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Federal government orders Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5, three days after launch

Anthropic abruptly disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers Friday evening, after the US government issued an export The post Federal government orders A

Who gets to be Switzerland in the enterprise agent wars?

Every enterprise software vendor is currently selling some version of the same thing: AI agents grounded in enterprise context and The post Who gets to be Switz

Coding agents have questions, too — so Stack Overflow built them a home

Stack Overflow has been the internet’s go-to troubleshooting ground for software developers for more than 15 years — the place The post Coding agents have quest

What Platforms Say Will Bring Bigger Ad Budgets To Digital Audio

Streaming audio and podcasts are already a consumer staple. But advertisers still spend relatively little of their budgets on podcast and streaming music ads, w

Programmatic TV Home Screens And Gaming Ads For Kids

How can companies put ads in new places, but still get the user experience right? Smart TV home screens, like Samsung, are adding programmatic ads. Roblox will

How Degree Is Positioning Itself For The World Cup

In digital advertising, if you haven’t planned your event-based campaigns several months – or more – before the event takes place, it’s usually too late. The po

Publisher Problems, DSP Solutions; Who’s Tagging Out?

Pub Crawl In ad tech, everything is becoming, well, everything. Viant has released a publisher data feed and dashboard-style product called Viant Publisher Solu

“Don’t just grab random stuff off the internet”: What Chainguard found in 52,000 open-source packages

The promise of agentic development is that anyone — the finance analyst, the operations manager, the non-technical founder — can The post “Don’t just grab rando

“AI is disrupting everything”: Where do entry-level tech jobs go now?

The impact AI is making on the world’s workforce is being felt across every industry, but perhaps nowhere more acutely The post “AI is disrupting everything”: W

The Pulse: Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?

Anthropic’s new model, Fable, has restrictions many users find unacceptable. Also: a new trend of smart model routing, Coinbase’s core service has no automatic

Must- Know Deployment Strategies: From Big-Bang to Progressive Delivery

In this article, we’ll go through the main deployment strategies used in production today, looking at how each one works, what it costs, and when it makes sense

This AI Brain Wants To Get Rid Of The Grunt Work In Creative Campaigns

Agentic systems and the scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” have more in common than you might think: They’re both in dire need of a brain. At least, Innovid thin

Love Teaching? ByteByteGo Is Hiring Part-Time AI & Engineering Instructors

We’re looking for multiple part-time instructors to teach AI and engineering cohort-based live courses.

State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2

Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are declining, manage

What Salesforce Learned from 20,000 Enterprise Agent Deployments

We sat down with John Kucera, Salesforce’s CPO of Agentforce, to learn what separates agents that deliver real business value from those that stall after a good

Token Spend Out of Control? The Case for Smarter Routing

To understand how teams keep this under control in production, we sat down with Scott Breitenother and Sid Sijbrandij, co-founders of Kilo, an open-source codin

You can fork a package, but can you own it?

On managing software dependencies in a sane way

EP217: Latency vs Throughput vs Bandwidth

Latency, throughput, and bandwidth often get used interchangeably, but each one tells a different story about performance.

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower reflects on his journey from self-taught technician to Google Distinguished Engineer, sharing lessons on open source, Kubernetes, AI, and build

Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents

Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available

Fragments: June 2

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, o

The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?

Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more

Fragments: May 27

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to a

The test suite as a regression sensor

Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation tes