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Default to serverless for AI agents, then let production data decide what moves

Serverless should be the first execution model teams evaluate for AI agent workloads. Many agents spend much of their lifetime waiting, and always-on compute forces teams to pay for every idle minute. In a study of more than 35,000 production coding-agent sessions, the median session ran LLM or tool calls for only 20% of its lifetime. The rest of the time, it sat idle between steps, with its sandbox still allocated.

Can you see what your sales org did with $206,000 of AI last month?

Activity categorization classifies every AI request by the work it performs, such as meeting prep, code review or account research, then assigns that spend to the team, person, model and provider behind it. It turns a provider invoice that shows only totals by model and API key into a breakdown finance can allocate, charge back and budget from. CloudZero AI Signals does this as the spend happens.

Amazon told its engineers to stop chasing tokens

Amazon told its own engineers this week to stop tokenmaxxing. The memo circulated internally in September and Amazon published it on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of using AI as heavily as possible with little regard for whether the output justifies the spend. The memo calls token usage, adoption rates, and code-change counts “deeply flawed” ways to measure a team.

What Anthropic's 6:1 AI Work Ratio Means for Every Business

Anthropic's AI agents are logging 6x more hours than the humans directing them. Is this the beginning of a fundamental shift in how businesses operate? New data from Anthropic reveals how AI agents are transforming the workforce, accelerating software development, and changing what employees actually do every day. But the biggest story isn't just AI productivity. It's what happens next.

Prove Your AI Gains, Then Improve Them | GitKraken Workshop

Everyone feels faster with AI, but almost nobody can prove it. In this hands-on GitKraken workshop, Jeremy Castile, Scott Ferguson, and Justin Roberts show you how to get a real read on your AI agents: what they actually cost, what they produce, and whether they’re making your team faster, then how to take that data and improve it. You’ll see how to read an agentic workflow across adoption, autonomy, activity, cost, and outcomes in real time, how to spot where you’re overspending, and how to run and right-size multiple agents so you scale your agent work without scaling the bill.

Announcing SOC 1, FedRAMP 20x Class A, PCI, and HIPAA Milestones At Harness

Explore Harness' latest compliance milestones: SOC 1, FedRAMP 20x Class A, PCI DSS, and HIPAA assessments across its platform and runtime security. Harness announced four compliance milestones: its first SOC 1 audit, FedRAMP 20x Class A certification, and first PCI DSS and HIPAA Security Rule assessments. SOC 1 and FedRAMP 20x Class A apply to the Harness Autonomous SDLC Platform. PCI DSS and HIPAA apply to the Runtime Protection Agent.

Keynote: Cloud Networking for AI Architectures | Roy Chua | Megaport Connect 2026

AI is changing how networks are designed and operated. This session explores how GPU infrastructure, AI workloads, and automation are reshaping enterprise and cloud networking, and what these shifts mean for network architecture and the future role of network engineers. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Roy Chua, Founder and Principal, AvidThink.

6 Agentic Development Environments Compared (2026)

Your AI coding agents write functions, refactor modules, and generate tests in seconds. Running five of them across three repositories at the same time? That’s a coordination problem, not a code generation problem. Agentic development environments give you one surface to orchestrate multiple agents, review every diff, and get code merged without losing context.