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Chain of News 19/03/2026

19/03/2026
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Cloudflare Blog

Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is now on Workers AI, helping you power agents entirely on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform. Learn how we optimized our inference stack and reduced inference costs for internal agent use cases.

19/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

19/03/2026
GNews: Claude AI

OpenAI acquires Astral: is it enough to catch up with Anthropic's Claude - Invezz

OpenAI acquires Astral: is it enough to catch up with Anthropic's Claude Invezz

19/03/2026
GitHub Blog

Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era

As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically... without burning out. The post Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

19/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors

Meta believes these AI systems can detect more violations with greater accuracy, better prevent scams, respond more quickly to real-world events, and reduce over-enforcement.

19/03/2026
Simon Willison

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv , ruff , and ty - three increasingly load-bearing open source projects in the Python ecosystem. I have thoughts! The official line from OpenAI and Astral The Astral team will become part of the Codex team at OpenAI. Charlie Marsh has this to say : Open source is at the heart of that impact and the heart of that story; it sits at the center

19/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI

Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.

19/03/2026
GitHub Blog

How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository

An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative. The post How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

19/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open

Nominate your startup, or one you know, for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 before May 27. Chance to win $100,000 equity-free funding and VC access.

19/03/2026
Hugging Face Blog

**Introducing SPEED-Bench: A Unified and Diverse Benchmark for Speculative Decoding**

19/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Amazon brings Alexa+ to the UK

The company is currently letting users in the U.K. try out Alexa+ for free via an early access program.

19/03/2026
OpenAI Blog

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

19/03/2026
OpenAI Blog

OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

19/03/2026
Simon Willison

Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally

Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally Here's a fascinating piece of research by Dan Woods, who managed to get a custom version of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B running at 5.5+ tokens/second on a 48GB MacBook Pro M3 Max despite that model taking up 209GB (120GB quantized) on disk. Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, which means that each token only needs to run against a subset of the overall model weights. These expert weights can be streamed into memory from S

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