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Meta Plans to Monetize Excess AI Compute Power with Cloud Infrastructure Business
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to its excess AI compute power and models, following a trend set by SpaceX. The move aims to generate revenue from its massive AI infrastructure investments and compete with major cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Microsoft Build 2026: AI Agent Scout Takes the Spotlight as SQL Server Fades Into the Background
Microsoft's Build event showcased AI agent Scout as the headline act, while its flagship database SQL Server received barely a mention — a signal of strategic shift that has analysts worried about the product's future under Azure Data president Arun Ulag.
Oracle Opens MySQL to Community Governance — But the Veto Power Stays Put
After months of pressure from the OurSQL Foundation lobby group, Oracle has unveiled a new technical steering committee and committer program for MySQL — but Percona's co-founder warns the commitments are advisory, not binding.
Google’s New OKF and ARD Specs: What They Actually Do, and Why Your SEO Stack Shouldn’t Panic
Breaking down Google’s Open Knowledge Format and Agentic Resource Discovery specs — what they really solve, how they stack against MCP and LLMs.txt, and what you should actually do (hint: don’t rewrite your site in markdown).
Krisp Unveils Unified Voice AI Platform with Full Call-Center Governance and Real-Time Fraud Protection
Krisp launches expanded voice AI capabilities for contact centers, combining speech analytics, real-time agent assistance, and voice security to enforce compliance across 100% of voice interactions while detecting synthetic caller fraud live.
Beyond Blocking: Strategically Evaluating AI Crawler Impact and Value
A framework for identifying AI crawler traffic in logs, quantifying its value through citations and referral traffic, and determining whether to allow or block AI bot access to your content.
Beyond the Memory Limit: Transforming LLM Efficiency with Context Compression
Exploring recent technological breakthroughs that enable LLMs to manage long-running agentic tasks by compressing context without accuracy degradation.
Oracle's AI Infrastructure Rush: $70 Billion, $455 Billion Contracts, and a Leap into the Deep End
Oracle is spending $70 billion in reported capex (and an effective $455B in contracted obligations) to build AI datacenters, betting it can outpace rivals in infrastructure speed and scale. Here’s what that means for its balance sheet, margins, and who ends up paying the tab.
The Silent Ad Killer: How Inaccurate Conversion Data Sabotages Google Ads Performance
An exploration of why conversion data is more than a reporting tool, detailing its critical role in fueling Google Ads' machine learning bidding, targeting algorithms, and budget allocation.
The New Search Landscape: Why Paid and Organic Visibility Are Now One and the Same
With Google’s Gemini search now serving over a billion monthly users and AI agents handling everything from product discovery to checkout, the old “blue link” division between paid and organic has evaporated. Here’s how modern marketers should rethink visibility for an agentic era.
Don’t Flip the Auto-Pilot Switch Until Your Data Has Its Pilot’s License
Before you let autonomous SOC agents close tickets or quarantine assets, run this vendor-agnostic checklist. It covers EDR coverage gaps, telemetry freshness, business context gates, API latency, and a final readiness scorecard to prevent catastrophic automation errors.
Stop Building Agent-Only Websites: Mueller on Why Clean HTML Wins
John Mueller's response to SEO agentic web browsing and markdown layout trends clarifies why clean HTML is better than building special files for AI.