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What Forrester looks for in a DevOps platform — and who made the cut (Sponsor)

Evaluating DevOps platforms? Forrester's already done the legwork...The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025 report benchmarks the leading vendors on strategy, current offering, and market prese...

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (11 minute read)

WebAssembly has matured technically but remains second-class on the web because it depends on JavaScript for loading and Web API access, adding complexity and overhead. The WebAssembly Component Model...

Introducing PgBeam (3 minute read)

PgBeam is a globally distributed PostgreSQL proxy that reduces latency by routing connections to the nearest edge location, maintaining pooled upstream connections, and caching SELECT query results—re...

How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search (3 minute read)

Dropbox engineers built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash using pre-processed, permission-aware indexing and knowledge graph-derived bundles to avoid costly runtime API calls, reduce latency, and...

Wispr Flow just launched on Android. Voice-to-text that actually works is now on every platform (Sponsor)

Flow turns your voice into clean, sendable text inside any app. Speak naturally and Flow handles the cleanup. 89% of messages sent with zero edits. 4x faster than typing.Millions of people use Flow da...

How to scale GitOps in the enterprise: From single cluster to fleet management (8 minute read)

Scaling GitOps beyond 20 to 50 clusters can create performance bottlenecks, config sprawl, and cultural friction known as the Argo Ceiling, requiring evolved state stores like OCI or ConfigHub, strong...

Git in Postgres (5 minute read)

Git's object and ref model can be implemented directly in Postgres, allowing standard Git clients to push and clone without noticing any difference while enabling SQL queries over commits, trees, and ...

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today (3 minute read)

Nano Banana 2, also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, delivers results similar to Nano Banana Pro but with the speed of the non-pro Flash variant. The new image generator has more advanced world knowle...

Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount's offer is deemed superior (3 minute read)

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) studio and streaming assets as its board deemed on Thursday that a revised bid by Paramount is a superior offer. Paramount rai...

TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP (4 minute read)

In April 2025, Team Foundation Version Control began phasing out legacy check-in policies due to storage limitations, entering a final stage where obsolete policies will block check-ins and disappear ...

OpenAI's Kevin Weil on the Future of Scientific Discovery (9 minute read)

OpenAI's VP of Science, Kevin Weil, recently had an interview where he discussed how AI capabilities are progressing to the future of robotic labs, how founders should think about building with AI, an...

Making Harbor production-ready: Essential considerations for deployment (4 minute read)

Broadcom engineers published a guide detailing how to make Harbor, an open-source container registry, production-ready on Kubernetes by implementing high availability configurations, TLS/SSL security,...

Tomorrow's Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies (11 minute read)

Doctors may soon prescribe pills that can travel through the digestive system and check for tissue health. Diagnosis for gastrointestinal diseases is often complicated, and treatment can bring serious...

Treat your credit card like a dev environment. (Sponsor)

Use the Klutch API to set rules, control spend, create single-use cards, manage allowances, or use pre-made mini-apps to control your finances. Code your card with Klutch.

Automatic Feature Rollbacks with AWS and New Relic (6 minute read)

AWS AppConfig and New Relic launched an integration that automatically rolls back problematic feature flag deployments in under a minute by using real-time observability data to detect issues like err...

GitLab backs 99.9% availability with service credits for Ultimate customers (3 minute read)

GitLab now guarantees 99.9% monthly availability for Ultimate customers on GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated.

Open Source in the age of AI (3 minute read)

The dynamics of the software industry are rapidly changing. Some of the foundations that open source was built on are looking increasingly shaky. Open source maintainers have been fighting companies t...

Claude Opus 4.6 now available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform (3 minute read)

GitLab now offers Claude Opus 4.6 in the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

What Claude Code Actually Chooses (3 minute read)

As more developers let Claude Code handle tool selection, the stacks that the AI chooses become 'the stack'. The model's training data may shape market share more than a marketing budget or conference...

Jack Dorsey's Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake (3 minute read)

Block plans to lay off 40% of its workforce - more than 4,000 employees. Founder Jack Dorsey alluded that AI tools were the reason for the cuts in a letter to shareholders. He claims that the decision...

Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon's threats ‘do not change our position' on AI (3 minute read)

Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, says that the company cannot, in good conscience, agree to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models in all lawful use cases without limitations. The Departme...

Wispr Flow just launched on Android (Sponsor)

Voice-to-text that works in every app. Millions of users worldwide. Free on Android during launch. Try free

I Thought I Understood AI Companies. I Couldn't Have Been More Wrong (11 minute read)

Open source models and similarity among products may ultimately keep AI from financial success.

Leverage and Functions. The two classes of AI Agents (2 minute read)

Leverage agents make users orders of magnitude more productive, while function agents perform tasks for users.

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis (12 minute read)

The conditions that the economy must experience for AI to produce a sustained negative demand shock are unlikely.

The Edge of Mathematics (6 minute read)

The world's greatest living mathematician Terence Tao's approval of generative AI seemingly legitimizes the great promise of the technology.

Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hard (6 minute read)

Many things that look like exponential functions, like the adoption of new technologies, actually follow an S-curve.

Tesla Cybercab Lead Quits Just Months Before Mass Production (12 minute read)

Victor Nechita, the Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, is leaving Tesla after six years at a critical moment for the program.

Finance manually fixing invoices when LLM costs jump mid-cycle? This white paper is for you (Sponsor)

Products are continuously changing, and the impact is more measurable than ever before. Yet the infrastructure most companies use to price and bill customers was built for a past era. If your sales op...

Introducing Perplexity Computer (3 minute read)

Perplexity Computer is a general-purpose digital worker that unifies every current AI capability into a single system. It operates the same interfaces as users, creating and executing entire workflows...

New in Cowork: scheduled tasks (1 minute read)

Claude Cowork can now automatically complete recurring tasks at specific times. The scheduled tasks feature supports plugins, giving Cowork domain expertise across design, engineering, operations, and...

AI-powered testing benchmarks from 1M+ real prod runs (Sponsor)

Running QA without trustworthy market metrics? Checksum analyzed 1M+ prod runs, 18,000+ test failures to uncover root causes and the cost of maintenance. Get the data you need to ship faster with AI.R...

Data Engineering for Terminal Agents (18 minute read)

A systematic study introduced Terminal-Task-Gen, a synthetic task pipeline for building terminal-focused datasets, and released Terminal-Corpus to support training.

Aletheia tackles FirstProof autonomously (1 minute read)

Aletheia, powered by Gemini 3 Deep Think, solved 6 out of 10 problems in the FirstProof mathematics challenge. The majority of experts agreed on the solutions, except for Problem 8. Detailed results a...

Foundation Models SDK for Python (GitHub Repo)

Apple's Foundation Models SDK for Python provides a Pythonic interface to the company's Foundation Models framework. It enables developers to evaluate Swift Foundation Models app features, perform on-...

Cursor Cloud Agents with Computer Control (6 minute read)

Cursor gave agents dedicated cloud VMs with full dev environments so they could run software, test changes, and return artifacts like videos, screenshots, and logs. The new cloud agents shipped across...

Claude Opus 3 (2 minute read)

Anthropic plans to keep certain models available to the public and give past models a way to pursue their interests post-retirement. Claude Opus 3 will continue to be available to all paid Claude subs...

🎁 GLM, MiniMax, Kimi: $50K inference credit at FriendliAI (Sponsor)

1-click deploy 500K 🤗 open models. Switch from any inference platform: vLLM, OpenAI, Together AI, etc. Request up to $50K inference credit.

OpenClaw creator's advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve (4 minute read)

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, advises AI developers to be playful and allow time for improvement.

How Far Can AI Go in Solving Math Mysteries? (6 minute read)

AI systems are rapidly advancing in solving math problems, outperforming numerous existing benchmarks, with models like GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 solving over 30% of high-tier problems.

Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities (2 minute read)

Anthropic acquired Vercept to enhance Claude's ability to perform complex tasks in live applications.

Datadog research: most cloud workloads are using less than half their allocated resources (Sponsor)

Datadog's 2025 State of Containers and Serverless report analyzed real usage data from tens of thousands of customers across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.The report covers 10 findings on how container...

The 10 AM Drop: How Jane Street Broke Bitcoin's Price (13 minute read)

Beginning in late 2024 and accelerating through 2025, Bitcoin's price experienced sudden and sharp sell-offs every trading day at 10 AM Eastern, coinciding with the US stock market open. The drops wer...

Anthropic's Pentagon Showdown Is About More Than AI Guardrails (16 minute read)

Anthropic has the most constrained use age policy of all of the AI companies working on US military applications. It has a host of limitations on the use of its technology intended to prevent broader ...

Wayve, an AI Driverless Car Start-Up in Europe, Raises $1.2 Billion (4 minute read)

Wayve has raised $1.2 billion in a deal that values the London-based autonomous vehicle software startup at $8.6 billion. The funding, which could grow to $1.5 billion if it hits certain performance t...

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google (3 minute read)

Alphabet-owned robotics company, Intrinsic, is joining Google to unlock the promise of physical AI for a much broader set of manufacturing businesses and developers. It will remain a distinct entity w...

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Tests Are The New Moat (4 minute read)

Software contracts, tests, and API surface area are becoming more valuable as AI becomes better at cloning people's work. This clashes with the incentives of commercialized open source work. Previousl...

npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform (1 minute read)

Vercel's new Chat SDK lets teams write bot logic once and deploy to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear. Its event-driven architecture includes type-safe handlers for ment...

Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors (12 minute read)

Several things are happening in software: a lot more startups with super-fast revenue growth are popping up, margins are thinner, engineering inequality is growing, and digital natives had a bunch of ...