How Uber Builds Fault-Tolerant OpenSearch Clusters Across Zones
Uber shares its recipe for keeping OpenSearch running when an AZ goes down. No magic AI - just topology, shard placement, and regular drilling.
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Kioxia -16%, SoftBank in retreat: the Asian AI complex prices a deleveraging
Deleveraging AI in Asia: Kioxia drops 16%, SoftBank slides. The repricing of AI risk begins to show in the prices.
16 h ago 9 10
« Loop engineering »: new discipline or cron job rebranding?
The term is on the rise, the Pragmatic Engineer investigation concludes to a mix of triggers, cron jobs, and LLM slop. A real underlying question remains: who possesses the robustness of an observe-decide-act loop powered by LLM?
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 9 7
Three loops in a trench coat: the real anatomy of an agent
An agent isn't magic. It's an inference loop, a tool loop, and a human in the way. The profession is shifting: you no longer write the prompt, you write the loop.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 9 8
Zhipu AI officially pivots to AGI - the "Touch High" plan
The founder of Zhipu AI announces a refocusing on AGI research. Strong signal from China: after the product race, the foundation race.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 7 8
ASML continues to rise: AI compute absorbs lithography, High-NA enters commercial production
Second 2026 ASML Uplift Driven by AI Demand, Intel Panther Lake Enters HVM: The Compute Bottleneck Shifts from Packaging to Lithography
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 11 8
GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work: OpenAI drops a workhorse, Anthropic answers with a reset
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6, folds Codex into ChatGPT Work for apps and files, and cuts the top-tier price in half. Anthropic responds the same day by wiping Claude's usage limits. The frontier war is now billed by the meter.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 8 9