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Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud Report agrees with many other cloud reports these days: Cloud is more strategic, cloud is more complex, AI makes everything harder, and better governance is the answer. This report, based on a survey of 753 cloud decision-makers and users, argues that enterprise cloud has entered a “value era” in which organizations are measuring success less by cost savings alon…

Google is adding a new feature, Orchestrator, to Antigravity, its AI-powered development environment, to help enterprises improve software development efficiency by automatically coordinating multiple Gemini models, including the newly introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen. The new feature, which allows developers to delegate planning, coding, and review tasks to different models within a single coding se…

AWS on Thursday said that it was upgrading the runtime layer of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with greater compute capacity, more efficient memory utilization, and faster startup times to help enterprises deploy and scale AI agents more quickly and cost-effectively. The greater compute capacity includes support for up to four times more compute than the previous version, with each session now supporti…

Google has announced Gemini Decisions API, offering developers a way to handle routine decisions in AI applications without generating text responses, weeks after OpenAI launched a competing service. Powered by the company’s new Gemini Decision 1 model, the API allows developers to evaluate up to 1,000 questions in a single request. Unlike conventional generative AI models that produce responses …

As consumer-grade hardware makes hosting local AI practical for both developers and enterprises, many are discovering that popular open-weight models come with hardcoded safety filters and state-mandated biases. In this article, I will show how to use abliteration — a representation engineering technique — to surgically delete refusal vectors from the Qwen 3.8 27B model without expensive fine-tun…

When Microsoft started to deploy AI models in what is now its Foundry platform, it was building on its partnership with OpenAI. OpenAI was able to use Azure infrastructure to train its models, and in return, Microsoft became the first commercial partner to use them. Azure OpenAI has been a successful product for both businesses. But as more organizations got access to OpenAI models, Microsoft’s s…

AWS launched a new local emulator service for its cloud services on Wednesday to help enterprises accelerate application development and testing. The service, named AWS Emulator, will allow developers and AI coding agents to build, deploy, and test AWS-dependent applications on their machines without provisioning actual cloud infrastructure and paying for it, thereby potentially reducing developm…

Microsoft researchers have found that rewriting fewer than 10 rarely used neurons in an open-weight AI model can turn any agent built on it into a sleeper backdoor that runs an attacker’s commands on cue, with no retraining required. Researchers from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Red Team described the technique called Lazarus in a research paper . It modifies dormant neurons in a model’s fina…

A configuration file meant to store local command permissions on Anthropic’s Claude Code is exposing thousands of API keys, database credentials and other secrets, according to findings by GitGuardian. The code security firm identified 31,088 distinct secrets in Claude Code’s “.claude/settings.local.json” files across 23,276 public GitHub repositories. Of those, 5343 were still valid when GitGuar…

I can’t decide whether Agile development is completely dead or about to make a huge comeback. Or maybe Waterfall will. Who knows? Coding agents are changing everything — and I don’t think we’ve quite figured out how they are going to update our methodology, or how we are going to organize ourselves to take advantage of them. We have barely scratched the surface. Folks who have been around a while…

Two protocols define how AI agents connect to internal resources and collaborate with other AI agents. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is well known because it’s promoted as a general protocol for connecting AI agents to resources and other AI agents. But that’s not completely accurate. It’s really the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) that’s enabling AI agent orchestration . The confusion stems from h…

PuppyGraph on Tuesday said it was adding an AI-assisted graph schema builder and MCP integrations to PuppyGraph 1.0, the new version of its distributed graph query engine for enterprise data. The update is designed to help developers reduce the complexity, latency, and costs associated with letting AI agents query interconnected data across thousands of database tables and multiple platforms. The…

Microsoft researchers have uncovered a memory-safety bug in Rust’s standard library that had gone undetected for nearly 11 years, alongside other flaws that can trigger undefined behavior even in applications written entirely in safe Rust. Two of the findings affect stable Rust, including a separate issue that could cause applications to access freed memory. The nearly 11-year-old bug involves Ru…

Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, claiming significant improvements in handling complex software engineering tasks while cutting API prices by 20% compared with the previous versions. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 share the same underlying model but have different safeguards. Fable is broadly available, while direct access to Mythos is restricted to vetted cybersecurity and lif…

Running a gold mine can be profitable. Finding and digging the next one is expensive. As analyst Benedict Evans argues , Anthropic’s business has the same challenge, with more than 80% of its third-quarter revenue coming from models released in the preceding six months. A lab can make good money serving its best model while spending heavily on the one it will need next, but it could make amazing …