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Building AI for the 80% of the world that doesn't think in English? (Sponsor)

If you're relying on machine-translated data to train your AI, you're missing the sort of cultural nuance that only a local would pick up on.Welo Data offers AI training data and human evaluation in 1...

Gemini 3.5 Flash (5 minute read)

Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new model focused on agentic workflows, coding, and long-horizon task execution. The release also expanded Gemini access across Search, enterprise tools, Andr...

Modernize Java in days, not months (Sponsor)

IBM Bob is the AI Development partner built for the modernization work you need to get done. • Java upgrades• COBOL refactors• RPG• Mainframe modernizationBlue Pearl compressed a 30-day Java upgrade t...

Karpathy joins Anthropic (1 minute read)

Andrej Karpathy announced he has joined Anthropic, citing the next few years at the LLM frontier as especially formative for his return to R&D. Karpathy noted he remains passionate about education...

Terraform Enterprise 2.0: Evolving infrastructure operations for scale (4 minute read)

Terraform Enterprise 2.0 introduces Stacks for orchestrating multi-environment infrastructure as unified systems, plus project-level notifications, SCIM 2.0 automation, stronger governance, diagnostic...

New in Terraform 1.15: Dynamic sources, variable deprecation, and more (5 minute read)

Terraform 1.15 adds dynamic module sources with const variables, deprecation warnings for module variables and outputs, inline type conversions via convert(), typed outputs, enhanced testing mocks, an...

Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare (8 minute read)

Cloudflare and Anthropic integrated Claude Managed Agents with Cloudflare's infrastructure, allowing developers to run AI agents with enhanced security features like customizable proxies, private serv...

OpenAI announces new Guaranteed Capacity offering for customers to secure compute (3 minute read)

OpenAI's new Guaranteed Capacity offering allows customers to secure long-term access to compute to power AI products, agents, and workflows. Customers can choose between one-, two-, and three-year-lo...

Back up and restore your Amazon EKS cluster resources using Velero (8 minute read)

AWS detailed how to use Velero on Amazon EKS to back up and restore Kubernetes resources and persistent volume data with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS snapshots, and least privilege IAM roles using EKS Pod Id...

Single-source MCP servers fail 1 in 4 prompts. Self-built is no better (Sponsor)

Both self-built and single-source MCP connectors fail 25% of prompts, breaking on schema mapping, date logic, multi-filter conditions, and write validations. Neither have the governance needed to safe...

Everything Google announced at I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Android XR, & more (5 minute read)

Google announced tons of new Gemini-powered features across its biggest products and services at I/O 2026. This page compiles all of the consumer-facing and most notable developer announcements. Gemin...

Google Detailed the Shift Toward Agentic Gemini Products (19 minute read)

At I/O 2026, Google outlined how Gemini models were being integrated across consumer products, creative tools, and developer platforms. The company also shared that monthly token usage across its AI s...

SpaceX Is Planning to Buy Startup Cursor 30 Days After IPO (3 minute read)

SpaceX is expected to file for its IPO as soon as today and list its shares on June 12. It plans to acquire Cursor in July. If the deal doesn't go through, SpaceX will pay Cursor a $10 billion breakup...

Model half-life (4 minute read)

Model half-life - the idea that model releases will keep getting faster and faster - doesn't really make sense under consideration. Model releases have definitely increased in pace, but the release ti...

AI Is Writing More Code. Your CI Pipeline Can't Keep Up (7 minute read)

Rising AI-driven development activity is inflating CI costs as every commit triggers long, compute-intensive test suites, making test execution a major source of infrastructure waste and slower develo...

Automating Confidential Containers (CoCo) infrastructure with Kyverno (3 minute read)

Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine, can now automate the deployment of Confidential Containers (CoCo) workloads by automatically injecting required security configurations and validating input...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (10 minute read)

HTML's richness allows it to convey complex information more effectively than Markdown, including layouts, data tables, and interactive elements. It enhances readability by organizing specs into well-...

Meet Gordon: AI Agent for Container Workflows (7 minute read)

Gordon is an AI agent by Docker that goes beyond typical coding assistants by actually reading your running containers, logs, and compose files to debug issues, containerize apps, and optimize Dockerf...

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github (4 minute read)

A CISA contractor reportedly exposed credentials for highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts, internal systems, plaintext passwords, logs, and deployment-related files in a public GitHub repository. T...

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks (12 minute read)

Nature recently released two papers that describe AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. Google's Co-Scientist is designed to keep scientists in the loop, so researchers h...

Tesla's Newest Electric Vehicle Could Jolt the Trucking Industry (9 minute read)

Early reviews of the Tesla Semi suggest it could be a much-needed hit for the company. It is much less expensive than competing heavy-duty electric trucks and can travel farther. Cost and range are tw...

Karpenter now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift (3 minute read)

Amazon EKS now supports Amazon ARC zonal shift and zonal autoshift with Karpenter, enabling Kubernetes clusters to automatically redirect traffic and stop provisioning in impaired availability zones d...

Startup School: Agentic AI. Master autonomous execution. (Sponsor)

Build agents that take action: Google Startup School. Chatbots are just the beginning. Google for Startups's Startup School: Agentic AI teaches you how to design and deploy autonomous systems that exe...

Announcing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS Resources (5 minute read)

CDK Mixins is a new feature in the AWS Cloud Development Kit that allows developers to apply reusable infrastructure capabilities to any construct type (L1, L2, or L3) without being locked into specif...

Real-Time Long Video Generation (GitHub Repo)

NVIDIA's LongLive 1.0 is a framework for interactive long-form video generation that supports sequential prompting and real-time user-guided editing using streaming attention and KV-cache optimization...

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plans to use it for everything (2 minute read)

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O, skipping the preview and going straight to general availability. It mostly has the same set of platform features as the previous Gemini 3.x series, but ...

Antigravity 2.0 (Website)

Google Antigravity is a dedicated platform for working with agents. It allows users to orchestrate multiple autonomous agents working in parallel across independent projects. Antigravity features an a...

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models (5 minute read)

OlmoEarth v1.1, a new model family, reduces compute costs by up to 3X while maintaining performance, making planet-scale mapping more affordable. The models efficiently process remote sensing data by ...

Polymarket launches private company trading so investors can speculate on Anthropic, OpenAI (3 minute read)

Polymarket is launching prediction markets tied to private company milestones. This will allow traders to bet on valuations, IPO timing, and secondary-market activity for companies like OpenAI and Ant...

A single pane of glass for managing all of your cloud agents (5 minute read)

Oz is a multi-harness control plane for cloud agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and Warp Agent. It offers automatic multi-agent orchestration, cross-harness Agent Memory, and improved cost and us...

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Alum and OpenAI Co-Founder, Joins Anthropic (2 minute read)

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pretraining team, which oversees the data training process for the company's AI models. He will lead a new group foc...

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family (19 minute read)

Six new state-of-the-art CrossEncoder Ettin rerankers built on Ettin ModernBERT encoders have been released, offering models from 17M to 1B parameters. These models, trained with pointwise MSE distill...

Claim $5 at zero.xyz, the free power tool for AI agents (Sponsor)

Zero unblocks your agents so they can discover services to accomplish tasks, no APIs keys or config. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes and most other CLI agents.Make your agents ...

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories (1 minute read)

There is no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub's internal repositories.

OpenAI has the smarter model. Anthropic is winning anyway (5 minute read)

OpenAI's frontier models beat Anthropic's in benchmarks, but Anthropic is still in the lead for enterprise spending.

Software's Centaur Era (3 minute read)

There was a period where the best chess performance was achieved through a human wielding a chess machine.

⚡ See how WHOOP, Stripe, and DoorDash use AI to listen to their customers (Sponsor)

Unwrap auto-categorizes customer feedback with AI, surfaces real-time sentiment alerts, and lets you query insights via MCP. TLDR subscribers get a free trial — grab time with the team to get set up →

The third wave of American philanthropy (23 minute read)

AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding.

Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem (6 minute read)

OpenAI strengthens content provenance by implementing C2PA standards and Google DeepMind's SynthID watermarking for AI-generated images.

Index (2 minute read)

Index is a platform for content owners that helps them understand how AI agents use their work and earn revenue when they do.

Cerebras is now running Kimi K2.6 (1 minute read)

Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter model, has the fastest frontier model performance ever measured by Artificial Analysis at around 1,000 tokens per second.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (30 minute read)

Disney erased the FiveThirtyEight site - roughly 200,000 human-hours of work.

Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die (15 minute read)

The maintainer left or burned out, the project was sabotaged or captured, the release pipeline broke, force majeure, or the world moved on.

Fortnite Returns to the App Store Worldwide as Epic Signals 'Final Battle' With Apple (3 minute read)

Epic is confident that governments around the world will not allow Apple junk fees to stand now that the company is forced to show its costs.

Your architecture blueprint for AI-powered search at scale (Sponsor)

Are you asking users to put up with search timeouts, empty results, or irrelevant answers? This Algolia whitepaper lays out the full stack of architecture & data foundations for AI search. Read it to ...

Qwen3.7 Preview lands on Arena (1 minute read)

Qwen3.7 Preview is now on Arena for Text and Vision. Qwen3.7 Max Preview ranks 13th overall in Text Arena, while Qwen3.7 Plus Preview ranks 16th overall in Vision Arena.

Cursor Released Composer 2.5 (7 minute read)

Cursor introduced Composer 2.5, an updated coding agent trained with targeted reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and new distributed training techniques.

Plaid x OpenAI bring personalized financial guidance to ChatGPT (Sponsor)

86% of surveyed users say AI helps them better understand their money, but most tools still aren't built around real financial context. With the new personal finance experience in ChatGPT, they can no...

Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers to Focus on AI (4 minute read)

Meta is moving 7,000 employees to four new organizations focused on building new AI tools and apps. The organizations will use AI native design structures and have fewer managers per employee than oth...

Jury Rejects Musk's Claims Against OpenAI (8 minute read)

A judge has dismissed Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI. A jury found that Musk brought the lawsuit against the company and Sam Altman after the statute of limitations expired. Musk says he plans to a...