7 safeguards for observable AI agents

Many organizations are under pressure to take their AI agent experiments and proof of concepts out of pilots and into production. Devops teams may have limited time to ensure these AI agents meet AI agent non-negotiable requirements for production deployments, including implementing observability, monitoring, and other agenticops practices. One question devops teams must answer is…

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Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…

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Kill the loading spinner with local-first data and reactive SQL

It’s not every day that a radically new architecture comes along, but here we are: in-browser SQLite, combined with reactive SQL and auto-syncing. The promise is instant interactivity on the front end, while maintaining data symmetry with the back end. As a direct challenger to the RESTful group-think that has dominated web development for a…

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Leak reveals Anthropic’s ‘Mythos,’ a powerful AI model aimed at cybersecurity use cases

Anthropic didn’t intend to introduce Mythos this way. Details of what it calls its most capable AI model yet surfaced through a data leak in its content management system (CMS), revealing a LLM with sharply improved reasoning and coding skills. The data leak, which was the result of the company’s staffers inadvertently exposing material about…

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GitHub shifts Copilot to usage-based billing, signaling a new cost model for enterprise AI tools

GitHub is moving its Copilot coding assistant to a usage-based billing model, replacing fixed subscription pricing with consumption-based charges as demand for AI-driven development workloads increases. The change, announced in a company blog, will take effect on June 1 and will apply to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. Under the new model, usage…

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