Demis Hassabis and the Race to Build AI with Sebastian Mallaby
Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010, before machines could reliably tell a cat from a dog. He believed that artificial general intellige...
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20 of 154 episodesAI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know
The rapid rise of AI has set off a flurry of legal and regulatory activity. There is no single AI law to follow. Instead, there are overlapp...
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Over the past couple of years, companies raced to get their employees using AI, often encouraging them to lean on it as much as possible. Ho...
Blitzy and Autonomous Software Development for Enterprise
Codebases in enterprise organizations often span hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of lines of code. In many cases, changes must foll...
Physical AI at NVIDIA
In recent years, the main impact of AI has been on the digital world, and most notably software engineering. However, its longer-term effect...
Software Verification in the Age of Coding Agents
Software testing is widely understood as essential to building reliable systems, and it’s one of the hardest things to get right. A fu...
SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shapi...
Steve Jobs in Exile
The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to...
Security in the Age of Instant Exploits
In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment...
The State of Browser Testing
Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Fir...
Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation....
Chroma and Agentic Retrieval
Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving. Vector search was an early an...
Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres
Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and appli...
Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel
Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time. However, that model breaks...
Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era
Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending tha...
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have...
SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shapi...
Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context
Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s ow...
The Death of Online Anonymity
Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age e...
TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
TypeScript is a programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding a system of types. Those types let developers describe the shape of...