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Mistral Forge Is Built for AI Agents, Not Just Enterprise Customization

Mistral's new Forge platform lets enterprises train AI models from scratch on proprietary data. But the deeper ambition isn't customization - it's making domain-trained models the reliable foundation for enterprise AI agents.

Cerebras Brings Wafer-Scale Inference to AWS, Targeting the Agent Throughput Bottleneck

Cerebras and AWS are deploying CS-3 wafer-scale systems inside Amazon data centers, pairing them with Trainium in a disaggregated inference architecture available through Amazon Bedrock. The setup targets the memory-bandwidth bottleneck that limits GPU-based decode, promising thousands of output tokens per second for agentic workloads.

What 80,000 People Actually Want From AI

Last December, Anthropic asked 80,508 Claude users across 159 countries what they actually want from AI. The findings are both clarifying and unsettling - and reveal a design brief most AI labs aren't executing against.

What Is an AI Agent, Really? The Architecture Behind the Buzzword

A Prompt Injection in a GitHub README Let an Attacker Own Your Snowflake Database

A prompt injection hidden in a GitHub README was enough to compromise Snowflake's Cortex coding agent, bypass its human-approval system, escape its sandbox, and wipe a victim's entire Snowflake database. The attack, now patched, exposes structural vulnerabilities common to agentic AI systems far beyond Snowflake.

Transformers Explained: How the AI Architecture Behind ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Works