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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…
Cloudflare and AWS have both integrated the x402 open protocol into their edge networks, enabling agent-to-service micropayments with stablecoin settlement. The protocol revives HTTP's 402 status code for payment-gated r…
Amazon has dropped the price of the MSI Gaming RTX 5080 16G Inspire 3X OC GPU, a high-end graphics card with 16GB GDDR7 memory and a compact triple-fan cooler, making it an attractive option for gamers and creators seeki…
Hugging Face announced major updates to its Kernels project, introducing a new repository type on the Hub, improved security with trusted publishers and code signing, revamped CLIs, and expanded framework and backend sup…
The AI coding agent ecosystem is rapidly maturing, with new open-source tools like Orca for orchestrating parallel agents and AgentsView for cross-agent analytics emerging alongside research quantifying how code cleanlin…
AMD has released the Primus Tuning Agent, a tool that automatically searches for optimal training configurations for large language models by using a projection engine as a fast scoring oracle. In a case study with Mixtr…
AMD Quark, a quantization library optimized for AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs, enables MXFP4 quantization for Diffusers and xDiT FLUX.1-dev image generation, achieving up to 1.92× speedup over BF16 eager and 1.41× over BF16 to…
Verihubs, an Indonesian AI company, rebuilt its data warehouse on ClickHouse, achieving up to 98% faster queries and 50% lower cloud costs. The new architecture replaced daily Postgres batch pulls with real-time streamin…
Open-weight model GLM-5.2 matched Claude Opus at a fraction of the cost, global LLM token spending fell 20% from its May peak, and a GPT-5.5 Codex flaw caused quiet output degradation, signaling a market shift from model…
New research from Elastic reveals that one in three Australian businesses exceeded their AI budget last year, with nearly a third pausing or winding back deployments due to unjustified costs. Despite this, half plan to i…