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The New Stack is a media platform for the people who build and manage software the world relies on. We provide context and explanation of at-scale technologies to advance knowledge and create conversations through our coverage of modern architectures, components of the software development life cycle, and operations to

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thenewstack.io > ai-agent-trace-debugging

It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.

18+ hour, 25+ min ago   (771+ words) Your AI agent returned a 200, passed its faithfulness check, and still answered the wrong question. The evidence that explains why lives in the trace....

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thenewstack.io > spec-driven-sdlc-gates

The AI-native SDLC won't be one process

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (92+ words) Anthropic says code is no longer the bottleneck. It's right -- but the process that catches your agent's mistakes can't be one size for every change....

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thenewstack.io > red-hat-ai-multitenancy

Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (508+ words) Red Hat AI 3.5 brings priority-aware GPU scheduling and tenant isolation to shared infrastructure, plus pre-deployment safety evals via EvalHub....

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thenewstack.io > claude-fable-benchmark-budget

Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: Results on a real-world budget, not the spec sheet

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (497+ words) Claude Fable 5.1 more than doubled its predecessor’s benchmark score. On a modest budget, it passed one of five tasks -- but its failures cost less....

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thenewstack.io > stop-ai-code-sprawl

Stop AI code sprawl before it destroys your software design

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (450+ words) Prevent AI code sprawl and Comprehension Debt. Use Python tools like pytest-archon to enforce Executable Architecture in your CI/CD....

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thenewstack.io > claude-build-agents-benchmark

Claude did best on a new benchmark for agents that build agents. It still passed fewer than a quarter of the tests.

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (492+ words) Sierra has open-sourced Hyper-𝜏-bench, a follow-up to its 2024 τ-bench that tests how well AI agents can build other agents....

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thenewstack.io > k2-horizon-fully-open

K2 Horizon just shipped as six new fully open models — developers aren't fully convinced

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (632+ words) Based in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) introduced K2 Horizon last week. This group of six AI foundation models, ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters, is claimed to be the “largest fully open-source fleet of…...

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thenewstack.io > claude-fable-upgrade-tested

Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn't tell them apart.

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, claiming doubled performance in agentic research. I ran it against Fable 5 on four real jobs and tracked every token. Both scored perfectly, and on the hardest task, the new model billed more than double…...

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thenewstack.io > building-trust-agentic-rag

Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (500+ words) Agentic RAG requires clear evidence. Discover how tracking retrieval decisions, metadata, and citations builds trust in AI agent outputs....

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thenewstack.io > unicode-ascii-smuggling-ai-pipelines

Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (249+ words) Attackers are inserting invisible Unicode tag characters into phishing emails at massive scale. The same trick can break AI agent pipelines that ingest untrusted text....