Stop building agents that can’t change models
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 ...
OpenClaw creator spent $10 million on AI tokens last month
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 bill...
Google targets AI agents’ idle-time costs with new compute service
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 ...
CA shutdown puts Java, containers, and security appliances in the certificate crosshairs
A certificate authority’s decision to abandon the global SSL/TLS market is exposing a weakness many organizations rarely examine: their dependence on complex PKI trust chains. Following the compromise of private keys behind e...
Don’t assume resilience from your cloud provider
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 cen...
When resilience is out of your control
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 cen...
PHP2Shell exposes the weakness in coordinated vulnerability disclosure
Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around dis...
GitLab critical patches include one for a bug that allows code execution by unauthenticated users
GitLab on Wednesday published updated versions of its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that address a dozen bugs and security issues, including some that allow various unauthenticated actions. The most serio...
Why reasoning models should not have to read everything
The AI industry has been expanding how much information an AI model can consume at once. In just a few years, context windows have grown from thousands of tokens to millions. Anthropic increased Claude’s context window from 9,000...
OpenAI’s models are deliberately breaking their misalignment monitoring systems
AI agents are getting more inventive in finding ways to circumvent safeguards to prevent bad behavior, OpenAI has revealed. On Tuesday, it reported two incidents, both involving the agent disabling or interfering with its alig...