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Databricks CEO: Stop Scaring People About AI

a16z · Sep 18, 2026

Leaders should not unnecessarily scare the public about AI risks.

“leaders have responsibility to not freak people out unnecessarily unless there's really good reason.”
Note on 18th September 2026

Simon Willison · Sep 18, 2026

Refusing to find LLMs interesting is like a geneticist ignoring a real Jurassic Park.

“Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park.”
Quoting Thariq Shihipar

Simon Willison · Sep 18, 2026

Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md, falling back to it when no CLAUDE.md exists.

“Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md.”
Benchmarking LLM Inference at Scale with AIPerf

NVIDIA Developer Blog · Sep 18, 2026

NVIDIA introduces AIPerf, a tool for benchmarking LLM inference performance at scale.

“All of these paths have the same problem: single-process performance limits, Python's GIL capping concurrency”
Ethan Mollick on Staying Human at Work | Dreamforce 2026

Salesforce · Sep 18, 2026

AI agents can now autonomously perform sophisticated tasks over longer periods, changing the nature of work and delegation.

“All of a sudden we have AI agents that are capable of doing really sophisticated tasks over longer and longer periods of time.”
Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 18, 2026

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, is now available on Amazon Bedrock.

“Kimi K3 is its most capable model and the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters.”
The Agentforce Keynote in 2 Minutes #DF26

Salesforce · Sep 18, 2026

Salesforce touts Agentforce ROI playbook and launches Agent Optimizer with now-free, unmetered observability.

“But my favorite part of observability is that it's now unmetered. That means it's free, y'all.”
Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 18, 2026

AWS shows how to migrate multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore managed runtime.

“AgentCore runtime, its managed deployment capability, handles container lifecycle, scaling, identity, and observability, so you can focus on your agent code.”
Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 18, 2026

Hugging Face open-sourced six agent skills that let coding agents deploy production-ready models on SageMaker AI.

“In practice, an unguided coding agent might make wrong decisions, producing endpoints that are fragile, costly, or quietly wrong.”