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Claude Sonnet 4.6 improves coding skills

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, an update to the company’s hybrid reasoning model that brings improvements in coding consistency and instruction following, Anthropic said. Introduced February 17, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, design, and knowledge work, according to Anthropic. the…

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WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) participants including Google and Microsoft have launched the WebMCP API, a JavaScript interface that allows web applications to provide client-side “tools” to AI agents. The API would enable agents to interact directly with web pages and participate in collaborative workflows with human users within the same web interface. WebMCP is…

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for digital agents capable of advanced reasoning and tool use across applications. The release reflects the ongoing shift from standalone chatbot deployments toward AI systems that can execute multi-step workflows and operate with minimal human…

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Why cloud outages are becoming normal

The Microsoft Azure outage that dragged out for 10 hours in early February serves as another stark reminder that the cloud, for all its promise, is not immune to failure. At precisely 19:46 UTC on February 2, the Azure cloud platform began experiencing cascading issues stemming from an initial misconfiguration of a policy affecting Microsoft-managed…

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Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability

When it comes to cloud infrastructure portability, the reigning solutions just don’t live up to their promise. Infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions like Terraform shoehorn nuanced infrastructure into too-broad terms. Cloud provider offerings like Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Services, and Google Cloud Migrate generally don’t translate native workloads into competitors’ clouds. And governance tools are…

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