How AI is powering the next wave of micro-SaaS entrepreneurs

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how software businesses are built, launched, and scaled. In particular, it is driving a surge in micro-SaaS startups, small, highly focused software-as-a-service c [...]

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path.To overcome this brute- [...]

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models t [...]

AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the speed at which candidate pools can be [...]

PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x

Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retriev [...]

Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level

Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., identifies the architectural failures behind the most common cloud secu [...]

The DIY era of smartwatches has begun - Google and Apple already have me hooked

Google's Create My Widget and Apple's new Shortcuts feature prove we're in a DIY era of automation. [...]

AWS says AI agents can work on their own. It’s also building tools to keep them in line

The company’s latest agentic AI tools promise faster enterprise automation, but the more revealing story is the infrastructure AWS is building to monitor and contain them. [...]

Adobe embeds agentic AI workflows across Creative Cloud, shifting from media generation to production orchestration

Adobe has announced a major expansion of its "creative agent" across its flagship Creative Cloud suite and upgraded Firefly AI studio. Available in public beta starting today across Premiere [...]