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A developer tested DeepSeek V4 and V4 Flash against other models using a unified API at global-apis.com, finding that DeepSeek V4 Pro achieved an 84.6% average score on custom benchmarks at a fraction of GPT-4o's cost. T…
A developer compiled a production-readiness checklist for AI agents based on an 'Ask HN' thread, focusing on specific behaviors rather than infrastructure. The checklist includes observable logging, graceful fallbacks ac…
Salesforce acquired AI customer service agent Fin for $3.6 billion on June 15, 2026, to address Agentforce's slow deployment times. Fin resolves 76% of support queries end-to-end and serves 30,000 companies, filling a ga…
HYCU CEO Simon Taylor and IT Brand Pulse analyst Frank Berry argue that organizations must develop corporate memories to enable conversational AI and agents to query a comprehensive data store for accurate responses. HYC…
WALT Labs joined Anthropic's Claude Partner Network as a Registered Partner after completing the learning path and earning the Claude Certified Associate certification, enabling the company to help organizations deploy C…
Redgate's tutorial outlines five PII anonymization techniques for LLM pipelines, including format-preserving masking, pseudonymization, and synthetic-data substitution, to reduce exposure at entry points such as source d…
AT&T is escalating efforts to end its obligation to provide landline service in California, filing federal petitions and a lawsuit to preempt state rules. Customers report worsening service, outages, and rising prices, w…
PhoenixAI, rebranded from CelerData, raised $80 million in Series B funding to develop an AI agent database. The startup aims to handle unpredictable, real-time queries from AI agents that traditional analytics stacks ca…
Trust3 AI launched AgentDOS, an enterprise control plane that monitors AI agent activity, data access, and token consumption across platforms like Databricks Agent Bricks and Microsoft Copilot Studio. The tool addresses …
A developer released Mcpwn, an open-source CLI tool for red-teaming Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, after finding no existing pentesting tools for the protocol. The tool supports multiple transports, enumeration, i…
Apple has struck a $1 billion-a-year deal to run a 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model in Google's Cloud for Siri, highlighting Apple's failure to capitalize on its 2010 AI headstart and its reliance on external AI infra…
A developer traced a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE inference run and found that MoE all-to-all collective stalls dominate the tail latency, with a 69x tail ratio, despite dashboards showing 96% GPU utilization. The per-la…
The KV cache, a memory store for attention keys and values, grows linearly with context length and can exceed model weights in VRAM usage, causing out-of-memory errors for local LLM users. At 32k context, a 7B model's ca…
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in seed funding to provide identity management for AI agents, treating them as employees with permissions and lifecycle controls. The round was led by C…
Observability teams must shift from traditional metrics like uptime and MTTR to measuring business outcomes, as complex AI-driven systems make degraded experiences more costly than outages. A roundtable at LDX highlighte…
Cloudflare announced that key members of Ensemble AI are joining the company to accelerate AI infrastructure development. Ensemble AI, founded in 2023, focuses on making large AI models faster and more cost-effective thr…
1Password acquired Apono to become the control plane for businesses using agentic AI, transitioning from securing credentials to governing access. The Toronto firm aims to address the growing need for access management i…
Twilio CFO Aidan Viggiano detailed a multi-year turnaround that restored Wall Street confidence, involving workforce cuts, strategic focus on AI integration, and making the Segment unit profitable. The company's gross pr…
HBM costs have grown from 52% of AI chip component costs in Q1 2024 to 63% in Q4 2025, with total AI chip component spending rising from $22B to $52B. Reasonix is an open-source terminal coding agent optimized for DeepSe…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted that Micron will surpass Meta in market value, identified power supply shortages as the tech industry's biggest hurdle, and stated that AI's role is shifting from answering quest…