Jentic launch gives AI agents api access
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 by Ben Conway
Jentic is introducing Jentic Mini, a free, open source, self hosted offering for developers building with OpenClaw. The goal is straightforward. Make it safer and simpler to let capable agents interact with real systems. Jentic Mini provides a lightweight deployment that runs in a developer controlled environment and adds a safety and control layer around what agents ca...
AI is becoming more widespread in collaboration tools
Thursday, April 9, 2026 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects and isolated features to the connective fabric of enterprise collaboration and communications. Across meetings, chat, calling, contact centers, and the business applications that surround them, AI is becoming a practical tool that links people, workflows, and data. AI reach and influence on collaboration and communic...
Lens Launches MCP Server to Connect AI Coding Assistants with Kubernetes
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 by Ben Conway
Lens by Mirantis announces a built in Model Context Protocol server in Lens Desktop, expanding how teams connect AI coding assistants to Kubernetes in a secure and straightforward way. The addition makes Lens a practical bridge between popular AI tools and real infrastructure, so software delivery and operations tasks can be handled within existing workflows rather than...
Sinch introduces agentic conversations to power enterprise AI engagement
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sinch is expanding how enterprises build and operate customer experiences by advancing the use of AI agents across global communication channels. Sinch geographic coverage and communications expertise provide a foundation that enterprises can rely on for scale, trust, and performance as they adopt agent driven engagement. Sinch (publ) announced agentic conversations, a ...
Cloudbrink expands secure connectivity platform
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Cloudbrink announced expanded security and performance benefits for AI agents and online AI services. The new AI capabilities are available on the same platform as Cloudbrink’s award-winning secure connectivity, allowing companies to secure users, apps, and AI in a more unified way.
According to a McKinsey report, 88 percent of enterprises globally are using AI...
Splunk and cisco unveil a suite of innovations
Friday, February 13, 2026 by Richard Harris
What if you could see every corner of your AI powered systems, predict issues before they arise, and deliver seamless digital experiences, all while fortifying your cybersecurity defenses? Splunk and Cisco are bringing that outcome within reach through a suite of platform, observability, and security advancements that help teams move faster with confidence in an agentic...
Litera sets new standard for legal AI adoption
Saturday, January 10, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Litera announced a record-breaking year for AI adoption among law firms and corporate legal customers worldwide. Litera One, the AI drafting portfolio native to Microsoft 365, its newer agentic assistant Lito, and AI workflow platform Kira saw monthly active users surge tenfold since spring 2025 and thousands of new agentic skills completed, validating the company&...
The Rise of Agentic Orchestration
Thursday, January 8, 2026 by Austin Harris
According to Tamas Cser, Founder and CEO of Functionize, the industry is on the verge of a structural shift. By 2026, development teams will transition from AI copilots to agentic fleets: coordinated groups of specialized AI agents operating semi-autonomously across the entire software lifecycle. In this new paradigm, engineering excellence is measured less by syntactic...
What Is Shaping AdTech in 2026
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 by Charles Manning
In 2026, AI Orchestration will happen on the desktop - not in the cloud - and it will be "Integrative" in nature.
I am convinced that agentic orchestration (the kind that actually helps individuals and teams be more productive) will happen at scale on the desktop and not in the cloud (look no further than StationOne as a reference example). This prediction ...
2026 Predictions from Shmuel Ben Meleh
Monday, January 5, 2026 by Austin Harris
AI continues to dominate every conversation, riding wave after wave of excitement. It feels like only yesterday that “machine learning” was the phrase everyone repeated, and in a blink it was replaced by the all-encompassing “AI.” After several years of rapid breakthroughs that expanded what's possible across products, content creation, and a...
2026 Cybersecurity Predictions: Identity Becomes the Interface
Monday, December 22, 2025 by Austin Harris
Dwayne McDaniel, Senior Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, offers his perspective on how the focus of AI-driven security is shifting from rapid innovation to governance, accountability, and human oversight as organizations head into 2026.
In 2025, nearly every security conversation circled back to AI. In 2026, the center of gravity will shift from raw innovation to g...
AI Will Reshape Things In 2026
Thursday, December 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Aniket Shaligram, VP of Technology at Talentica Software, predicts that the coming year will mark a shift from AI as a productivity aid to AI as an active participant in product teams. Organizations will move beyond simple AI assistants toward clearly defined AI “team members” that own specific responsibilities, are measured against outcomes, and collaborate...
Agentic AI disruption of the dev workflow
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 by Richard Harris
As a lifelong programmer, I find myself living in two worlds at once: one where AI has become an essential co-pilot in my daily work, and another where its limitations still remind me who’s actually steering the ship. Every day I see firsthand how machine learning models and coding assistants can accelerate development, generate insights, and even spark creativity...
National App Day 2025: Industry leaders weigh in on app economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
With National App Day now behind us (December 11th), it’s a timely opportunity to reflect on the role applications continue to play in today’s workplace. Leaders from OutSystems, Xerox, and Appfire share their perspectives on how apps are shaping modern work - and what organizations can expect as app-driven productivity moves into its next chapter.
Nation...
Human Intelligence, Specificity and Context all Vibe in 2026
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 by Austin Harris
By 2026, the most impactful shift will not be the replacement of human effort, but its elevation. The focus will move from automating repetitive tasks to amplifying human judgment, context, and strategic thinking. For enterprises, this means the developers and business leaders who succeed will be those who can steer AI with precision, not just deploy it at scale.
The...
It's time for more Siri openness in the Apple ecosystem
Monday, November 17, 2025 by Vira Tkachenko
Siri’s long-awaited personalized upgrade won’t arrive until 2026, putting Apple even further behind in the industry AI race and frustrating users. While many think Big Tech giants OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will continue to be leaders for years to come, Apple has an opportunity to join the ranks.
Unlike its competitors, Apple’s unique vision for ...
Box CEO Aaron Levie states AI is changing SaaS landscape
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Enterprise software is undergoing a structural transformation as artificial intelligence becomes a foundational part of how platforms operate and deliver value. Box CEO Aaron Levie described how AI’s growing role in enterprise workflows is redefining how organizations manage data, automation, and decision-making.
Levie explained that unstructured data - such as...
Groq launches compound GA to power higher-quality, more affordable AI
Monday, October 20, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Groq has announced the general availability of Compound, its agentic AI system, on GroqCloud. The system is designed to provide developers with a production-grade platform capable of conducting research, executing code, controlling web browsers, and delivering answers efficiently.
Improved performance and accuracy
The production release of Compound demonstrates si...
Descope to host Global MCP Hackathon
Thursday, October 16, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Descope is launching the Global MCP Hackathon, a worldwide developer event focused on building secure, identity-aware AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The competition spans from August 12 through September 10, with the winners announced later that month. Offering more than $100,000 in cash prizes and developer credits, the event brings together develo...
Developer centric strategies for deploying AI models in production
Monday, October 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Ed Charbeneau, in a recent discussion, highlighted practical strategies for deploying AI models in production. Known for his work as Principal Developer Advocate at Progress Software, Charbeneau emphasized managing non-deterministic AI behavior, integrating agentic AI into developer workflows, and optimizing tools and context management to enhance productivity and relia...
Apple withdraws ICE tracking apps from App Store including ICEBlock
Friday, October 10, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Apple has removed ICEBlock and similar applications from its App Store following a request from the Trump administration. The move marks a rare instance of a U.S. technology firm complying with a federal demand to take down apps, raising new questions about the balance between public safety, free speech, and corporate responsibility.
What the apps did
ICEBlock and...
AI powered QA for agile software testing with Functionize
Friday, September 5, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Functionize is an AI-powered platform designed for the intelligent creation of software test cases. It empowers enterprises, including Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations, to accelerate software delivery while maintaining quality by reducing testing maintenance, increasing automation, and allowing both technical and non-technical users to contribute to the quality...
Omniverse robotics tools launched by NVIDIA
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA recently announced new NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models (WFMs) that accelerate the development and deployment of robotics solutions.
Powered by new NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the libraries and models let developers anywhere develop physically accurate digital twins, capture and reconstruct the real wo...
Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Austin Harris
The 2025 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow gathered input from over 49,000 developers in 177 countries. The survey covered 62 questions on 314 technologies, with new focus areas including AI agent tools, large language models (LLMs), and developer community platforms. Now in its fifteenth year, it provides a broad look at the state of software development worldwide.
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AI powered real estate partners with SuperWorld and ASI Alliance
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 by Trey Abbe
The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, an open-source project focused on decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), has announced a new partnership with SuperWorld, a virtual platform mapped onto the real world that allows users to buy, sell, and monetize over 64 billion plots of virtual real estate.
Accordin...
Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Coder
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Austin Harris
Alibaba has launched Qwen3-Coder, its most powerful and agentic code model to date. The flagship version, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, is a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active parameters. It supports a 256K token context natively and up to 1M tokens via extrapolation, achieving state-of-the-art results in Agentic Coding, Browser Use, and Tool Use,...
ChatGPT agents bridging research and action
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris
You can now ask ChatGPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” and “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck.” ChatGPT will intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in...
Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Microsoft will participate in Black Hat USA 2025, scheduled for August 5-7 in Las Vegas, offering attendees a practitioner-driven experience centered on real-world threat intelligence, incident response, and applied AI expertise. The company emphasizes that cybersecurity is most effective when intelligence, tools, and domain expertise are tightly integrated. To that end...
Llama Startup Program Cohort
Saturday, July 26, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Meta recently announced the first cohort of its Llama Startup Program following overwhelming interest and over 1,000 applications. After a careful selection process, Meta chose an innovative group of early-stage startups representing diverse industries, including healthcare, marketing, finance, legal, software, sports, and more. Despite the wide range of use cases, all ...
Modeling natural conversational dynamics
Friday, July 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has introduced a family of audiovisual behavioral motion models designed to advance human connection technology. These models generate facial expressions and body gestures based on audio-visual inputs from two people, aiming to create more natural and interactive virtual agents. The models enable fully embodied avatars in...
AWS AI Agent Marketplace
Saturday, July 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is preparing to debut a groundbreaking AI Agent Marketplace, set to launch at the AWS Summit in New York City on July 16. This initiative marks a major stride in how artificial intelligence tools are distributed, accessed, and monetized, with leading AI firm Anthropic joining as a launch partner.
AWS AI Agent Marketplace: A One-Stop Shop for...
Red Hat Generative AI
Friday, July 18, 2025 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, recently announced Red Hat AI Inference Server, a significant step towards democratizing generative AI (gen AI) across the hybrid cloud. A new offering within Red Hat AI, the enterprise-grade inference server is born from the powerful vLLM community project and enhanced by Red Hat’s integration of Neural Magic techno...
OpenAI Codex overview
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Austin Harris
OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories.
OpenAI Codex overvie...
Building the Future of Web Automation
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Browserbase, the company behind cutting-edge browser infrastructure for automation, announced a major product update recently, reinforcing its vision for the future of intelligent web automation. Founded just 16 months ago, Browserbase has rapidly become foundational to how businesses leverage AI to streamline online workflows.
CEO and Founder Paul Klein shared that ...
Deep Research launches in Azure AI
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Deep Research, a new feature within the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. This offering delivers OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capabilities as an API and SDK solution, integrated directly with Azure’s enterprise-grade agentic platform.
Deep Research Launches in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service: Enterprise-Sca...
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