OpenScholar Shows Why Grounded AI Matters for Scientific Research

Researchers from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington have developed a new open-source AI model named OpenScholar that they claim can synthesize scientific literature and verifiable citations at a level comparable to a human expert. With millions of scientific papers published every year, it’s challenging to keep up with the…

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Lightrun unveils AI SRE to find and fix software production errors

Lightrun has announced Lightrun AI SRE, an AI-powered site reliability engineering (SRE) assistant designed to detect software production errors and performance degradations. Introduced February 25, the Lightrun AI SRE correlates the service-level issues it finds with proven root causes to propose solutions. Drawing on on live, in-line runtime context, the AI SRE allows AI agents…

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The best new features in MariaDB

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users….

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VS Code now updates weekly

With Microsoft now releasing stable updates to its Visual Studio Code editor weekly instead of just monthly, VS Code Versions 1.112 and 1.111 recently have been released, featuring capabilities such as agent troubleshooting, integrated browser debugging, and Copilot CLI permissions. Also featured is the deprecation of VS Code’s Edit Mode. VS Code 1.112  was released…

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We mistook event handling for architecture

Events are essential inputs to modern front-end systems. But when we mistake reactions for architecture, complexity quietly multiplies. Over time, many front-end architectures have come to resemble chains of reactions rather than models of structure. The result is systems that are expressive, but increasingly difficult to reason about. A different architectural perspective is beginning to…

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