AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

Amazon Web Services is making its S3 object storage service easier for AI agents to access with the introduction of a native file system interface. The new interface, S3 Files, will eliminate a longstanding tradeoff between the low cost of S3 and the interactivity of a traditional file system or of Amazon’s Elastic File System…

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Databricks buys Quotient AI to boost enterprise‑grade AI agent performance

Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent…

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The hidden cost of front-end complexity

Front-end development has never been more capable. Modern frameworks offer fast rendering pipelines, component composition, powerful tooling, and a growing ecosystem of libraries that promise to make building sophisticated applications easier than ever. Yet many teams experience exactly the opposite — increasing difficulty. Applications grow harder to reason about. Features interact in unexpected ways. Simple…

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Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is…

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What next for junior developers?

Everyone is worried about junior developers. What are all these fresh-faced computer science graduates going to do now that AI is writing all the code?   It is a legitimate concern.  It wasn’t that long ago that the best advice I could give an early-career person interested in software development was to go to a boot camp. Sure,…

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