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Shopify has deployed River, an AI agent integrated into the company's Slack, that now co-authors one in eight merged pull requests across the organization. The agent's capabilities were enabled by two major infrastructur…
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Shopify has deployed River, an AI agent integrated into the company's Slack, that now co-authors one in eight merged pull requests across the organization. The agent's capabilities were enabled by two major infrastructur…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms AI agents from isolated language models into self-evolving systems by replacing brittle hardcoded tool calling with a standardized, bidirectional integration bus. The H…
The article describes an engineer's journey of building five Kubernetes clusters, each iteration addressing a specific lesson learned from the previous one. The clusters evolved from a basic highly-available setup using …
An overly aggressive retry policy in an agent service worsened a partial API outage from Anthropic, causing 18,000 wasted calls and 9 extra minutes of recovery time. The author created a lightweight Rust circuit breaker …
Cerebras Systems has secured a 750MW compute deal with OpenAI, positioning the company for its upcoming IPO as demand for fast token generation surges. The wafer-scale chip maker's speed advantages, previously overlooked…
Rapid adoption of generative AI in software engineering, arguing that it undermines code quality, developer ownership, and craftsmanship by encouraging the acceptance of "slop" code. The author analyzes GenAI from four p…
The article describes the author's extensive research project to create a digital edition of Daniel Updike's seminal two-volume work *Printing Types*, first published in 1922. The author recounts discovering a first-edit…
The article discusses the rediscovery and recreation of the 1855 New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram, one of the first org charts in American business. Designed by superintendent Daniel McCallum and drawn b…
NVIDIA announced RTX Spark, a laptop and compact desktop line built on the NVIDIA GB10 system-on-a-chip, Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU, for running local coding agents and completing code, test and deploy workflows on a si…
SailPoint Technologies Inc.'s research found that 97% of AI agents have access to sensitive data, while only 21% of organizations are highly confident they can manage AI agent security risks, according to the company's p…
Capping an NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti from its default 450 W power limit to 300 W via `nvidia-smi -pl 300` reduced local LLM decode throughput by only 2.9%, from 52.6 tok/s to 51.1 tok/s, on Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 GGUF running through …
A new learning roadmap breaks LLM inference into five layers — the call itself, transformer computation, hardware limits, optimizations, and serving engines — explaining that prefill builds the KV cache while decode gene…
NavigateAI, a startup that exited stealth mode with $25 million in funding, is using AI to address construction labor shortages delaying data center projects, offering a 'trusted field copilot' that provides on-site guid…
JetBrains Research launched the JetBrains Research Podcast to explore deep questions about AI and software development, featuring psychologist Cat Hicks and professor Tomáš Petříček. Hicks found that team-level signals o…
At an Opinion Festival panel on Friday, experts said AI is forcing scientists to change working habits and values, with machine-generated texts threatening the reliability of scientific publications. Helen Eenmaa, associ…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max flagship model launches this week, scoring near the latest Claude Opus and GPT on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but the more significant release is the smaller Qwen3.8-27B, which at 27…
A developer argues that relying on AI assistants before forming one's own questions undermines learning and understanding in software development. The author describes a personal experience where an AI-provided fix worke…
Ninety-eight high school students drafted and passed the STUDENTS FIRST Act, a nine-page K-12 AI policy bill, by a vote of 82 to 16 during a July 17-19, 2026 simulation at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United S…
RapidNative co-founder Sanket Sahu announced that its coding agent runs without a virtual machine or cloud sandbox, using Lifo, an open-source Linux-like OS engine in TypeScript, to build full-stack React Native apps in …
Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with native vision and a million-token context window, reporting roughly 2.5 times more learning per unit of training comput…