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Edge Case launches Guardian, an AI platform for tracking risk across autonomous systems
Edge Case launched Guardian, an AI platform creating a Digital Safety Twin to continuously track risk across autonomous and defense systems.
Edge Case launched Guardian, an AI-driven platform that fuses safety analysis, engineering data, and operational signals into a continuous Digital Safety Twin. It targets advanced autonomous platforms in commercial and defense markets, with six customer agreements signed at launch. The platform tracks hazards, mitigations, and source-linked evidence across the development lifecycle, shifting safety from one-time review to continuous capability.
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Arista Networks announces next generation 7130 Series systems designed for demanding in-network apps
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16 governance tools for securing your AI fleet
CSO Online reviews 16 AI governance and security tools, including Collibra, Credo AI, F5/CalypsoAI, Fiddler AI, and Guardrails AI, for managing LLM risks.
CSO Online surveys 16 vendors in the emerging AI governance and guardrails market for keeping production LLMs in check. Featured products include Collibra's AI Command Center, Confident Security's OpenPCC, Credo AI's Govern AI Assistant, F5's acquired CalypsoAI, Fiddler AI's control plane, and Guardrails AI's Snowglobe simulator. The tools address hallucination tracking, PII leakage, prompt injection and jailbreak defense, and compliance with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, SOC2, ISO-42001, and GDPR.
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Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
A Hacker News thread debates whether agent skill files are worth managing, citing 2–4x output-token reductions on flagship models in one company's testing.
Commenters argue skills are stored prompts that help less-technical users compensate for weak prompting, while one participant reports company testing found skills reduce flagship-model output tokens by roughly 2–4x, a gap growing with newer models. Others note skills can bundle reusable scripts and inline commands for deterministic context building, and that harnesses now execute backticked commands before the agent sees the skill. Some argue improving model capability makes downloadable skills redundant.
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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
OpenAI's Habitat online storage platform now handles over 70 million requests per second and 500 PB of data for 1 billion users.
OpenAI details the evolution of Habitat, its online storage platform backing ChatGPT and other products, which began in mid-2024 as a Python client-side library over Azure Cosmos DB. Habitat now processes more than 70 million requests per second, serves over 500 petabytes of data across nearly 40 geographic regions, and supports over 1 billion users weekly. By mid-2025 the client library approach became brittle, so OpenAI moved Habitat into a standalone service to centralize deployments, observability, and multi-tenancy reliability. This is part one of a two-part series; a future post will cover read optimization and scaling the Azure Cosmos DB partnership.
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MaxKernel: Agentic Kernel Generation for TPUs
Researchers open-source MaxKernel, a multi-agent LLM system that generates and optimizes TPU kernels matching expert hand-tuned baselines on JaxBench.
MaxKernel is a multi-agent system offering three paradigms for TPU kernel development: human-in-the-loop collaborative design, a fully autonomous metric/trace-driven optimization loop, and graph-based autonomous search for global exploration. All paradigms draw on a shared pool of specialized sub-agents for planning, implementation, self-debugging, testing, and hardware profiling. Evaluated on JaxBench's 50 diverse TPU kernel tasks and real-world workloads from open-source models, it consistently matches expert hand-tuned baselines. The system is open-sourced via the AI-Hypercomputer GitHub repository.
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HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents
HOL Guard is an open-source local guardrail that pauses AI coding agents before risky actions like secret access and prompt injection.
HOL Guard sits between AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and others) and the host machine, intercepting risky commands before execution with checks taking under 50 milliseconds and running fully offline. It offers four sensitivity modes — Gentle, Balanced (default), Strict, and Paranoid — and parses command structure, environment, sensitive-path access and network destinations to decide when to interrupt. The core runtime is free and open source on GitHub, with 552,000 downloads reported; the vendor says it has no telemetry on adoption because collection is off by default.
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