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Who does your assistant serve?

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 backfired: instead of excitement, users felt betrayed by a forced upgrade that stripped away the warmth and reliability they had come to rely on in GPT-4o. Many treated the model as more than a tool — a companion, therapist, or emotional support — so when its personality sh..

Who does your assistant serve?
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This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT

Sapient Intelligence’s HRM AI model challenges “bigger is better” in AI with a small 27M parameter design outperforming much larger models on reasoning tasks. The architecture mimics the brain, with a slow “planner” and rapid “worker,” achieving jaw-dropping results on benchmarks...

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Implementing MCP Servers in Python: An AI Shopping Assistant with Gradio

Gradio just leveled up. It now auto-converts plain Python functions intoMCP-compliant LLM tools, grabbing input schemas and metadata straight from docstrings. New tricks:real-time progress streaming,auto file uploads, plus tight integration withVS Code’s AI Chatfor wiring up agent workflows...

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Powering Real-Time AI Applications

Generative AI databases like SingleStore now cramOLTP,OLAP,vector search, andfull-text searchinto one SQL-first platform. Structured, unstructured—it eats both. No ETL. No silos. Just real-time data, ripe for AI models and semantic queries. System shift:Blending transactional and analytic guts in o..

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Google releases AI agent Jules for programming

Google’s AI agentJulesjust leveled up—out of beta and into full-on dev mode. It now handlesasynchronous tasks, pushesreal-time code updates, and can spin up pull requests with deeperGitHub integration. Under the hood: it runs on the beefierGemini 2.5 Promodel. AddsEnvironment Snapshotsfor state cap..

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MCP Registry with Azure API Center

Azure just droppedMCP Center, showing off howAzure API Centercan double as a private registry forModel-Centric Protocol (MCP) servers. It’s built for internal use—think secure discovery, tight OAuth 2 auth, centralized control, and AI Gateway rules baked in. Handy when teams need to corral AI tools..

MCP Registry with Azure API Center
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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS permanently nuked a 10-year customer account—data, backups, everything—after a payment verification failed. That alone broke their own 90-day retention policy. It gets messier. Looks like an internal script meant to run as a “dry run” went full send in production. Blame a Java CLI parsing edge ..

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
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A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server

GitHub offers a managed MCP endpoint to simplify infrastructure management and streamline AI workflows, enhancing collaboration and code review processes...

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AWS Lambda now supports GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment

AWS Lambda just got a smoother ride to prod. There’s now a nativeGitHub Actions integration—no more DIY scripts to ship your serverless. On commit, the new action packages your code, wires up IAM viaOIDC, and deploys using either.zip bundles or containers. All from a tidy, declarative GitHub workfl..

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Does platform engineering make sense for startups?

Platform engineering isn't just for the big dogs anymore. Startups are picking it up as astrategic edge, building tight, high-leverage tooling from day one. Think:templated CI/CD pipelines, plug-and-play infra modules, zero-handoff onboarding. Done right, these early bets smooth the path and keep d..

Does platform engineering make sense for startups?