Two new Jina reranker models deliver low-latency, production-ready relevance for hybrid search and RAG workloads Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today made two Jina Rerankers available on Elastic Inference Service (EIS), a GPU-accelerated inference-as-a-service that makes it easy to run fast, high-quality inference without complex setup or hosting. These rerankers bring low-latency, high-precision

Three robotic products, FF Futurist, FF Master, and FX Aegis, start sales and pre-order collection on the same day, with the first batch of deliveries planned for the end of February. The Mobile Manipulator Robot Series is planned to be launched later in February. Pricing of the three robots was also announced with the FF

For a time, it seemed to be the type of transaction that writes the headlines. Nvidia, whose chips have powered a lot of the AI boom, reportedly lining up an eye-popping $100 billion investment into OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company. Big money, big ambition, big future. And then – seemingly out of nowhere –  the deal was just …

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, began at 19:46 UTC on Monday and was resolved by 06:05 UTC on Tuesday. The incident initially left customers unable to deploy or scale virtual machines in

GitHub helped open the floodgates to AI-written code with its Copilot. Now it’s considering closing the door, at least in part, for the short term. GitHub is exploring what already seems like a controversial idea that would allow maintainers of repositories or projects to delete pull requests (PRs) or turn off the ability to receive pull

Apple is previewing Xcode 26.3 with integrated support for coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. Announced February 3, Xcode 26.3, the Apple-platforms-centered IDE, is available as a release candidate for members of the Apple Developer Program, with a release coming soon to the App Store. This latest version expands on intelligence

Multicloud is having a crisis. Gartner predicts that over 50% of multicloud or cross-cloud efforts won’t deliver on expected benefits by 2029, with poor interoperability and fragmentation serving as key culprits. While these numbers don’t speak to cloud migration directly, from my own experience as an IT leader, plus from my field research in developing

DeDeno Land, maker of the Deno runtime, has introduced Deno Sandbox, a secure environment built for code generated by AI agents. The company also announced the long-awaited general availability of Deno Deploy, a serverless platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Both were announced on February 3. Now in beta, Deno Sandbox offers lightweight Linux

Context engineering is the practice of designing systems that determine what information an AI model sees before it generates a response to user input. It goes beyond formatting prompts or crafting instructions, instead shaping the entire environment the model operates in: grounding data, schemas, tools, constraints, policies, and the mechanisms that decide which pieces of

NPM, the Node Package Manager, hosts millions of packages and serves billions of downloads annually. It has served well over the years but has its shortcomings, including with TypeScript build complexity and package provenance. Recently, NPM’s provenance issues have resulted in prominent security breaches, leading more developers to seek alternatives. The JavaScript Registry (JSR), brought