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Scaling with AI Agents: a Step-by-Step Playbook for Small Firms
Playbook for SMBs: reversible tasks first, human approval gates, clean knowledge base, seat vs outcome pricing. Case studies are vendor claims.
GitHub Ships Agentic Autofix and AI Scan for PRs to General Availability
GitHub made agentic autofix for CodeQL alerts and AI Scan for PRs generally available. AI Scan is advisory and cannot block merges.
Proofpoint Agrees to Buy Varonis for About $6.3 Billion in Cash
Proofpoint agreed an all-cash deal to buy Varonis for about $6.3bn. Not closed yet; “largest data and AI cybersecurity” is the companies’ framing.
UK Rejects York and North Yorkshire’s AI Growth Zone Bid Built Around a 1.2GW Data Centre at Drax
The UK turned down York and North Yorkshire's AI Growth Zone bid for a 1.2GW data centre at Drax. Drax says it will still seek planning for 100MW.
IBM Releases Granite Switch 4.1 With Decision Adapters and Fast Speech Recognition
IBM’s Granite Switch 4.1 packs Decision and Guardian aLoRAs plus Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC in one endpoint. Leaderboard and speed figures are IBM’s claims.
Anthropic Takes Claude Opus 5.5 Fast Mode Out of Research Preview
Anthropic took Claude Opus 5.5 fast mode out of research preview. Same weights; up to 2.5× output speed at $8/$40 per MTok. This is not a new model.
Cline v4.1.25 Adds Cloud Sessions That Keep Running After You Close the Editor
Cline v4.1.25 adds Cloud sessions: hosted GitHub sandbox tasks that keep running after you close the editor. Gradual rollout; defaults to Gemini 4 Argon.
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, Its Sandbox Platform for Agentic Code Execution
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, its Firecracker-based agent sandbox (Apache 2.0). Escape-test results are the company’s own claims.
Meta Drops ‘Train’ Line From Its Terms as Publishers Press EU and UK Regulators
Meta removed the 'train' line from its new Commercial Terms. European publishers now want Brussels and the UK's CMA to stop the terms before 30 Oct.
China Proposes Adding 40 AI, Biomedicine and Solar Technologies to Its Export-Control Catalogue
China's commerce and science ministries propose adding 40 AI, biomedicine and solar technologies to the export-control catalogue, with registration now.
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