A zero-click exploit is making the rounds—nasty stuff targeting agentic IDEs likeCursor. The trick? Slip a malicious Google Doc into the system. If MCP integration and allow-listedPython executionare on, the document gets auto-pulled, parsed, and runs code. No clicks. No prompts. Justremote code exe..

Anthropic’s sharpening the blueprint for building tools that play nice withLLM agents. TheirModel Context Protocol (MCP)leans hard into three pillars: test in loops, design for humans, format like context matters—because it does. They co-develop tools with agents like Claude Code. That means protot..

OpenAI introduced a new program called "OpenAI Grove" for early tech entrepreneurs to build with AI. The program is aimed at individuals in the pre-idea to pre-seed stage and offers mentoring, access to tools and models, and in-person workshops. Grove's first cohort will run from Oct. 20 to Nov. 21,..

Anysphere—the team behind Cursor, the AI coding sidekick—is looking to license user behavior data to the big model labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and the usual suspects. Why? Training costs are brutal, and this could ease the burn. Strategic Implication:Selling real developer telemetry to model competito..

OpenAI just fired a shot across LinkedIn’s bow. Its new jobs platform—part ofOpenAI Academy—aims to certify AI skills, then plug users directly into hiring pipelines. Walmart's already on board. Market signal:OpenAI’s not just training people anymore. It's moving in on talent placement, pulling the ..

Every day, nearly 90M buyers look for unique items out of over 100 million listings on the Etsy. The platform uses large language models to create detailed buyer profiles anonymously capturing their interests. Adjustments in data retrieval and processing have reduced the time and cost of generating ..

Google dropped detailed stats on energy, water, and carbon use per query for its Gemini models. Median energy:0.24 Wh, with TPUs eating58%of that. They’re claiming a33× efficiency boostin the last year—credit goes to model and software tuning. System shift:A public hyperscaler posting this means th..

TheExternal Secrets Operator (ESO)is moving again. After hitting pause from maintainer burnout, it’s back under CNCF incubation—with a rebooted structure in place. New governance, clear contributor paths, and support tracks for CI, core dev, and testing are all in. But don’t expect fresh releases ju..

Klaviyo replaced ProxySQL on EC2 and moved toAWS RDS Proxy. Why? Less overhead. Simpler failovers. Smarter pooling. RDS Proxy handlesmultiplexing, packing thousands of client queries into way fewer DB connections. IAM access and built-in failover routing sweeten the deal...

Logical clocks trackevent orderin distributed systems—no need for synced wall clocks. Each node keeps a counter. On every event: tick it. On every message: tack on your counter. When you receive one? Merge and bump. This flips the script. Instead of chasing global time, distributed systems lean int..