Microsoft doubles down on Rust
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After many years of watching how Microsoft develops platforms and rolls out technologies to external users, one thing is clear: anything that is important to Microsoft internally quickly becomes important…
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The dream of enterprise semantics: Why this time is different
In most companies, the struggle to answer a new question fast has nothing to do with a lack of data. The problem is a lack of semantics. Or to put…
OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents
OpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam…
Stack Overflow expands Stack Internal to give AI agents ‘trusted’ enterprise knowledge
As enterprises increasingly turn to coding agents for building applications, Stack Overflow has added new capabilities to Stack Internal, its enterprise-focused platform for centralizing proprietary technical knowledge, to help development…
Unsloth’s model picker had a code-execution problem
True to its name, AI-model-training tool Unsloth would do more work than it was asked to when developers checked out a model: It would also allow arbitrary code to execute…
AI cuts software developers some slack
My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than…
Observability for AI-native systems: New SLIs beyond latency and error rate
When HTTP 200 means nothing An AI assistant can return a response in under a second, maintain 99.9% availability and still give customers a fabricated answer. Traditional dashboards will show…
Validating AI models and agents with property-based testing
Testing deterministic systems is relatively straightforward. Create an assertion that the system should pass, and automate validating it against a series of input-to-output data patterns. When new test patterns are…
Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products…
Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse
Manus’s relationship with Meta It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic AI platforms. Awkward! The company has just…