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Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust
When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need (table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks) should live in a format, not in a proprietary service, and not scattered across unstructured text blobs. Accordingly, OKF v0.1 started simple: just markdown, YAML frontmatter, and a handful of conventions. The strong response and contributions from the developer community informed our focus for the next version. Since launch, contributors op
No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer.
Lift-and-Shift vs. Modernize: A Decision Framework for Enterprise Workloads
One of the most consequential decisions in any enterprise cloud migration is deceptively simple to state and surprisingly hard to answer: do we move the workload as-is, or do we modernize it first? Having worked through cloud migrations across dozens of enterprise customers spanning both AWS and Azure. I can tell you this question rarely has a universal answer. The right path depends on the workload, the business context, and the maturity of the team inheriting it in the cloud. What follows is t
Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS
Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and PyTorch. A multi-tower neural network with learned attention delivers accurate, per-customer recommendations while providing the explainability that banking regulators require.
Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug
Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday's massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. [...]
Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to select a model, run inference through the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint, reduce cost with prompt caching, connect the OpenAI Codex coding agent, and plan for quotas and scaling.
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