Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental’s NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data
The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canvas, the structured, relational data that underpins the global economy — the rows and columns of ERP systems, CRMs, and financial ledgers — has so […]
The ‘brownie recipe problem’: why LLMs must have fine-grained context to deliver real-time results
Today’s LLMs excel at reasoning, but can still struggle with context. This is particularly true in real-time ordering systems like Instacart. Instacart CTO Anirban Kundu calls it the “brownie recipe problem.” It’s not as simple as telling an LLM ‘I want to make brownies.’ To be truly assistive when planning the meal, the model must […]
Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies
Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe’s answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more accurately, and far more cheaply than anything else on the market — all while running entirely on a smartphone or laptop. The announcement marks the latest […]
Kilo CLI 1.0 brings open source vibe coding to your terminal with support for 500+ models
Remote-first AI coding startup Kilo doesn’t think software developers should have to pledge their undying allegiance to any one development environment — and certainly not any one model or harness. This week, the startup — backed by GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij — unveiled Kilo CLI 1.0, a complete rebuild of its command-line tool that offers […]
The hidden tax of “Franken-stacks” that sabotages AI strategies
Presented by Certinia The initial euphoria around Generative and Agentic AI has shifted to a pragmatic, often frustrated, reality. CIOs and technical leaders are asking why their pilot programs, even those designed to automate the simplest of workflows, aren’t delivering the magic promised in demos. When AI fails to answer a basic question or complete […]
Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language models and specialized multimodal models that approach, and in some cases, surpass the performance of the proprietary U.S. leaders such as OpenAI, […]
Apple integrates Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex into Xcode 26.3 in push for ‘agentic coding’
Apple on Tuesday announced a major update to its flagship developer tool that gives artificial intelligence agents unprecedented control over the app-building process, a move that signals the iPhone maker’s aggressive push into an emerging and controversial practice known as “agentic coding.” Xcode 26.3, available immediately as a release candidate, integrates Anthropic’s Claude Agent and […]
Databricks’ serverless database slashes app development from months to days as companies prep for agentic AI
Five years ago, Databricks coined the term ‘data lakehouse’ to describe a new type of data architecture that combines a data lake with a data warehouse. That term and data architecture are now commonplace across the data industry for analytics workloads. Now, Databricks is once again looking to create a new category with its Lakebase […]
Vercel rebuilt v0 to tackle the 90% problem: Connecting AI-generated code to existing production infrastructure, not prototypes
Before Claude Code wrote its first line of code, Vercel was already in the vibe coding space with its v0 service. The basic idea behind the original v0, which launched in 2024, was essentially to be version 0. That is, the earliest version of an application, helping developers solve the blank canvas problem. Developers could […]
Shared memory is the missing layer in AI orchestration
The key to successful AI agents within an enterprise? Shared memory and context. This, according to Asana CPO Arnab Bose, provides detailed history and direct access from the get-go — with guardrail checkpoints and human oversight, of course. This way, “when you assign a task, you’re not having to go ahead and re-provide all of […]