OpenAI has built support agents for its own customer service line and now aims to convince large enterprises to adopt similar AI agents, signaling a shift where models are no longer the bottleneck in AI deployment, accor…
Medtronic PLC unveiled Touch Surgery Aide, an AI-powered compute platform for the operating room that runs on NVIDIA's accelerated computing infrastructure, enabling real-time multimodal AI support during surgery. The pl…
Samsung launched three foldable smartphones simultaneously for the first time at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8, all shipping August 7. The…
GigaToken, a new open-source tokenizer, claims to be up to ~1000x faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers and tiktoken for language model tokenization, achieving speeds of over 24 GB/s on an AMD EPYC 9565 processor. The dro…
BrassCoders treats every developer's code the same way by running 12 static-analysis scanners and emitting the union of their findings as YAML, catching vulnerabilities that AI assistants miss. The tool is offline and de…
Five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt, according to Nikkei Asia, surpassing the $1.35 trillion they officially reported. Me…
A developer outlines cost-effective strategies for scaling AI applications, including using spot instances, auto-scaling, serverless inference, and model optimization techniques like quantization and pruning. The article…
Simon Willison's informal benchmark asking AI models to generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle has become a widely discussed test for large language models. A new experiment tested 1,008 SVGs across seven frontier…
BrassCoders finds that AI-generated Python code using SQLAlchemy's text() function with f-strings or % formatting introduces SQL injection vulnerabilities, as the ORM's automatic parameterization is bypassed. The company…
A developer's guide to prompt engineering for code generation covers techniques from basic principles to advanced strategies, emphasizing that well-crafted prompts produce reliable, production-ready code while vague prom…
Orbital graded its agent harness against Ryan Lopopolo's 12 harness engineering theses, finding that on a legacy codebase with the harness switched on, weekly merged PRs per contributor roughly doubled from around 3 to a…
An engineer shared a Python script, agent_expanded.py, that implements a simple agent loop for a large language model with a 1,050,000-token context window. The script uses a custom shell tool to execute commands and ite…
Network expert Glenn Fiedler warned game developers that AI can now find vulnerabilities in game code, urging them to fix security flaws before malicious actors exploit them. Fiedler highlighted that AI tools are increas…
Elon Musk announced on X that Grok Imagine, the AI generator he owns, will produce a 'historically accurate' full-length movie adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey before the end of the year, following his public criticism …
The tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla is earning millions of dollars annually from the booming demand for '.ai' domain names, driven by the global surge in artificial intelligence companies and startups. The country's re…
A developer's practical guide details the engineering challenges and solutions for deploying production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, covering data indexing, vector stores, multi-stage retrieva…
BrassCoders, a security scanner designed to catch what AI assistants structurally miss, integrates into developer workflows through three checkpoints: a local CLI install, a pre-commit hook, and a CI gate. The tool ensur…
Perplexity's agentic AI Personal Computer feature, now available to Enterprise and Pro subscribers in addition to Max users, can autonomously handle complex tasks on a Mac by accessing local files, controlling native app…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the inaugural cohort of 65 Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows, an 8-week program for engineers deploying AI in enterprises, with fellows from companies including OpenAI, Mistral, Cogni…
PixelGust launched a public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI assistants live weather, climate, terrain, and hazard data for any point on Earth, enabling tools like Claude and Cursor to answer location-ba…