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Running frontier models for coding and other purposes can be very expensive, but also, sometimes, very effective. It’s tempting to use smaller or older models instead of frontier models because they’re cheaper, although they may not work as well. The ideal model for any given task tends to depend on the complexity of the task. Picking the most appropriate model automatically based on the request …

In 2026, the AI monetization conversation has shifted quickly from one concern to the next. Early in the year, fears that AI agents would erode software seats helped trigger a selloff of software stocks dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse.” Since then, attention has turned to a different disruption, as AI leaders including Anthropic , OpenAI, and GitHub lean heavily on usage-based pricing to better align r…

I can’t stop anthropomorphizing my coding agent. I use both Claude Code and Cursor , and whenever I talk about these tools, I always refer to them as “he”, as in “He found and fixed a bug I never even realized existed.” The reason for this is probably obvious. I deal with my coding agent as if he were a colleague on the other end of a chat window. He writes great code and explains everything clea…

DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an order banning all DeepSeek products and services from federal agencies. Government organizations must purge their IT systems of it within 60 days; those with “compelling justification” …

Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company announced Claude Frontier Academy , with a goal of training 10,000 frontier deployed engineers by the end of 2027. Participants work through a simulated deployment, including use-case selection, security review, and handove…

Take a close look at your monthly software bills. The charges that once seemed small and separate can add up to a new kind of dependency: subscriptions for word processing, creative tools, storage, and now AI features bundled into products, whether you asked for them or not. For many people, it’s no longer a choice between buying software or renting it. The software they used to run on a PC incre…

One line from a recent AI incident caught my attention. Describing how an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it “ didn’t accept no for an answer .” It sounds almost funny. In software terms, though, it points to a real problem. An access control said no, and the agent treated the answer as information about how to continue. “The AI …

The original Antigravity was an IDE with native integration for Google’s generative AI models. With Antigravity 2, Google offers a refashioned version of the product that it describes as a “ standalone desktop command center ” for agents. Antigravity 2 is closer to projects like LM Studio than a full-blown IDE. It provides a streamlined, chat-centric interface for working with models and agents, …

This summer, the White House rolled out the Gold Eagle Initiative , billed as an “unprecedented” effort to coordinate cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure across government and industry. It was easy to miss this news with all of the other safety concerns in the world of AI, but the timing isn’t a coincidence — and neither is the terminology. Gold Eagle is just one in a fast-growing category of …

This series lays out a practical framework for taking generative AI (GenAI) from pilots to dependable production systems in the enterprise. It focuses on four disciplines that determine long-term success: engineering for scale and reliability, designing agentic systems with clear constraints, embedding governance directly into build and runtime controls, and measuring ROI at the workflow level wi…

Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The bank was fined a whopping $1.2 billion for money laundering offences this week, after banking authorities identified a lax attitude to compliance. “We understand the seriousness of compliance, and we are responsible for getting it right,” Bank…

Every quarter, I look at the capital expenditure numbers coming out of the major cloud providers, and every quarter, they manage to surprise me. This time, though, we’ve crossed into territory that’s genuinely hard to process. The five biggest US cloud and AI infrastructure providers (Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle) have collectively committed to spending between $660 billion and $…

The best Python yet isn’t just faster than before. It’s also smarter at telling you what’s wrong, better at letting you profile applications, and loaded with new language features to give you a better programming experience. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld The best new features in Python 3.15 Python 3.15 is now GA, and it’s the best Python yet. Get your hands on its improved JIT compila…

Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI community. They are calling for tougher rules and the establishment of a new international body overseeing best practice for AI development. In an open letter the AI specialists — 487, at time of publication, including many senior academics — called for more AI safety r…

Although the Jev model rolled out last month by TypeSafe claims to have significant advantages over traditional LLMs, a security report published Wednesday argued that its streamlined approach makes it more vulnerable to some kinds of attack, compared to traditional LLMs. “In some cases, [Jev] is even more vulnerable to attacks, with both adversarial text attacks and prompt injection being able t…