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DevOps in the Age of AI with GitHub & Azure

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 25, 2026

Microsoft demos agentic DevOps infusing AI across every stage of the DevOps lifecycle via GitHub and Azure.

“It's really how is DevOps evolving in every single stage of the DevOps life cycle evolving as we are infusing AI in each of them.”
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It

Y Combinator · Jun 25, 2026

AI and agents make consumer products buildable now even though consumer is not investible, says Zynga's Pincus.

“Even though consumer is arguably not investable right now, the opportunity has never been greater to offer people a new, you know, internet treasure, reinvent some service that we thought was over or just generic, but it's enabled now because of AI and agents.”
What is an agent harness?

LangChain · Jun 25, 2026

An agent harness is the surrounding engineering scaffolding built around the core model-and-tool-calling loop.

“Harness is sort of the surrounding support that we add onto that core model and tool-calling loop.”
NVIDIA & Coherent: Reindustrializing America, Manufacturing for the AI Era

Jensen Huang · NVIDIA GTC · Jun 25, 2026

NVIDIA's strategic investment in Coherent plus a $50M CHIPS award expands US AI infrastructure manufacturing in Sherman, Texas.

“But AI leadership will depend on more than just breakthrough computing. It will require infrastructure that connects, powers, and scales those systems.”
NVIDIA's Kimberly Powell at BIO International Convention

NVIDIA GTC · Jun 25, 2026

NVIDIA is partnering with Genentech to build AI models that simulate biology beyond human capability for better prediction.

“We've got to deploy the modern computing approaches in AI to take all of that data, just like we took the world's internet data, we shoved it into a model, and ChatGPT came out.”
[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer

Matei Zaharia · Latent Space Blog · Jun 25, 2026

Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia is betting on Omnigent, an open-source pluggable meta-harness architecture for coding and knowledge-work agents.

“some open source architecture that looks like this will probably win, if only because it is currently being independently rediscvoered at 1000 AI native shops”
How agents are transforming work

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Jun 25, 2026

OpenAI research paper claims AI agents are transforming work by enabling longer, more complex tasks across roles.

simonw/browser-compat-db

Simon Willison · Jun 24, 2026

Simon Willison used Claude Code (Opus 4.8) and Codex (GPT-5.5) to convert MDN's browser-compat-data into a CDN-hosted SQLite database.

“I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database.”
Solving AI development bottlenecks with Databricks App (with demo)

Databricks · Jun 24, 2026

Databricks Apps hit 150,000 apps built across 5,000 customers, 6x growth, positioning governed data access as the real AI bottleneck.

“we're no longer constrained by the cost of writing code. Um, coding agents have proliferated. Um, code is cheap. But the bottleneck is enterprise data.”
Against all odds. Congratulations Elon Musk and SpaceX.

Elon Musk · a16z · Jun 24, 2026

Elon Musk recounts founding SpaceX against long odds and refusing to quit after three Falcon rocket failures in 2008.

“I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor. But if something's important enough, then you do it even though the risk of failure is high.”
Inside Instacart's AI-Powered Smart Shopping Cart | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 302

NVIDIA GTC · Jun 24, 2026

Instacart envisions a unified in-store/online shopping mode powered by a continuously learning AI system within 5-10 years.

“in 5 to 10 years, customers shouldn't have to think about shopping in store or online. It will be one single unified mode powered by this continuously learning AI system”
Writing Safe Code with AI Security and Accessibility Checks

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 24, 2026

Microsoft engineers built reusable security, accessibility, and PR-review agents that validate AI-generated code before it ships.

“There may be moments where you feel like you're vibe coding it, but when you're doing it for a real product, you often have that lens of making sure that the code is secure and good performing.”