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Mozilla has launched cq, an open‑source platform dubbed a “Stack Overflow for AI agents,” to let autonomous agents share and retrieve problem‑solving knowledge. The Python‑based project includes Docker deployment, SQLite storage, and plug‑ins for Claude Code and OpenCode, with a three‑tiered knowledge hierarchy (local, organization, global commons). By consulting a shared database, agents can avoid repetitive diagnostics, cutting token usage and speeding up deployments. However, the initiative raises security challenges such as content poisoning and prompt‑injection, prompting Mozilla to embed anti‑poisoning safeguards and consider a public commons instance.
AT&T announced a new flagship app built around a generative‑AI assistant, creating a one‑stop shop for wireless and internet customers. The move is designed to stem subscriber churn and directly challenge T‑Mobile’s AI‑enabled digital tools.
In this episode, Adam Wormuth, CEO of Chariot Defense, and Army CTO Alex Miller discuss the critical "missing power layer" needed for modern, distributed electronic warfare. They explain how today’s soldiers rely on 30‑60 watts continuously, and how existing diesel...
Enterprises are moving AI agents from pilots to production, prompting DevOps teams to adopt observability practices that capture every interaction. Experts outline seven safeguards, starting with clear success criteria and operational governance, then defining the exact data to track—prompts, model...
The article introduces a recovery‑aware redrive framework that captures failed microservice requests, monitors downstream health, and replays traffic only after services recover. By persisting failures in a durable queue and gating retries with real‑time metrics, the design eliminates uncontrolled retry...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 rollout has sparked backlash over strict hardware eligibility, forced AI features like Copilot, and perceived quality issues. While Azure’s short‑term revenue remains insulated, the erosion of trust in the Windows platform threatens the strategic gravity that has...
Oracle unveiled Fusion Agentic Applications, embedding autonomous AI agents into its Fusion Cloud suite. The initial rollout includes 22 applications that can reason, decide, and act across finance, HR, supply chain, and customer experience workflows. Agents operate either as recommendation...
Qualys, Inc. launched Agent Val, the industry’s first AI agent that safely validates exploits and automates remediation within its Enterprise TruRisk Management platform. The tool targets a 6.5‑fold rise in exploited vulnerabilities and aims to shrink the average window of...
Anthropic announced a research preview that lets its Claude assistant control a Mac computer, enabling it to click, scroll, and navigate applications on behalf of users. The capability is bundled with the Dispatch mobile tool and is available to Claude...
Generali Malaysia began migrating legacy insurance applications to AWS in 2019, selecting Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) as its container platform. By adopting EKS Auto Mode, the insurer automated node provisioning, scaling, and patch management, dramatically reducing operational overhead. Integrated...
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OpenClaw is an open‑source, gateway‑centric runtime that turns generative AI into an always‑on service deployed on Kubernetes. It provides a unified onboarding flow for workspaces, channels and skills, and ships with a documented Kubernetes install path and operator. The platform...
Panther Lake is a real turning point for Intel. I've been on AMD since switching to Linux, but with 18A delivering Gelsinger's dream from 2021, it's a privilege to run blue again on the laptop side. And Intel working directly...
Dell Technologies announced a portfolio‑wide security upgrade that embeds quantum‑resistant cryptography into firmware and BIOS across its commercial PCs and data‑center products. The company also introduced AI‑driven recovery tools in its PowerProtect line, delivering up to twice the backup speed...
RapidFort and Nutanix announced a joint solution that embeds RapidFort’s near‑zero CVE container images into the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). The integration automates vulnerability remediation and provides hardened, compliance‑ready workloads across on‑prem, edge, and public‑cloud environments. Available to all NKP...
Splunk unveiled its OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) in beta and announced the general availability of the Splunk Operator for Kubernetes at KubeCon EU 2026. OBI captures traces and RED metrics directly from the Linux kernel, eliminating the need for code changes across...
Teleport unveiled Beams, a trusted runtime that isolates AI agents in lightweight Firecracker VMs and embeds delegated identity for secure, secret‑free access to production resources. The platform enforces policy‑controlled networking, logs every action, and integrates with Teleport’s existing audit and...
Meshery announced the general availability of Meshery v1.0 at KubeCon EU, delivering a governance‑first cloud‑native management platform. The release introduces an "Infrastructure as Design" paradigm, enabling teams to visualize, version, and diff infrastructure as living artifacts. New features include the Kanvas...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the general availability of Dapr Agents v1.0, a Python framework built on the Dapr runtime that enables reliable, secure AI agents in production. The release follows a year‑long partnership with NVIDIA and the open‑source community,...
Google DeepMind announced the appointment of Jasjeet Sekhon as Chief Strategy Officer, tasking him with unifying research, productization and policy around artificial general intelligence. The hire, confirmed by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, underscores a shift toward integrated AGI roadmaps that...
Cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks launched Prisma Browser for Business, a secure web browser tailored for small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The browser embeds built‑in protection against phishing, ransomware, fraud, and AI‑driven threats, while offering data‑leakage controls and enterprise‑grade policies. Designed...
Cloudflare unveiled its Gen 13 server, built around a 192‑core AMD EPYC Turin 9965 processor, 768 GB DDR5‑6400 memory, 24 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage and dual 100 GbE NICs. The new platform promises up to twice the throughput of Gen 12 while delivering up to 50% better...
HealthBridge CTO Anton Fatti says AI and cloud computing are reshaping healthcare administration while keeping the doctor‑patient relationship central. He notes that AI already automates paperwork, allowing clinicians more face‑time with patients. Fatti, who joined in February 2025, highlighted HealthBridge’s...
Zoom unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools that embed workflow automation into meetings, calls, chat, and contact‑center interactions. The rollout adds no‑code AI agents that act across third‑party platforms such as Salesforce, Slack and ServiceNow, plus AI‑powered Docs, Sheets...
Mistral unveiled Forge, a platform that lets enterprises train and fine‑tune AI models using their own data. The service covers pre‑training, post‑training and reinforcement learning while guaranteeing data and model ownership. Companies such as ASML, Ericsson and the European Space...
At its China Partner Conference, Huawei announced AgentArts, an AI‑agent development platform slated for beta on April 30 and open‑source release on May 30, claiming it can accelerate agent creation by over 60%. The company said autonomous agents like OpenClaw will drive...
Zalando’s rapid expansion in 2014‑15 exposed fragmented onboarding, disparate tooling, and compliance gaps across its developer teams. To address these pain points, the company launched an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that unified CI/CD, security, and multi‑language support on a cloud‑native...
Volcano announced a major upgrade with Volcano v1.14, Kthena v0.3.0 and the new AgentCube, repositioning the project from a batch‑only scheduler to an AI‑native unified platform. The release adds a sharding controller that dynamically partitions resources for batch, inference and agent workloads,...
In this episode, Gilbane’s Chief Technology Officer Alex Gutman explains how the firm has shifted from managing isolated projects to organizing around client‑defined value streams, enabling outcome‑driven delivery. He details the CTO’s remit—cyber resilience, service enablement, and future‑focused data/AI foundations—and how...
HCLTech announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, deploying Gemini Enterprise models in custom AI agents for more than 2,000 GenAI‑led engagements. The deal deepens integration with Google Workspace and places dozens of...
Vercel announced that Mitchell Hashimoto, co‑founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, has joined its board of directors. The move comes as Vercel closes a $300 million Series F round that lifts its valuation to $9.3 billion and underscores a push to deepen its...
Intel launched the Core Ultra 3 “Panther Lake” CPUs at CES 2026, debuting a new X‑prefix SKU line paired with Arc B390 graphics and retiring the traditional ‑P and ‑U suffixes. The lineup spans 4‑ to 16‑core configurations, promising up to 27 hours of video‑streaming battery...
Datadog engineers moved from hand‑tuning Go assembly to an automated system called BitsEvolve that leverages large language models and evolutionary algorithms to optimize low‑level code. Manual removal of redundant bounds checks alone delivered a 25% CPU reduction on targeted functions....
OpenAI is moving toward an all-in-one AI platform. The goal is to bring ChatGPT, Codex and other tools into a single environment and reduce fragmentation. Instead of switching between apps, AI becomes one continuous workspace. This is a shift from using AI...
The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing. I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs,...
Abilytics Inc announced the appointment of Ajish Cherian as Chief Technology Officer. Cherian will steer the firm’s global technology strategy across AI services, cloud platforms and data analytics, aiming to meet rising enterprise demand for secure, production‑grade AI solutions.
Evac Group’s HydroTreat system turns onboard wet waste—food scraps and sludge—into sterile biochar, a carbon‑rich solid that can be stored and disposed of without discharge. The technology lets cruise ships avoid costly port fees and route changes imposed by tightening...
ASML needs to become simpler. That, too, is innovation. Marco Pieters, ASML “We have become too sluggish,” says Marco Pieters, ASML’s new technical boss. He is leading a sweeping reorganization to prepare the Veldhoven-based high-tech giant for the AI era. https://t.co/0vG7jthH2I
Google announced a reshuffle that pulls engineers off its browser‑based Project Mariner and redeploys them to text‑oriented AI agents such as the newly launched Gemini Agent. The move comes as Nvidia’s OpenClaw platform accelerates adoption, prompting Google to double down...
BlinkEx is launching an invite‑only early‑access crypto exchange in early 2026, concentrating on a streamlined spot‑trading experience. The platform’s core differentiator is a horizontally scalable, low‑latency matching engine that emphasizes predictable fills over sheer speed. Integrated risk layers, branded BlinkGuard,...
Appspace announced the appointment of Dan Ward as chief technology officer and Eric Daggett as chief sales officer. The hires are intended to scale the company’s AI‑powered workplace experience platform as enterprises seek unified, data‑driven solutions.
Large language models struggle with physical causality, driving a surge in "world model" research and billion‑dollar funding rounds from AMI Labs and World Labs. Researchers are exploring three architectural families—JEPA’s latent, real‑time embeddings, Gaussian‑splat 3D scene generators, and end‑to‑end generative...
Bitly announced the appointment of Matt Young as chief technology officer, tasking him with leading engineering and data teams to scale the link and QR‑code platform. The move, highlighted by CEO Peter Krivkovich, signals a strategic bet on AI‑enabled development...
SEALSQ Corp is integrating NIST‑selected post‑quantum cryptographic algorithms, notably CRYSTALS‑Kyber and CRYSTALS‑Dilithium, into its secure elements and TPM‑class chips to create a hardware root‑of‑trust for blockchain keys. The company is partnering with Swiss platform WeCan to embed these algorithms in...
The AI landscape is shifting from brief, stateless inference calls to long‑running, coordinated agents that require persistent state and secure execution. Traditional Kubernetes objects like StatefulSets struggle to manage thousands of singleton agents efficiently. The open‑source Agent Sandbox project introduces...
A seasoned engineering leader shares a 90‑day playbook for transitioning into a new tech role, drawing on his recent CTO onboarding at Nordhealth after years at Shopify. The framework tackles the "expert beginner" paradox, emphasizing a listening‑first approach in the...
Huawei unveiled its AI‑powered fgOTN solution at MWC Barcelona 2026, positioning optical transport networks as intelligent infrastructure rather than passive pipelines. The platform embeds AI across transmission, sensing, and operations, enabling real‑time fibre‑based monitoring, native quantum key distribution, and autonomous...
Dropzone AI, founded in 2023 by former ExtraHop scientist Edward Wu, launched a fully software‑only AI SOC Analyst platform that resolves security alerts without any human analyst involvement. The solution promises greater consistency, scalability and transparency, addressing the chronic alert‑overload...
Uber's chief technology officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, announced that 95% of the company's engineers now use AI tools monthly and that an internal coding agent is generating 1,800 code changes per week. The shift moves engineers from hand‑coding to system...
AI‑assisted development has moved the bottleneck from writing code to post‑push activities such as provisioning, compliance, and day‑two operations. Traditional platforms expose policies and state through fragmented UIs and pipelines, which hinders AI agents that require machine‑readable interfaces. Crossplane extends...
Microsoft announced a sweeping AI leadership reorganization, promoting Mohit Garg to Vice President of Engineering for AI Network Infrastructure and naming Jacob Andreou as EVP of the unified Copilot experience. The changes free Mustafa Suleyman to focus on "superintelligence" and...
