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Ship AI with Laravel: Give Your AI Agent Live Web Search
The agent can answer from our knowledge base, but not about things that change by the minute like shipping delays. In this episode we add the WebSearch tool so the agent can pull live information from the web, with a locked-down allow list so it only hits domains we trust. The post Ship AI with Laravel: Give Your AI Agent Live Web Search appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
Why Infrastructure Efficiency Is Becoming the New Cloud Profitability Metric
Infrastructure efficiency is rapidly becoming one of the most important factors determining profitability for cloud providers, managed service providers, and SaaS companies. For years, infrastructure growth followed a simple formula: add more servers, more storage, and more capacity whenever demand increased. That model worked when hardware prices consistently declined, and inefficiencies could be absorbed through growth.
Celebrating 12 years of Project Galileo
To mark the 12th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare has released its first comprehensive report analyzing cyberattacks against civil society.
Coding Agent Horror Stories: The 13-Hour AWS Outage
In Part 1, we walked through six categories of AI coding agent failures and why they keep happening. The agent runs as you, with your filesystem permissions and your credentials, and nothing sits between the model's decision and the shell's execution. In Part 2, we looked at one specific version of that failure in detail,...
Get Out of Security Debt by Tackling the Exposure Problem
Teams digging out of security debt need to answer only two simple questions: Which vulnerabilities in our systems are exposed, and how long should they stay that way?
ShapedPlugin update flow hacked to infect WordPress sites
Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed infected releases to paying customers via the vendor's official update system. [...]
Scaling the Next Generation of Global Innovation: How Google Supports Top Startups Around the World
In the high-stakes world of tech entrepreneurship, the leap from a brilliant prototype to a scalable, market-defining business can be brutal. Founders need much more than capital; they need deep architectural guidance, sovereign-level policy alignment, and technical systems engineered to enable rapid growth. Joy’s Law states: "[N]o matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else." We recognize that true innovation inherently happens “elsewhere.” This philosophy drives our
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