AWS has recently made its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server generally available, giving AI coding agents controlled access to AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standard interface. It provides a safer and more auditable way to connect AI agents to AWS services without handing over br
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Google has introduced Middleware for Genkit, its open-source framework for building AI-powered and agentic applications. The update adds a programmable interception layer around model calls, tool execution, and generation loops, giving developers more control over reliability, safety, and orchestration inside productio
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
We're in the transition period -- all of us.
Merrin Kurian shares the architectural blueprints and organizational processes behind Intuit’s AI transformation. She explains the "fixed, flexible, free" framework used to scale GenOS across 8,000 developers, enabling 3,500+ production experiments. She discusses critical agent failure modes, the "LLM-as-a-judge" evalu
Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused capabilities: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. The release aims to address a recurring challenge in enterprise AI deployments, where organizations want to use autonomous agents but cannot allow execution environments or internal
Meryem Arik discusses why modern engineering teams face "inference chaos" and how AI model gateways provide a critical control layer. She explains the balance between empowering decentralized teams to choose the best models and maintaining centralized oversight for security, RBAC, and cost control. Explore open-source
Grab’s Central Data Team built a multi-agent AI system to automate repetitive engineering support tasks across its data warehouse platform. The system separates investigation and enhancement workflows using specialized agents coordinated via an orchestration layer. It reduces operational load, improves resolution speed
J. Paul Reed discusses the "ironies of automation" - a 40 years-old concept now amplified by AI. He explains how advanced systems often make the human operator more crucial, not less, while simultaneously degrading the skills needed to intervene. Sharing real-world stories of "AI-fueled" incidents, he shares why over-r
QCon AI Boston 2026 is close to selling out. Six sessions where speakers engage directly with the gap between AI working in a demo and AI working in production. By Artenisa Chatziou
Ian Thomas shares a case study on embracing AI-native engineering within Meta’s Reality Labs. He explains the "Assess and Grow" framework, a maturity model designed to move teams from manual toil to AI-integrated innovation. He discusses real-world wins - including hitting 90% code coverage in record time - while addre
Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers platform, delivering 4x higher concurrency and 50% faster response times. The upgrade completes a six-layer agent infrastructure stack: compute (Dynamic Workers + Sandboxes), orchestration (Dynamic Workflows), memory (Agent Memory), browsing (Browser Run), and commer
InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs. By Artenisa Chatziou
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwi
The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
Cloudflare released Dynamic Workflows, an MIT-licensed library that extends its durable execution engine so workflow code can differ per tenant, ag
Netflix has developed a graph-based architecture for managing machine learning systems, called the Model Lifecycle Graph. This system maps interconnections bet
The Local-First AI Inference pattern routes 70–80% of documents to det
Coder Agents is a model-agnostic platform designed to let organizations run AI coding agents on their own infrastructure, rather than relyin
AWS announced that Amazon WorkSpaces can now serve as managed virtual desktops for AI agents in public preview. Agents authenticate through IAM and ope
Paulo Arruda discusses Shopify’s evolution in AI adoption, moving from simple chat tools to a sophisticated swarm of specialized agents. He explains the transiti
Anthropic has announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new deployment option that gives AWS customers direct access to Anthropic’s n
Anthropic published a postmortem tracing six weeks of Claude Code quality complaints to three overlapping product-layer changes: a reasoning ef
Amit Navindgi discusses the systematic shift at Zoox from fragmented documentation to an AI-driven ecosystem. He explains how they built "Cortex," a secure platform
Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic
Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedu
Ubuntu has outlined its AI strategy, describing it as a deliberate departure from industry trends towards cloud-centric, AI-first operating systems. Instead
"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers," Campbell Brown said at StrictlyVC.
The company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.
This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.
OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.
Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.
AI video-generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.
Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with&#
OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.
The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.
