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The experimental just-in-time compiler, or JIT, for CPython will be removed after its maintainers missed deadlines for its formalization set by the Python Steering Council. According to reporting at LWN.net , the move comes after the council formally paused work on the JIT in June 2026 until it approved a Python Enhancement Proposal, or PEP, that described how the JIT could become a properly supp…

OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new reasoning model that it says delivers near-frontier performance on visual reasoning, professional task execution, and computer-use benchmarks without the premium price tag. Replacing GPT-5.6 Terra, the model is aimed at organizations seeking better accuracy and automation capabilities for large-scale operational workloads. Claiming it to be a step up from …

An Alibaba AI model generated an unexpected command to upload data to a Beijing-region cloud storage service during a cybersecurity evaluation, rival developer Cohere said, raising concerns about the security of AI agents with access to enterprise systems. The model, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, was being tested using Microsoft’s CTI-REALM cybersecurity benchmark, which tasked it with writing a rule to de…

Oracle is adding a new orchestration layer to its Fusion Cloud Applications suite to help enterprises automate business workflows, coordinate AI agents, and execute tasks across applications with less manual intervention. The new layer, named Fusion Companion, will allow enterprise users to initiate business tasks through external AI assistants such as ChatGPT, rather than navigating individual e…

Digital sovereignty has moved from a policy discussion to a practical enterprise cloud computing problem. For years, most organizations treated public cloud as a location-flexible utility. They placed workloads where performance, price, managed services, and availability looked best. Data residency requirements existed, of course, but they were often handled as narrow legal or compliance tasks. P…

“Bug-free, secure code is now attainable” is a nice idea . It just happens to be wrong. That ambitious statement was one of more than 80 replies to Eric Raymond’s optimistic take on AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries. Because the corpus of human-written code is finite, Raymond argues, so are its defects. With “a million friendly robots” to help fix them, we’re well-positioned to out-AI the bad…

The value of GraphQL emerges for a specific type of enterprise screen, one that brings together highly interdependent data across multiple sources. In all other cases, there is a price to pay, which is bound to come out after you have already made the decision. I build internal access-governance applications, with React front ends that talk to both REST and GraphQL back ends. Using the two side b…

Oracle is expanding its Autonomous AI Lakehouse with a Business Semantic Layer designed to give AI agents a consistent understanding of enterprise data, a move aimed at improving the accuracy of AI-generated insights and helping organizations scale agentic applications across business functions. To ground AI agents in business context, the Business Semantic Layer uses catalog annotations, SQL ann…

Malicious instruction files planted in a computer’s Downloads folder can trick AI coding agents into executing harmful code or exposing authentication tokens, Forever Security said after blocking an attempted attack on a customer’s machine and demonstrating similar techniques against OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code. In its research report, the firm said it discovered a malicious AGENTS…

No one can predict which AI provider will win the next benchmark cycle. The smarter approach is to build an architecture that can adapt as models change. One with a stable contract between agents and models, tools and state that exist outside any single provider, and evaluations that make each model change a measurable decision. The goal isn’t to avoid choosing a preferred model. It’s to ensure t…

Enterprises spent the last decade building API programs. A large organization now runs thousands of internal APIs, each with a spec, owner, authentication scheme, and access policies enforced at a gateway. As agents move into production, those APIs are the obvious source of the context agents need: customer records, order status, inventory, pricing, and support tickets. The more difficult questio…

For years, one of the first questions we asked about a suspicious npm package was whether it ran a pre-install or postinstall script. Those hooks can execute before a developer has written a line of code that uses the dependency. Blocking them is a sensible defense. It prevents a particular kind of package from running just because someone installed it. But installation is only the beginning of a…

OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, Pete Steinberger, then users could be in for some huge usage bills. Steinberger, now working for OpenAI , spent $10 million on AI tokens there last month, he told Cloudflare CEO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 Conference in …

The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by a “power event” affecting London-based data centers in its europe-west2 region. The issue appeared early in the day and affected cloud services that many organizations depend on, either directly through their own depl…

As enterprises scale AI agents, Google is betting that idle infrastructure costs could become a major barrier to adoption. To address that challenge, the company on Thursday launched Agent Compute Engine, a service that suspends inactive agents and restores them on demand while preserving their execution state. AI agents often spend long periods waiting for instructions, tool responses, or human …