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Stop Token Maxing The Future of Al Budget Management

The era of token maxing is over. When Claude Fable 5 launched last week at $10/$50 per million tokens - double the price of Opus 4.8 - it was a clear reminder that the most powerful model isn't always the right model. Not every task needs the Ferrari. The fastest way to burn your Al budget is sending every request to the most expensive model by default. The real question for the next phase of Al cost management isn't "can this model do the job?" — it's "is it the right model for the job?".

Canonical announces live kernel patching for Arm64

Canonical Livepatch now officially supports Arm64, further expanding its security patching automation capabilities. For the first time, Ubuntu on an Arm64 machine can apply critical kernel updates, without service interruption or rebooting. Starting with Ubuntu Core 26 for Arm64, and for Ubuntu Core 20 and onwards for AMD64 machines, a wider range of devices and cloud virtual machines can achieve timely vulnerability remediation through Canonical Livepatch.

Inside the Buyer's Decision: Governance, Trust, and Production-Ready Agentic AI

Why do so many AI pilots succeed in testing but fail to reach production? In this webinar, Resolve and IT leaders from RisePoint explore one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise AI adoption today: trust. While organizations are investing heavily in AI agents and automation, many initiatives stall before deployment due to governance concerns, compliance requirements, risk management, and lack of operational visibility.

What is an AI software factory?

Ask a software engineer what they do and the answer, for years, has been some version of "I write code." That assumption is unwinding fast. AI agents can now write code, review pull requests, run tests, and ship to production, and they're taking on a fast-growing share of that work. As agents absorb more of the execution, the human role shifts.

The New Software Creator: Why AI Changes the Governance Problem, Not Just the Speed Problem

The conversation about AI and software development has mostly been about velocity. Developers write code faster. Pull requests ship sooner. Backlogs shrink. That part is real, and it matters. But there's a bigger shift happening underneath it, and most engineering leaders I talk to are only just starting to feel its weight. AI hasn't just made developers faster. It has fundamentally expanded who can create and ship software. That changes things in ways that velocity metrics don't capture.

Cut your environment setup time in half with Chunk sidecar snapshots

When you’re building with AI, you can get a lot done in 30 seconds. Waiting minutes for CI feedback on your latest change can feel like an eternity. Chunk sidecars are designed to give you feedback fast, running your full test suite against the same Linux environment as CI, directly inside the agentic loop. Traditional CI pipelines can take five or ten minutes to catch a basic lint error or failing unit test.

Why we built relaxAI, and where your AI data actually goes

Sandboxing your AI agent is only half the story. The other half is where your data goes when it hits your LLM provider's API. In this clip from our secure execution agents webinar, Ben Norris, founding engineer at relaxAI, explains why the sovereignty of your AI provider matters just as much as the security of your agent's environment and why relaxAI was built on a sovereignty-first principle, with inference running exclusively in the UK and no foreign data transfer.