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Context Language Models: Self-Managing Context to Improve Performance and Reduce Compute Costs

Researchers from Meta, MIT, and the University of Washington introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), a new approach that enables language models to manage and edit their own context rather than relying on predefined mechanisms for summarization, compression,…

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InfoQ AI, ML and Data EngineeringPublished

Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing

Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted…

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InfoQ AI, ML and Data EngineeringPublished

Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring

Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess…

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Hugging Face BlogPublished

Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

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InfoQ AI, ML and Data EngineeringPublished

Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite

GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated testing, human review, and 128 pull requests…

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InfoQ AI, ML and Data EngineeringPublished

Presentation: Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and graph databases. They explain…

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MIT Technology Review AIPublished

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers…

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OpenAI NewsPublished

Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

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OpenAI NewsPublished

Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

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MIT Technology Review AIPublished

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of…