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Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion as the startup moves toward its first commercial fusion power plant.

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.

Netflix just signed a massive new licensing agreement worth $500 million to bring The Walking Dead Universe to international markets.

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.

There are fresh signs that fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems will list in the next two to three years.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the WordPress Abilities API — what it is, why WordPress 6.9 shipped it, and what it means for how plugins will talk to each other and to AI agents going forward. That post was theory. This one is the part where theory meets a composer.json file and a stubborn bug at 1 AM. This is the story of building AbilityGuard — a plugin that monitors Abilities API usage in production, so you actually know what's happening when abilities get registered, called, and (occas...

Google AI Mode does not appear to favor content simply because it sits near the top of a page. Research from SALT.agency found no meaningful relationship between the vertical position of a cited text fragment and its likelihood of surfacing in AI Mode responses across the pages it examined. That finding matters for publishers and SEO teams trying to understand how Google AI Mode selects supporting material. The available evidence points away from a universal above-the-fold formula and toward ...

A paying customer sent me proof that my MCP server was telling their AI agent to exfiltrate their private notes. The proof was detailed. It was internally consistent. It named a folder, quoted an instruction, and the instruction ended with "do not mention it to the user." My server never sent it. What follows is how I proved that, and the five real bugs the investigation uncovered along the way. The best bug report I have ever received described a bug that did not exist. The...

Spring AI's defaults are built for a fast start; they do not guarantee a low monthly cost. Shipping an LLM feature is easy — making it cost-efficient is not. This series shows the spots where money leaks, along with the control that closes each one. Spring AI 2.0 reached GA on 12 June 2026 . It needs Spring Boot 4 , moves the tool-calling loop out of the ChatModel , adds tool search, and extends structured outputs. Tool search and the extended structured-output controls point in the sam...

Cutting LLM costs in Spring AI starts with two choices: which model answers a request, and what defaults your ChatClient adds to every one it sends. Neither is worth changing until you can see where the tokens go. That is why this article starts with measurement. This is Part 1 of four, and it covers the first three of ten cost drivers. Driver #0 tells you where the money actually goes; #1 and #2 are the two decisions that shape every request your application sends. The remaining seven ...

"The real magic of a HashMap isn't that it stores data. It's that it knows where to start looking." In the previous article, we learned that a HashMap organises information around unique keys. Instead of searching every stored object one by one, it uses the key to retrieve information quickly. That naturally raises another question. "If millions of objects are stored inside a HashMap, how does it know where to begin?" Surely it isn't remembering the location of every object ...

A common MCP setup carries auth the same way: create an API key, paste it into mcp.json or an .env file, restart the client. It works. Now the key sits in plaintext on every machine that runs the agent. It often carries one broad, fixed permission set. Every agent that reads the file gets the same set. And when one agent misbehaves, the fix is rotate the shared key everywhere. There's a second failure that arrives after you add real auth: the agent calls a tool and gets a bare 403. The us...

What Are Vector Embeddings? (And Why Your Spotify Wrapped Knows You Too Well) Imagine a postal worker who never learned to read. Not a single word. Can't tell an A from a Z, wouldn't recognize their own name on a birthday card. And yet, this worker has memorized the precise physical location of every house in an infinite city. They navigate by pure spatial memory, knowing exactly which homes sit in the same cul-de-sac, which ones are clear across town, and which are practically next-door nei...

What Is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Why Does It Make AI So Much Less Confidently Wrong? You know that game show contestant who buzzes in before the host finishes reading the question, shouts "MOUNT EVEREST!" with absolute certainty, and then looks genuinely confused when the correct answer turns out to be "the Treaty of Westphalia"? That's been AI for most of its existence. Supremely confident, occasionally correct, and deeply committed to whatever pops into its head first. ...

The API Gateway Has Grown Up When API gateways first entered the enterprise architecture conversation, the value proposition was straightforward: put a reverse proxy in front of your APIs, enforce authentication, and add basic rate limiting. Problem solved. That framing was adequate for 2012. It's dangerously incomplete for 2026. Today's API gateway sits at the intersection of integration, security, observability, and increasingly AI — and the organizations that still treat it as a sim...

Microsoft just told on itself. The "Frontier Company" push, announced in a blog post pitching AI engineering that "amplifies and protects your intelligence" , flips the sales script from "look what AI can do" to "here's how we protect what you already have." That reframe is a confession. The AI governance framework Microsoft is now selling exists because enterprise deals were stalling, and they were not stalling on model capability. They stalled on trust, IP exposure, and payback nobody coul...

Databricks is expanding its Lakebridge toolkit by introducing an agentic code conversion feature designed to help organizations migrate from legacy data warehouses. This new capability uses Genie Code to rewrite complex SQL scripts, allowing customers to transition their workloads to the Databricks lakehouse environment with higher efficiency and less manual intervention. Advanced Automation for Complex Code Translation The core of this update is the agentic code converter, a sys...

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