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A developer outlines five critical observability requirements for production AI agents: full decision path, tool invocation details, per-step cost attribution, session context across restarts, and failure reconstruction.…
A new article introduces the concept of harness engineering, a layer that transforms fragile AI agent demos into systems capable of reliable long-term operation.
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 checkpoint, a quantized model that achieves up to 5.9x higher inference throughput than GLM-5.1 754B FP4 on decode-heavy workloads while matching BF16 accuracy. The checkpoint u…
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends HTTP to enable AI a…
SynapCores released official LlamaIndex integration packages for its AI-native SQL engine, enabling RAG, GraphRAG, and hybrid retrieval in a single self-hosted binary. The packages replace multiple databases like Postgre…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a federal minimum tax on billionaires and a national fund to give Americans a stake in AI-generated wealth, arguing the tax should be addressed at the federal level because billionai…
Supermicro unveiled a Data Center Building Block Solutions Blueprint for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 platform at ISC 2026, supporting up to 1,152 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 576 NVIDIA Vera CPUs in liquid-cooled racks. The pre-…
Apple raised prices on the third-generation Apple TV 4K by up to 67%, despite the hardware being four years old and running a five-year-old chip. The $200 base model and $250 higher-end model are seen as poor value, with…
ON Semiconductor announced an all-stock acquisition of Synaptics for about $7 billion, expanding its push into physical AI. The deal adds $30 billion to ON Semiconductor's addressable market, but its stock fell 20% after…
On-premises AI coding tools enable enterprises to safeguard sensitive code, ensure data residency, and maintain compliance without compromising performance. By deploying AI within their own infrastructure, organizations …
Apple will skip high-end M6 Pro and Max chips, leapfrogging to an AI-focused M7 line in 2027 to prioritize on-device AI processing. The base M6 chip, arriving as early as 2025 for entry-level Macs, offers improved memory…
QVAC, an open-source ecosystem for building local-first, peer-to-peer AI applications, has been released. It enables running AI tasks like LLMs, speech, and RAG locally across platforms or via P2P inference, with an Open…
Onsemi agreed to buy Synaptics in an all-stock deal worth about $7 billion, betting that the next wave of artificial intelligence will run in cars, factories, and robots rather than in cloud data centers. The acquisition…
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a nationwide billionaire tax and a federal AI equity fund, arguing that every American should own a piece of the future built by artificial intelligence. He opposed a Californi…
NetApp released StorageGRID 12.1 with a Global Federated Namespace scaling to 10 Exabytes, delivering up to 400% higher throughput and 12 TB/s aggregate throughput for AI workloads, along with batch operations and enhanc…
Telnyx released a tutorial for building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) API using its AI Inference and Embeddings services. The Python/Flask app embeds user questions, retrieves relevant documents, and generates g…
Seven out of ten Americans oppose local AI data center construction, according to Gallup, with $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed nationwide. Opposition has spread across 24 states with 142 activist groups, drive…
AI startup Lindy replaced Anthropic's Claude with Deepseek, a Chinese model hosted in the US, saving millions as AI costs became unsustainable. CEO Flo Crivello said the cost curve 'crashed to the ground' and that switch…
Chip stocks fell Friday after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, reversing a brief rally fueled by Micron's strong earnings and Qualcomm's data center ann…
Valve launched the Steam Machine at over $1,000, a price driven by soaring component costs and supply constraints, while Microsoft and Sony face even greater pressure as their next-generation consoles approach. Valve's n…