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Pinterest Unifies Engineering Tools with New Pinconsole Platform
Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform (IDP) that centralizes engineering workflows. Built to address fragmented tools for deployment, monitoring, and service management, PinConsole provides a consistent layer that lets engineers focus on business logic instead of infrastructure complexity.
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How LinkedIn Built Enterprise Multi-Agent AI on Existing Messaging Infrastructure
LinkedIn extended its generative AI application platform to support multi-agent systems by repurposing its existing messaging infrastructure as an orchestration layer. This allowed the company to scale AI agents without building new coordination technology from scratch and achieve global availability while supporting complex multi-step workflows through agent coordination.
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Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: a 3-Trillion-Token Dataset Built from PDFs
Hugging Face has unveiled FinePDFs, the largest publicly available corpus built entirely from PDFs. The dataset spans 475 million documents in 1,733 languages, totaling roughly 3 trillion tokens. At 3.65 terabytes in size, FinePDFs introduces a new dimension to open training datasets by tapping into a resource long considered too complex and expensive to process.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, TornadoVM, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, JBang
This week's Java roundup for September 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26 and new candidates; first integration of GPULlama3.java with LangChain4j; milestone releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring AI; Spring Authorization Server moving to Spring Security; the September 2025 edition of Open Liberty; and a point release of JBang.
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Cloudflare Introduces Automated Scoring for Shadow AI Risk Assessment
During AI Week 2025, Cloudflare announced Application Confidence Scores, an automated assessment system that is designed to help organizations evaluate the safety and security of third-party AI applications at scale.
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Vercel Introduces AI Gateway for Multi-Model Integration
Vercel has rolled out the AI Gateway for production workloads. The service provides a single API endpoint for accessing a wide range of large language and generative models, aiming to simplify integration and management for developers.
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Next.js 15.5 Ships - Turbopack Production Builds, Node.js Middleware, and Tighter Typescript DX
Next.js 15.5 has landed, delivering faster builds and powerful server-side middleware. Key highlights include the Turbopack bundler, which boosts compilation speed by 2x to 5x, and Node.js middleware enhancements. TypeScript improvements enhance developer experience with stable typed routes and early error detection.
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Google DeepMind Launches EmbeddingGemma, an Open Model for On-Device Embeddings
Google DeepMind has introduced EmbeddingGemma, a 308M parameter open embedding model designed to run efficiently on-device. The model aims to make applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and text classification accessible without the need for a server or internet connection.
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Lessons Learned from Growing from Junior to Staff and beyond
Bruno Rey suggested thinking about career growth in circles: self, team, company, and customers. Success comes from understanding broader impacts, embracing compromise, and acting fast, especially in startups. He advised seeking mentors for honest feedback, being open to unexpected or crisis-driven opportunities, and thriving in change with an anti-fragile mindset.
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Azure Service Groups Enter Public Preview Offering New Abstraction Layer for Resource Management
Microsoft has launched Azure Service Groups in public preview, a new feature designed to simplify resource management and administration. Acting as a flexible, tenant-level container, Service Groups allow users to organize Azure resources from anywhere within their tenant without affecting RBAC or policy inheritance.
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OpenAI’s gpt-realtime Enables Production-Ready Voice Agents with End-to-End Speech Processing
OpenAI launched gpt-realtime and the Realtime API, enabling production-ready AI voice agents with end-to-end speech processing, lower latency, and natural speech delivery. New features include SIP phone support, image input, MCP server integration, and improved safeguards. Early adopters like Zillow and T-Mobile are testing real-time customer service and search use cases.
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Honeycomb Hosted MCP Brings Observability Data into the IDE
Honeycomb has launched its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP), giving developers real-time access to observability data inside IDEs and AI tools like GitHub Copilot. Available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace, it removes the need for self-hosting and streamlines debugging by surfacing traces, metrics, and logs without context-switching.
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Uber Shares Strategy for Controlling Risk in Monorepo Changes That Affect 3,000+ Microservices
Uber has published details on their approach to controlling rollouts of large-scale changes across monorepos that serve thousands of microservices, addressing one of the key challenges in continuous deployment at massive scale.
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System Initiative Launches “AI Native” Platform to Simplify Infrastructure Automation
System Initiative recently released its AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform, aiming to offer DevOps teams a new way to manage infrastructure through natural language.
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Hugging Face Introduces AI Sheets, a No-Code Tool for Dataset Transformation
Hugging Face has released AI Sheets, an open-source application designed to let users build, transform, and enrich datasets using AI models through a spreadsheet-like interface. The tool, available both on the Hub and for local deployment, allows users to experiment with thousands of open models, including OpenAI’s gpt-oss, without requiring code.