How distributed inference keeps large AI models moving
Distributed inference serving is an air traffic control tower for AI traffic, and agentic workflows make it more necessary than ever.
IBM Research Blog12 min read
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Qiskit beyond Python: Fortran, C++, and Julia
Qiskit’s C API connects the SDK’s Rust core to the languages of HPC and scientific computing, so you can build and run circuits natively—no Python required.
IBM Research Blog11 min read
Christa Pike's execution failed. Here's how lethal injection works
Lethal injections are under scrutiny after Christa Pike survived two rounds of drugs during Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her.Why it matters: Lethal injection has been the dominant U.S.
Axios AI+3 min read
Why are silicon wafers round?
It’s a result of metallurgy, but circular silicon wafers are also the best shape to ensure uniformity in the chip production process.
IBM Research Blog7 min read
OpenAI open-sourced the Codex harness: what you actually got
OpenAI just made the engine under Codex an Apache-2.0 platform — codex exec, the SDK, and the JSON-RPC app-server. The pitch is one number: harness changes alone took the same model from 13.3% to 38.3% on ARC-AGI-3 with 6x fewer tokens.
Backgrind Blog10 min read
Qwen3.8-Max open weights: 4.89 TB, 224 files, one license catch
Alibaba finally opened a Max-class Qwen — and the 2.4T checkpoint downloads at 4.89 TB, three times Kimi K3 for a smaller model, because Qwen shipped BF16 where Moonshot shipped pre-quantized 4-bit.
Backgrind Blog13 min read
Measuring whether a coding agent is actually helping
The three metrics every team reaches for first — lines written, acceptance rate, self-reported time saved — are the three that reward an agent producing more code than you needed.
Backgrind Blog20 min read
Which config file actually wins?
Your personal setting is being ignored, or the repo's is — and the reason is that the direction of precedence is not the same for every mechanism. settings.json lets the repo beat your laptop; skills let your laptop beat the repo; CLAUDE.md lets nothing beat anything; permission rules refuse to…
Backgrind Blog19 min read
What your security team will ask before a coding agent touches the repo
Seven questions a security review actually asks, answered from current documentation rather than a trust page — including the three where the honest answer is "nothing stops that".
Backgrind Blog25 min read
Skills vs plugins vs MCP vs subagents in Claude Code: how to choose
Six extension mechanisms, and only three of them are different kinds of thing. What each one is, where it lives, when the model reaches for it, and the honest edge cases where two genuinely overlap — plus the two changes that broke everyone's mental model: custom commands are now skills, and MCP…
Backgrind Blog18 min read
The security model of agent skills: what you are actually installing
A skill is not data — it is instructions that steer your agent inside your repository, with your credentials. One realistic attack chain traced end to end, why the permission system rather than the skill file is the trust boundary, why commit-pinning fails outright for most repos through the Skills…
Backgrind Blog15 min read
Kimi K3 open weights: the self-hosting reality check
Moonshot released Kimi K3's weights on July 27, 2026. What that actually gets you at 2.8 trillion parameters — the real download size, the hardware floor, the bespoke license, and how to choose between self-hosting, the official API, and an aggregator.
Backgrind Blog11 min read
What a meeting bot is, and why people are banning them
The extra guest called "Notetaker" is a real account with a real recording. What it does, why legal and IT teams block them, and how to get notes without one.
yapyap Blog3 min read
AI Agents in Finance: Use Cases, Tools, and How to Deploy Them in 2026
AI agents in finance automate fraud detection, reconciliation, and compliance; here's how to deploy one in 2026.
Pazi Blog12 min read
Multi-Agent AI Systems for Business: How to Run Complex Operations Across Multiple Agents
Multi-agent AI systems coordinate specialised agents across complex operations. Here is how to build one.
Pazi Blog13 min read
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