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Understanding the Foundation: How LLMs Process Your Input
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1045+ words) First of four parts Before we can understand how attackers exploit large language models, we need to understand how these models work. This first article in our four-part series on prompt injections establishes the foundation: what happens between typing your…...
SD Times News Digest: SmartBear BearQ, Chainguard Agent Skills -- March 18, 2026
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (148+ words) SmartBear today announced the release of BearQ, an agentic QA system that can discover how applications work to ensure their integrity. According to the company, BearQ, "a part of SmartBear's Application Integrity Core product suite, can autonomously explore how applications…...
AI lacks theory of mind – why that matters
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (439+ words) A lot of interest has been garnered by large language models (LLMs) and their abilities, but there's one ability that remains solely human." We don't share it with mammals or machines." That ability is called "theory of mind," and it's…...
This week in AI updates: Anthropic makes Skills an open standard, GPT-5.2-Codex released, and more (December 19, 2025)
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (644+ words) Skills'a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows'was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. "Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms'the same skill should work…...
Overcoming the Twin Traps of AI
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (608+ words) For all the capabilities enabled by advances in generative AI technology in the past few years, problems in the underlying architecture are holding it back in multiple ways. Counterintuitive AI is a company attempting to reinvent the AI reasoning stack…...
Cloudflare announces acquisition of AI platform Replicate
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (219+ words) Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste " of ... Cloudflare announces acquisition of AI platform Replicate Cloudflare today announced its…...
AWS announces enhanced event processing in Lambda
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (269+ words) AWS has announced that Lambda is getting a new capability that will help improve the throughput of event-driven applications. Provisioned mode for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Event Source Mapping (ESM) allows users to configure dedicated polling resources, allowing…...
Report: Only 6% of leaders believe their data infrastructure can successfully support AI
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (232+ words) Despite companies wanting to implement AI and reap the benefits of it, a majority don't have the underlying foundations in place to make it work well. According to CData's latest report, The State of AI Data Connectivity: 2026 Outlook, there is…...
The story behind Lightning Chart – and its upcoming Dashtera analytics and dashboard solution
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (259+ words) The drive for innovation behind Lightning Chart " and its upcoming data analytics and dashboard solution, Dashtera " is rooted in the history of the company's founder, Pasi Tuomainen. Though his family had an established electrical company in Finland " Pasi's passion was…...
Breaking down data silos: The power of Microsoft Fabric and Progress DataDirect
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (443+ words) Organizations are dealing with unprecedented amounts of data, and while this data has the potential to help drive more informed business decisions and facilitate AI projects, data silos can arise and prevent companies from realizing the true potential of their…...