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Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end

But the long-promised Gemini 3.5 Pro is still nowhere to be seen.

By Maxwell Cooter

Sep 25, 20262 mins

Artificial Intelligence

AWS launches CloudWatch Omni to unify observability for AI agents and applications

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 22, 20267 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC

Consultants say the functionality looks strong and it should be effective, but at the possible price of trading one vendor lock-in for another.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 2026 6 mins

Databases Oracle Database Relational Databases

Anthropic rejects open-weight AI bans, calls for China chip controls and safety tests

The statement follows criticism over Anthropic’s absence from an industry letter opposing open-weight AI limits. Anthropic CEO outlined his support for lower-risk models alongside tighter controls on more powerful systems.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 28, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Kotlin previews support for coroutine stack trace recovery

Kotlin 2.4.20-Beta2 also brings Wasm changes, new Swift export features, a DSL for browser testing, and the debut of the Kotlin compiler native image.

By Paul Krill

Jul 27, 2026 3 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

Anthropic releases ‘more efficient’ Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is state-of-the-art on coding and knowledge tasks, more than doubling the performance of Opus 4.8 at the same cost, according to Anthropic.

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Model Context Protocol is going stateless to make scaling simpler

The updated protocol will simplify how enterprises deploy and scale MCP-based AI applications in the cloud, but developers relying on deprecated capabilities will need to plan for architectural changes over the coming year.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 24, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Development Tools

Top AIs invent same fake PyPl and npm package names

Research reveals that slopsquatting remains a threat to developers using AI to aid coding.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 24, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Code Security Development Tools

Visual Studio Code 1.130 dresses up Agents window

VS Code update also introduces assisted permissions for agent tool calls in the agent host and clickable file links in Git diff output in the terminal.

By Paul Krill

Jul 23, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

New pip flag fixes longstanding Python frustration

With a July update, the Python package manager will finally allow users to install only the dependencies for a project, without having to install the project itself.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 23, 2026 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Google CEO distracts from Gemini 3.5 Pro delay with talk of Gemini 4 and monthly releases

A more frequent model release cycle may bring faster improvements to capabilities and pricing, but CIOs will pay the price in testing, governance and validation, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

G# language for .NET borrows from Go, Kotlin, and Swift

Small and simple language in the works runs on the .NET runtime, interoperates with CLR libraries, and compiles to managed PE assemblies that are accessible from the standard .NET toolchain.

By Paul Krill

Jul 22, 2026 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware

The record number of fixes in this quarter’s Critical Patch Update cover 32 product families.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 22, 2026 6 mins

Databases Oracle Database Relational Databases

Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads

Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 22, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Hybrid Cloud

Cisco’s new AI model tells code reviewers where to look for vulnerabilities

Cisco is betting that enterprises will see value in having AI quickly identify the handful of files worthy of investigation by human software vulnerability researchers.

By Shweta Sharma

Jul 22, 2026 3 mins

Code Security Development Tools Threat and Vulnerability Management

GitLab previews auto-remediation of vulnerable dependencies

Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation, now in beta, uses AI to fix build-breaking changes and iterates until the pipeline passes.

By Paul Krill

Jul 22, 2026 2 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Security

Visual Studio Code 1.129 introduces dedicated agent host

Update to the code editor also brings an editor panel to the Agents window and the ability to run terminal commands directly from chat prompts.

By Paul Krill

Jul 21, 2026 3 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

China’s trillion-parameter AI models may help enterprises with some applications

The speed and cost-effectiveness of the new extra-large language models from Alibaba and Moonshot make them attractive, but political and reliability issues are proving problematic.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 21, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Security

‘The Java Story’ recounts the rise, fall, and rise again of Java

Free hour-long documentary by Cult.Repo tells the story of the Java programming language in the words of its lead engineers.

By Paul Krill

Jul 21, 2026 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

AWS standardizes more AI billing data to simplify cost analysis

By normalizing more billing data fields in AWS Data Exports, the company promises enterprises simpler AI governance with less engineering overhead.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 21, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

OpenAI’s Codex context reduction for GPT 5.6 sparks dissatisfaction among developers

The latest update could hinder long-running AI coding sessions, slow enterprise adoption, and make a case for enterprises to adopt resilient AI-based workflows, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 20, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

OpenAI’s new hardware is a $230, 13-switch keyboard for Codex

Buyers will have to pay a premium for the AI blinkenlights.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 17, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

AI OK in Linux development, says Torvalds

The creator of Linux sees good and bad sides to AI when it comes to developing open-source software.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 17, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an ‘honest mistake’

Although the company calls the deletion incidents an honest mistake, its own model card states that such behavior was anticipated during internal testing.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 17, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Bugs Software Development

New Linux Foundation project aims to make payments native to AI workflows

The new x402 Foundation will oversee an open protocol designed to let AI agents, applications, and APIs pay for digital services over the internet.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 17, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Software Development

Thinking Machines Lab offers enterprises a US alternative in open-weight AI

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model, can be customized through Tinker and supports a 1-million-token context window, but it enters a market where Chinese models lead several coding and reasoning benchmarks.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 16, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft releases .NET 11 Preview 6

Latest preview of the next .NET brings improvements across the board, from the runtime and libraries to the C# and F# programming languages.

By Paul Krill

Jul 15, 2026 3 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Codex Multi-Agent V2 update raises developer concerns over agent transparency

Reduced visibility into AI agent interactions could hinder enterprise debugging, governance, and regulatory compliance while slowing deployment in mission-critical workloads, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 15, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 tackles cloud costs, AI workloads

Latest release of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-managed application platform also brings new security, workload isolation, and virtualization management features.

By Paul Krill

Jul 14, 2026 2 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes

Port wants to bring vibe coding to the enterprise

Port AI Builder lets teams create and run agentic development workflows or platform enhancements with built-in human-in-the-loop review.

By Paul Krill

Jul 14, 2026 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

IETF publishes QUERY method to allow safe and idempotent HTTP requests

The new method fills the gap between GET and POST, combining the body of POST with the safety and idempotence of GET.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 14, 2026 4 mins

Development Approaches Software Development Web Development

Oracle expands AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications with pro-code tools

The addition of the new CLI-based experience will allow developers to use familiar tools, such as VSCode, Codex, Claude Code, to build Fusion-native agentic applications within Oracle’s governed runtime.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 14, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Visual Studio Code backs multi-chat Claude sessions

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate top-level sessions.

By Paul Krill

Jul 13, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

OpenClaw becomes a nonprofit foundation as it seeks to be ‘the Switzerland of AI’

Analysts and consultants applaud the move as potentially delivering the development consistency that the current offerings lack, but some worry that treating the company as neutral is a mistake.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 13, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Go-based TypeScript 7.0 arrives

The Go port of TypeScript promises to be 10x faster than the previous JavaScript-based versions, thanks to native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and new optimizations.

By Paul Krill

Jul 13, 2026 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development TypeScript

GitHub Copilot introduces upgrade canvas for modernizing .NET applications

Interactive upgrade canvas presents a live view of the GitHub Copilot upgrade agent’s workflow as it assesses, plans, and executes .NET upgrades.

By Paul Krill

Jul 13, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft .NET

CrowdStrike identifies five new AI prompt injection threats

Awareness of all the ways prompt injection can be effected will help security teams spot a new generation of attacks.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 10, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Generative AI

Mistral joins rush to develop AI for robots

Its Robostral Navigate AI model needs input from just one color camera, doing without Lidar, depth sensors, or multiple viewpoints.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 10, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Robotics

Meta launches low-cost Muse Spark 1.1 as enterprise AI spending comes under scrutiny

Meta says the model delivers competitive performance against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google offerings while costing a fraction as much to run.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 10, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work as it broadens GPT-5.6 rollout

The enterprise AI agent combines ChatGPT, Codex, and GPT-5.6 to automate workplace tasks as OpenAI broadens rollout of its latest frontier models.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 10, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

IBM Bob expands beyond code generation to orchestrate the entire SDLC

The new release adds multi-agent workflows, parallel execution and built-in governance as enterprises look beyond AI coding assistants to accelerate software delivery.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 9, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

AI coding tool hole illustrates a big problem with human in the loop

The flaw, which impacted Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Cursor and others, let the agent give the human false information on which to make decisions.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 9, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Vulnerabilities

JetBrains seeks to unify fragmented AI-based software development with governance suite

The new suite will help developers reduce operational friction and help enterprise leaders with governance, cost management, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 9, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, touts lower coding-task costs than AI rivals

Benchmark estimates put Grok 4.5 at $2.49 per coding task versus $5.07 for GPT-5.5 in Codex and $11.80 for Fable 5 in Claude Code; analysts say real-world enterprise testing remains key.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 9, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

GitHub’s public APIs are becoming an enterprise reconnaissance tool

Researchers have uncovered a sustained campaign using GitHub’s public APIs and ghost accounts to profile enterprise software environments while blending into normal developer activity.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 8, 2026 6 mins

Cyberattacks Cybercrime GitHub

OpenAI to release delayed models Thursday amidst a sea of regulatory confusion

After the administration initially requested restriction of access to the models, a US government statement now says that no permission for their release was ever required.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 8, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile as enterprise use broadens

The company said business operations account for a third of Claude Cowork usage, prompting it to extend the AI agent beyond desktop use and enable users to oversee long-running tasks from anywhere.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 8, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

GitHub AI agent leaks private repositories via prompt injection attack

Findings raise fresh concerns over the security of AI agents with privileged access to enterprise code.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 8, 2026 5 mins

Development Tools Security Software Development

Visual Studio update rejiggers GitHub Copilot usage tracking

June 2026 update to Visual Studio tracks Copilot usage based on token consumption rather than by request, aligning with GitHub’s new billing model.

By Paul Krill

Jul 7, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio

JetBrains takes aim at AI tool sprawl in software teams

JetBrains AI for Teams and Organizations will provide a unified, vendor-agnostic system for agentic software development, providing shared context, reusable workflows, governance, and cost control.

By Paul Krill

Jul 7, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

‘Talk like a caveman’ prompts save tokens, but far less than promised

JetBrains found that the popular AI coding optimization reduced output token consumption without hurting performance, but delivered a fraction of the savings claimed by supporters.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 7, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development