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…
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Agentic AI doesn’t have a model problem. It has a retrieval problem.
On BrowseComp-Plus, GPT-4.1 answered 93.49% of the questions correctly when it was given the supporting documents directly. When an agent The post A…
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,…
AI data lakes are driving new storage demands
The frenetic pace of AI development is challenging data center design and operational paradigms. The twin pillars of hyperscale computing The post 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-…
Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.
While SpaceX and Nvidia plan to place a space-optimized Vera Rubin AI system in orbit by late 2027, Google’s far The post Elon Musk says space…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“AI factories are among the most complex systems ever built”: Nvidia and Palantir turn Nvidia’s supply chain into a proving ground for sovereign AI
Nvidia and Palantir announced on Thursday that they’re working together to bring “sovereign AI to critical supply chains,” kicking…
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…
“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…
Want to scale AI agents without breaking anything? Retrieval engineering is the answer.
AI agents are multiplying as corporations adopt the technology in record numbers. Smarter underlying models, better tool use, and improved The post…
When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem
Every application has always needed a place to keep its state. That is not new. What is new is who The post When agents build, deploy, and maintain,…
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 &#…
SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.
SpaceX and Nvidia say they are adapting the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform for orbital use, with SpaceX targeting The post SpaceX designed…
Perplexity just separated reasoning from authority. Here’s why it matters for enterprises.
Perplexity shipped Portable Computer this week, the local-first version of its Computer agent running on an Nvidia DGX Spark workstation, The post P…
OpenAI built a chip in nine months. Then it let AI rewrite the code.
When OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip, in June, the company made some big promises. The chip, developed The post OpenA…
Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser
Anthropic launched a new Browser Use tool that gives Claude a structured view of a web page in addition to The post Anthropic’s new browser to…
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…
Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems
Every engineering team deploying AI agents eventually discovers an uncomfortable truth: the model isn’t the biggest expense. The hidden cost T…
“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…
Five European companies just agreed to buy AI compute that doesn’t exist yet
Mistral AI, the French AI company that built its reputation releasing open-weight models, wants companies to use its infrastructure even The post Fi…