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Anthropic Announces Claude CoWork
Introducing Claude Cowork: Anthropic's groundbreaking AI agent revolutionizing file management on macOS. With advanced automation capabilities, it enhances document processing, organizes files, and executes multi-step workflows. Users must be cautious of backup needs due to recent issues. Explore its potential for efficient office solutions while ensuring data integrity.
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Tracking and Controlling Data Flows at Scale in GenAI: Meta’s Privacy-Aware Infrastructure
Meta has revealed how it scales its Privacy-Aware Infrastructure (PAI) to support generative AI development while enforcing privacy across complex data flows. Using large-scale lineage tracking, PrivacyLib instrumentation, and runtime policy controls, the system enables consistent privacy enforcement for AI workloads like Meta AI glasses without introducing manual bottlenecks.
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MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks
Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively decompose and process inputs, and can handle prompts up to 100x longer than base LLMs.
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Salesforce Migrates 1,000+ EKS Clusters to Karpenter to Improve Scaling Speed and Efficiency
Salesforce has completed a phased migration of more than 1,000 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters from the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter, AWS’s open-source node-provisioning and autoscaling solution.
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Prisma 7: Rust-Free Architecture and Performance Gains
Prisma ORM 7.0 has revolutionized the TypeScript-first ORM landscape with a Rust-free architecture, delivering 3x faster queries, 90% smaller bundles, and improved developer experience. With dynamic configurations and streamlined artifact management, Prisma enhances productivity while supporting major databases. Elevate your Node.js projects with cutting-edge performance and type safety.
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Google and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard co-developed with Shopify, Target, and others, enabling AI-driven shopping agents to complete tasks end-to-end from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase management. UCP aims to standardize commerce capabilities, support multiple payment providers, and expand globally. Shaping the next generation of agentic commerce.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Functions Support for Model Context Protocol Servers
Microsoft has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Azure Functions, ensuring secure, standardized workflows for AI agents. With built-in OBO authentication and streamable HTTP transport, it addresses key security concerns. Now supporting multiple languages and self-hosting, MCP empowers developers to deploy with ease while safeguarding sensitive data.
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GitLab 18.8 Marks General Availability of the Duo Agent Platform
GitLab 18.8 brings a number of new features, including GitLab Duo Planner Agent, GitLab Duo Security Analyst Agent, auto-dismiss irrelevant vulnerabilities, and more. With this release, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, enabling organizations to orchestrate AI agents, reaches general availability.
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Microsoft Open Sources XAML Studio, Reviving a Longstanding Prototyping Tool
Microsoft has officially open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight rapid prototyping tool for XAML-based UI development, under the .NET Foundation. The tool, originally released through the Microsoft Store as part of the Microsoft Garage initiative, now welcomes community contributions and collaboration via its GitHub repository.
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Pinterest's Moka: How Kubernetes Is Rewriting the Rules of Big Data Processing
Digital pinboard provider Pinterest has published an article explaining its blueprint for the future of large-scale data processing with its new platform Moka. The company is moving core workloads from ageing Hadoop infrastructure to a Kubernetes-based system on Amazon EKS, with Apache Spark as the main engine and support for other frameworks on the way.
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Docker’s Cagent Brings Deterministic Testing to AI Agents
Docker is positioning its Cagent runtime as a way to bring deterministic testing back to AI agents, addressing a growing problem for teams building production agentic systems.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for January 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of WildFly 39; point releases of JobRunr and Gradle; maintenance releases of Spring Framework and Micronaut; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; and a beta release of Open Liberty 26.0.0.1.
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Human‑Centred AI for SRE: Multi‑Agent Incident Response without Losing Control
A growing body of recent research and industry commentary suggests that a shift in how organisations approach site reliability engineering is underway. Rather than handing the pager to a machine, teams are designing multi-agent AI systems that work alongside on-call engineers, narrowing the search space and automating the tedious steps while leaving judgment calls to humans.
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Hugging Face Releases FineTranslations, a Trillion-Token Multilingual Parallel Text Dataset
Hugging Face has released FineTranslations, a large-scale multilingual dataset containing more than 1 trillion tokens of parallel text across English and 500+ languages. The dataset was created by translating non-English content from the FineWeb2 corpus into English using Gemma3 27B, with the full data generation pipeline designed to be reproducible and publicly documented.
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Android Studio Otter Boosts Agent Workflows and Adds LLM Flexibility
The latest Android Studio Otter feature drop introduces several new features that make it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered tools in their workflows, including the ability to set which LLM to use, enhanced agent mode through device interaction, support for natural language testing, and more.