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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

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

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

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

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

Anthropic Explains How Claude Builds Its Own Execution Harnesses

Robert Krzaczyński — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:55:00 GMT

Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex tasks.

By Robert Krzaczyński

Anthropic Releases and Temporarily Suspends Claude Fable 5

Andrew Hoblitzell — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:01:00 GMT

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a model designed for long-horizon tasks, but it was taken offline shortly after due to a U.S. government export directive. It shares architecture with Claude Mythos 5, supporting extensive token usage. The model includes mandatory data retention requirements, which have affected its deployment with partners like Microsoft.

By Andrew Hoblitzell

AWS Introduces Durable Storage Option for ElastiCache for Valkey

Renato Losio — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:13:00 GMT

AWS has recently introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data loss or maintaining lower write latency, expanding the range of use cases supported by the Redis fork.

By Renato Losio

Terraform MCP Server Enables AI Assistants to Interact with Terraform Infrastructure

Sergio De Simone — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

HashiCorp has announced the general availability of the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source MCP server that enables agents to integrate with Terraform Registry APIs. The company says that it can improve infrastructure teams productivity by relieving engineers of rote tasks.

By Sergio De Simone

WebMCP Standard Proposal for Agentic Web Actuation Now Available in Chrome (Origin Trials)

Bruno Couriol — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:32:00 GMT

Google recently announced that WebMCP is entering origin trials in Chrome 149. The new WebMCP standard proposal lets sites expose tools (e.g., JavaScript functions and HTML forms) to in-browser AI agents, which can thus reliably simulate user actions instead of resorting to possibly expensive (e.g., on-screen reading) and often unreliable guesswork (e.g., DOM scraping).

By Bruno Couriol