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Most AI agents fail in production because a single prompt can’t guarantee order, safety checks, or human approval. Today, we’re building a fully autonomous, multimodal AI video studio from scratch using Google’s Agent…
Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a…
Generative AI is rapidly evolving from experimenting with models to relying on intelligent, autonomous multi-agent workflows that can reason, act, and adapt in real time. Together, Microsoft and MongoDB are defining the…
At MongoDB Research, we’re exploring how to make cutting‑edge AI models smaller, faster, and more flexible. In this blog post, we present LEAF (Lightweight Embedding Alignment Framework), a new knowledge distillation…
We are excited to announce the public preview of Automated Embedding in MongoDB Vector Search (available in Public Preview in MongoDB Community Edition), a groundbreaking feature designed to make building sophisticated,…
Facebook Feature Framework (F3) is Meta’s framework for authoring, compiling, and serving the machine learning features underlying ads ranking models, where a single request can require more than 20,000 features. We…
Great apps need more than a working back end, they need a thoughtful user experience. Instead of jumping straight into vibe coding and chasing individual features, this episode of Build It walks through creating a…
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as…
We’re excited to announce that Brett Smith is joining the Python Software Foundation as a Security Developer. Brett will be working closely with Seth Larson, Security Developer in Residence, and Mike Fiedler, PyPI…
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video…
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The…
Do more AI agents always mean better results? Not always, it depends on what you're building and how your agents work together. When building an app with AI, adding more agents comes with real trade-offs: • Majority…