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Automate Incident Management with PagerDuty Slack from @pagerduty pagerduty.com/blog/chatops/a…

Automate Incident Management with PagerDuty Slack

Most organizations managing major incidents realized that every moment matters. Context-switching between different tools – with multiple web and chat

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OpenAI’s agent had a routine task. It breached a government portal. thenewstack.io/ai-agents-pro…

OpenAI’s agent had a routine task. It breached a government portal.

AI agents assigned routine data retrieval probed a university library and government health sites for flaws. Here's what that means for agent builders.

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What AI Can, Cannot, and Should Not Do from @Akamai, by @TomLeightonAKAM akamai.com/blog/ai/2026/sep/…

What AI Can, Cannot, and Should Not Do | Akamai

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton weighs in on the need for checks and balances and security to keep the use of AI under human control.

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This week’s news from Zed, Anthropic, and OpenRouter shows why better harnesses matter more than better models thenewstack.io/ai-agent-harn…

This week’s news from Zed, Anthropic, and OpenRouter shows why better harnesses matter more than...

AI inference keeps getting cheaper. This week’s biggest stories show why the software around the model is becoming the real test of its value.

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"A conventional service fails loudly… An AI agent fails quietly. It returns a 200. It passes faithfulness checks. And the customer still gets the wrong answer." By @theseanodell thanks to @Dynatrace thenewstack.io/ai-agent-trac…

It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.

Your AI agent returned a 200, passed its faithfulness check, and still answered the wrong question. The evidence that explains why lives in the trace.

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“Dormant deployments were quietly consuming storage”: Why Vercel tightened its free-tier rules thenewstack.io/vercel-hobby-…

“Dormant deployments were quietly consuming storage”: Why Vercel tightened its free-tier rules

Vercel’s free Hobby plan now deletes older, unprotected deployments immediately above 10GB. Some retention protections remain as deployment volumes surge.

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Why Your AI Agent Doesn’t Actually Remember Anything via @PingCAP, thanks to @dxhuang pingcap.com/blog/long-term-m…

Long-Term Memory for AI Agents: Why Persistence Isn't Enough

Long-term memory for AI agents isn't just persistence. Ed Huang on selection, compression, decay, and contamination control.

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Google's Gemini CLI now asks before editing your build files thenewstack.io/gemini-cli-pr…

Google's Gemini CLI now asks before editing your build files

Google's Gemini CLI 0.61.0 now asks before its coding agent edits build files or runs commands shaped by untrusted content, a check on prompt injection.

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Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, it launched a bot that tracks code changes from PR to production. thenewstack.io/cursor-rollou…

Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, it launched a bot that tracks code changes from PR to...

"Writing code is no longer the slow part": Rollouts takes Cursor deeper into everything that happens after the pull request goes up.

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See who spent your AI credits and set fair caps per team via @gitlab about.gitlab.com/blog/new-us…

See who spent your AI credits and set fair caps per team

With GitLab 19.4, set per-user GitLab Credit caps from a settings page, export the session behind a spike, and show each team its own AI consumption.

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OpenAI makes you call sales for a custom voice. Google just made it self-serve. thenewstack.io/gemini-tts-vo…

OpenAI makes you call sales for a custom voice. Google just made it self-serve.

Google's Gemini 3.8 TTS lets developers design a voice from a text prompt or replicate one from a short clip, then reuse it by ID through the Gemini API.

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Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Opus 5 on reasoning tasks: Cheaper, faster, but not better thenewstack.io/claude-opus-5…

Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Opus 5 on reasoning tasks: Cheaper, faster, but not better

Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is 40% cheaper and 30% faster than Opus 5. On hard reasoning tests, the savings held up. The speed claim fell short.

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Your pod may be requesting 25× more CPU than you think — and Kubernetes won’t tell you from @Dynatrace dynatrace.com/news/blog/your…

Your pod may be requesting 25× more CPU than you think — and Kubernetes won’t tell you

You’ve run kubectl describe pod. Your dashboard shows 40 millicores requested for the api-server container. You probably assumed your monitoring had the full picture. The Kubernetes scheduler...

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Your Week in Salt Lake City via @CloudNativeFdn cncf.io/blog/2026/09/11/kube…

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Your Week in Salt Lake City

This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City. From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across...

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WHOOP turned a vulnerability response process that once required an engineering team into an automated workflow built in a single afternoon. See how continuous scanning and automated remediation changed the process. Register to join us live: bit.ly/46lCvZS
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"Impressive level of openness": Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6 thenewstack.io/xiaomi-mimo-v…

"Impressive level of openness": Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6

Xiaomi streamed its $3.5M reinforcement learning run live and released the weights under MIT. And there's more on the way.

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Your AI agent returned a 200, passed its faithfulness check, and still answered the wrong question. The evidence that explains why lives in the trace. Thanks to Dynatrace thenewstack.io/ai-agent-trac…

It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.

Your AI agent returned a 200, passed its faithfulness check, and still answered the wrong question. The evidence that explains why lives in the trace.

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One bank cut token-processing costs 60% with a Kubernetes stack. But a warning about its resource model raises questions about AI inference economics. Thanks to HPE thenewstack.io/kubernetes-ai…

Kubernetes can run AI inference. But can it count the real cost?

One bank cut token-processing costs 60% with a Kubernetes stack. But a warning about its resource model raises questions about AI inference economics.

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“The first generated token might not be the same as the first visible token,” — Chip Huyen Thanks to @ScyllaDB thenewstack.io/pg-99-conf-20…

Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware

Ahead of her return to P99 CONF on October 21–22, Chip Huyen’s advice on cutting AI inference costs gets a fresh look in the age of agents.

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Learn how open source helps developers avoid vendor lock-in, protect digital sovereignty, and maintain flexible software architectures. Thanks to SUSE thenewstack.io/avoiding-vend…

Avoiding vendor lock-in through an open-source approach: a developer’s perspective

Learn how open source helps developers avoid vendor lock-in, protect digital sovereignty, and maintain flexible software architectures.

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