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NVIDIA Vera CPU Boosts AI Factory Throughput to Accelerate Agentic Workloads
Agentic systems turn model reasoning into action through multi-step workflows that combine inference, tool use, code execution, retrieval, orchestration, and...
Develop Humanoid Robot Policies End-to-End with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T
As more teams move from humanoid robot bring-up to task-specific skill development, the need for repeatable development workflows is growing. Building humanoids...
Maximize Spectral Efficiency with AI-Native RAN and NVIDIA AI Aerial
Spectrum is one of the most valuable assets in wireless communications. Over the last 30 years, telecom operators in the US have spent more than $240B to...
Building an Analysis AI Agent for Industrial Alarm Management with NVIDIA Nemotron
Industrial machinery generates more alarms than technicians can triage. For each important alarm requiring follow-up, the technician pulls historical context,...
S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots
In this post, we explain how S&P Global Market Intelligence implemented an innovative disaster recovery solution for their Capital IQ platform using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This solution enables immediate failover to read-only mode in a secondary region within 15 minutes, followed by full r...
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute
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Agent Memory at Monster Scale with Mem0 and ScyllaDB Cloud
Combine Mem0’s memory management with ScyllaDB’s persistence features to deploy large-scale AI agents
Viability of local models for coding
Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…
Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Stream Oracle changes to ClickHouse in real time
A hands-on walkthrough of the new Oracle input in Redpanda Connect. No Debezium, no Kafka Connect runtime, no JVM.
Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex
See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.
MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI
MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.
Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot
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LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve
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DASH 2026 recap: Product news, sessions, and highlights
Catch up on the Datadog product and feature announcements, technical sessions, customer stories, and community activities from DASH 2026.
Enhancing Goodput in Large-Scale LLM Training with Nonuniform Tensor Parallelism
Training LLMs at massive scale brings unique infrastructure challenges, especially as jobs span thousands of GPUs and run for extended periods. The longer these...
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy
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ScyllaDB vs Aerospike, Wide-Column vs. Key/Value
Wide-column flexibility doesn’t have to come at the expense of performance -- see where the two models differ, where each one wins, and why you no longer have to choose
Fragments: July 6
Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat, this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sessions. This isn’t an event that forms conclusion...
🤗 Kernels: Major Updates
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Monitor watchOS and visionOS apps with Datadog RUM
Monitor crashes, errors, and user sessions on watchOS and visionOS by using Datadog RUM with fully deobfuscated stack traces and no separate SDK required.
Reduce SAST false positives with agentic evaluation and Bits Memories
Learn how Bits AI in Datadog Static Code Analysis uses repository-wide reasoning and custom context to help make security triage faster and more accurate.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965) , where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recurs...
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership
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Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island
I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience . An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that. Mid...