If you work in technology long enough, every new framework starts to sound like “yet another API layer.” The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is different. It’s not a product, and it’s not tied to any …

Cisco’s latest announcement at Partner Summit 2025 introduced Cisco Unified Edge, a converged compute platform designed to bring agentic and inferencing AI workloads closer to where data is actuall…

On July 14, Cloudflare’s popular public DNS service (known as 1.1.1.1) suffered an outage lasting over two hours. As rumors swirled about the cause, we were the first to push back on the theory that a...

AI can be a transformative tool in network operations — but only when it’s tied to clear, measurable outcomes. Rather than chasing hype, IT and NetOps teams should focus on solving specific operationa...

Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing o...

We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architect...

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I’ve been speaking with more folks again recently about AI initiatives in their IT organizations. Most recently it was a systems team that ran the on-prem server infrastructure, Azure environ…

AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model, according to a report Thursday from The Information.

A good friend of mine is an electrical engineer for a well-known passenger train company in the United States, and we recently talked about how his job, his entire career, has taken a turn from tra…

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built an “open” version of OpenAI’s deep research tool. Deep research, which OpenAI unveiled during an event Sunday,…

One practical use-case for using large language models in network operations is to help query large datasets of network telemetry faster and more easily by using natural language. This can improve …

Hey networking community! To get you through another week of cutovers, pcaps, and folks blaming the network when it’s yet another DNS issue, I made this song parody just for you :) It’s…