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Microsoft Azure Blog

Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, and adapting their approach as new information becomes available. The post Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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Vercel Blog

Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally

Requests to public domains are now routed 18x faster.Vercel Sandbox Domains created with the SDK call are now resolved from the nearest regional replica, instead of a single centralized store. Incoming requests reach the process running in the sandbox with less latency.sandbox.domain() Median domain lookup latency dropped from 62ms to 3.4ms (18x faster). The improvement is largest in regions farthest from the previous store: lookups are now up to 112x faster in Sydney (syd1) and up to 146x fas

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Django Weblog

Call for volunteers: Fundraising Working Group

The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group. This is a particularly interesting time to get involved. The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls, community events, Djangonaut Space, infrastructure, and the many other things that keep the Django ecosystem going. It also gives the DSF the room to do something new: hire its first Executive Director. Yo

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DZone

Apple-OpenAI Fight Escalates With New MacBook Evidence

Apple is turning a former engineer’s old MacBook into the latest flashpoint in its increasingly bitter fight with OpenAI. Apple told a federal court Monday that evidence recovered from former engineer Chang Liu’s Apple-issued MacBook strengthens its claims that confidential company technology was accessed and used after he joined OpenAI.

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