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Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow foundation models to access external data and tools, supporting standardized, secure access to files, databases, and APIs. They give AI agents the ability to interact with real-world applications, reduce hallucinations with accurate context, and offer stateful, multi-turn capabilities. Industry-standard architectures quickly evolved and adopted
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Google’s streaming device is the latest to get a price hike, after similar increases from Apple and Amazon. by Stevie Bonifield Aug 31, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at
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Vector databases play a critical role in today's AI-driven enterprise deployments. A vector database stores numerical representations -- embeddings -- of text, documents, images and other data, enabling semantic searches. Such searches are crucial to retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise search tools and AI applications. These databases increasingly underpin enterprise
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A well-known, pro-AI super political action committee is behind a new group that plans to blast voters in key battleground states with ads advocating for data centers, several outlets are reporting. That new group, called Build American AI, wants to convince citizens of the virtues of having data centers in
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 31, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Aldus and Adobe Systems Finalized Merger in 1994, Apple Unveiled PowerMac G4 in 1999, Google Image Labeler Launched in 2006, and we present
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Hey Hackers, Welcome to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that's making waves in the global tech ecosystem and the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising
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More AI code review tools support GitHub than any other Git provider. That sounds like a buyer’s market, and on the surface it is — every shortlist looks reasonable, every tool posts inline PR comments, every vendor page promises context-aware analysis. The real evaluation work starts when you ask harder
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Here is my short report of cutting off Cal.com in one evening, with four pull requests, and the booking engine we already owned taking over our own demo funnel. Yesterday evening I merged the pull request that deletes a line from my own P&L. For a view
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London, United Kingdom, August 29th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--360in360 Immersive Experiences today announced that its 360in360 Living Memories programme has expanded its portfolio of memory-preservation tools to include audiobook production, narrated using a digital twin of an author's own voice. The first title produced under the new capability is
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, August 24th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Security Risk Advisors (SRA), the authors of the free VECTR platform, announce today another great free platform launch: SCALR AI. Security teams can get SCALR AI for free, delivered through the Azure Marketplace. SCALR AI is an agentive workbench that automates time-consuming
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Cost per token is falling fast. Cost per completed task isn't, and almost nobody is measuring the difference. The cost to query a model at GPT-3.5-level performance fell 280 times between November 2022 and October 2024, from $20 to $0.07 per million tokens, according to Stanford
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The quarterly funnel review begins with a familiar argument. Marketing says it created thousands of qualified leads. Sales says only a fraction were ready for a conversation. Finance says the conversion report cannot be reconciled to the pipeline. Customer success points out that former customers have re-entered nurture as if
