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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…

Meta is upgrading its Muse Spark family with a new model aimed at long-horizon coding tasks and agentic software development while keeping its standard API pricing unchanged, giving development teams access to improved capabilities without paying more per token. The new Muse Spark 1.3 model claims to complete coding tasks using about 25% fewer tokens and 20% fewer tool calls than its predecessor,…

One of the problems facing those who develop agents today, especially when building agents that run on edge systems with a mix of local and cloud AI, is trust: ensuring that the code that runs on users’ PCs doesn’t access private data or call unexpected APIs. How can we keep systems that don’t have predictable operations under control, when it’s that very unpredictability we’re relying on, as the…

Entrusting mission-critical workloads in the cloud puts a lot of pressure on IT operations to build resilience into data infrastructure they don’t even own — to make sure that when an incident happens elsewhere, the lights stay on at home. Fortunately, savvy CIOs are learning they can architect their systems for resilience and high availability to keep mission-critical cloud workloads running whe…

The team behind the rustup installer for the Rust programming language has released an update to the command-line utility. Announced September 1 , rustup 1.29.1 improves concurrency in two rustup operations, according to the Rustup Team. Now, when running rustup update , rustup will first check for possible updates in parallel. And when running rustup component add with multiple components, the c…

Google is adding a pre-trained foundation model for tabular data to BigQuery, allowing enterprise teams to generate predictions from structured data without having to train and deploy a machine learning model from scratch. The TabFM model, which has been developed by Google Research and is now available in preview, can perform classification and regression, two common types of predictive machine …

Vibe coding an application or an AI agent sounds too good to be true. A single developer prompts their way through a plan and has the code for a working prototype in minutes instead of days. Fixes and improvements come through iteration until the developer is satisfied with the results. According to the State of Code Developer Survey , 48% of respondents have adopted vibe coding for new projects,…

I built a complete, working application in a day this past weekend. Well, less than a day if you don’t count the time I spent waiting on Claude Code to do the work. The idea was germinated by my sister having a difficult time tracking a personal growth project that she had undertaken. It worked out for her, but me being me, I thought “I can build an app for that!” So I did. The time between my si…

Learning from the OpenAI-Hugging Face fiasco, as well as from recent revelations about its own model, Anthropic is revamping its security and alignment practices. The company has established controls that flag when a model attempts to break out of a sandbox or successfully accesses the live internet, cordoned off its highest-risk test environments, and proposed a set of safety standards for its e…