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Databricks on Wednesday introduced Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, a new retrieval model designed to improve enterprise AI search by taking additional steps for complex queries while stopping early on simpler ones in order to help its customers balance answer quality, latency, and cost. The new model builds on research behind Databricks’ earlier Instructed-Retriever-1 but takes a different approac…

We spent the last decade building entire finops departments just to decipher what the cloud bill was saying. Just when we figured out how to stop leaving idle compute instances running, generative AI introduced an infinitely more opaque, faster-moving layer of spend. AI bill shock has spread like a slow moving hurricane across the industry. Aside from the spike in large language model (LLM) costs…

I guess I’m a Go developer now. My first programming language was BASIC. My seventh-grade math teacher, Mr. Schulte, taught BASIC to us on Fridays. He gave us programming assignments for homework during the week. Some of us loved it so much we stayed after school to play games and create extra programs, including our own crude, text-based adventure games. I remember hearing a story about a crazy …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues it’s the “most illogical thing in the world” to believe AI will kill SaaS, and says the markets “got it wrong” in sending SaaS stocks tumbling. Why “illogical”? Because, as analyst Benedict Evans stresses, the fact that everyone can now easily spin up code actually doesn’t solve any SaaS problems, because creating code and tools is the easy part: “The hard part is k…

Cloud computing has always been about survival. When you’re building systems at scale, you need to think about resource planning, capacity, and adaptability when demand spikes. The survivalist mindset in cloud architecture is about building systems that can weather unexpected storms, whether that’s sudden traffic spikes or the need to scale AI inference across a global user base. During the past …

For a growing number of organizations, AI has become not only a key component of the software development process, but the centerpiece. These enterprises have shifted toward an AI-first development strategy, where artificial intelligence is integrated into all phases of the software development life cycle, rather than being a feature to use selectively during the process. In most cases, this mean…

A year and a half ago I sat in a conference in Silicon Valley and watched an AI agent write production-quality code in real time. I knew our engineering model was going to change, and within a few weeks my team was past the question of whether to adopt AI. The real debate was how far we were willing to go in redesigning how we build legal software around it. Since then, output per engineer across…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.136, an update to the popular programming editor that previews an Agent Merge feature and introduces two experimental features for agentic coding. VS Code 1.136 was released September 2 and can be downloaded from code.visualstudio.com . Agent Merge , a preview feature, helps take a pull request across the finish line, Microsoft said. Agent Merge asks an…

Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. Released as a beta, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR) connects devices running Windows, macOS or Linux to process AI inferencing workloads privately. While the system is aimed primarily at home users, it could find favour with enterpr…

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, disclosing that the new flagship model has crossed the “Critical” threshold for cybersecurity risk under its Preparedness Framework, a classification the company said triggers additional deployment restrictions. “GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Busin…

The consulting firms told us this would be different. They arrived with slick slide decks, expensive vendor packages, and promises to revolutionize how we do business. Their message was clear: Digital transformation was no longer optional; it was existential. Companies that failed to adapt would be left behind and crushed by more agile competitors with cloud-native architecture and data-driven st…

Meta won’t judge employees by how much they use AI when it comes to annual performance reviews, despite early efforts to drive AI adoption focusing on so-called token maxing. The company has told employees that it “will not use AI adoption dashboards or token counts to evaluate impact,” according to a report by The Information . The announcement came in an internal memo from executives Maher Saba…

Hot on the heels of the Rust 1.98.0 release , the Rust team has published Rust 1.98.1, an update that fixes a miscompilation in vtable generation. Rust 1.98.1 was announced September 3 . A Rust issue opened August 21 (and now closed) noted that Rust 1.98 emits a zero method entry in a compiler-generated vtable, resulting in a segmentation fault and a crash. According to the Rust 1.98.1 release no…

When Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, the question arose of whether the open AI platform would remain open when it becomes a unit of Nvidia. And the current lack of a single viable open alternative that does everything Hugging Face does for enterprises adds further complications for CIOs. Rumors of the pending deal have been circulating for at least a…

First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing code based on a natural language prompt. Today, coding agents can look at your code, suggest improvements, compile and test the improved code, and iterate on that to come…