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Agentic AI systems, coding agents and developer workflows, tool use, orchestration, multi-agent systems, safety evaluation, agent infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and durable workflows.

Agent systems, workflows, and safety

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Pinecone Introduces Nexus Engine for Compiling Business Context into Structured Data for AI Agents

Now generally available, Pinecone Nexus is a "knowledge engine" for AI agents that transforms enterprise data into a structured layer agents can query directly. It enables teams to ingest and curate business context once for all, making it reusable across…

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Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry

Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI agents natively with OpenTelemetry to track concrete user actions (accepting, dismissing, or…

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Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI

A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native ecosystem that already powers modern distributed…

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QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring security through a "harness" around agents, and adopting a…

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Hugging Face BlogPublished

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

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AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructure in…

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OpenAI NewsPublished

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.

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Hugging Face BlogPublished

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

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