Microsoft has announced a preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows. It supports creating individual agents as well as graph-based workflows to connect up multiple agents. According to Microsoft, the Agent Framework is a direct successor to its other projects Semantic … continue reading
Anthropic claims its newly released Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the “best coding model in the world” Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared … continue reading
DigitalOcean and the company behind the PHP framework Laravel have announced a new partnership to help developers more easily provision servers for web development. Their new offering, Laravel VPS, brings together server creation and application management within the server provisioning platform Laravel Forge. With Laravel VPS developers can purchase and deploy fully configured servers within … continue reading
Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models. “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive,” Newsom said. “This legislation strikes that balance. AI is the … continue reading
Salesforce is announcing several major updates to Slack that will enable customers to leverage their conversation history for AI apps and agents. The company is announcing a real-time search (RTS) API, which surfaces up-to-date discussions, files, and channels to provide agents access with context-aware information. To ensure secure use of information, data remains in Slack … continue reading
OX Security is shifting security as far left as it can go with the launch of VibeSec, which it says can stop insecure AI-generated code before the code even gets generated. It does this by embedding dynamic security context into the coding model so that it doesn’t suggest code that contains security issues. “VibeSec doesn’t … continue reading
The promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize how businesses interact with their data has captured the imagination of enterprises worldwide. Yet, as organizations rush to implement AI solutions, they’re discovering a fundamental challenge: LLMs, for all their linguistic prowess, weren’t designed to understand the complex, heterogeneous landscape of enterprise data systems. The gap … continue reading
UiPath today announced several updates across its portfolio at its user conference, UiPath FUSION, in Las Vegas. “Available today, this combination of pre-built solutions, new capabilities for orchestrations, and supporting tools for building and testing agents and automations creates an ecosystem that enables organizations to deploy rapid agentic automation,” the company wrote in an announcement. … continue reading
Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4. For external comparison, GPT-5 … continue reading
Microsoft is attempting to improve the developer experience for those building distributed applications with the latest updates to Aspire, a collection of tools, templates, and packages for building such apps. One of the new features in Aspire 9.5 that Microsoft drew attention to is a preview for a new command: aspire update. This new command … continue reading
Google adds Data Commons MCP Server, new versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite The Data Commons MCP Server allows AI developers to easily access all of Data Commons’ publicly available datasets. It can be accessed via the Gemini CLI or in Google Colab, and Google has a sample agent in Colab as well to … continue reading
Microsoft has restructured its Marketplace to serve as a central place for organizations to find cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. This new reimagining brings together Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource to simplify cloud and AI management, Microsoft explained. It includes tens of thousands of cloud and industry solutions that can help with everything from … continue reading
PostgreSQL 18 has been released, with several new features like asynchronous I/O, better post-upgrade performance, and improved text processing. Asynchronous I/O allows PostgreSQL to issue multiple I/O requests at the same time rather than waiting for one to finish before starting the next. According to the PostgreSQL team, this improves overall throughput, and has resulted … continue reading
CData has announced the launch of a new managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform bringing together AI assistants, agent orchestration, workflow automation, and embedded AI applications—combined with access to over 300 enterprise data sources. According to the company, Connect AI preserves data semantics and relationships in enterprise data to give AI agents better context while … continue reading
