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Sean Michael Kerner

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 4h
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus www.networkworld.com/article/4228...
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OpenStack Hibiscus adds DNS security features and confidential computing to the open-source cloud platform
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing them...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 5h
Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI’s Power Swings? - www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power...
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Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI’s Power Swings?
Supercapacitors help data centers manage AI power spikes with ms response for peak shaving, voltage stabilization, and brief backup – complementing UPS.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 5h
The Role of Optical Frequency Comb Generators in AI Data Centers - www.datacenterknowledge.com/networking/t...
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How Comb Lasers Could Reshape AI Data Center Links
How optical frequency combs boost DWDM in AI data centers, reducing power and raising channel density for next-gen co-packaged optics.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IP Fabric builds a read-only digital twin of enterprise network infrastructure, and version 8.1 of the platform adds application infrastructure mapping and a redesigned cloud-native data model. www.networkworld.com/article/4226...
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IP Fabric 8.1 adds application-aware mapping and cloud-native data model
IP Fabric builds a read-only digital twin of enterprise network infrastructure, and version 8.1 of the platform adds application infrastructure mapping and a redesigned cloud-native data model.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform. www.networkworld.com/article/4225...
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Selector brings Git-based workflows and incident replay to network AI agents
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
10 years ago I first wrote about Confidential Computing - a way to have hardware attestation to verify integrity and privacy. NOw Cohere is bringing the concept to AI in a form of confidential inference that is badly needed ... venturebeat.com/data/coheres...
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Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data
Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
venturebeat.com/data/every-u... It's not a graph, it's not time-series, it's not JSON it's (apparently) a new type of agentic AI focused event series database - that's Keewano
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Event-series database keeps agent history | VentureBeat
KeewanoDB gives every user, device and agent its own table, so AI agents can read event history in sequence instead of rebuilding it at query time.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect. www.networkworld.com/article/4221...
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Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect
Cornelis takes aim at AI bottlenecks with programmable network fabric.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Networks have always been driven by the need for more speed and bandwidth, and in the AI era, that drive is accelerating the path to 1.6 terabit network connectivity. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4221...
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The race to 1.6T: Ethernet and coherent optics tackle AI’s bandwidth crunch
Work on 1.6 terabit network connectivity began in 2020 and became a formal IEEE study group in 2021, before AI was the industry's dominant discussion point. That work became the IEEE P802.3dj Task For...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
venturebeat.com/data/openais... OpenAI's new Data agent for ChatGPT Work grew out of a problem the AI leader could not solve internally a year ago.
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OpenAI's new data agent skips a benchmark | VentureBeat
OpenAI's new Data agent for ChatGPT Work has no published benchmark, while rival Databricks released one the same week — a gap enterprise buyers should weigh.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
venturebeat.com/data/databri... Search agents are learning to decide for themselves how many times to look, and it's cutting response times in half
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Databricks-trained AI agents match Claude and GPT-5.6 Luna's answer quality — in half the time
Databricks' Adaptive Instructed-Retriever lets AI agents decide how many times to search per question, matching frontier model quality in half the time.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At VMware Explore 2026, Broadcom detailed what’s next for networking in VCF 9.1 as well as how both AI for networking and networking for AI will have an impact.   www.networkworld.com/article/4218...
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 adds transit gateway flexibility, segmentation, and native EVPN VXLAN support
At VMware Explore 2026, Broadcom detailed what’s next for networking in VCF 9.1 as well as how both AI for networking and networking for AI will have an impact. The updates focus on transit gateway fl...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... "The biggest problem I see is that organizations still confuse cybersecurity with cyber resilience...they spend enormous amounts of money trying to prevent an incident, but comparatively little effort proving they can operate and recover when prevention fails."
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Why cyber resilience fails: 5 obstacles holding orgs back | TechTarget
Security teams face multiple roadblocks to cyber resilience. Learn five obstacles to overcome to help prepare for and withstand a cyberattack.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tailscale got its start back in 2019 as a VPN provider based on the open-source WireGuard technology. As it turns out, enabling private connectivity in the AI era has a lot of practical utility. www.networkworld.com/article/4215...
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Tailscale expands from VPN into a full connectivity platform
Tailscale got its start back in 2019 as a VPN provider based on the open-source WireGuard technology. As it turns out, enabling private connectivity in the AI era has a lot of practical utility.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Document parsing isn't solved because the hard part isn't reading text, it's preserving structure and meaning," Nils Reimers, VP of AI Search at Cohere, told VentureBeat. venturebeat.com/data/cohere-...
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Cohere Parse 5 optimizes document parsing cost | VentureBeat
Cohere's Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter model, offers cost-effective document parsing at $1.50 per 1,000 pages, prioritizing structure over raw accuracy.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In the Kubernetes 1.37 release, codenamed Garhwal, new scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together.  www.networkworld.com/article/4214...
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Kubernetes 1.37 advances workload-aware scheduling and cluster networking
In the Kubernetes 1.37 release, codenamed Garhwal, new scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026
Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]
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Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Model routing is now table stakes for enterprise users - but not all approaches are the same. Snowflake is out today with dynamic model routing and it sits at the intersection of cost, governance and context. “Context, trust and model choice all go hand in hand." venturebeat.com/orchestratio...
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Snowflake adds AI model routing to cut costs | VentureBeat
Snowflake's new Cortex AI Gateway feature routes AI tasks to smaller models automatically, using the same access controls that already govern enterprise data.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
venturebeat.com/orchestratio... NVIDIA's open-source Nemotron 3.5 Lightning delivers 4x faster throughput while its Switchyard router cuts agent costs to a third
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Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pairs with its NeMo Switchyard router, which reassigns models mid-task and cuts task costs to a third in Nvidia's own tests.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Millions of people rely on a network of unpaid volunteers to stay anonymous online, & for 25 years that network has run on altruism rather than profit. Today, the Tor network's biggest threat is centralization, not surveillance, says cofounder Roger Dingledine. www.networkworld.com/article/4207...
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Tor still runs on altruism, but cheap hosting is pulling it off course
Millions of people rely on a network of unpaid volunteers to stay anonymous online, and for 25 years that network has run on altruism rather than profit. Today, the Tor network's biggest threat is cen...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Alongside the disclosure, runZero released OOBscan, an open-source tool that scans for vulnerable BMCs and other out-of-band management devices. www.networkworld.com/article/4207...
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Out of band, out of mind: DEF CON research calls IPMI a 'sanctioned backdoor' into enterprise networks
Alongside the disclosure, runZero released OOBscan, an open-source tool that scans for vulnerable BMCs and other out-of-band management devices.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
venturebeat.com/data/tencent... Context has been one of the defining AI data trends of 2026, with no shortage of technologies emerging to help provide more memory to agents.
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Tencent Team Memory: shared AI memory, no error fix | VentureBeat
Tencent's Team Memory gives AI agents shared access to chat history, code, and docs. Practitioners are asking how it handles a wrong or conflicting fact.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NatJack attack class exposes design flaw across decades of network infrastructure. #blackhat www.networkworld.com/article/4206...
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NatJack exploits put NAT security assumptions to the test at Black Hat
NatJack attack class exposes design flaw across decades of network infrastructure.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New specs from the LoRa Alliance are aimed at cutting manual work from low-power network onboarding and reducing coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations (including cows).  www.networkworld.com/article/4205...
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Moo! LoRaWAN makes it easier to connect more things to the low power networking protocol—even cattle
New specs from the LoRa Alliance are aimed at cutting manual work from low-power network onboarding and reducing coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's.Always.DNS. but sometimes the DNS attacks are a bit ..weirder than I expect. have you ever heard of 'dangling CNAME' attack? (i honestly hadn't but apparently it's a thing...). Oh and reverse DNS attacks using the .arp domain? Seriously? www.networkworld.com/article/4203...
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From dangling DNS records to reverse DNS gaps, attackers find new blind spots
Among 120 million newly registered domains, more than 22% were weaponized or showed threat characteristics, according to Infoblox's 2026 Threat Landscape Report.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Defenders need more bandwidth to keep up with AI-coordinated botnets, and Netscout is boosting its Arbor Cloud DDoS mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps. www.networkworld.com/article/4202...
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Netscout doubles DDoS defense capacity to counter AI-driven botnets
Defenders need more bandwidth to keep up with AI-coordinated botnets, and Netscout is boosting its Arbor Cloud DDoS mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The open-source Malloy semantic modeling language gets some 'Credible' backing to build out AI context. "It's the same pain point people have had for 30 years, the lack of governed data analysis," Kyle Nesbit told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. venturebeat.com/data/57-of-e...
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Credible bets open source on AI context layer | VentureBeat
A VB Pulse survey of 101 enterprises found most AI agent errors trace to missing context. Credible raised $10M to build a portable, open-source alternative.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's.always.DNS oh and that mismatch btwn internal/external DNS is a challenge that feels like it has always been a problem...but it might not be for much longer.... www.networkworld.com/article/4201...
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Cloudflare Internal DNS puts public and private DNS on one policy engine
'Many organizations already use Cloudflare for their public DNS. Internal DNS extends that same platform to private DNS, so public and private are managed from the same global network and control plan...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
IPv4 address exhaustion is a key driver of the 1.58 release of NetworkManager, the open-source Linux network configuration tool suite. www.networkworld.com/article/4200...
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NetworkManager update advances IPv6-only support, Wi‑Fi management, and security for Linux-based operating systems
IPv4 address exhaustion is a key driver of the 1.58 release of NetworkManager, the open-source Linux network configuration tool suite.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"What we're seeing now with customers is they're chasing availability of compute, and once they get new allocation from anyone, they want to be able to grab it and start running right away," Weka co-founder and CEO Liran Zvibel, told me. venturebeat.com/data/stop-ad...
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Weka's new storage platform caches 100% of a model's pre-calculated tokens, so it never has to redo the work
As context windows and multi-turn interactions grow, so does the GPU compute wasted recalculating work a model has already done. Augmented Memory Grid, a NeuralMesh 6 feature built specifically for this, is Weka's answer.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
venturebeat.com/data/a-singl... Human in the loop or LLM as Judge?
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AI agent evaluation misses broken products | VentureBeat
LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave leaders say scoring AI agent conversations one at a time hides broken products — and explain the shift to cohort analysis.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
venturebeat.com/data/at-vb-t... At VentureBeat Transform 2026, Zillow and Glean described how they built AI architecture meant to carry context across that entire journey — and why context, not raw data, turned out to be the harder problem to solve.
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Why Zillow's AI ROI numbers actually hold up | VentureBeat
Zillow's SVP of Engineering says its AI ROI claims are credible only because of a DORA metrics baseline built years before the company's AI rollout began.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
venturebeat.com/orchestratio... This session from VentureBeat Transform was next level insights. Sometimes you learn more from what fails...and the value of real customer feedback. "They straight up tell you, 'You suck. I hate this. This is not right,'" Nhung Ho said.
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Inside Intuit's AI agent orchestration rebuild | VentureBeat
Intuit's AI VP explains why natural-language handoffs broke its agent orchestration layer, and why rebuilding twice in four months was the fast path.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This was a particularly insightful session from VentureBeat Transform with panelists from LinkedIn, Zendesk and Walmart. "Build for independence, whether it's a frontier model of today versus an open source model of tomorrow" venturebeat.com/data/agents-...
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AI agent infrastructure: 3 enterprise fixes | VentureBeat
LinkedIn rebuilt Kubernetes for agent speed, Walmart tackled duplicate agents, Zendesk its data pipelines: three fixes for enterprise AI agent infrastructure.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"What happens to the infrastructure we've spent years building when agents and not humans become the main consumers of that," Barak Y. said. "That's the world we're stepping into." venturebeat.com/data/we-have...
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Meta: infrastructure isn't ready for AI agents | VentureBeat
Meta infrastructure VP Barak Yagour says agentic queries grew 30x in six months, and enterprises have roughly 20 months to rebuild for AI agents.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
FLOPS vs Megawatts: Who’s Winning in 2026 Supercomputing? - www.datacenterknowledge.com/supercompute...
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FLOPS vs Megawatts: Who’s Winning in 2026 Supercomputing?
TOP500 crowns LineShine while hyperscalers stand up multi-GW AI campuses. Why FLOPS and megawatts measure different victories in 2026.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Infoblox acquires Kentik to pair DNS authority with real-time traffic visibility. www.networkworld.com/article/4194...
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Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform
Infoblox acquires Kentik to pair DNS authority with real-time traffic visibility.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've been writing about Couchbase since its first release (when Membase and CouchOne merged in 2011 ) 15 years later..the same basic idea, a distributed memory caching capability (that was membase) is more relevant than ever for agentic AI memory. venturebeat.com/data/ai-agen...
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Couchbase brings persistent agent memory to the edge | VentureBeat
Couchbase AI Data Plane combines persistent agent memory, vector search and an enterprise MCP server that runs on-device when cloud connectivity drops.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More open source AI innovation from Alibaba Group - new research on a different type of world model built not to act in agent environments but to predict what those environments do next. venturebeat.com/technology/a...
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Qwen-AgentWorld predicts environment states | VentureBeat
Real environments can't inject edge cases on demand. Alibaba's Qwen-AgentWorld simulates them — and outperformed real-environment RL across seven benchmarks.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Upscale AI raised $190M in new funding to support AI networking scale up and scale out architecture. Skyhammer is its switch silicon designed to connect GPUs and XPUs at very high speed.  www.networkworld.com/article/4188...
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Upscale AI readies Skyhammer scale-up networking tech, raises new funding
Upscale AI raised $190M in new funding to support AI networking scale up and scale out architecture. Skyhammer is its switch silicon designed to connect GPUs and XPUs at very high speed.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NetBox Labs designed its newly launched platform to span the full infrastructure lifecycle, from initial procurement through decommission. www.networkworld.com/article/4184...
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NetBox at 10: Network inventory tool now a full infrastructure intelligence platform
NetBox Labs designed its newly launched platform to span the full infrastructure lifecycle, from initial procurement through decommission.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
F5 adds AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) to guard networks against pre-exploit attacks. www.networkworld.com/article/4183...
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AI-powered WAF, virtual patching: How F5 is hardening networks against frontier threats
F5 adds AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) to guard networks against pre-exploit attacks.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Research from Infoblox finds the traffic routing technology is widespread across corporate, government, and financial networks, and defenders often cannot see it. www.networkworld.com/article/4183...
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Residential proxies are hiding in plain sight inside enterprise networks
Research from Infoblox finds the traffic routing technology is widespread across corporate, government, and financial networks, and defenders often cannot see it.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
venturebeat.com/technology/c... Cohere open-sourced a coding agent that claims to beat open-source models 4x its size — and runs on one GPU
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Cohere North Mini Code open-source coding agent
Cohere's North Mini Code ranks 8th of 127 open-weight models on output speed — but generates 3x the output tokens of comparable models in independent testing.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
venturebeat.com/technology/g... Google's open source DiffusionGemma generates text 4x faster by scrapping token-by-token generation — but there are trade-offs
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Google's DiffusionGemma runs text 4x faster
Google's open-source diffusion language model generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects, hitting 4x speed on one GPU at a cost to quality.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Particle entanglement, superposition & teleportation are super interesting to me. Einstein famously dismissed such phenomena as 'spooky action at a distance' Connecting those 'spooky actions at a distance' is what quantum networking does and it's almost here www.networkworld.com/article/4180...
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Cisco sees quantum networking as the future of networking
'Quantum networking has many practical and commercial use cases in the classical world today,' said Ramana Kompella, head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, in a session at Cisco Live 2026.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
venturebeat.com/data/ai-agen... Enterprise AI agents have a new production failure mode, and it is not the model. As enterprises move from single-layer RAG to hybrid retrieval architectures, the same underlying data produces different answers depending on which agent asks the question.
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Why AI agents give confident wrong answers
Snowflake's Horizon Context and Cortex Sense give agents a shared definition of business logic, targeting hybrid retrieval failures at the catalog layer.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As Cisco Live kicks off in Las Vegas, Tom Gillis shares how AI has changed networking, including inside Cisco, where AI coding tools have accelerated software development across its entire portfolio. www.networkworld.com/article/4179...
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Cisco Live: The network is back, and AI rewrote the rules
As Cisco Live kicks off in Las Vegas, Tom Gillis shares how AI has changed networking, including inside Cisco, where AI coding tools have accelerated software development across its entire portfolio. ...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Cisco aims to become the infrastructure layer for the agentic enterprise. It launched a flurry of new products and features at its Cisco Live event taking place this week in Las Vegas. www.networkworld.com/article/4179...
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Cisco brings agentic ops platform and security overhaul to Cisco Live
Cisco aims to become the infrastructure layer for the agentic enterprise. It launched a flurry of new products and features at its Cisco Live event taking place this week in Las Vegas.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I can honestly say this is the first 'concrete' article i've ever written. www.datacenterknowledge.com/green-materi...
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Can Data Centers Ditch Concrete – or Just Use Less of It?
Data center foundations and high-density cores still rely on concrete, while low-carbon mixes, mass timber, and retrofits move the needle at the edges.
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