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Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend
Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco The post Vercel adds al…
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…
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…
Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents
Workday is opening up its platform and allowing developers to build their own HR and finance agents in Claude Code, The post Workday goes headless,…
Decision models are suddenly everywhere. OpenAI’s is now public.
This week, OpenAI opened its Decisions API to public beta and added image inputs to make fast decisions from visual The post Decision models are sud…
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…
Anthropic’s answer to Dots and Muse is already inside Claude
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Anthropic’s a…
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…
What managing 150,000 AI agents could look like for database teams
The database administrator of the future will spend considerably less time administering databases. That sounds contradictory, but AI agents are The…
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…
Q.ANT gives away the software for its light-powered AI chips in a CUDA-style bet on developers
Q.ANT, a startup out of Stuttgart, Germany, builds processors that use light instead of electricity to do some of the The post Q.ANT gives away the…
A third option is emerging in the fight over AI and your data
Not your keys, not your coins. Not your model, not your data? Over the summer, the tech industry was consumed The post A third option is emerging in…
How confidential AI splits control between data and model owners — and opens new opportunities for both
Most people already understand what generative AI can do. But enterprises run into problems when they need to give a The post How confidential AI sp…
Claude Opus 5.5 wants to finish your coding tasks, not just start them
Anthropic wants developers to use Claude and its family of tools to handle complete coding tasks. The company introduced Claude The post Claude Opus…
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…
Open-weight models now handle a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway. But Anthropic still takes 64% of the spend.
The trend is clear: open-weight models are taking an increasingly large bite out of production AI usage. On Monday, The The post Open-weight models…
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…
Perplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it.
Perplexity decided it was paying too much for DynamoDB and wasn’t getting the control it wanted over read performance. So The post Perplexity’…
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…
AI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill the proposed new job
The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for The post AI evaluator: Th…
Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US.
Everyone knows the open-weight model pitch by now: companies can download the weights, customize them, run them on infrastructure of The post Chines…
Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware
Last October, the P99 conference — the online gathering for developers focused on high-performance, low-latency applications — featured…
“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…
“Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, but many developers hoping to give it a test drive are still waiting for The post “Sorry for the mess…
Cut GPU inference cold start from 8 minutes to less than a minute
We instrumented the full path from pod creation to first inference response on a GPU node running a 70B-class model. The post Cut GPU inference cold…
The systems guide to production token optimization
When enterprise AI applications scale, they inevitably hit a wall. For many engineering teams this wall is initially diagnosed as The post The syste…