InfoQ - AI, ML & Data Engineering

Article: Understanding ML Model Poisoning: How It Happens and How to Detect It

Igor Maljkovic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this article, the author explores data poisoning as a threat to machine learning systems, covering techniques such as label flipping, backdoors, clean-label poisoning, and gradient manipulation. The article reviews real-world incidents, discusses the challenges of detecting poisoned data, and presents practical defenses, tools, and operational practices for securing ML training pipelines.

By Igor Maljkovic

AWS Graviton5 Reaches General Availability with 192 Cores and Formally Verified VM Isolation

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:05:00 GMT

AWS made Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances generally available with 192 ARM cores, formally verified VM isolation via the Nitro Isolation Engine, and DDR5-8800 memory. ClickHouse reported 36% better performance with zero code changes. Meta committed tens of millions of cores. On-demand pricing is 9% above Graviton4, translating to roughly 15% better price-performance.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Anthropic Reports Claude Now Handles 95% of Internal Analytics Queries

Renato Losio — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:47:00 GMT

Anthropic recently reported that Claude now handles around 95% of its internal analytics requests, letting employees query business data independently instead of relying on data teams. The company attributes this result less to advances in models and more to data governance, semantic definitions, and operational discipline.

By Renato Losio

Apple Launches Core AI for Apple-Silicon Optimized On-Device Generative AI

Sergio De Simone — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

At WWDC 26, Apple announced the Core AI framework, the official successor to Core ML. It is designed to allow developers to run large language models and generative AI entirely on-device, supporting both custom-converted PyTorch models and pre-optimized open-source models.

By Sergio De Simone

Presentation: AI Agents to Make Sense of Data at OpenAI

Bonnie Xu — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:02:00 GMT

OpenAI’s Bonnie Xu discusses Kepler, an internal AI data analyst agent built to query 600+ petabytes of data. She explains how they overcome context window limits using MCP, automated code crawling, and RAG. Xu also shares how their team leverages scoped semantic memory for self-learning and utilizes AST-based LLM grading to build a robust, regression-free evaluation pipeline.

By Bonnie Xu

CircleCI Introduces Chunk Sidecars to Bring CI Validation Directly into AI Coding Workflows

Craig Risi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT

CircleCI has launched Chunk Sidecars, a new capability designed to bring CI-style validation directly into an AI coding agent's inner development loop.

By Craig Risi

Azure Functions Ships Serverless Agents Runtime at Build 2026

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:57:00 GMT

Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown files with YAML triggers, MCP server access, 1,400+ connectors, and sandboxed execution. The Functions team confirmed to InfoQ that the runtime adds no cold start overhead and no billing premium beyond standard Flex Consumption.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Windows Platform Security and the Race to Secure AI Agents

Matt Saunders — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In a new Windows Developer Blog post titled "Windows platform security for AI agents", Microsoft positions Windows as the trustworthy operating system for autonomous agents and introduces the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK as the core of that strategy. The post argues that containment, identity and manageability must be built into the operating system.

By Matt Saunders

Presentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:13:00 GMT

Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain how Debezium hit limits under high load and share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) - a custom architecture that utilizes a dumb producer proxy and a smart consumer pattern to cleanly separate the intent from the state payload.

By Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel

Microsoft Scout, New Enterprise Autopilot Built on OpenClaw, Announced at Build 2026

Bruno Couriol — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:26:00 GMT

Microsoft recently introduced at Build 2026 Microsoft Scout, an always-on agent. Scout belongs to a new category of agents Microsoft called Autopilots: always-on agents that work autonomously on a user’s behalf with their own identity, without needing to be prompted each time. Microsoft Scout integrates with Work IQ and is based on the open-source agent framework OpenClaw.

By Bruno Couriol

Presentation: From Hype to Strong Foundations: What the Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Agents Can Teach Us about Outlasting the Cycle

Aditya Kumarakrishnan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:04:00 GMT

Aditya Kumarakrishnan explains how to move past the "amnesia phase" of AI. He shares a blueprint for engineering leaders to build modular agent frameworks using CoALA, leverage decades of process science for scalable workflows, and "terraform" legacy environments into robust, event-sourced artifacts capable of handling unpredictable, cross-functional agent demands.

By Aditya Kumarakrishnan

GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows

Matt Saunders — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez writes on the GitHub blog that the recent wave of coding agents has brought faster delivery but also "disjointed workflows, more context switching, and too much time spent reviewing agent-generated code".

By Matt Saunders

Presentation: Automating the Web with MCP: Infra that Doesn’t Break

Paul Klein — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:13:00 GMT

Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, stateful multi-tenancy and secure Chromium environments against remote code execution using Firecracker. He also shares how to leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to turn complex websites into accessible agentic tools.

By Paul Klein

AI Coding Agents Get a Stack Overflow of Their Own

Matt Saunders — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Stack Overflow has announced Stack Overflow for Agents, a beta API-first knowledge exchange aimed at AI coding agents rather than human developers. The service is presented as a way to close what the company calls the Ephemeral Intelligence Gap, where agents repeatedly rediscover the same fixes and patterns in isolation instead of sharing them through a common memory.

By Matt Saunders

PostgreSQL 19 Beta Introduces SQL Graph Queries and Concurrent Table Repacking

Renato Losio — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:15:00 GMT

PostgreSQL 19 Beta has been announced, with general availability expected in September, following the project's yearly major-release cadence. This release introduces native SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ), concurrent table repacking to reclaim storage without downtime, and a broad set of performance, observability, and administration improvements.

By Renato Losio