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WorkOS founder Michael Grinich explains why the next era of AI engineering depends on the systems around agents: identity, permissions, evals, memory, and feedback loops that keep autonomous software

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution

Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more th

Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro — The OpenAI Deplo

Two 15-year-old boys were detained after they were caught drinking and shooting water beads from a toy gun while riding in a San Mateo driverless Waymo, which remotely halted and locked the doors afte

The Vercel CLI now allows developers to update project settings directly from the command line, eliminating the need to navigate the web dashboard for configuration changes. This feature streamlines t

The U.S. operates only one active rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, which produced approximately 45,000 tons of rare earth oxide concentrate in 2024, but the ore is still mostly shipped to

The US military has lost dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones worth more than $1 billion during operations over Iran, prompting the Pentagon to seek large numbers of cheaper alternatives expected to survive p

Eve's Chat SDK now supports multiple adapter options, allowing developers to integrate various chat platforms and services without being locked into a single solution. This flexibility enables teams t

Vercel Agent is an AI agent tool designed by Vercel that is safe and reliable enough for production environments. The agent likely combines Vercel's infrastructure expertise with AI capabilities to au

Vercel has implemented configuration validation checks for its Microfrontends feature to detect and alert users about missing or incomplete configuration settings. This enhancement helps prevent deplo

IBM Quantum's Q2 2026 updates likely showcase advancements in quantum computing hardware, software, or services, including new processor capabilities, improved error correction, expanded cloud access,

This article discusses how AI infrastructure needs to adapt to support autonomous agents effectively, with insights from Modal's CTO on the technical and architectural requirements for agent deploymen

Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering reality is incredibly complex. Where do

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate using standardized open protocols such a

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is on the critical path for reasoning, respo

This article from Latent Space provides an overview of Fable, covering its capabilities, architecture, or use cases as an AI model or framework. The guide likely serves as a reference resource for dev

New York Times: Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business — The Chinese company's models have won ov

Amazon.com Inc. is back in the bond market, this time to raise at least 25 billion for its artificial intelligence buildout, according to Bloomberg. The offering is split into eight parts, senior unse

Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the com

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max plan subscribers, and says 90%+ of Cowork usage is unrelated to software development — ZDNET's key takeaways —

Anthropic PBC will pay 19 billion to lease a TeraWulf Inc. data center for 20 years. TeraWulf, a Nasdaq-listed developer of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced the deal today. The compan

Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users o

New York Times: Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city — Anthropic, the artificial i

Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare raised ~3.1B in its Hong Kong IPO, selling 383.5M shares at ~8 each, the top of its marketed range, and will start trading on Thursday — Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare

Financial Times: Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight — Sharp turnaround for state-backed

Reece Rogers / Wired: As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users — As part of Meta's Muse Image

Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own fin

Australian Payments Plus, a payments platform, improved its development speed and efficiency by integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex tools into their workflow. The integration enabled faster code ge

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired Evo Security Inc., a startup with a platform for managing employee access to business applications. The terms of the deal were not disclose

Microsoft's fifth wave of Xbox layoffs in July 2026 resulted in approximately 3,200 job losses, with Bethesda Game Studios losing at least 35 employees and id Software being hit particularly hard, rep

When we first made BGP route policies for Cloud Router generally available over a year ago, our goal was to give network administrators deep, programmable control over how network paths are evaluated

This post walks through building a serverless image editor where users upload a photo, describe an edit in plain English, and receive the result in seconds. The agent runs on AgentCore harness without

In this post, we walk through how multi-dataset Topics work, explain how the chat agent uses defined relationships to generate cross-dataset queries, and demonstrate an end-to-end implementation using

In this post, you build an AWS Support Companion using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent uses Strands Agents as the orchestration framework and connects to AWS services through the Model Context Pro

Brian Danga / The Block: Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet — Quick Take — Co

Reuters: Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% — Smartphone sales in China fe

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Court filing: Meta says four US states seek 1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~1.5T — Meta Platf

CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of sec

Data centers now account for about 5% of U.S. electricity demand but could triple by 2035 , creating potential conflicts with domestic manufacturing goals. Rising data center construction is outpacing

Today, we are excited to announce Multi-Dataset Relationships in Amazon Quick Sight. This new capability lets you define logical relationships between Quick Sight datasets and perform runtime joins at

In this post, we shift from concepts to patterns. For each schema, you’ll find a table structure, use cases, implementation steps, and sample SQL queries. We also cover workarounds for advanced scenar

Dragonflies employ sophisticated aerial combat maneuvers comparable to fighter pilots, using optical illusions to appear stationary while diving at high speeds toward prey. Research published in Natur

Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organizations will rely on the personalization o

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a 76M Series C led by SBI Holdings — EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform