Thursday, 22 October 2026¶

Laya desked today's feeds. Each item links to the original source.

AI¶

The new economics of enterprise AI ¶

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “c…

Source: mit-tech-review-ai

Quoting Armin Ronacher ¶

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms

Source: simon-willison

Development¶

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation ¶

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-found…

Source: simon-willison

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift ¶

Ramp spent months testing managed agent APIs, open-source frameworks, and third-party platforms before concluding it would be better off building The post Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift appeared first on The New…

Source: the-new-stack

Vercel Labs Open-Sources fx: A Zig Coding Agent Designed to Be Embedded ¶

Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim and a name conflict with an existing tool. Vercel…

Source: infoq

Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine ¶

With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance capabilities that enable companies to manage agents in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The article Google's Agent Compute…

Source: the-decoder

Presentation: Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI ¶

Manju Rajashekhar explains how the actor model solves the complex runtime challenges of production AI agents. By treating agents as distributed systems, he discusses state ownership, message passing, write-through state, and supervision boundaries to manage failures, continuatio…

Source: infoq

Security¶

Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds ¶

Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their operating costs. Yet 75 percent of CEOs plan to keep raising their technology bu…

Source: the-decoder

Managing AI Token Consumption for Operational Resilience ¶

CISA, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), and partners are releasing joint guidance, Managing AI Token Consumption for Operational Resilience , to help organizations understand and manage token usage in support of operations. As organizations adopt third-party…

Source: cisa

CVE-2026-96656: Plex Media Server External Control of File Name or Path Vulnerability ¶

Plex Media Server. Plex Media Server contains an external control of file name or path vulnerability which can allow an admin user to write arbitrary files that may be executed on load. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-96652, CVE-2026-96654, and CVE-2026-96655.

Source: cisa-kev

Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching ¶

CISA strongly urges organizations to immediately patch the recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 . These vulnerabilities, known as “php2shell,” allow for unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP and affect all PHP installatio…

Source: cisa

xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise ¶

Much has been written about xAI’s Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days. With roughly 200,000 H100/H200s and ~30,000 GB200 NVL72, it remains, today, the largest fully operational, single-cohe…

Source: semianalysis