Howden Group CDO Barry Panayi argues that traditional data product models fail at acquisition pace, urging companies to build open, governed data services instead of pre-defined product catalogs. Howden, which acquired m…
A developer built a 340-million-parameter vintage LLM from nearly scratch, training it exclusively on texts from before 1900 using custom scripts and datasets. The open-source model, available on HuggingFace, is time-loc…
Cohere AI released North Mini Code, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 3 billion active parameters per token, optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks.…
Check Point announced a major expansion of its Managed Service Provider platform, adding AI governance tools, a multi-tenant management portal, and unified security bundles to help MSPs secure AI adoption and simplify ma…
The UK Treasury has not yet decided whether to attend a £1.7 billion enterprise resource planning (ERP) program it previously agreed to fund, raising questions about the project's future. The delay in confirming particip…
Apify released a Content Gap Analyzer Actor that automates content gap analysis by scraping top-ranking Google pages, crawling their content, and using an LLM to identify missing insights. The tool aims to replace manual…
Anthropic reversed its plan to silently degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for users training competing AI models, admitting the company "made the wrong tradeoff" after backlash from the research community. The company…
Fintech company Block laid off 4,000 employees in February with CEO Jack Dorsey citing AI as enabling smaller teams, but subsequent reporting revealed the cuts were driven by financial pressure after pandemic-era overhir…
Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and Apache Arrow, warns that 'vibe coding' is dangerous while advocating for agentic engineering in an interview about AI in data work. McKinney emphasizes the need for specification-drive…
Engineering leaders Eric Anderson of Intuit and Ben Matthews of Stack Overflow discussed on the "Leaders of Code" podcast how the near-zero cost of AI-generated code is reshaping software team management and engineering …
Apple's WWDC26 keynote unveiled new AI features for Siri and the upcoming xOS 27 software, which were discussed in the latest Macworld Podcast episode. Hosts Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola analyzed the anno…
Anthropic's Claude model will not lead to a recursively self-improving AI god or a permanent underclass, as the company's marketing suggests, because AI technology is becoming a commodity where success depends primarily …
A team of engineers and product managers at a technology company shared their most frequently used AI prompts, revealing a set of refined, reusable templates for tasks like building product specs, creating widget tests, …
OpenAI published a report detailing two China-linked influence campaigns that used its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content aimed at swaying American public opinion against AI data centers. The campaigns, which OpenAI say…
On 11 June 2026, a developer released asyncinject 0.7, a utility library supporting an asyncio dependency injection pattern. The library, previously used with Datasette, had bugs identified and fixed by Claude Fable 5.
The Zig programming language has implemented a policy in its code of conduct that restricts contributions generated by large language models, prioritizing the growth of human contributors over automated code submissions.…
A new context layer called ktx aims to improve AI agent accuracy for database queries by combining hard semantics (warehouse schema, joins, metric definitions) with soft semantics (business context from docs, wikis, Noti…
New research analyzing U.S. drone strikes in Yemen from 2010-2012 found that even strikes with no civilian casualties caused large spikes in civilian mobility and communication, displacing on average 5% of the nearby pop…
More than 100 marketers surveyed by Digiday said they primarily use AI for data analysis and content creation, but only 32% use it to buy ad placements due to concerns about poor performance and lack of human oversight. …
Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding there, with CEO Kaz Nejatian citing a shift toward smaller AI-native teams and a pu…