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Neoclouds have staked their claim to AI compute infrastructure with low-cost GPU-based alternatives and purpose-built features for AI training and inference . But can this new class of alternative clouds actually take business from the hyperscalers? Some argue that neoclouds are poised to capture a growing share of AI-native workloads. Neocloud revenue exceeded $25 billion in 2025, reports Synerg…

OpenAI will stop AI coding platform Cursor from accessing its models from November 12, following the acquisition of Cursor parent Anysphere by Elon Musk ‘s SpaceX. “Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor , with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026,” the company wrote in a blog post . That shutoff, the company added, was based o…

Governance determines whether a generative AI program remains a set of pilots or becomes a durable capability. I treat governance as engineering work. The goal stays simple. The system should behave within policy, every day, under change. I define governance by design as the practice of encoding policy into build and runtime controls that enforce access, constrain actions, capture evidence, and m…

LM Studio makes it easy to run LLMs on one’s own hardware, whether as a desktop app or a server for others in one’s organization. But LM Studio isn’t the only project of its kind. Unsloth , a team of two brothers (Daniel and Michael Han), have created their own local-first application for running and training models on local hardware, called Unsloth Desktop . Unsloth Desktop, an open-source Apach…

The Rust team has released Rust 1.98.0, an update to the language that introduces algebraic methods for floating-point operations. Developers who have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup can update to Rust 1.98.0 by running rustup update stable . Introduced August 20 , Rust 1.98.0 brings algebraic methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and remainder to the floati…

Over the past three years, as an independent cloud and AI consultant, advisor, and industry influencer, I have worked with numerous companies seeking my expertise. I have helped evaluate, optimize, coach, and support their generative and agentic AI initiatives. These engagements were not merely theoretical discussions or vendor-led proofs of concept. They involved real-world enterprise activities…

Microsoft’s latest update to Visual Studio Code , released August 26 , features a Rubber Duck agent for a second model opinion as well as UX improvements to the Agents window. VS Code also now can show recent Copilot or Claude agent sessions created in other applications and allow users to continue them. Downloads of Visual Studio Code are available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. VS Code 1.135 feat…

Google’s Go programming language has been updated with changes across the language, toolchain, runtime, and standard library. Released August 19, Go 1.27 brings three notable enhancements to the language specification, the Go team said. First, Go now supports generic methods , in which a method declaration may declare its own type parameters . Second, a key in a struct literal may now be any vali…

Nvidia is moving to acquire AI platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a move that would extend its reach beyond chips into how AI models are distributed and used by enterprises. The Information reported the deal, citing sources, though the companies have not publicly confirmed the transaction. If completed, the deal would place a widely used repository of AI models and dat…

Open-source software has given cloud providers a way to adopt popular technologies without having to own the companies behind them. AWS, however, has decided that simply using DuckDB in its products and services is not enough. The cloud provider on Wednesday said that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs , the Amsterdam-based company behind the development of the DuckDB ecosys…

Security is a major concern for web applications and services that use the HTTP protocol. Although HTTP is a versatile protocol that can be used in many different platforms, it is vulnerable to security threats. Enter HMAC, or Hash-based Message Authentication Code, a widely used method of securing web APIs. HMAC is a cryptographic authentication technique that uses a hash function together with …

Digital twins began as virtual counterparts to physical systems. In aerospace, manufacturing, and other high-stakes environments, they gave engineers a safe way to observe behaviour, test scenarios, and reduce risk before making real-world changes. That framing now feels incomplete. Across supply chains, in energy networks and healthcare institutions, inside infrastructure, and in operations, dig…

Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with them . It seems like there isn’t very much you can do about them. But now that we have AI coding agents, maybe there is. Look, we all start out with great intentions. We have a beautiful design, we implement it carefully and lovingly, and we swear…

Here is a mundane question that came up in an agentic coding session: How do I convert a select widget to a radio group? I was working on Bram , a desktop app that harnesses coding agents to a GitHub-backed workflow. Bram’s UI is made with XMLUI , a framework that wraps a simple declarative syntax around React and CSS. Agents using the XMLUI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are instructed to p…

Enterprises are accelerating their AI investments and deploying agents, budgets are ballooning out of control, and leaders are being asked to justify the cost. Yet insight into the return on investment (ROI) can be opaque. Tempo says its new Workforce Intelligence (WFI) offering can help product managers make the case for, and optimize, their AI spend. The collaborative workspace platform provide…