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Today10/17Sat
  1. 量子位58

    Amazon CTO Werner Vogels urges companies to keep fear out of AI decisions

    Amazon CTO Werner Vogels argues that companies should understand their business problems and AI’s capabilities before rushing to adopt it. Speaking in Shenzhen, he emphasized task suitability, operating costs, explicit limits on Agent actions, and developers’ responsibility for outcomes. He also warned that AI-generated code can accumulate verification debt and stressed that junior engineers still need experience reading and reviewing code.

10/16Fri
  1. Aravind Srinivas · X57

    Aravind Srinivas argues neoclouds need to own the full agent inference platform

    Aravind Srinivas argues that neoclouds can't just rent GPUs and need to own the full agent inference platform, including open-weight models (SGLang), fine-tuned models (Miles, River), and secure sandboxes (SPACE). He looks forward to working with Coreweave, Akamai, Crusoe, and more partners. In the quoted post, Reed Albergotti reports that Perplexity is open sourcing its sandbox, SPACE, with partners including Akamai, Coreweave, and Crusoe. https://twitter.com/ReedAlbergotti/status/2110782821879144922

  3. 量子位28

    How Antai MBA Is Training Future Business Leaders for the AI Era

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Antai College of Economics and Management is reshaping its MBA education to prepare business leaders who can combine technical understanding with business judgment and responsibility. Its “Five Links” talent framework connects AI, science and technology innovation, industry, global perspectives, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University resources. The college also plans to co-create 1,000 AI projects with companies over the next decade and has announced curriculum and training changes for the 2027 cohort.

10/14Wed
  1. Simon Willison76

    How Anthropic redesigned source control with Scion

    Simon Willison highlights Anthropic’s explanation of Scion, its custom alternative to Git, as merged code changes grew from around 2,500 per day in May 2026 to over 30,000 per day in September. Anthropic reports almost 100 GB of main-branch history and roughly 25 million daily CI checkouts; seven people built the system, completing migration in five months. Willison speculates that Fable/Mythos class models contributed to the increased coding velocity and connects Anthropic’s experience with adversarial review to his own, including the need for engineers to steer models away from over-engineering.

    Why it matters: Anthropic’s checkout volume and repository size offer concrete context for understanding how increased coding activity can put pressure on the infrastructure supporting code review and CI.

10/12Mon
10/8Thu
  1. MIT Technology Review · AI15

    How AVEVA is building a safer path to deploying industrial autonomous AI

    Arti Garg, AVEVA's chief technology expert, says industrial AI is shifting from predictive analytics to foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI, and requires connected data, governance frameworks, and human oversight for safety. AVEVA's responsible AI framework emphasizes safety, efficiency, and human oversight, arguing that AI should augment rather than replace people in critical decisions. Garg also participates in an IEEE working group developing a standard method to measure AI's environmental impact across power, energy, resources, water, and carbon.

10/7Wed
10/4Sun
  1. 量子位36

    The hottest AI job is FDE: monthly pay of ¥50,000, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and AWS competing for talent

    The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) has become the hottest AI role. Public salary data overseas show a median of about $200,000, while major Chinese companies are offering monthly salaries of ¥30,000–¥50,000. Anthropic announced a $100 million investment to train 10,000 FDEs by the end of 2027. OpenAI formed a deployment company with $4 billion in investment, and AWS set aside $1 billion to build an FDE division. Practitioners say communicating requirements takes more than 70% of the job, with development accounting for only 30%.

  2. Simon Willison36

    Simon Willison: pay-as-you-go services should have hard budget caps by default; AWS has launched spending limits

    Simon Willison called for pay-as-you-go APIs and services to have hard budget caps by default: once monthly spending reaches $X, the service should cut off and return an error rather than merely send warning emails. He noted that AWS launched monthly spending limits on September 16; a project pauses for the rest of the month when it reaches its cap. The feature is currently available only to some customers. Google Cloud launched Spend Caps in July.

10/3Sat
  1. MIT Technology Review · AI12

    Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI: MIT Technology Review report explores the 'agentic shift'

    MIT Technology Review published a report arguing that enterprise AI is moving from tools to an 'agentic shift', requiring architecture and operating models to be redesigned together. It says global AI investment will reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% year over year, but most companies have yet to generate revenue growth from AI. The report recommends redesigning processes before choosing models and building a composable, sovereign data foundation so agents can use data locally.

9/30Wed
  1. 量子位22

    Where is the next opportunity in industrial AI? Siemens Xcelerator and Aqiu Tech discuss scaling from 1 to 100

    QbitAI's interview program invited Gu Xin, who leads sales and ecosystem success for Siemens Xcelerator in China, and Huang Yao, founder and CEO of Aqiu Tech, to review the path from industrial AI deployment to scale. Huang used semiconductor wafer cutting as an example, saying that after introducing agent technology, equipment OEE and capacity can improve by about 25%. Gu said industrial AI must be reliable at an industrial level. Siemens Xcelerator aims to serve as a connector and amplifier, filling in the delivery and ecosystem pieces needed to scale from 1 to 100.

  2. 雷锋网40

    Why do Kimi and DeepSeek appear in the same model-architecture diagram?

    Of the 45 layers in GLM-5.3-Flash, 34 use Kimi's KDA linear-attention approach and 11 use DeepSeek's KPool-DSA sparse attention. Linear and Sparse attention appear together in one model for the first time. The combination reflects a shift away from finding a single best mechanism toward assigning different roles: Linear maintains long histories at low cost, while Sparse retrieves specific information as needed.

9/29Tue
9/21Mon
  1. NVIDIA Blog36

    NVIDIA on AI safety: engineering controls at every layer of the agent stack

    NVIDIA argues that AI safety is an engineering problem requiring enforceable controls, clear ownership, and verification evidence, and says safety boundaries must operate independently of agent reasoning. Its open-source NVIDIA OpenShell safety runtime enforces policies outside an agent's reach and provides sandboxed execution. Cisco DefenseClaw and JFrog have built governance and skill-scanning capabilities on top of it.

7/30Thu
  1. Hugging Face Blog22

    GPU management: why idle GPUs are becoming the new grounded airplanes

    A Hugging Face blog argues that GPU utilization, not model intelligence, is AI's next real constraint. GPU costs accrue by calendar hours, but output is produced only during compute hours; after buying GPUs, companies face the challenge of keeping their clusters busy. Using aviation as an analogy, the article says even fully loaded clusters may waste much of their potential because GPUs run all day while demand does not.

7/7Tue
  1. Berkeley AI Research40

    What happens when intelligence becomes cheap? Data systems for agents, operated by agents, and built by agents

    Berkeley's EPIC Data Lab argues that as inference costs have fallen from around $30 per million tokens for GPT-4-level models in early 2023 to under $1 today—and below $0.10 at some vendors—data systems face three new challenges: systems designed for agents, systems operated by agents, and systems built by agents.

7/6Mon
5/8Fri