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Apple senior product manager Doug Brooks said the Mac mini and Mac Studio have seen "incredible demand" for running AI agents, citing the need for isolated, always-on systems. Brooks emphasized Apple's chip strategy, inc…
Small language models (SLMs) are increasingly powering next-generation AI agents, challenging the assumption that larger models are always better. NVIDIA research shows SLMs excel at repetitive, specialized tasks in agen…
InfoQ opened enrollment for its AI Security & Privacy Engineering Program, a five-week online cohort for senior engineers in regulated industries, starting August 26 and October 14. The program, facilitated by Katharine …
The United States is investing heavily in AI hardware but neglecting the human capability to use it, according to leaders from Digital Promise and TNTP. The organizations have committed to reaching 15 million students by…
Agent frameworks waste inference cost and latency by routing every pipeline step—formatting, merging, routing, validating—through an LLM call, when deterministic code wrapped in a typed interface would be faster and chea…
Block has designed a system called User Identity Delegation to give downstream services a clearer answer about who is making a request through an AI agent, addressing the problem of identity and authorization in agentic …
SiliconFlow, China's largest independent token supply platform, filed for a Hong Kong listing under Chapter 18C on June 30, 2026, revealing that it processed 578.5 billion tokens per day as of April 2026 and saw revenue …
Agent accuracy degrades as tool catalogs grow beyond 10-15 tools, with research showing retrieval-based selection triples accuracy from 13.62% to 43.13% while cutting prompt tokens by over half. Six techniques—gating, re…
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The service will enter main…
SpaceX's rapid inclusion in the Nasdaq 100 highlights the index's methodology balancing market cap and free float adjustments, while Micron's surge to become the third-largest QQQ holding reflects the broadening AI trade…
Kubernetes cost optimization removes waste through technical actions like rightsizing pods and adopting Spot instances, while cost management provides ongoing visibility, allocation, and governance. A Cast AI report show…
Alex Zenla, CTO and co-founder of Edera, advocates for "spite-driven development" to address security flaws in cloud-native infrastructure, arguing that current multi-tenant Linux kernels and consumer-grade GPUs repurpos…
Confluent published a technical deep dive comparing SASL PLAIN and SCRAM authentication in Kafka, explaining how different login modules handle credential storage and whether they support hot-reloading configuration with…
South Korean chip workers at SK Hynix and Samsung have become highly sought-after in the dating market due to massive bonuses from the AI chip boom, with some employees receiving up to $476,000 extra this year. The newfo…
Orbital's team has spent the last six months focusing on operational reliability for AI agents, addressing issues such as mid-task deployment interruptions, tenant isolation, concurrent version conflicts, and silent fail…
The Model Context Protocol team has promoted its Enterprise-Managed Authorisation extension to stable status, enabling organisations to centralise access control for MCP servers through their identity provider. The exten…
Kioxia launched a 332-layer NAND flash with 4.8 Gb/s interface speed, leapfrogging rivals Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix. The Japanese chipmaker targets enterprise and data center SSDs for AI workloads, capitalizing on su…
Companies are losing money and knowledge as engineers individually optimize their own AI agent setups without centralized oversight, creating invisible token spend and siloed expertise. The author argues that centralizin…
A new analysis shows that layoffs at major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Dell do not meaningfully fund AI infrastructure spending. At Meta, layoff savings cover only 2-6% of capital expenditures, and eliminati…
Worldmodeldata, a Cambridge-based deeptech startup, raised £7 million in seed funding and appointed former Meta policy VP Chris Kelly to its board. The company aims to build the largest library of AI training data from v…