Prompt injection to RCE in AI agents

Prompt injection to RCE in AI agents

• Prompt injection to RCE in AI agents Modern AI agents increasingly execute system commands to automate filesystem operations, code analysis, and development workflows. • While so

Threat Intelligence · October 22, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 283 words
AI Interview Success: An Interviewer's Inside Guide

AI Interview Success: An Interviewer's Inside Guide

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Engineering Blogs · October 20, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 331 words
A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale

A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale

• LLM applications present a deceptively simple interface: a single text box. • But behind that minimalism runs a chain of probabilistic stages, including intent classification, do

Engineering Blogs · October 2, 2025 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 256 words
A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale

A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale

• LLM applications present a deceptively simple interface: a single text box. • But behind that minimalism runs a chain of probabilistic stages, including intent classification, do

Smarter AI Search, Powered by MongoDB Atlas and Pureinsights

Smarter AI Search, Powered by MongoDB Atlas and Pureinsights

• Smarter AI Search, Powered by MongoDB Atlas and Pureinsights We’re excited to announce that the integration ofMongoDB Atlaswith thePureinsightsDiscovery Platform is now generally

Build resilient generative AI agents

Build resilient generative AI agents

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CAISI Evaluation of DeepSeek AI Models Finds Shortcomings and Risks

CAISI Evaluation of DeepSeek AI Models Finds Shortcomings and Risks

• Official websites use .govA.govwebsite belongs to an official government organization in the United States. • Secure .gov websites use HTTPSAlock(LockA locked padlock) orhttps://

Pragmatic, Compliant AI: Reddit's Journey to adopt AI in Enterprise Applications

• Written by Dylan Glenn. • Here at Reddit, the Enterprise Applications team shepherds much of the financial and operational infrastructure for our business, from invoicing custome

Engineering Blogs · September 29, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 263 words
Build AI Agents Worth Keeping: The Canvas Framework

Build AI Agents Worth Keeping: The Canvas Framework

• Why 95% of enterprise AI agent projects fail Development teams across enterprises are stuck in the same cycle: They start with ‘Let’s try LangChain’ before figuring out what agen

The Pros and Cons of AI Agents for Cloud Administration

The Pros and Cons of AI Agents for Cloud Administration

• Cloud Computing AI & Machine Learning Commentary The Pros and Cons of AI Agents for Cloud Administration Agentic AI could revolutionize cloud management. • Examine AI agents’ pro

AI Inferencing Will Outpace AI Training -- Oracle CTO

AI Inferencing Will Outpace AI Training -- Oracle CTO

• AI & Machine Learning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Privacy News AI Inferencing Will Outpace AI Training – Oracle CTO Larry Ellison was bullish about the potential for AI inf

Agentic AI Starts with Infrastructure That Can Act

Agentic AI Starts with Infrastructure That Can Act

• AI & Machine Learning IT Infrastructure Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • Agentic AI Starts with Infrastructure

As Open Source AI Takes Off, Accountability and Governance Must Keep Pace

As Open Source AI Takes Off, Accountability and Governance Must Keep Pace

• AI & Machine Learning Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • As Open Source AI Takes Off, Accountability and Governa

Secure AI Infrastructure: 5 Things You Should Never Compromise On

Secure AI Infrastructure: 5 Things You Should Never Compromise On

• AI & Machine Learning IT Infrastructure Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • Secure AI Infrastructure: 5 Things Yo

AI's Career Ladder Crisis: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Vanishing

AI's Career Ladder Crisis: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Vanishing

• Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • AI’s Career Ladder Crisis: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Vanishing Recent college graduates

Emerging Infrastructure Transformations in AI Adoption

Emerging Infrastructure Transformations in AI Adoption

• IT Infrastructure AI & Machine Learning Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • Emerging Infrastructure Transformatio

Reflections from the First Cyber AI Profile Workshop

Reflections from the First Cyber AI Profile Workshop

• Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cyber AI Profile Workshop NIST hosted this past April! • This work intends to support the cybersecurity and AI communities - and the

Introducing Strands Agents 1.0: Production-Ready Multi-Agent Orchestration Made Simple

Introducing Strands Agents 1.0: Production-Ready Multi-Agent Orchestration Made Simple

• Strands Agents SDK 1.0 launches, enabling production‑ready multi‑agent orchestration with minimal code. • Model‑driven design scales from simple local tests to complex, distribut

Using Strands Agents with Claude 4 Interleaved Thinking

Using Strands Agents with Claude 4 Interleaved Thinking

• Strands Agents SDK simplifies agentic development with a model-driven approach, eliminating rigid workflows. • Claude 4’s interleaved thinking beta lets agents plan, chain though

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Cybersecurity Workforce

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Cybersecurity Workforce

• NICE Framework updated in 2020 to integrate emerging tech, especially AI, into cybersecurity workforce planning. • Stakeholder dialogues span federal agencies, industry, academia

Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist

Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist

• Canva now requires Backend, ML, Frontend candidates to use AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) during interviews. • Nearly 50% of current engineers use AI daily to prototype, navi

Engineering Blogs · June 11, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 289 words
How hierarchical navigable small world (HNSW) algorithms can improve search

How hierarchical navigable small world (HNSW) algorithms can improve search

• HNSW uses layered graph structure to cut search hops in high‑dimensional vector spaces. • It balances speed, accuracy, and scalability, outperforming many ANN alternatives. • HNS

Detecting faulty deployments: Our journey from unlabeled data to supervised learning

Detecting faulty deployments: Our journey from unlabeled data to supervised learning

• Deployments drive 70% of incidents, making rapid fault detection critical for modern DevOps. • Datadog’s Automatic Faulty Deployment Detection uses APM telemetry to spot problema

How leading financial institutions use Redis to drive growth

How leading financial institutions use Redis to drive growth

• 60% of banking leaders cite slow digital transformation as a customer loss factor. • Redis boosts mobile banking speed by 76%, enhancing loyalty and retention. • Real‑time fraud

Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Redis

Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Redis

• MCP is a standard enabling AI agents to tap live data and tools beyond static training. • It solves static knowledge limits by connecting models to real‑time sources like weather

Cybersecurity and AI: Integrating and Building on Existing NIST Guidelines

Cybersecurity and AI: Integrating and Building on Existing NIST Guidelines

• NIST held Cybersecurity & AI Profile Workshop to gather feedback on CSF and AI RMF profiles. • Profiles aim to guide adoption of AI in cybersecurity and defend against AI-enabled

Build fast, production-worthy AI apps with Spring AI and Redis

Build fast, production-worthy AI apps with Spring AI and Redis

• Spring AI 1.0 GA launched, offering a full-featured AI engineering framework for Java developers. • Redis acts as a native vector store, delivering lightning‑fast AI app performa

Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027

Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027

• AI is accelerating threat sophistication, enabling attackers to craft more convincing phishing campaigns. • Machine‑learning models are used to generate polymorphic malware that

Supercharge Your AI with OpenShift AI and Redis: Unleash speed and scalability

Supercharge Your AI with OpenShift AI and Redis: Unleash speed and scalability

• OpenShift AI gives enterprises a unified platform to deploy, manage, and scale AI/ML workloads efficiently. • Redis, the fastest in‑memory database, now supports vector storage,

What's new in two: April 2025

What's new in two: April 2025

• Spring Release introduces AI-focused tools, Redis Cloud enhancements, and Redis 8 release candidate. • Redis LangCache, a private preview semantic cache, cuts LLM latency and cos

Redis 8 is now GA, loaded with new features and more than 30 performance improvements

Redis 8 is now GA, loaded with new features and more than 30 performance improvements

• Redis 8 GA released, now the fastest, most scalable version yet. • Performance gains: up to 87% faster commands, 2x throughput, 18% replication speed. • Redis Query Engine delive

Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18: Cooked for developers, with another helping of blazing-fast BBQ - 5x faster than OpenSearch

Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18: Cooked for developers, with another helping of blazing-fast BBQ - 5x faster than OpenSearch

• Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18 released, available on Elastic Cloud and self‑managed. • Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) now GA, 5x faster than OpenSearch BBQ. • BBQ offers 20% higher

PayPal Releases Agentic Toolkit to Accelerate Commerce

• PayPal releases Agentic Toolkit to streamline AI-driven commerce workflows today. • Toolkit integrates PayPal APIs for orders, invoices, disputes, shipments, and subscriptions. •

Engineering Blogs · April 14, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 173 words
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

• LLMs power new apps but prompt injection is top OWASP threat. • Attack injects malicious instructions into untrusted data, overriding trusted prompts. • Real-world examples: Yelp

Research & Labs · April 11, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 165 words
PayPal Begins Rollout of MCP Servers to Accelerate Agentic Commerce

PayPal Begins Rollout of MCP Servers to Accelerate Agentic Commerce

• PayPal launches MCP servers, adopting Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol for AI-native commerce. • Developers can now access PayPal services via MCP, enabling generative AI integ

Engineering Blogs · April 4, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Istio at KubeCon Europe, See you soon in London!

Istio at KubeCon Europe, See you soon in London!

• Join Istio Project Meeting hosted at the Maintainer Summit during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025. • Attend the Istio Day co‑located event for deep dives into service mesh i

The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat

The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat

• AI accelerates threat detection, enabling faster identification of malicious activity. • Adversarial AI allows attackers to craft evasive malware that bypasses traditional defens

How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

• Slack AI built from scratch, prioritizing security and privacy for enterprise users. • Customer data never exits Slack’s trust boundary; no LLM training on proprietary content. •

Behind the scenes of Canva's DesignDNA campaign

Behind the scenes of Canva's DesignDNA campaign

• Canva launched DesignDNA, a year‑in‑review campaign in December 2024, celebrating user achievements. • Generative AI crafted personalized, shareable designs, enabling users to sh

Engineering Blogs · February 24, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 264 words
Search Query Understanding with LLMs: From Ideation to Production

Search Query Understanding with LLMs: From Ideation to Production

• Yelp integrates LLMs to interpret search queries, improving intent detection for millions of daily searches. • The team tackled spelling correction, segmentation, canonicalizatio

Engineering Blogs · February 4, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 181 words
Magnitude, Enriched Categories, and LLMs

Magnitude, Enriched Categories, and LLMs

• Math3ma celebrates 10‑year anniversary, reflecting on growth from niche blog to influential math resource. • Author began as study tool, now shares graduate‑level insights with g

Mathematics · February 2, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words

Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek

• AI rout ignited by China’s DeepSeek, sending U.S. tech stocks into a slump. • Nasdaq leads decline, falling 1.5% as AI infrastructure names tumble. • AI hardware makers suffer do

What to Know About China's DeepSeek AI

• DeepSeek claims to train top-tier AI models at a fraction of the cost, bypassing expensive GPUs. • The company emphasizes cost‑efficiency by using commodity hardware rather than

DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans

• DeepSeek’s rise sparks speculation about its impact on U.S. AI leaders. • Analysts argue the selloff of Nvidia and Broadcom is overstated. • Market volatility remains, but long‑t

Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

• DeepSeek launches AI-driven search platform, targeting enterprise data retrieval globally. • SoFi expands fintech services, integrating crypto and wealth management tools. • Mark

Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens

• Japanese yen climbs against the dollar as investors chase safe‑haven currencies. • Swiss franc gains modestly, reflecting heightened risk aversion in global markets. • Safe‑haven

Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model

• DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, gains acclaim in Silicon Valley for its performance. • Experts praise its impressive results despite using less advanced hardware. • The model chall

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup

• Reid Hoffman secures $24.6M to launch Manas AI, an AI-driven cancer research venture. • Co-founded with Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of ‘The Emperor of All Maladies.’ • Manas AI

Now Wanted in Silicon Valley: Ho-Hum Businesses With Thin Profit Margins

• VC firms target low-margin, routine sectors like accounting and property management for AI-driven efficiency. • AI promises automation, cost cuts, and new revenue streams in trad

Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center

• Meta earmarks $60-65B for AI, marking a record spend in tech. • Investment focuses on building massive data centers to support AI workloads. • AI will drive content moderation, r

Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

• Electronic Arts reports stronger Q2 earnings, driven by robust EA Sports titles and new subscription model. • Consumer spending on video games rises 8% YoY, reflecting continued

Nvidia Supplier SK Hynix Posts Record Profit on AI Boom

• SK Hynix posts record quarterly profit, driven by AI chip demand. • Earnings exceed expectations in Q4 2024, boosting annual results. • Strong demand for memory chips fuels growt

Tech Leaders Pledge Up to $500 Billion in AI Investment in U.S.

• OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank unveiled AI infrastructure plans at the White House. • Companies pledge up to $500 billion to boost U.S. AI capabilities. • Plans include building AI

How to improve search without looking at queries or results

How to improve search without looking at queries or results

• Canva’s 200M MAUs and 30B designs make private search optimization critical. • Privacy policy forbids viewing personal designs, eliminating real query‑label datasets. • Engineers

Engineering Blogs · November 25, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 281 words
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

• Anthology conditions LLMs with detailed backstories to create consistent virtual personas. • Uses naturalistic life narratives to represent diverse human values and experiences.

Research & Labs · November 12, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 171 words
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

• ChatGPT excels in English but favors Standard American/British over other dialects. • Study tested GPT‑3.5 Turbo and GPT‑4 across 10 English varieties. • Non‑standard dialects re

Research & Labs · September 20, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 173 words
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

• Researchers tested jailbreak via Scots Gaelic translation, initially replicating 43% success claim. • GPT-4 responded with bomb instructions in Gaelic, but full output differed f

Research & Labs · August 28, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 187 words
Integrate Elastic AI Assistant for Security via API to advance SOC workflows

Integrate Elastic AI Assistant for Security via API to advance SOC workflows

• Elastic AI Assistant for Security now offers chat and management APIs in Elastic Security 8.15. • APIs enable automated threat identification and data enrichment directly within

Machine Learning in Content Moderation at Etsy

• Etsy uses supervised ML to detect policy violations across 100M items. • Trust & Safety team combines community reports with automated removal. • Over 100,000 violations flagged

Engineering Blogs · August 6, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 544 words
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

• Humans can sift through thousands of images, spotting subtle patterns-a skill AI still struggles to match. • Traditional VQA systems answer questions about single images, missing

Research & Labs · July 20, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 200 words