How AI is causing app litter everywhere
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 by Trey Abbe
I've worked on systems that have been running for years, the kind you don't think about because they just work. No noise, no constant updates, no surprises. They were built carefully, and that care shows over time. You can tell when something was designed with longevity in mind because it doesn't demand your attention. It just does its job.
That's a c...
New AI tool targets early dementia detection
Thursday, April 16, 2026 by Trey Abbe
A research team is creating an AI powered digital human to help clinicians catch early signs of dementia sooner and more consistently. The system combines structured screening conversations with analysis of facial expressions and physiologic signals to highlight subtle patterns that busy clinics and traditional questionnaires may miss. By turning a routine intake into a...
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...
Experts warn ai-generated health content risks misinterpretation without human oversight
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
As AI generated personas and automated video hosts enter health communications, experts caution that scaling content without human interpretation can raise the odds that people misunderstand what they read or watch. Digital platforms have become a primary source for health information, with more than half of adults turning to social feeds for guidance and many consultin...
Ludo.ai Unveils API and MCP Beta to Power AI Game Asset Pipelines
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ludo.ai, the AI game design and production hub, has released the beta of its new API and Model Context Protocol integration, giving developers a faster way to generate production ready game assets without breaking creative flow. The release enables indie developers, content creators, and studios to integrate Ludo.ai asset creation directly into everyday workflows, from ...
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...
ChatGPT Carbon Footprint Matches 1.3 Million Cars Report Finds
Monday, April 6, 2026 by Ben Conway
A new independent analysis takes a closer look at the electricity use and environmental impact tied to one of the most widely used conversational AI tools. The findings suggest that serving today’s massive volume of daily prompts now requires energy on the scale of a small nation, with emissions comparable to a large fleet of vehicles.
The report breaks down ho...
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...
Private Repository Secures the AI-driven Development Boom
Friday, March 27, 2026 by Austin Harris
ActiveState has launched ActiveState Curated Catalog. This new offering provides organizations with a private, secure repository of open source components from the ActiveState Library, giving developers and AI code generators access to vetted packages from a trusted internal source instead of pulling them directly from the open internet.
Directly pulling open source ...
Env Zero and CloudQuery Announce Merger
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Austin Harris
env zero, an Infrastructure as Code management and governance, and CloudQuery, a leading cloud asset management platform, announced the successful close of their merger. The combined company will operate under the env zero brand and focus on unifying asset intelligence with infrastructure automation so enterprise teams can run cloud operations with greater confidence, s...
AI generated work from managers is damaging trust among employees
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Across industries, employees are noticing a shift in how work is created and presented by their managers. Generative AI tools are now part of the managerial toolkit, shaping emails, presentations, performance notes, and strategic updates. While AI can speed up drafting and analysis, a growing number of team members feel unsettled when work that influences careers, pay, ...
Foresight Secures $25M to Bridge Infrastructure Execution Gap
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Richard Harris
Foresight, the AI powered project delivery platform for large scale infrastructure, announced a Series A financing of 25 million United States dollars led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, with participation from seed investor Creandum, ISAI Build from the Bouygues group managed by ISAI, i2bf Global Ventures, and Somersault Ventures. The company will use the capital...
UNESCO AI initiatives driving sustainable development in Africa
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Artificial intelligence in Africa is often framed through big promises and global headlines, but the most important work is happening at a much more practical level. Across the continent, developers, educators, and institutions are focusing on what actually makes systems useful: reliable data, resilient infrastructure, and tools that fit local constraints. This is not a...
env zero and CloudQuery merge
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 by Richard Harris
env zero and CloudQuery have announced the close of their merger. The combined company will operate under the env zero brand and will deliver a unified cloud intelligence platform that pairs deep asset visibility with automated action. The goal is simple and practical. Give enterprise platform teams a single place to understand what is in the cloud and to bring it to a ...
Avocado Health introduces AI-Powered text coaching for parents
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Avocado Health announced the launch of its 24/7 SMS-based parenting support platform, designed to help parents navigate the everyday questions, worries, and moments of uncertainty that come with raising children. Built to meet families where they already are—on their phones—Avocado Health delivers instant, personalized, evidence-based guidance through simple...
DeepSeek often restricted globally
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly becoming part of everyday work and learning, yet access to leading chatbots is far from uniform across the world. Governments are asserting jurisdiction over data flows, age controls, and transparency standards, and platforms are adapting to new rules country by country. Within this landscape, DeepSeek has emerged as the most fr...
AI productivity rises amid 2026 uncertainty
Thursday, February 19, 2026 by Trey Abbe
AI continues to deliver measurable productivity and performance gains across organizations, but global economic uncertainty and geopolitical risk are reshaping technology investment, hiring, and innovation strategies for 2026, according to the annual Reveal Top Software Development Challenges Survey from Infragistics, released today. The study surveyed 250 senior t...
AI model poisoning is real and we need to be aware of it
Monday, February 16, 2026 by Richard Harris
On a clear night I set up my telescope in the yard and let the mount hum along while the camera gathers light from something distant and patient. The workflow is a ritual. Focus by eye until the airy disk tightens. Shoot test frames and watch the histogram. Capture darks, flats, and bias frames so the quirks of the sensor can be cleaned away later. That discipline is no...
Litera enhances Kira platform
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Litera introduces enhanced Kira upgrades, driving the next evolution of its AI‑powered contract intelligence solution. As deal activity increases and GenAI adoption accelerates across a growing market of legal tools, Kira helps legal teams analyze contracts at scale with the accuracy, governance, and collaboration required for high-stakes legal work. Trusted by 71%...
Why MedGemma 1.5 matters more than the headlines
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 by Richard Harris
When Google announced MedGemma 1.5 earlier this month, the tech press lit up with speculation about healthcare AI revolution or seismic shifts in diagnostics. I've spent decades watching tech buzz evolve into real tools and real pain points in the field, and the truth is simpler: this is a solid, practical step in the long road of building useful AI for healthcare. ...
What's in Store for Open Source in 2026
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 by Mike Milinkovich
As 2025 draws to a close, many of us find ourselves reflecting on a year of remarkable change and looking ahead to what lies beyond the horizon. The end of the year often brings a mix of reflection and anticipation, a time when the open source ecosystem pauses to take stock and to imagine what the next chapter might bring.
In that spirit, I'd like to share a few ...
AI becomes a go-to health resource as hospital access strains
Friday, January 16, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
As OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, allowing users to connect medical records and wellness apps for AI-driven health guidance, a new survey from Drip Hydration confirms Americans are increasingly turning to AI for medical advice. The nationwide survey explores the motivations, demographics, and regional trends behind this growing phenomenon. The data reveals where a...
OpenManus launches Atoms
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
The VC-backed AI coding startup OpenManus is launching Atoms, a next-gen business team - that they say is a new product representing a milestone towards building the AI economy, as the brand-new narrative revolutionises how AI works for entrepreneurs.
Atoms is the first AI team that autonomously builds, launches, and grows real businesses, not just repos, withou...
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...
Ambition launches new app to empower frontline revenue managers
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ambition has expanded its platform with the release of a new mobile app, extending familiar performance intelligence tools into a format designed for managers who spend much of their time away from a desk. At first glance, the app looks intentionally restrained, mirroring the structure and logic users already know. That appears to be the point. Most frontline revenue ma...
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 ...
QAD ignites a new era of operational AI in manufacturing
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
QAD has reached a moment that feels less like a product release and more like a change in posture. The company’s latest announcements point away from manufacturing systems that primarily document what has already happened and toward platforms designed to participate in what comes next. At first glance, the updates fit naturally into QAD’s long-standing focus...
Decoupled Observability stacks Free Teams
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Austin Harris
In 2026, Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply, predicts the end of the all-in-one observability black box. AI is driving massive growth in logs, metrics, and traces, pushing tightly coupled, monolithic observability platforms past their architectural limits. Organizations are hitting a breaking point. They can't scale their current observability stacks without t...
How AI will reshape games, talent, and growth in 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Austin Harris
How AI will reshape games, talent, and growth in 2026
Looking ahead to 2026, the future of games will be shaped by a fundamental shift in how companies operate: how they scale creativity, empower talent, and engage players in real-time. AI is no longer a point solution, but the connective layer redefining marketing, organizational design, and player experience. Toget...
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...
AI generated scams and phishing in 2026
Monday, January 5, 2026 by Austin Harris
David Stonehill, CTO, NetLib Security offers his insight into what 2026 will hold for us in the way of AI scams.
By 2026, AI-generated scams and phishing will be virtually indistinguishable from legitimate apps, storefronts, and communications making detection alone unreliable. App developers will need to design for breach resilience using MFA, passkeys, AI-driven se...
2026 redesigned: What is next for developers
Monday, December 22, 2025 by Austin Harris
Matt Tubergen, EVP of Global Strategy & Partnerships at Digital Turbine, shares (below) his 2026 outlook for software, and the technology industry at large.
What I'm seeing today is a reorganization of the mobile economy driven by changes in consumer spending and global market dynamics, as well as the overwhelming integration of Artificial Intelligence into, ...
Tiny Technology RTE Trends Reveal New Priorities in the Industry
Thursday, December 18, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Tiny Technologies announced the release of its annual industry trends report. The 2025 State of Rich Text Editors report highlights key trends to help technologists make informed decisions for their applications.
Three key themes stood out in this year's report:
AI takes the lead: RTEs must include AI as an active collaborator.
Security first: It’...
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...
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