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Trust But Canary: Configuration Safety at Scale

As AI increases developer speed and productivity it also increases the need for safeguards. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig sits down with Ishwari and Joe from Meta’s Configurations team to discuss how Meta makes config rollouts safe at scale. Listen in to learn about canarying and progressive rollouts, the health checks [...] Read More... The post Trust But Canary: Configuration Safety at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

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Wednesday — April 8, 2026

Trust But Canary: Configuration Safety at Scale

Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint

The next phase of enterprise AI

Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

The tokenization tax: Why AI costs non-English speakers up to 5x more per query, and how India is fighting back - Silicon Canals

UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute launches Falcon Perception AI model - Digital Watch Observatory

Governance-Aware Agent Telemetry for Closed-Loop Enforcement in Multi-Agent AI Systems

Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Zhipu Unveils GLM-5.1, Its Most Advanced Open-Source Model with 8-Hour Autonomous Task Capability - Pandaily

Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era

Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz

AI Models Map the Colorado River’s Hard Choices

UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school

Zhipu raises AI cloud prices in profit push - Tech in Asia

Qwen Extends Ride‑Hailing, Exposes Execution Challenges

JD.com Reportedly Blocks External AI Tools, Meituan Tightens Use of Alibaba’s Qwen Model