Every family trip we rent a minivan. I love them. I wish the rentals had more power. Rear wheel drive. Last one was a Kia carnival which is a beast for carrying luggage and people.
Come on people let’s make minivans cool again.
By migrating our petabyte-scale MySQL fleet to Google Cloud Hyperdisk, we doubled peak disk throughput while cutting block storage costs in half.
Eliminating doublewrite not only has improved our peak disk throughput, we observed improvements in our foreground flush latency as well.
Read the full article to learn how: https://t.co/9hOPs87g23
"appear to be independent of user instructions"???
How does the bank know what the prompt was? And yeah, if you don't give your users MCP access, their agents will fumble around the UI. I hope they're working on this instead of just spreading FUD.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/Q3bda5In8q
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.
It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.