Today on Product Saturday: Microsoft introduces new agents for security teams, Chainguard moves beyond the container, and the quote of the week.
Today: Tines co-founder and CEO Eoin Hinchy talks about workflow automation and agentic AI skepticism, Oracle Cloud customers push back against its claim that none of their data was stolen, and the latest enterprise moves.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced last November by Anthropic, which called it "an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools." After kicking the tires for a few months, vendors are jumping on board.
Today on Product Saturday: The Allen Institute for AI releases an actual open-source challenger to DeekSeek's V3 model, Microsoft open-sources a NoSQL database under an old and familiar name, and the quote of the week.
Today: As is tradition, AWS released all the news that won't make the re:Invent keynote ahead of time, the Allen Institute for AI introduces a powerful and truly open-source AI model, and the quote of the week.
Today: Intel's badly needed new Xeon server processors, the most interesting launch from Cloudflare's birthday week, and the quote of the week.
Today: AI2 COO Sophie Lebrecht on the importance of true open-source generative AI models, AWS chooses the nuclear option, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The most important issue in AI is a lack of open models that could allow researchers — who know surprisingly little about how the generative AI craze that upended the tech industry actually works — to set the parameters of the larger discussions around AI regulation.
