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Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology
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* Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says developers need to lead with innovation to justify the increasing cost of consoles * He says studios are "limiting our reach just because of the games we’re building now" * While Grand Theft Auto 6 will be a hit, Layden says "there
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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For years, the smartphone has served as the universal key for interacting with the world around us. It displays boarding passes at the airport, QR codes for event tickets, digital payment credentials, and countless other pieces of information that scanners and kiosks expect to see. But as extended reality (XR)
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The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn&
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The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the
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Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its
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* Russian hacker “bandcampro” used Google’s Gemini CLI to control an eight‑device botnet at a dental clinic * The attacker tricked the AI by posing as a pen tester, directing it to migrate C2 infrastructure, troubleshoot connectivity, and prepare payload bundles * The AI assisted with daily operations like password guessing
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Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. Fora, founded in 2021, is a two-part platform: it lets people easily become travel agents by providing the infrastructure to support client communication and travel planning; it also
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Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model updates whether migrating to an entirely new model or updating to a newer checkpoint within the same model family, like moving from an
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Data scientists and data engineers often find themselves caught between two worlds: SQL and Python. Some find SQL more intuitive, especially when combined with a powerful engine like BigQuery to process data at scale. Others find it easier to work in Python with its rich ecosystem of libraries and runtimes.
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Can teams of AI agents collaborate to create a short film? As part of an internal Google generative media hackathon, we put this question to the test – specifically, to uncover whether AI agents could work collaboratively in a domain less innately familiar than software development. We gave each crew three
