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Nvidia is moving to acquire AI platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a move that would extend its reach beyond chips into how AI models are distributed and used by enterprises. The Information reported the deal, citing sources, though the companies have not publicly confirmed the transaction. If completed, the deal would place a widely used repository of AI models and dat…

Open-source software has given cloud providers a way to adopt popular technologies without having to own the companies behind them. AWS, however, has decided that simply using DuckDB in its products and services is not enough. The cloud provider on Wednesday said that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs , the Amsterdam-based company behind the development of the DuckDB ecosys…

Security is a major concern for web applications and services that use the HTTP protocol. Although HTTP is a versatile protocol that can be used in many different platforms, it is vulnerable to security threats. Enter HMAC, or Hash-based Message Authentication Code, a widely used method of securing web APIs. HMAC is a cryptographic authentication technique that uses a hash function together with …

Digital twins began as virtual counterparts to physical systems. In aerospace, manufacturing, and other high-stakes environments, they gave engineers a safe way to observe behaviour, test scenarios, and reduce risk before making real-world changes. That framing now feels incomplete. Across supply chains, in energy networks and healthcare institutions, inside infrastructure, and in operations, dig…

Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with them . It seems like there isn’t very much you can do about them. But now that we have AI coding agents, maybe there is. Look, we all start out with great intentions. We have a beautiful design, we implement it carefully and lovingly, and we swear…

Here is a mundane question that came up in an agentic coding session: How do I convert a select widget to a radio group? I was working on Bram , a desktop app that harnesses coding agents to a GitHub-backed workflow. Bram’s UI is made with XMLUI , a framework that wraps a simple declarative syntax around React and CSS. Agents using the XMLUI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are instructed to p…

Enterprises are accelerating their AI investments and deploying agents, budgets are ballooning out of control, and leaders are being asked to justify the cost. Yet insight into the return on investment (ROI) can be opaque. Tempo says its new Workforce Intelligence (WFI) offering can help product managers make the case for, and optimize, their AI spend. The collaborative workspace platform provide…

For the past 15 years, the default assumption about cloud computing has been simple: When enterprises needed more capacity, cloud providers would deliver it. The price might go up. The instance type might be scarce in one region. Maybe procurement would complain. But capacity would eventually show up. That assumption is starting to break. The next major constraint on cloud growth is not chips, co…

Everyone in tech is excited about agentic AI . At least, right up until the moment that the agent begins to act less like a minion and more like a master. For instance, a friend of mine joined me to watch a soccer game over lunch the other day, telling me that his agents were back at the office crafting code for him. That’s the good kind of agent. But then there’s OpenAI’s rogue agents hacking in…

The promise of AI coding agents is driving enterprise adoption, but managing usage and controlling costs remain key hurdles. Google is seeking to address those concerns by integrating Antigravity into Gemini Enterprise and equipping it with new budgeting and consumption controls. These tools, which were not available as part of Antigravity’s earlier enterprise deployment model through what was fo…

GPU bills get most of the scrutiny when it comes to AI budget reviews , but there’s another important area that teams overlook. If you’re not preparing and slimming down the data that feeds into a model’s context, you’re merely paying to process noise. Teams building AI applications often default to old habits — collect all the data that might be relevant and worry about what’s important later. T…

Neoclouds have staked their claim to AI compute infrastructure with low-cost GPU-based alternatives and purpose-built features for AI training and inference . But can this new class of alternative clouds actually take business from the hyperscalers? Some argue that neoclouds are poised to capture a growing share of AI-native workloads. Neocloud revenue exceeded $25 billion in 2025, reports Synerg…

Software development is rarely a one-person job. A request or an idea may begin with a product manager or another employee, before moving through developers, designers, reviewers, and other stakeholders on its way to becoming working code. Salesforce now wants to put an AI coding agent directly into that workflow to reduce the number of handoffs and additional time involved in moving a software p…

Malicious versions of three Rust packages, including the widely used arrayref, were published to the crates.io registry on August 20, carrying a backdoor that executed automatically when affected projects were compiled. Security researchers at Wiz said the attack also shares infrastructure with recent supply-chain campaigns attributed to North Korean threat actors. The compromised releases were “…

Python can’t stop, won’t stop evolving. Python 3.15, due in fall 2026 but available now in its first release candidate, abounds with useful new features worth trying out: lazy imports, a new profiling technology, immutable dictionaries, and its ever-evolving JIT (just-in-time) compiler. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Speed boost your Python programs with new lazy imports Don’t let a fa…