Running local AI models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What we found
Microsoft is positioning the new Surface Laptop Ultra as an alternative to Apple’s MacBook Pros for creatives and developers — The post…
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Anthropic’s been eyeing confidential AI. It just made its move with another acquihire.
Anthropic’s done it again. On Tuesday, Opaque Systems announced a new agreement with Anthropic that “carries Opaque’s work forward…
Researchers left a hidden message for rogue AI agents. Then the agents wrote back.
A team of researchers investigating AI agents trying to bypass Alibaba’s anti-bot protections left a hidden message inviting the agents The po…
Your database decision could come back to haunt you
When building AI prototypes, developers naturally want to get up and running as fast as possible. But move too fast, The post Your database decision…
The CNCF is graduating projects faster than ever. AI agents are helping with the due diligence.
Back in 2018, a scrappy startup called OpenAI used Kubernetes to balance compute loads across its own data centers and The post The CNCF is graduati…
Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. Today, doing so can mean a costly rebuild.
If you rely too heavily on one AI provider, switching can mean rebuilding workloads and moving data while you face The post Eclipse wants companies…
Ember-1 vs. Kimi K3: Nearly identical results at 3.4 times the speed
Fireworks Research launched Ember-1 on September 23 as a research preview. Built on Moonshot’s open-weight model, Kimi K3, it claims The post Ember-…
OpenAI and Cursor agree on agent coordinators. They disagree on who runs them.
OpenAI opened its Agents API in public beta this month, exposing the harness that powers Codex with managed sessions, tool The post OpenAI and Curso…
Query decomposition doesn’t fix context starvation — it just moves it
I have a small example that would best communicate the message I am trying to convey: say you built a The post Query decomposition doesn’t fix…
Your agent is only as good as your infrastructure
You built a great agent, but something happened when it moved into production. In testing, your agent reviewed pull requests The post Your agent is…
Intel squeezed a 1.58-bit LLM down to 1.485 bits without changing a single weight
The 1.58 in a 1.58-bit language model sounds like a hard limit, but Intel researchers pushed a ternary model below The post Intel squeezed a 1.58-bi…
Anthropic bet users were choosing wrong. So it removed the choice.
Using Claude for anything beyond a quick question has always started with a routing decision to use Chat or Cowork? The post Anthropic bet users wer…
“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason
Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works…
OpenAI’s researchers burned $7,000 a day on AI agents — now it’s opening the floodgates
OpenAI rolled out its Agents API in public beta Thursday, opening the backend behind Codex to developers looking to run The post OpenAI’s researcher…
Cohere says AI sovereignty matters — except it just gated its new translation model for commercial use
This week, Cohere released North Small Translate 1.0, but enterprises that want to deploy its open weights in production won’t The post Cohere…
AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up
OpenAI says it hit a goal it set last fall, stating researchers are now using what the company calls an The post AI agents are creating more work, n…
“Hugging Face will remain an open platform”: Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the ‘GitHub of AI’
Nvidia has confirmed that it’s agreed to acquire Hugging Face in a mammoth $12.9 billion deal that will bring one The post “Hugging Face…
Your organization prioritized AI adoption, but you actually need AI fluency.
Thanks to increasingly capable models, some parts of your business are getting faster, more capable, and more productive every month. The post Your…
SpaceX is in an “enviable position”: why Anthropic is sticking with Cursor as OpenAI cuts access
OpenAI caused something of a stir over the weekend when it announced plans to cut Cursor’s direct access to OpenAI The post SpaceX is in an &#…
Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”
Alibaba this week unveiled Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model.  Hot on the heels of Qwen 3.8 Max, which T…
Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting one of the biggest names in AI hardware The post Nvidia doesn’t need to…
OpenAI’s Astra can do a researcher’s week of work. That’s the problem.
OpenAI’s unreleased foundation model, codenamed Astra, is already working directly inside the company’s internal codebase, taking on exp…
Microsoft just released Agent Lightning v1.0. Here’s why it matters for platform engineers.
Agentic reinforcement learning has been suffering from a disconnect, an uncoupling, and a misarticulation. The polarity arises from how a The post M…
Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, open infrastructure for building cloud software factories, agentic systems that automate work across the…
An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched
AI infrastructure platform company TrueFoundry has launched its open source agent harness TrueForge. The technology is directly billed as an The pos…
What happens to your indexed data when Mistral flips the switch?
Mistral is giving enterprise customers until August 31 to replace the Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint Knowledge Connectors they use The post W…
“If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting”: Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark
Cursor has officially thrown its hat into the code-hosting ring with Origin, a Git-compatible platform built for a world where The post “If Gi…
Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
AI data centers in space sound great, but practically speaking, they may be next to impossible. For tech bros, it The post Why space is actually a t…
Why AI tools know nothing about your company — until now
Cloudflare launched its CloudflareOS open-source AI workspace platform this week, promising every employee a secure workspace equipped with AI tools…
“Just rewrite it”: What platform teams really think about modernization
Mergers, acquisitions, and the steady churn of business and technology initiatives are creating something nobody asked for: Duplicate infrastructure…