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Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce and all-to-all synchronize thousands of accelerators during training, and the slowest transfer sets the pace for the entire job. Even small amounts of network friction directly strand significant compute capacity. This week, Meta introduced MetaRoCE. It is described as a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet. The design breaks with standard RoCE on its central assumption. Standard RoCE expects the network to deliver every frame in order, leveraging PFC and discouraging the packet spraying that…

Guident launched autonomous shuttle service in Boca Raton, Fla., in November 2025. Source: Guident Robotaxi fleets are growing as self-driving vehicle companies start to roll out commercial services while still collecting data for further development and safety. For instance, Zoox Inc. this month began charging for rides in Las Vegas. The Foster City, Calif.-based Amazon subsidiary recently partnered with Uber as it expands to multiple cities. While Zoox has explained how it approaches safety for its autonomous vehicles (AVs), which have no steering wheels, there are no federal standards yet. Guident Corp. claimed that its GuideOn platform addresses the critical…

NSA says it has a plan in place to fix the issue. Michele Sandiford August 25, 2026 10:45 am < a min read   The National Security Agency doesn’t appear to be complying with federal laws that require the agency to outline whistleblower protections in its nondisclosure agreement. The NSA’s inspector general said the agency doesn’t have a central repository of its NDAs or an overarching policy. But for four of the five agreements the IG did find, whistleblower protection notifications were left out entirely. The agency said it has a plan in place to fix the issue.The National Guard…

Airbound has raised $37 million to scale its autonomous drone delivery network, backed by a new Andhra Pradesh deployment deal.The big question for aerial delivery pilots has always been whether the underlying aircraft economics can compete with a truck on cost and a plane on speed in the same shipment. Airbound’s pitch to investors and to the Andhra Pradesh government is that it can.Transport aircraft have changed little in basic architecture over time, according to Airbound. A purpose-built aircraft carrying a single passenger or around 100kg of cargo typically weighs about 400kg once fuel and payload are counted. Most of…

For the past few months, I’ve been building a small data pipeline entirely on my Windows machine. RSS ingestion running in WSL2, Postgres in Docker, Kestra orchestrating the whole thing, dbt transforming the data on top. Every piece worked. I had a working lineage graph, passing tests, a scheduled flow that fetched articles and saved them to a database.It all worked because it was all sitting in one place. My laptop.This article is about what happened when I tried to move it off my laptop and onto a real server, using nothing but the CLI. I expected the hard part…

The Migration Nobody Plans For — Until It’s Too Late Most enterprise security teams treat Network Access Control as infrastructure — stable, durable, unglamorous. Honestly, it’s the kind of system people forget about until something breaks. It runs quietly in the background, enforcing 802.1X on every switch port and RADIUS authentication on every wireless session. So, when a decision is made to replace it, the natural assumption is that it should be straightforward: swap the RADIUS server, migrate the policies, cut over. That assumption is wrong. And the consequences of getting it wrong — at scale — are significant: endpoints…

Prediction markets have become one of the fastest-growing fronts in US trading, and sports contracts are now at the center of a legal fight over regulatory control. On July 31, New York sued Kalshi in state court, seeking more than $36 billion in damages and an order barring the exchange from offering event contracts nationwide. On August 11, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission responded with emergency authority after Kalshi notified the agency of a market emergency, arguing federally regulated derivatives markets require national treatment. On August 12, the New York City Council opened an investigation into the marketing practices of…

right now goes into letting a model discover the structure of a document collection: read every file, pull out the entities, infer the relations, and a graph comes out that nobody had to design. On five thousand copies of the same contract, there is nothing left to discover. Ask the person who files those contracts what they look things up by. The answer takes about ten seconds: client, effective date, product, premium, renewal date, policy number. Nobody found those six by reading the documents. They were designed years ago by whoever drew up the form, and every file since has…

Posted on August 25, 2026 by Adriana Villela | OTel Community Manager & CNCF Ambassador) and Diana Todea | OTel Docs Approver & CNCF Ambassador CNCF projects highlighted in this post It’s no secret that developers are increasingly being asked to shift left. It seems there’s always something new to shift left on. And now developers are being asked to shift left on observability. This means that in addition to all the other things developers must do, they must also take the extra step of instrumenting their application code with OpenTelemetry, to help make it observable. This seems needless. It’s…

The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games opened yesterday at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the ‘Ice Ribbon.’ As another real-world validation of 5G Capital in robotics and embodied AI, China Unicom Beijing and Huawei have built an integrated digital foundation powered by a 5G-A GigaUplink network, supporting intelligent event operations, robot competition, and spectator experiences. The deployment also lays a connectivity foundation for humanoid robots to move beyond the arena and into everyday life. Across Beijing, 5G Capital’s region-wide GigaUplink network is providing ubiquitous, secure, and reliable connectivity for a growing range of cultural tourism, embodied AI,…