Date: 2026-07-05 | Generated: 20:23:22
On July 2, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoftโs commercial business, announced the formation of the Microsoft Frontier Company. The new The post Microsoft, AWS and Anthropic are spending billions โ and not on better models appeared first on The New Stack.
Halfway through 2026, artificial intelligence has been at the center of every major story inside the world of software development The post 10 moments that defined AIโs turbulent first half of 2026 appeared first on The New Stack.
With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron and his timeless 1971 protest song, if anyone thought the AI revolution would not be The post The AI revolution will not be televised โ itโll be quantized appeared first on The New Stack.
Finding the most capable model at the lowest cost has always been the goal. But as agentic AI evolves, a The post Why cheaper models alone wonโt save your AI budget appeared first on The New Stack.
I run a job aggregator focused on Indonesian and global remote work. In May 2026 I pulled two datasets โ 1,039 Indonesian IT listings (JobStreet Indonesia + Loker.id) and a global remote pool of 2,517 listings โ and scanned how often each mentions AI in the job title. The gap was bigger than I expected. ## The 28x gap - **Global remote:** 8.6% of listings (216 of 2,517) carried an AI signal in the title. - **Indonesian IT:** 0.3% (3 of 1,039). Same method both sides โ a title-keyword scan โ so i...
Java has been around for more than 30 years, and every few years someone asks the same question: "Is Java still relevant?" In 2026, the answer is still YES!. Java is not the newest or flashiest programming language, but it remains one of the most important languages in real-world software development. It powers enterprise systems, banking platforms, Android-related ecosystems, backend APIs, cloud services, microservices, data pipelines, and large-scale applications that need to be reliable and m...
Ringkasan Tren Teknologi: Efisiensi, Vision AI, dan Evolusi Agentik Minggu ini, peta landscape open source menunjukkan pergeseran menarik dari sekadar kemampuan model AI raksasa menuju optimasi eksekusi dan efisiensi sumber daya. Kita menyaksikan bagaimana komunitas developer mulai mendefinisikan ulang arti "kecerdasan" dalam konteks kode: bukan hanya tentang apa yang bisa dilakukan model, tapi seberapa efisien dan elegan solusi tersebut tanpa kode yang tidak perlu. Dari agent yang dirancang unt...
Abstract An automated test suite is only as good as the system that runs it: if tests execute only when a developer remembers to run them, the contract they protect is enforced only sometimes. This article compares three of the most widely used CI/CD testing management tools โ GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins โ by giving them identical work: executing the same real API test suite (Jest + Supertest, 8 integration tests, 100% coverage, from my previous article) on every push. Instead of co...
Originally published at kunalganglani.com โ read it there for inline code, hero image, and live links. LLM Quantization Levels Compared: Q4_K_M vs Q8_0 vs FP16 [2026] Local LLM quantization is the process of reducing a model's weight precision โ from 32-bit or 16-bit floating point down to 8-bit, 4-bit, or even lower โ so it fits in consumer-grade VRAM without requiring a datacenter GPU. Every developer pulling a model through Ollama or LM Studio today faces the same decision: which quantization...
Everyone talks about AI speeding up coding. Nobody talks about debugging AI-generated code. Last month, I spent three hours hunting down a bug in a 20-line function that an LLM wrote in thirty seconds. That's not a productivity gainโthat's a productivity swap. You trade typing speed for debugging speed, and most of the time the trade is terrible. I've been using AI assistants for about a year now, mostly Claude and GPT-4, and I've noticed a pattern. The first version of any moderately complex pi...
In Ontario, you can't legally build or sell a new home unless you're licensed by the Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA). Every licensed builder โ and every expired, revoked or refused one โ lives in a public database called the Ontario Builder Directory (OBD). That's a ready-made list of construction businesses, with contact info, licence status, and how many homes each has built. The catch: there's no "download all" button and no documented API. The directory is a search box. This po...
The same internal-docs Q&A problem every company has, solved on Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI. Terraform provisions everything, model deployments are one-line swaps in tfvars, and a small evaluation catches regressions before they hit prod. Same problem as every company: product docs, FAQs, and policy PDFs pile up in a shared drive, support agents can't find the right answer fast enough, and the same questions land in the same Slack channel every week. This post builds the fix - internal know...
Building reliable autonomous workflows in production requires solving three main challenges: API rate-limiting, command safety, and coordination latency. Here is a quick demo of how ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ tackles these constraints through a structured, multi-agent control plane. ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ: ๐๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐น๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด (๐ช๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ง): Instead of feeding raw alert streams directly to expensive LLMs, a local Zig-compiled WebAssembly engine runs bitwise Hamming distance clustering. ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด๐ป๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ...
The same internal-docs Q&A problem every company has, solved on Vertex AI RAG Engine. Terraform provisions the infrastructure, the SDK manages the corpus, and the design keeps your generation model swappable and your embedding upgrades painless. Same problem as every company: product docs, FAQs, and policy PDFs pile up, support agents can't find the right answer fast enough, and the same questions land in the same Slack channel every week. This post builds the fix - internal knowledge Q&A - on V...
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Slayhem? I hardly know hem.
Progenitors is the third Entropy: Zero game.
"First of all, somebody's got to do it."
The tracks that started it all.
Place your bets now.
On the fourth of July, no less.
Baldur's Gate has peaked, but D&D still has a lot to offer.
You even seen a grown Skitarri naked?
Google Translate won't save you here.
Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity appeared first on The Robot Report.
Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 โ but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.
Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trumpโs $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million.
These may be the last days of Amazonโs Mechanical Turk.
The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to โput frontier AI in the hands of everyone.โ
Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools. Companies like Forge Prep and Alpha [โฆ]
There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featured plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood out as the most "conscious rapper" in the traditional sense. It was clear though, that [โฆ]
Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be available digitally at launch, with physical cases containing codes, not discs, so your options for preordering are straightforward. The preloading phase for the game begins on November 12th, which should give you [โฆ]
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to [โฆ]
Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick - backed and branded by King Arthur flour - is that it promises to automate the boring [โฆ]