Tech news, October 13, 2026

The Cloudflare Agents SDK now provides a browserTool that gives your agent a Browser Run browser it can return to on later turns.

Developers building AI applications face a familiar challenge: how do you ground AI experiences in enterprise content while maintaining security, compliance, and governance?

Today, NVIDIA is making the full NVIDIA Run:ai platform available as open source software, giving customers, developers, and ecosystem partners access to...

Twilio customers may be experiencing SMS delivery delays and failures from Twilio to VIVACOM network subscribers in Bulgaria.

Software supply chain attacks have grown in both frequency and sophistication.

F1 worked with AWS to migrate petabytes of footage from ageing tape robots, in multiple formats and proxy files, into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) alongside the live…

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.160.0 adds the ability to emit release candidate (RC) process semantic conventions metrics to the hostmetrics receiver’s process scraper, the la…

We’re releasing several GitHub Apps improvements today that help developers move off of classic PATs, improve GitHub App management, and request fewer sensitive permissions.

In our “A Day in the Life” series, Tim Burdon, APJ Renewals Director, explains the rhythm of his work week, his single source of truth for renewals, and how he maintains his work…

LEIAA, Augmetec's investigation platform, combines semantic search, precise filtering, and document-level ranking to help investigation teams work more efficiently, preserve conte…

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features and updated policies, and to provide clarification.

The next generation of AWS Resilience Hub adds three capabilities to keep workload scope and resilience requirements aligned with your running environment: Amazon EKS label suppor…

Honeycomb is hiring a new VP of Engineering as Emily Nakashima moves into an operational role after nine years leading engineering.

As previously announced, skills in the Gemini app are starting to roll out today, with an expected completion by mid-November.

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

Amazon Redshift now automatically resolves many concurrent writes to Apache Iceberg tables that don't actually overlap, committing changes that previously failed and had to retry.

The night before AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, we hosted the Agentic AI Foundation community at the JetBrains office in Amsterdam.

I’m always interested to see how MariaDB Vector is being used in real applications, beyond the usual demos and simple similarity-search examples.

Open models like GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.7 now match closed frontier models on core agent tasks — file operations, tool use, and instruction following — at a fraction of the cost and…

MCP support now lives in langchain.mcp, built on FastMCP for the 2026-07-28 spec, with elicitation handled as a LangGraph interrupt and tool lists cached.

Built on Deep Agents and LangGraph, Open SWE provides the core architectural components for internal coding agents.

Today we’re launching Deep Agents deploy in beta.

.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core,.NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

You can now switch from watching a Google Meet live stream to participating with audio and video directly on Android.

Data has always been central to business decision-making, and most analytical workloads...

This model always redirects to the latest model in the Pareto family.

Pareto is a multimodal composite model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks.

HeyGen Voice is a text-to-speech model from HeyGen.

HeyGen Voice Turbo is a lower-latency version of HeyGen Voice, HeyGen's text-to-speech model.

New open weights from NVIDIA on the Hugging Face Hub.

New open weights from NVIDIA on the Hugging Face Hub.

New open weights from NVIDIA on the Hugging Face Hub.

New open weights from NVIDIA on the Hugging Face Hub.

LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Liquid AI with 24B total and 2.45B active parameters.

Drama 3 is a text-to-speech model from Fish Audio built for directed voice performances.

Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software.

Unit 42 dissects a cyberattack targeting a European bank's IT infrastructure, delivering concrete defense strategies to help organizations detect and counter comparable threats.

Microsoft is publishing 1,413 own-product vulnerabilities on October 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 1,102 vulnerabilities in Windows.

A vulnerability in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Shell implementation of Cisco UCS Servers and UCS-based appliances could allow an authenticated attacker with v…

A fake WatchGuard VPN download site steals SSL VPN credentials, then serves the real signed client.

If you’ve ever looked at a list of cybersecurity jobs and felt like none of them fit you, you might just be looking at a short list.

Discover Privateer, a new plugin-based, AI-assisted security and compliance evaluation framework that has officially joined the OpenSSF Sandbox under the ORBIT Working Group.

Microsoft has released its monthly security update for October 2026, which includes 1415 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 85 that Microsoft marked as "crit…

Enterprise applications have become increasingly demanding.

Learn how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center Partner Agent Factory and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources and APIs.

Learn how Orange Business used LangChain and LangSmith to build Live Intelligence, a governed AI platform for agents, evals, observability, and production scale.

Stale code samples are a docs problem nobody prioritizes.

Harness engineering improved LangChain's coding agent from Top 30 to Top 5 on Terminal Bench using self-verification, tracing, and context optimization.

Learn how Deep Agents SDK manages context for long-running AI tasks through offloading, summarization, and filesystem abstraction to prevent context rot.

Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates friction when each account must accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers individually.

How we addressed the cold-start problem for Airbnb’s natural language search by jointly generating synthetic training data — queries and relevance labels — from de-identified book…

When an operations engineer or developer starts an AWS Systems Manager Session Manager session on a managed node, every command they run is captured as a transcript.

A deep dive into how D1 architected its control plane to scale and manage millions of databases, while keeping data plane query operations at the edge.

Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer.

Roadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.

Professor Deb Roy contends there should be someone who is “answerable” for every piece of text in public life, no matter its origins.

The U.S.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is issuing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking regarding section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act (…

Our first robotics pod with Dyna’s Chief Scientist on their big bet on World Action Models & the Next Frontier of Physical AI

How to handle uncertainty with AI vendors and disaster recovery (DR) approaches to consider.

A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing.

It has been roughly a year since my last dedicated post on this question.

Building things out of the state.

Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness.

Agentic robotics places a large language model (LLM) agent in the robot control loop, where it composes perception, motion, and vision-language-action (VLA) tools under the guidan…

Scaling expert demonstrations alone does not enable generalist robot policies to improve from deployment.

Learning humanoid loco-manipulation from human demonstrations rests on observing how locomotion, posture, and object interaction evolve together as tasks unfold.

Sparse-to-dense motion completion recovers dense mesh motion from sparse vertex displacements.

We generally perceive that training text-to-image diffusion models requires heavy compute: it is true if we aim at a comprehensive frontier model.

How should demonstration quality be used during vision-language-action (VLA) pretraining to improve performance after target-task fine-tuning?

Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a capability essential to automate…

Generating editable graphic designs requires arranging visual and textual elements into a coherent composition while preserving their content and editability.

Sampling equilibrium field configurations remains a major computational bottleneck in lattice field theory, motivating the development of generative samplers that can produce inde…

Reasoning models achieve strong performance through long chains of thought (CoT), but often spend more tokens than needed to solve a problem.