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AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market News Summary: Taalas’ technology to further differentiate AMD’s AI roadmap by delivering breakthrough inference performance and ef…

OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky has quit the company to join startup Conduit New Delhi,UPDATED: Aug 6, 2026 10:52 IST While OpenAI continues to dominate the AI conversation with ChatGPT, several of its researchers ar…

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In today's software development landscape, local Large Language Models (LLMs) offer unprecedented privacy, zero latency, and freedom from subscription fees. While I generally avoid purely "vibe coding" for my projects,…

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Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents that runs entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers, with no Chromium underneath. The browser drops human-facing features like tabs and extensions in favor of what agents need: machine-readable content, scalability, and isolation. Built in 12 weeks using Rust components like Blitz, Stylo, and Boa JS, it already passes 215,000+ Web Platform Tests. Benchmarks show 3.1–3.8× less CPU and 4.7–7.0× less memory than Chromium on screenshots and HTML extraction. Existing Puppeteer, Playwright, and MCP clients work by adding a single browser=kitesurf parameter, free while in beta. The post Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent The post Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that. appeared first on The New Stack.

Temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore let you define stateful rules that evaluate authorization based on an agent's session history. Learn how to enforce workflow sequencing, prevent data fabrication, cap financial exposure, and require human approval for high-value actions.

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a38">datasette 1.0a38</a></p> <blockquote> <p>This release fixes a <strong>SQL injection</strong> security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a <strong>mixture of public and private tables</strong> in the same database, with access configured using the <a href="https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html">Datasette permissions system</a>.</p> <p>Site administrators who serve private tables in this way are advised to disable the <a href="https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html#execute-sql">execute-sql permission</a> <actions_execute_sql>` on that database to prevent users from accessing private tables using raw SQL queries. The bug that has been fixed would have allowed users with access to any public table to execute SQL injection attacks despite that restriction, giving them read-only access to data in private tables in the same database.</p> <p>This fix is also available in <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/datasette-2/">Datasette 0.65.3</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Thankfully this particular configuration - private tables and public tables exposed for the same database within the same instance - is likely to be rare. I've not encountered an instance like that myself.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql-injection">sql-injection</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a></p>

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/0.65.3">datasette 0.65.3</a></p> <p>Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/datasette/">1.0a38</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a></p>

Hi HN, I am building https://kifly.ai/, to make ecommerce stores discoverable and purchasable by AI agents. Enabling payments using traditional methods and stablecoins for physical goods. With Kifly a seller can easily…

As generative AI evolves into agentic AI, the build-or-buy decision becomes more complex and depends on numerous factors, including business size, use cases, and strategic priorities.

<p><strong><a href="https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging">Simon Willison on Technical Blogging</a></strong></p> I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!</p> <p>It includes my answers to the following questions:</p> <ul> <li>Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue?</li> <li>What has been the most surprising impact of blogging for you?</li> <li>What blog post are you most proud of and why?</li> <li>What post was the most difficult to write and how did you tackle it?</li> <li>Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community?</li> <li>Your advice for people just getting started with blogging?</li> <li>A few blogs that you particularly enjoy?</li> </ul> <p>I'll repeat my most important piece of advice here:</p> <blockquote> <p>My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.</p> <p>Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you <em>intended</em> to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else.</p> </blockquote> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blogging">blogging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/interviews">interviews</a></p>

Deep Agents, LangChain, and LangGraph each offer distinct approaches to building agents. In this post, we cover the key distinctions between our open source frameworks and when you should reach for each one.

Learn how to configure rate limits on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway to enforce per-user and per-target traffic controls. Define request, token, and connection limits scoped by JWT claims or IAM identity to protect downstream models, tools, and agents from traffic spikes.

In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest model on a synthetic classification dataset while balancing predictive accuracy against model footprint. We begin by defining a mixed search space with integer, float, log-scaled, and categorical parameters, then […] The post Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Doist CTO Gonçalo Silva doesn’t pretend to know where AI is headed. The pace of change has made it harder The post Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more appeared first on The New Stack.

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Learn about new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: temporal policies powered by Dogwood, a new open source policy language for AI agents, and rate limiting on the gateway. These features give you deterministic control over sequences of agent actions and cost ceilings that hold regardless of agent behavior.

As engineering teams adopt coding agents like Codex, leaders need visibility into adoption, consumption, and reliability. This post shows how to route Codex OpenTelemetry metrics through a local collector to Amazon CloudWatch for an AWS native view of usage by user, team, and cost center.

Learn how to run the full Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning policy lifecycle from your coding agent. A suite of open source Agent Skills builds, reviews, tests, debugs, deploys, and validates a custom policy end to end, turning a specialized console task into a repeatable engineering workflow.

PDI Technologies built PDI Brew, an agentic platform on AWS where non-technical employees describe a tool in plain English and receive a fully provisioned, multi-tenant web application in seconds. See how a pluggable planner and an AWS Lambda provisioning agent turn plain-English intent into governed, multi-tenant apps backed by Amazon Bedrock.

Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI 2026-08-06 In September 2025, I had the idea to revive my self-hosted music streaming platform Coral. I had just discovered the website cosine.club and was blown away…

The Amazon SageMaker Python SDK v3 now exposes generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI directly in your notebook. Benchmark an endpoint, generate data-driven deployment recommendations, and deploy the recommended configuration without leaving your notebook workflow.

I used to think Claude Code best practices were a matter of taste. Plan mode or not. Long CLAUDE.md or short. Pick what suits you, move on. Then Anthropic scored roughly 400k sessions from over 235k users against hard evidence of success. Tests passing, commits landing, users confirming they got what they asked for. Taste […] The post Claude Code Best Practices: 3 Lessons from 400,000 Sessions appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

For the person who has to sign off We build digital twins of your Slack, Gmail and helpdesk, then test your AI agent in them. Working copies of your real systems, wired together the way yours are. Sonata runs the agent…

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Advertisement &bull; Go ad free · Aug 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course. Image: SAP media kit.…

Haley Schlicht From Silicon Valley executives promising to automate white-collar work to headlines claiming AI is foreclosing the graduate entry market, the strained ‘low fire, low hire’ environment has increasingly bee…

Macroeconomic Indicators & Trends July 30, 2026 AI Lowers Wages But Doesn't Cut Jobs Analysis of actual Claude usage data shows workers in AI-exposed occupations are experiencing slower wage growth, while employment lev…

Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed viruses killed E coli bugs that were resistant to natural bacteriophages. Continue reading...

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OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away soon. Messages that include things like file uploads and images will continue to have limits. Next week, OpenAI is also adding a "Think" button for free and Go users that they can use to "access higher reasoning for harder questions." This week, for those users, the company is additionally upgrading ChatGPT's def … Read the full story at The Verge.

Banks should factor in the time spent by humans checking invented facts, writes Dr Gleb Tsipursky Your report (Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy, 30 July) raises a question that financial targets alone cannot answer: who absorbs the work when automation fails? Banks often count the minutes saved by the employee who uses an AI tool. They should also count the time colleagues spend checking invented facts, repairing customer messages, explaining rejected applications and escalating errors. A system can make one team look more productive while moving risk and effort elsewhere. Continue reading...

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DuckDuckGo Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Google Appeal (4 August 2026) DuckDuckGo has a unique perspective on the anticompetitive effects that Google’s exclusive defaults. DDG Amicus Brief (as-filed) (002).pdf 350 KB This wee…

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new transparency tools, along with new watermarking and fingerprinting tech. Shulman says it aligns with "emerging industry standards" that will make it easier to identify Suno-generated content. He also says the company is aiming to partner with "distribution platforms on combatting fraud and misuse." Last year, th … Read the full story at The Verge.

A regulated customer needed all Claude Code inference processed in a single AWS Region (London), not just in-geography. This post shows two ways to pin Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock to one Region: an application inference profile or the Mantle endpoint, paired with an IAM Region condition, plus how to verify compliance in AWS CloudTrail.

August 6, 2026 Science WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones WeatherNext team Share WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sou…

Our WeatherNext 2 AI model demonstrated a massive leap forward in predicting cyclones. Predicting how hurricanes and cyclones develop is a longstanding challenge, and every hour of warning counts. Tropical cyclones are…