Research introduced two AI agents to streamline academic workflows: **PaperVizAgent**, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and **ScholarPeer**, a reviewer agent that automatica...

Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos (system card PDF), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced Projec