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Picture the moment every agent builder eventually hits. You've got a script working. It reads a task queue, calls an LLM, executes a few tool calls, writes some output, and loops. In a terminal window, on your laptop, it looks like magic. So you do the obvious thing:
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I have a contrarian bet that drives my research and my writing. Token economics, cost per inference, and carbon footprint will determine which AI programs survive past 2027. Boring infrastructure math, not model capability, will sort the winners from the failures. If that bet is right, we are teaching the
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IBM recently joined two cryogenic modules and cooled them together as one environment. This represents an important milestone in building scalable and maintainable fault-tolerant superconducting quantum systems. The big deal is that it shows a path toward building modular quantum computers that can be connected and, eventually, cold-swapped much like
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Through no fault of digital leaders or the pioneers of AI, this major change in societal, business, and technology systems has come at a troubling time. The current decade has been one of the most disruptive in recent history. It began with a global pandemic that killed millions, which was
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Azure VMware Solution customers using VMware Cloud Foundation licences bundled with pay-as-you-go deployments have until October 31, 2026, to move to a bring-your-own-licence model. After that date, Microsoft says those deployments will no longer comply with Broadcom’s licensing requirements unless customers provide their own VCF subscription. Microsoft stopped selling
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UK organizations are investing heavily in AI tools. According to latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, 29% of UK businesses were using at least one type of AI technology as of June 2026. Yet despite growing adoption, many organizations are still focused on the wrong question. Most AI discussions
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* Slack Code will let workers code as a team * Dedicated channels will let coding teams track changes in real time * A wide range of AI agents will be available to use Cracking those complex coding tasks could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new release from Salesforce and
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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OS PLATFORMS One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive This is a quiet time of year in tech circles – perhaps explaining why, 25 and 33 years ago, the people behind two ambitious operating system projects kicked them off. Last weekend, the Debian project
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Two retail bellwethers provided updates on their digital and omni-channel deployments this week, as Walmart and Target reported mixed fortunes. There was a time, not that long ago, when US retailer Target was looked upon as the go-to reference for omni-channel transformation. But that was then, this is now and
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