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I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I bui

Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch

Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici

AWS DevOps Agent can diagnose production incidents but is kept in observe-and-report mode so it does not change resources directly. This post shows how to use AWS Lambda Durable Functions, Amazon Even

AI infrastructure built on dense graphics processing unit clusters and high-speed AI networking is no longer reserved for frontier model labs. The same compute behind the industry’s push into physical

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised 40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to 65M — Hadrian will use

AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI D

BBC: An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran — Technology reporter in San Franc

The Information: Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year — Meta Platforms and M

Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization

This is the first of a two-part series exploring how Google Cloud is bringing the foundational values of a high-performance parallel filesystem–TB/s throughput, sub-ms latency at high client scale, an

The browser has changed significantly. Rather than just a window to the web, it serves as an AI workspace and central operating environment for the modern enterprise. With knowledge workers spending o

Today, Google Cloud Data Agent Kit is generally available. Data Agent Kit is a free set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and agent skills that lets the coding agent you already use work directly

Warehouse robotics software startup Destro AI Inc. has raised 8 million in new funding to bring its platform for coordinating mixed robot fleets to more enterprise warehouses, using the funds partly t

SynthID Bio is a protein‑generation platform developed by AlphaProteo that delivers custom-designed peptides for use in biology and health research. It was highlighted in the September 2024 issue of *

Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact

When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, frontier AI labs inevitably hit a bottleneck: Expensive GPU clusters sit idle, waiting minutes for

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more — OpenAI introduced

NVIDIA OpenShell 0.1.0 is an open‑source runtime that enforces which systems and data an AI agent may access without requiring changes to the agent itself. Its components—Gateway, Supervisor, Sandbox,

Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. Generate an image with FLUX.2-klein through real-time inference, then animate it into video wi

Tom Wilson / Financial Times: Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security

Databricks Inc. today announced that it has bought Row Zero Inc., a startup with a spreadsheet editor optimized for large datasets. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Seattle-based Row Zero rais

Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enter

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems — Intrinsic Inn

Amazon Bedrock has released OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna as generally available services, offering distinct capabilities for advanced reasoning/coding (Sol) and high‑volume repeatable tasks (Luna

NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) secures large‑language‑model inference by providing encrypted virtual machines, GPUs, and NVLink, enabling processing of sensitive data in trusted hardware. Running

Following a successful private preview, we’re thrilled to open DigitalOcean Managed Agents to everyone. Teams can now deploy their preferred agent harness (like OpenCode, Codex CLI) or bring their own

Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. This post walks through deploying a model, running a

It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made

Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code — A new experience for Claude pr

In this analysis, MLPerf Inference Working Group chairs Miro Hodak and Frank Han break down a record field of 30 submitters and 120 systems, the arrival of agentic and end-to-end benchmarks, and what

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt opt

TensorRT Edge‑LLM ran Qwen 3.6‑27B on a single NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor and completed the MLPerf Edge Agentic benchmark in 24 min 36 s—52.33 tokens/s—which is 6.4× faster than the llama.cpp reference (2

Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage

Runtime security startup Eve Security Inc. wants to help stop dangerous artificial intelligence agents in their tracks after raising 4.5 million in funding today. The round, which was led by Run Ventu

On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivar

The NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform attains superior performance‑per‑watt by combining factory‑level DSX MaxLPS power shifting, rack‑level capacitors with Intelligent Power Smoothing, and the Groq 3 LPX de

NVIDIA NVLink 6 offers a natively lossless fabric for large‑scale AI factories by integrating lightweight Forward Error Correction, physical‑layer retries, UPHY recovery and credit‑based flow control

From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. Today, platform teams often stitch together custom w

Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through six practical prompt caching scenarios u

Alix Coutures / The Information: Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Bori

BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to a

Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x fam

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor — Squeezed by

HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system powered by Amazon Bedrock that runs on-premises inside the customer environment. This post describes the multi-agent architecture, the on-premises dep