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From foundational ETL and analytics to the frontier of generative AI, Apache Spark serves as the architectural backbone for global data processing. However, as data volumes scale, the trade-off betwee
Artificial intelligence is creating a new class of cloud cost problem — one that no longer belongs exclusively to engineers. As AI tools put spend capabilities into the hands of sales, finance and exe
Forward-deployed engineers are specialized software professionals embedded within client organizations to provide hands-on technical expertise and implementation support for AI and software solutions.
This dispatch covers developments from the AI Engineer World Fair, likely discussing emerging trends in AI engineering including feedback loops in AI systems, the concept of software factories powered
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, c
AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology,
Google Cloud Next ‘26 took place this week in Las Vegas, and the energy was incredible as we welcomed over 32,000 leaders, developers, and partners to explore the Agentic Era with us. Across three key
The **[AINews] AI Engineer Europe 2026** issue from Latent Space covers the expansion of the AI Engineer (AIE) conference series into Europe, with tickets and first-wave speakers announced for AIE ...
Between chaotic levels of market fragmentation and economic volatility, marketing and communications agencies can no longer rely on the human intuition they’ve traditionally used to win clients and op
At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, machine learning, and ETL tasks. We recentl
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my
Databricks introduces Cross-Engine Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), a feature that extends fine-grained access control policies across multiple query engines and data processing platforms within
Many data engineers spend significant time managing compatibility and getting best performance across multiple analytics engines. To help solve this pain point, we are excited to announce gcs-analytic
Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours. Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the simulatio
Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Secon
German agentic artificial intelligence startup Synera GmbH today announced that it has raised 40 million in new funding to scale up its engineering automation platform and expand across the U.S., the
Supabase originally built the open-source Stripe Sync Engine to keep its own Postgres database of billing data current with Stripe, using webhooks to update records for customers, invoices, and paymen
The Supabase blog post covers how Supabase developed and open-sourced the Stripe Sync Engine — an open-source tool that uses Stripe webhooks to keep a Postgres database of billing data in sync with St
Today, at the Apache Iceberg Summit in San Francisco, we are announcing the preview of read and write interoperability between BigQuery and Iceberg-compatible engines, including Trino, Spark, and othe
Ruf unveiled a new 1,000+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, paired with a six-speed manual transmission . The prototype engine is installed in an elongated Ruf
The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f
This Databricks blog post discusses agentic data engineering capabilities enabled by Genie Code and Lakeflow, which are tools designed to automate and streamline data engineering workflows through AI-
Anyone building with AI eventually hits the same tradeoff: how to get the most intelligence per dollar, the right model at the right cost for each task. That’s what DigitalOcean Inference Engine is bu
This dispatch from Latent Space discusses debates within the AI engineering community regarding 'loops' in AI systems and the current state of AI engineering practices. The article likely covers techn
DigitalOcean shares insights from rapidly scaling their engineering team by hiring 33 engineers in a two-week period, likely covering recruitment strategies, interview processes, and lessons learned f
Nextdoor engineers leverage OpenAI's Codex to accelerate software development and reduce coding constraints, enabling faster feature implementation and improved developer productivity. The case study
The AI Engineer World's Fair is a conference event featuring talks on emerging AI research and engineering topics including autoresearch systems, advanced memory architectures, world models, tokenizat
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com
Keynotes at Europe’s first flagship AI Engineer Conference shared one theme: code generation has accelerated past our ability to verify it, and the industry is quietly reorganizing around that fact...
Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immedi
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised 40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific — German agentic art
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NVIDIA engineers and researchers utilize OpenAI's Codex, a large language model trained on code, to accelerate software development and improve productivity across their engineering workflows. The art
The TensorRT for RTX plugin provides a runtime for Unreal Engine's Neural Network Engine (NNE), enabling efficient deployment of AI models directly within real-time applications. Developers can see 1.
I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes. I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of wr
Data observability and telemetry management company Cribl Inc. says it’s extending its capabilities into security operations after acquiring the artificial intelligence-native security engineering sta
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
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new dedicated organization to bring agentic artificial intelligence systems, built on the same technology, to customers by embedding engineers in
John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra
In the agentic era, the role of the database has fundamentally changed. It is no longer a passive repository; it’s a critical context engine designed to ground generative AI apps, models and power aut
Formula 1 leaders agreed to change engine regulations for 2027 by adjusting the 50-50 power split to increase internal combustion output. The changes aim to address driver concerns about excessive lif
Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692,
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a standard part of modern software development. Coding assistants, code completion tools and AI-powered integrated development environments are now widely av
At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Lisa Su called her shot – just like Babe Ruth. The question now is whether AMD has built the engineering machine to hit it. Last week, we argued that AMD’s next reinventio
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The AI engineering world is using “loop” to describe several different agent architectures. This post maps execution loops, task loops, product loops, system loops, and the human oversight loop that c
Lilian Weng provides a comprehensive summary of 35 research papers focusing on Harness Engineering approaches for Reasoning and System Integration (RSI), covering recent developments in this specializ
DataOps is a set of practices and tools that apply DevOps principles to data engineering, focusing on automating data pipelines, improving data quality, and enabling faster iteration cycles. The strat
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a 300M Series C led by Temasek at a 2.4B valuation — PhysicsX, a Br
Audi has unveiled the Nuvolari, a limited-production mid-engined plug-in hybrid supercar that will begin deliveries in early 2027 with only 499 units made. The supercar features a twin-turbo 4.0-liter
WordPress hosting company WP Engine Inc. today added bot management to its Global Edge Security service, giving site operators a way to filter the growing volume of automated and artificial intelligen
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI — Project L
Cisco and OpenAI partnered to integrate OpenAI's Codex AI model into Cisco's enterprise engineering tools to enhance software development and automation capabilities. The collaboration aims to improve
Unravel Data Systems Inc. is expanding beyond observability and FinOps software with a new autonomous optimization engine designed to automatically tune and remediate enterprise data platforms running
Most production AI features don't need a frontier model. Here's how capability evals and prompt engineering can help ship a local SLM that matches frontier-model quality with lower latency and cost. T
Octopus Energy reduced margin data engineering costs by 50x through scaling improvements implemented on the Databricks platform for MHHS (Metering, Half-hourly Settlement) operations. The case study d
Databricks has launched the Context Engineer Associate certification, described as the industry's first credential specifically designed for professionals building reliable AI agent systems. The certi
Databricks announced a new learning pathway designed to help professionals develop skills in analytics engineering. The program likely covers essential competencies such as data transformation, SQL, d
SaaS applications are being transformed into deterministic engines as AI agents replace traditional user interfaces and drive the rise of the headless enterprise — where AI, not humans, serves as the
Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML — Call it t