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AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low. We keep asking whether we can control superintelligence. The more immediate question
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By now, fellow agent builder, you’ve probably heard that open-source models have caught up to the proprietary ones from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and the like. But, here’s something you may have missed: teams are actually moving away from closed-source APIs to open-source models. Why, though? Why spend engineering
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From Principles to Pipelines In Part 1, we made the case that an AI system is only as effective as the information it receives, and we described what makes context reliable: relevance, freshness, completeness, trustworthiness, and authorization. Those five dimensions are useful as a checklist, but they raise an obvious
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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AWS has moved Anubha Chamadia from her previous role as Head of Sales Strategy & Planning for ASEAN & India to Head of Partner Strategy & Operations for India and APJ Distribution. The new role brings together two areas that sit close to the execution of AWS’ partner business: strategy
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HPE has brought back a familiar executive. Sheila Rohra, who previously led HPE’s Data Infrastructure business, has returned to the company as Chief Operating Officer of its Hybrid Cloud business. Rohra joins HPE after serving as CEO of Hitachi Vantara. At HPE, she will report to Fidelma Russo, Executive
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Not so long ago, visual design platform Canva was the bright new kid on the block. But the advent of AI has taken the gloss off the 13-year-old vendor's meteoric rise, even as it continues to accumulate new users and customers. Its mission to democratize access to visual
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ARC today announced the launch of ARC X1, its first gaming handheld, and revealed the complete specifications of the device. Developed over the past 16 months alongside a growing community of gamers, X1 brings together performance-focused hardware, precision controls, active cooling and OwlOS, ARC’s controller-first gaming operating system. X1
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AWS has said it cannot restore access to some resources and data in Bahrain and one Availability Zone in the UAE after physical damage affected its cloud infrastructure. In a September 15 update, AWS said it had exhausted its options for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Intuit’s QuickBooks Free is a $0-per-month accounting plan designed for solopreneurs and very small businesses. Image: Intuit QuickBooks Free gives solopreneurs a $0 accounting plan with invoicing, expense tracking and reports, but several monthly usage limits apply. Sep 18, 2026 We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or
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ESET Research’s ongoing monitoring of FamousSparrow has borne fruit once again. Our previous public report on FamousSparrow revealed that this China-aligned APT group had developed two new versions of its custom backdoor named SparrowDoor. This time, we discovered that FamousSparrow has switched to a new backdoor, SparroWocky, and has
