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Adding more agents doesn't always make a system smarter. In some cases, single-agent setups outperform multi-agent ones on the same tasks with the same model — particularly on sequential reasoning, where coordination overhead outweighs any paralleliza...
Last week Thoughtworks released the 34th volume of our Technology Radar. This radar is our biannual survey of our experience of the technology scene, highlighting tools, techniques, platforms, and languages that we’ve used or otherwise caught our eye. This edition contains 118 blips, each briefly describing our impressions of one of these elements. As we would expect, the radar is dominated by AI-oriented topics. Part of this is revisiting familiar ground with LLM-assisted eyes: An interesting c
We have moved past the point where a 70GB model was considered “heavy.” With the rise of models like DeepSeek-V3, the GLM series, and other massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, the industry is now grappling with weights exceeding 700GB in optimized formats—and well over 1.2TB in full precision. And parameters keep climbing—Epoch’s AI data tracks frontier models now reaching into the trillions of parameters, with no sign of plateau. At this scale, “Data Gravity” isn’t just a metaphor;
This post explores how Oldcastle used AWS services to transform their analytics and AI capabilities by integrating Infor ERP with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight. We discuss how they overcame the limitations of traditional cloud ERP reporting to deploy real-time dashboards and build a scalable analytics system. This practical, enterprise-grade approach offers a blueprint that organizations can adapt when extending ERP capabilities with cloud-native analytics and AI.
The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on February 27, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API v1.5.1 patch release is already available. The Gateway API v1.5 brings six widely-requested feature promotions to the Standard channel (Gateway API's GA release channel): ListenerSet TLSRoute HTTPRoute CORS Filter Client Certificate Validation Certific
We’ve fundamentally transformed Facebook Groups Search to help people more reliably discover, sort through, and validate community content that’s most relevant to them. We’ve adopted a new hybrid retrieval architecture and implemented automated model-based evaluation to address the major friction points people experience when searching community content. Under this new framework, we’ve made tangible improvements [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Pow
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors.
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