by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
An IT executive changing jobs usually attracts little attention outside a narrow group of people, but Noam Shazeer’s move from Google to OpenAI is as momentous as any high-value soccer transfer. He announced the news in a post on X: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
Enterprises implementing agentic AI face a challenge: Which tools should they allow their agents to use, where can they be found, and how can they be used safely? A new protocol, Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, aims to let agents answer those questions for...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
Meta’s long-awaited Pyrefly linter is out in a 1.0 version, and the forthcoming Python 3.15 has a super-efficient sampling profiler. Plus we have a comprehensive rundown of Python’s indispensable virtual environments — and a warning about a novel breed of malware that...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
For many developers, the hard part of building an AI application isn’t the model anymore. It’s keeping the application’s knowledge current. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for grounding AI applications in enterprise data, but it...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 19, 2026 | Cloud
AI coding agents are becoming critical to software development, but the configuration files that guide them, such as Agents.md or Claude.md, can be “smelly.” That means they can contain structural flaws, redundancies, or counterproductive workflows that bloat context,...
