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Open-weight AI models are a big deal, as Nvidia and more than 200 other companies and organizations attested in their “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” letter in July. The question is who will pay for them. Why are they a big deal? Well, former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst will tell you that “open weights can play the same catalytic role [as open source]” to drive innovation in AI. This isn…

DuckDB, the analytics database with high-end features in a single easily deployed binary, is due to release a major update, version 2.0, this fall. In a blog post on the DuckDB site , the project’s maintainers outlined several key features that motivated a major version bump. The single biggest is a client/server mode, allowing DuckDB to function both as a compact, in-process database for a singl…

The public cloud market is experiencing an extraordinary financial moment, with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all benefiting from the explosive demand for AI infrastructure and services. AWS continues to turn its infrastructure dominance into new AI-driven revenue streams, including managed AI platforms, custom chips, and large-scale compute services. Microsoft has made A…

There is an important distinction between using AI to generate UI code during development and letting AI generate executable UI at run time. If a developer uses ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or another AI coding assistant to generate a component, template, stylesheet, test, or even an entire feature, that can be a productive workflow. The generated code still enters the normal software develop…

GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, impacting software development workflows across its platform. “This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue,” the company wrote on its status page . T…

Promoting the use of coding agents with its cloud-based document database, MongoDB has unveiled the MongoDB Atlas Managed MCP Server. Fully hosted and managed, the MongoDB Atlas Managed MCP Server connects coding agents to MongoDB Atlas without requiring customers to run additional infrastructure. Developers can easily add MongoDB Atlas to Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, and Devin, said MongoDB, …

Java Development Kit (JDK) 28 , a non-LTS (Long-Term Support) or “feature release” of standard Java due in March 2027, has snagged its fifth proposed feature, the deprecation of the macOS/x64 port for removal in a future release. The other four features proposed to target JDK 28 include a simple JSON API, a preview of value objects, switching the default mode of the Shenandoah garbage collector t…

As data centers evolve into AI factories, compute has shifted from a cost center to a revenue driver. “Compute is revenue,” said Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Without compute, there is no way to generate tokens. Without tokens, there’s no way to generate revenue. So, in this new world of AI, compute equals revenue.” This reframe changes an organizations’ calculus. If compute is rev…

Chinese AI developer Zhipu has launched GLM-5.3, a new coding-focused AI model that the company says has developed unexpectedly strong cybersecurity capabilities, putting it close to global leading models in vulnerability discovery while remaining behind them on deeper exploitation tasks. Zhipu’s own testing places GLM-5.3 slightly ahead of Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol on CyberGy…

The Bonsai 27B model from PrismML is the latest of many to squeeze a large number of parameters (27 billion) into a footprint compact enough to fit on a smartphone. The original model weighed in at 54 GB. However, PrismML claims its 1-bit quantized version — a mere 3.9 GB — can deliver “multi-step reasoning, structured tool calls, vision tasks, and computer-use agentic loops that stay coherent ac…

Senior data engineers are trained to be skeptical of proprietary platforms. When I entered a Palantir Foundry training bootcamp, I expected to find a slow, expensive alternative to the mature tools I know on AWS and Azure. What I found instead was a platform built for a radically different user, one who cannot write SQL but needs answers now. I want to write about what I actually observed honestl…

Enterprise teams are moving from chat-based assistants to systems that can take actions. I see the shift in how people describe the work. They ask for an assistant that can write code, file tickets, update CRM records, run a compliance checklist, generate a pull request, and follow through on the next step. That shape of work requires an agentic system. I define an agentic system as software that…

Google has introduced Credentio, an open source C++ library for C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority) Content Credentials. Announced August 13 and available at the mediaprovenance repository, Credentio provides an API designed to run locally within developer applications. This removes the need to send media files to cloud servers for validation, which incurs privacy, latency, band…

Model routing has emerged as a way to keep AI inferencing costs down by examining prompts and directing them to the most appropriate model — for example, the cheapest one able to respond effectively. This means that requests can be handled more efficiently, giving more accurate results and lower runtime costs, a concern in an era of rising AI expenditure . Nvidia sees the potential for model rout…

Oracle has released a security tool intended to provide organizations with a centralized view of security risk across their database environments. Oracle Database Security Central will be available free of charge until the end of February 2027. It arrives at a critical time for Oracle customers, with attackers targeting security flaws to exploit the company’s database products . Oracle is also co…