Technology

Alex Krentsel on Exo and Recursive Self Improving AI Agents

Alex Krentsel reveals Exo, an open-source framework enabling self improving AI agents that safely rewrite their own runtime code.

AI Threatens Leveraged Software Buyouts

AI advancements and rising interest rates are creating significant risks for highly leveraged software companies, potentially leading to a wave of restructurings.

AI Investment: Beyond Mega-Caps to Mid-Cap Opportunities

Lori Keith of Parnassus Investments discusses how AI investment opportunities are expanding beyond mega-caps into mid-cap companies providing essential infrastructure like water and power.

Databricks Enhances AUTO CDC

Databricks enhances AUTO CDC with bitemporal tracking and partial updates, simplifying complex data capture and ensuring auditability.

Databricks Open-Sources Metals v2

Databricks open-sources Metals v2, a Java/Scala language server for massive codebases, boosting IDEs like Cursor for AI-assisted development.

Sequoia's Sonya Huang on Building Sovereign AI

Netflix's Graph Query Engine

Netflix details its real-time distributed graph query engine, achieving sub-100ms responses through breadth-first traversal and async I/O.

OpenAI's Donut-Shaped Smart Speaker & US Jobs Report

Bloomberg Money Minute covers the US jobs report, small business hiring, summer cash back deals, and OpenAI's rumored 'donut' smart speaker.

SpaceX's AI Billions, Uber's Robotaxi Plans & Zoox Milestone

SpaceX reveals massive AI spending, Uber's CEO discusses robotaxi plans, and Zoox hits a major commercial milestone.

Cloudflare builds CI/CD on its platform

Cloudflare launches CI SDK, allowing developers to run CI/CD pipelines directly on its platform, simplifying code storage, build, test, and deploy.

Cloudflare Workers Embrace Multi-Language RPC

Cloudflare Workers now support cross-language RPC between JavaScript and Python, simplifying multi-language app development on the edge.

GitHub's Code Search Hits Memory Speed

GitHub engineers optimize code folding for search to over 45 GiB/s by removing branches and embracing full buffer processing.

Ceuta Crisis: UN Must Hold Spain to Law

The Ceuta crisis in July 2026, with up to 60,000 migrants, demands UN intervention to ensure Spain upholds international human rights law, processing claims individually and without discrimination.

Reacher Season 4 Arrives August 12

Reacher returns to Prime Video on August 12 for its fourth season, leading a busy August lineup of sports and new series.

Amazon Ads Roars Past $19B on AI and Sports

Amazon Ads revenue surged 26% to $19.8 billion in Q2, driven by AI tools, conversational shopping, and a booming live sports advertising strategy.

Jassy Bets AI on Shopping Experience

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy detailed AI's expanding role in shopping, from personalized recommendations to faster deliveries, during Q2 earnings.

Sakana AI's Product Blitz

Sakana AI shifts from R&D to product delivery with four new releases, aiming to enhance human decision-making.

AWS AI Fuels Amazon's Q2 Surge

AWS revenue surged 36.7% in Q2, with Andy Jassy crediting AI and core services for the acceleration. The cloud giant's AI business now exceeds $25B.

Snowflake Simplifies Spark Migration

Snowflake's new CoCo tool simplifies the migration of Apache Spark workloads, aiming to ease data pipeline transitions for businesses.

Netflix Bets on LLMs for Smarter Recommendations

Netflix's GenRec system uses LLMs to power recommendations, shifting from feature engineering to context engineering for smarter, more efficient content discovery.

Healthcare's AI Leap Needs a Foundation

Healthcare organizations face data fragmentation, governance gaps, and operational model issues that hinder AI adoption. The path to becoming AI-forward requires building a solid foundation.

Databricks Aims for Agentic Media Buying Scale

Databricks unveils an architecture for scalable agentic media buying, focusing on state, trust, and observability beyond just AI models.

Iceberg Observability Gains Traction

Efforts are underway to bring open observability to Apache Iceberg, enhancing visibility and control over data lakehouse operations.

NBCUniversal Cuts Costs With Databricks

NBCUniversal slashed data infrastructure costs by 30% and boosted agility by migrating to the Databricks Lakehouse platform, unifying analytics and ML.

GitHub Copilot's Stacked Sessions Emerge

GitHub Copilot introduces 'stacked sessions,' enabling AI to manage complex, multi-stage code refactors sequentially.

China's AI Open-Source Surge Challenges US Dominance

A new AI divide has emerged, with China leading in open-source models. US tech leaders urge Washington to adopt a similar strategy, citing risks to innovation and data control.

Databricks Tries AI to Tame SQL Migrations

Databricks' new AI agent, Genie Code, automates T-SQL and other proprietary SQL to ANSI SQL migrations, simplifying data warehouse transitions.

Databricks Bets on AI for SQL Code Conversion

Databricks rolls out its AI-powered agentic code converter beta, aiming to simplify proprietary SQL to ANSI SQL conversions for data warehouse migrations.

Iceberg Unites Snowflake and Google Cloud

Snowflake and Google Cloud are integrating via Apache Iceberg, creating a federated, AI-ready data lakehouse with unified governance and programmatic access for intelligent agents.

Together AI partners with Moonshot AI

Together AI partners with Moonshot AI to offer Kimi K3 and future models, providing developers with day-zero access to large-scale open-source AI.

Databricks Genie Targets Healthcare Finance

Databricks Genie uses AI and ontology to provide healthcare finance teams with contextualized, governed insights for better margin protection.

Agentic AI: Telecom Finance's New Margin Protector

Agentic AI, exemplified by Databricks Genie, is empowering telecom finance teams to combat billions in annual revenue leakage through real-time insights and contextual understanding.

AI Agents Remake Energy Finance

AI agents are accelerating energy finance decisions, making context and control paramount for managing volatility and margin.

Databricks AI: Finance's New Manufacturing Coworker

Databricks launches Genie, an AI coworker for manufacturing finance to identify and free trapped capital using contextual data.

Govt. Benefits Fraud Fights Get Real-Time

Databricks enables federal agencies to implement real-time fraud prevention for government benefits, leveraging AI and cross-agency data sharing.

Databricks AI Agents Take on Production Lines

Databricks introduces AI agents for manufacturing, enabling real-time decision-making on production lines by unifying data and ensuring human oversight.

Databricks AI Coworker for Finance

Databricks' Genie offers media finance teams an AI coworker to navigate complex audience value and protect profit margins.

Tame Dependabot's PR Flood

GitHub's Dependabot can flood repositories with PRs; learn how grouping, slower cadences, and prioritized security fixes tame the noise.

AI Builds Playable Minecraft Worlds

Sakana AI and NYU's Dream-Cubed system uses AI to generate playable, controllable Minecraft worlds by training on billions of cube tokens.

Gemini Overtakes ChatGPT in AI Traffic

ChatGPT's dominance in AI web traffic is fading fast, with Gemini and Claude making significant gains, according to Similarweb data.

Together AI Refines Model Deployment

Together AI details its capacity-aware routing architecture for dedicated model inference, enabling dynamic deployments, A/B testing, and efficient scaling.

NorthStar Anesthesia's rapid app development

NorthStar Anesthesia built a critical scheduling app for 3,000 clinicians in weeks using Databricks Apps.

AI Search: Brands Must Track Both Ads and Mentions

Brands must now track organic mentions and paid ads within AI search results, as AI-driven platforms like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews become key marketing channels.

Snowflake Adaptive Compute Boosts Price Performance

Snowflake's Adaptive Compute now offers up to 30% better price-performance for variable AI and data workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Databricks AI Search Scales to Production QPS

Databricks AI Search now offers high QPS scaling, allowing applications to move from prototype to production without infrastructure headaches.

GitHub Hardens npm, Actions Against Attacks

GitHub enhances npm and Actions security with new features to combat sophisticated supply chain attacks, focusing on account protection, workflow controls, and credential management.

AI Agents Need Guardrails

Snowflake discusses the critical need for agentic controls and MCP governance to secure advanced AI agents in enterprise environments.

Snowflake Cuts Costs With Custom Incrementalization

Thrive Learning cut data costs by up to 99% and improved refresh times with Snowflake's custom incrementalization for Dynamic Tables.

Microsoft's FY26: AI Matures to 'Frontier Transformation'

Microsoft's FY26 marked a transition from AI experimentation to widespread deployment, driving 'Frontier Transformation' with intelligence and trust at its core.

Cursor Targets India with New Dev Plan

Cursor launches 'Start India' plan, offering generous AI model access and local payment options for ₹649/month.