You’re expected to support next-gen AI on infrastructure that was never designed for it. In highly regulated industries like government, financial services, and healthcare,  IT teams face growing pressure to drive innovation while staying compliant. But traditional systems can’t keep up with  the speed, scale, or complexity that generative and agentic AI demand. The result is a widening gap between business expectations and what existing infrastructure can support.   This creates a two-fold challenge:  Ensuring continuous security and compliance across production systems. Delivering AI fast enough to meet business needs, without blowing through time, cost, or resources.   And for most teams, starting from scratch with open source tooling isn’t realistic.   What’s needed is a composable, integrated AI foundation that works across environments, simplifies operations, and gives IT teams the tools and shortcuts to deliver outcomes fast, without compromising security or governance. Why AI stalls in high-security environments AI initiatives often lose momentum — or never reach production — due to barriers like: Procurement and integration delays: Acquiring and deploying new tools takes too long, stalling adoption and impact. Disconnected infrastructure: Disparate and siloed systems block access to the right data and make it hard to design a scalable, resilient AI stack....

The newest update to Claude reveals that its maker is no longer interested in chasing ChatGPT with continual updates in the AI chatbot market. Instead, the ChatGPT competitor – now in version 4 — has been reinvented to focus more on computer coding, deep research and other complex tasks, according to writer Hayden Field. Observes Field: “Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 is the ‘best coding model in the world’ and could autonomously work for nearly a full corporate workday — seven hours.” The move will most likely come as a great disappointment to a number of writers who currently prefer working with Claude in chatbot mode. In other news and analysis on AI writing: *New Claude and Sonnet ‘Great for Research Tasks:’ The latest updates to Anthropic’s AI engines are clocking great advances when it comes to deep research, according to the editors of “The Neuron,” an AI newsletter. Observe the editors: “These models can also now ‘think’ while using tools like Web search, work on tasks for hours without losing focus – and even keep notes about what they’re doing.” *The AI Research Gains for Writers Keep Coming: Google just announced a new, experimental research mode for its Google...

What is this Every Thursday, I will share a dev diary about what we’ve been working on over the past few weeks. I’ll focus on the interesting challenges and solutions that I encountered. I won’t be able to cover everything, but I’ll share what caught my interest. Why am I doing it I want to bring our community along on this journey, and I simply love writing about things I’m passionate about! This is my unfiltered dev journal, so please keep in mind that what I write here are my thoughts and will be outdated by the time you read this, as so many things change quickly. Any plans I mention aren’t set in stone and everything is subject to change. Also, if you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this. Space Engineers 2 The team is almost finished with VS 1.5 Modding (should be completed this week, and then a few weeks of testing will begin). With this milestone approaching, everyone is now shifting focus towards VS 2 – Planets and Survival, which I’m personally very excited about. Some of the basic loops in the game are already working well during our internal playtests: the ore detector now elegantly...

Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. Transhumanist fantasies with Alexander Thomas In this episode, Eleanor talks to Alexander Thomas, a filmmaker and academic who leads the BA in Media Production at the University of East London. They discuss his new book about transhumanism, a philosophical movement that aims to improve human capabilities through technology and whose followers includes Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and also apparently the DJ Steve Aoki. Alex is himself one of the foremost commentators on transhumanism. He explores transhumanist fantasies about the future of the human, is obsessed with the extremes of possibility: they either think that AI will bring us radical abundance or total extinction. Transhumanism, Alexander says in this episode, reduces life down to information processing and intelligence, which amounts to a kind of IQ fetishism Listen to the episode here: Dr Alexander Thomas is a multi-award-winning film director and screenwriter. His academic research questions what it means to be human when cultural, cybernetic and biotechnological developments undermine the notion of the human as a cogent and eternal category. Alexander has directed four multi-award winning...

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