Remember the good old days when we had “Internet time”? It was back in the late 1990s, when the dot-coms moved so fast that building businesses and fortunes would take only months instead of years. Seems so quaint now. I think we are now living in AI time. It seems like today, things that used…
Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in isolation from one another. While containers have been used in Linux and Unix systems for some time, Docker, an open source project launched in 2013, helped popularize…
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…
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…
Sparq Launches Intelligence Studio to Operationalize AI at Enterprise Scale The Arizona Republic Go to Source Author:
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…
From beards to bytes: How AI is empowering small business owners in Kenya Microsoft Source Go to Source Author:
In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to development problems. In that fictional far future, every problem has been solved at least once, often in many ways with different interfaces…
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…
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…
