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Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.
A scorecard for the AI age
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
Learning a few things about running SQLite
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fin...
How we brought agentic workflows to Cloud SIEM with the Datadog MCP Server
See how we built MCP tools for Cloud SIEM, using usage data, progressive disclosure, and a custom eval framework to keep a multi-team agentic toolset reliable.
Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat
Use the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat to investigate cost anomalies, perform root cause analysis on cost spikes, and get personalized savings.
Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom's RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual...
Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free
Take Home Assistant beyond your home network with Tailscale.
Understanding Vault performance: Benchmarks from real-world workloads
Discover how Vault Enterprise performs under real-world concurrency and payload sizes, with KV, SSH, and PKI benchmarks on HashiCorp Validated Designs.
The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
To a sceptic, spending $165K to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust sounds very expensive. But to a realist, shortening a 1-2 year migration down to 11 days opens amazing new opportunities for devs. However, a thoroughly-tested project is required to pull it off.
A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
Integrating Context-Aware Video AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows
A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and...
Introducing tfpolicy: A declarative policy workflow built for Terraform
Terraform policy brings HCL-based policy as code into Terraform, helping teams define and enforce governance policies with more lifecycle context.
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.
Scaling Agentic AI Factories Through Extreme Co-Design with NVIDIA BlueField
Agentic AI changes the infrastructure pattern for AI factories. One request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, policy checks, storage...
Prioritize your AWS Health alerts using AWS User Notifications
If you run critical workloads on AWS, such as a contact center on Amazon Connect Customer, database workloads on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), or hybrid connectivity through AWS Direct Connect, service health events demand your attention. But not all events are equal. An operation...
The Archaeologist’s Copilot
When people think of legacy modernization, most folks aren't imagining the target environment will be Java 8. But this was the challenge facing Nik Malykhin when he needed to run a Java 1.5 codebase on today's hardware. His early use of LLMs gave plausible answers that did not hold up in the codebas...
Newer Models, Same Advantage
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Our approach to bioresilience
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team
How OpenAI’s creative team uses Codex to build custom creative tools, accelerate ideation, and prototype faster with context-aware AI.
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
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Turn multi-step software delivery into agentic flows you can trust
Knowing what to do next in software development is rarely the hard part. Doing it again in the exact same steps — implement an issue, fix a pipeline, review a merge request — is. Chat that only provides answers still leaves every handoff to you. Homegrown scripts don’t inherit changes in access cont...
GitLab Duo Security Review spots logic flaws scanners miss
Static scanners excel at catching vulnerabilities that fit a known pattern, like unsanitized query inputs, hardcoded secrets, and unsafe deserialization. They struggle against flaws in your application’s logic, where there is no pattern to match — only valid code doing the wrong thing for your domai...
Bring GitLab Duo Agent Platform to your terminal
Most of the work for software delivery doesn’t happen only in the editor. Pipelines fail. Tests break. Vulnerabilities show up. And a lot of that work starts and ends at the command line. Agentic AI in the terminal that only understands code can’t help with any of that. A standalone assistant doesn’...
Forrester Consulting: GitLab Duo Agent Platform delivers 400% ROI
A new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study found that organizations using GitLab Duo Agent Platform achieve a 400% return on investment and $7.5 million in net present value over three years — with payback in under six months. Agentic coding makes developers faster. The harder problem i...