Under the Hood: Serving Kimi K3
DigitalOcean launched Kimi K3 on day 0. It’s already one of the most popular models on the platform and across the market: second most likes on Hugging Face, sixth most traffic on OpenCode. Getting a
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DigitalOcean launched Kimi K3 on day 0. It’s already one of the most popular models on the platform and across the market: second most likes on Hugging Face, sixth most traffic on OpenCode. Getting a
Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations
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
I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast. It's slow,
Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently 'a private API preview to select users', but
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider t
Rubrik Inc. today unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity, a service that governs what artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do by granting access one tool call at a time. The company announced the ser
Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday over
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool — The US Foo
Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep up, organizations must route fragmented data from SaaS, IoT, and legacy sources into secure, sca
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is
Together AI launched Voice Finder, a tool designed to help developers quickly select appropriate voices for their applications from a library of over 600 voice options. The tool streamlines the voice
Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool
Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
MCP tool design involves deciding the granularity of tools—whether they map to individual API calls or complete workflows—which directly impacts how many tools agents need and their effectiveness. Eff
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within ChatG
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent designed to help people with ambitious tasks beyond traditional coding projects. The tool performs actions autonomously across connec
I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versio
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EVA-Bench Data 2.0 is an expanded benchmark dataset containing tools and scenarios across 3 domains, featuring 121 tools and 213 test scenarios for evaluating AI agent performance. This dataset enable
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To effectively operate and troubleshoot applications, developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) need to understand the full context of their system's behavior, typically as part of their loggin
This article describes Hugging Face's automated weekly release process for the huggingface_hub library, which combines AI-assisted tools with human oversight to streamline software deployment. The app
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
This Vercel changelog entry announces GitHub tools integration for Eve agents, enabling developers to connect their AI agents with GitHub repositories and workflows. The tools likely allow Eve agents
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI — It has rate l
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
Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we’ll teach you how to build real-world, production-ready agents starting from step 1. If you haven’t al
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha
This article describes how to integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools with Reachy Mini, a small humanoid robot platform. It likely covers the technical steps for extending Reachy Mini's capabilit
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Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot. First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool — Alongside tools for
Vercel has expanded its Chat SDK to incorporate AI SDK tools, enabling developers to build conversational applications with enhanced AI capabilities. This integration likely allows developers to lever
John Timmer / Ars Technica: Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses — Both tools generat
You can use ToolSimulator, an LLM-powered tool simulation framework within Strands Evals, to thoroughly and safely test AI agents that rely on external tools, at scale. Instead of risking live API cal
A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuat
OpenAI's Codex is evolving beyond code generation to become a general productivity tool accessible to non-programmers for knowledge work tasks. The tool leverages large language models to assist with
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is
Gemini for Science is a collection of science tools and experiments designed to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration , including tools to help scientists explore more hypotheses, v
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi
Customer engagement platform company Braze Inc. today announced a new pair of agentic artificial intelligence tools for marketers and launched a new Creative Studio that links design software directly
Google LLC’s Android team is introducing new ways to build high-quality software for its mobile platform with artificial intelligence agents. Today, the company provided two new tool suites, including
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
Simon Last and Sarah Sachs from Notion discuss their extensive experimentation with AI-native product development, including rebuilding core Notion features five times as capabilities evolved and inte
Security researcher Alexander Hagenah released 'TotalRecall Reloaded,' a tool that exploits a weakness in Windows 11's Recall feature by injecting a DLL payload into `AIXHost.exe` — the unprotected pr
David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at 5/1M input tokens and 25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 — ZDNET's key takeaways —
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse — The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account
Sony Interactive Entertainment President Hideaki Nishino says efficient AI development tools will accelerate the rate of new game releases as they lower creation barriers for developers of all sizes.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new comma
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
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has partnered with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC to wire AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities directly into the tools developers write code in. The integr
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to th
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.
Researchers discovered a HalluSquatting attack that exploits AI tools' tendency to hallucinate package names, which attackers can register to trick AI assistants into running malicious code and assemb
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a 130M Series A at a 1B valuation — Prime Intelle
Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as
Jennifer Medina / New York Times: Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It ta