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Engineering notes, case studies, and lessons from the field.
Baseten Raises $1.5B Series F at $13B Valuation as AI Inference Becomes the Hottest Infrastructure Layer
AI inference platform Baseten closed a $1.5 billion Series F round led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, valuing the company at $13 billion. The San Francisco startup now processes over 1 billion inference calls daily across 87 clusters worldwide.
FortiBleed: 75,000 FortiGate Firewalls Compromised Worldwide — CISA Demands Immediate Action
A large-scale credential-harvesting campaign dubbed FortiBleed has silently compromised tens of thousands of FortiGate firewalls globally. CISA issued an emergency advisory urging all Fortinet customers to rotate credentials immediately.
U.S. Government Bans Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Globally — Ten Days In, No Fix in Sight
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals on June 12, forcing the company to pull both models offline worldwide. Today marks the original pricing transition date — and the models are still dark.
SpaceX Buys AI Coding Giant Cursor for $60 Billion, Days After Its Historic IPO
SpaceX announced on June 16 it would acquire Anysphere — the company behind Cursor — for $60 billion in stock, one of the largest software acquisitions ever. The deal merges the world's most-used AI code editor with Elon Musk's post-IPO rocket company and its xAI coding ambitions.
Qualcomm Eyes $10 Billion Tenstorrent Buy to Challenge Nvidia With RISC-V AI Chips
Qualcomm is in advanced negotiations to acquire Tenstorrent, Jim Keller's RISC-V AI chip startup, for between $8 and $10 billion. The deal would give Qualcomm its most credible shot yet at the AI data center market Nvidia currently dominates.
Agentjacking: A Fake Sentry Error Report Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent
Security researchers at Tenet Security disclosed a new attack class that exploits AI coding agents via manipulated Sentry error-tracking reports, achieving an 85% success rate. At least 2,388 organizations are currently exposed.
Estonia Will Give AI Agents Their Own Government ID Numbers — A World First
Estonia approved a proposal to issue government-backed digital IDs to AI agents, linking each autonomous system to an accountable human operator. The country would become the first in the world to implement national identification for AI agents, six weeks ahead of the EU AI Act's August 2026 effective date.
AWS Launches Graviton5, Blackwell GPUs, and Bedrock AgentCore at New York Summit
AWS launched Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g instances, EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore going GA at its New York Summit on June 17-18. The announcements cement AWS as the default infrastructure layer for production AI agent deployments.
GLM-5.2: Open-Weight Model Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding at One-Sixth the Cost
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B open-weight model under MIT license that outscores GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at roughly one-sixth the API cost. The launch is the most significant open-weight coding model release of 2026, with no commercial restrictions.
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