OpenAI announces agentic security researcher that can find and fix vulnerabilities OpenAI has released a private beta for a new AI agent called Aardvark that acts as a security researcher, finding vulnerabilities and applying fixes, at scale. “Software security is one of the most critical—and challenging—frontiers in technology. Each year, tens of thousands of new … continue reading
OpenAI has released a private beta for a new AI agent called Aardvark that acts as a security researcher, finding vulnerabilities and applying fixes, at scale. “Software security is one of the most critical—and challenging—frontiers in technology. Each year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases. Defenders face the … continue reading
Spatial data – a record of physical or virtual data – is important to a variety of industries, yet a gap remains between collecting the raw data and gaining AI insights from it. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Damian Wylie, the head of products at spatial ETL, analytics and GeoAI company Wherobots, … continue reading
Elastic has introduced a new disk-friendly vector search algorithm, called DiskBBQ, to Elasticsearch. According to the company, this new algorithm is more efficient than traditional search techniques in vector databases, like Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW), which is currently the most commonly used technique. With HNSW, all vectors are required to reside in memory, which … continue reading
The AI coding editor Cursor announced the launch of Cursor 2.0, the next iteration of the platform, featuring a new interface for working with multiple agents and its first ever coding model. The new multi-agent interface centers around agents instead of files. With this new interface, up to eight agents can work in parallel, using … continue reading
Organizations are spending huge dollars on AI agents, but are finding that integrating the agents into all the systems the business needs to function is a very high hurdle. To help make SaaS platforms agent-ready, integration orchestration company Workato released Workato Enterprise MCP, which the company said in its announcement can “turn existing workflows, integrations, … continue reading
JetBrains has released a new tool designed to enable developers to measure their actual productivity gains from AI tools. The company’s Developer Productivity AI Arena (DPAI Arena) is an open benchmarking platform for how well AI development tools complete real-world software engineering tasks. According to the company, current benchmarks that LLMs are run against rely … continue reading
Espresso AI, the LLM-driven optimization platform for data warehouses, today launched a new solution that turns Databricks into an agentic lakehouse. Espresso AI was founded by ex-Googlers who worked on Google DeepMind and have applied their AI research to optimize utilization and reduce costs by 50% across modern data warehouses. “Databricks is seeing explosive growth … continue reading
During its annual conference, GitHub Universe, GitHub shared its plans for Agent HQ, its vision for the future of the platform where AI agents are natively integrated across all of GitHub. As part of this Agent HQ initiative, over the next several months, paid GitHub Copilot users will gain direct access to popular coding agents … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation today introduced the Agent Definition Language (ADL), an open language and visual toolkit for defining agent behavior. It was introduced as a part of the Eclipse Language Models Operating System (LMOS) project, an open source platform for building and running multi-agent systems. “Agentic AI is redefining enterprise software, yet until now there … continue reading
We’ve all witnessed the AI boom over the past few years, but these seismic tech shifts don’t just materialize out of thin air. As companies rush to deploy AI models and AI-powered apps, we’re seeing a parallel surge in complexity. That growth is a threat to your system’s uptime and availability. It boils down to … continue reading
OpenAI today announced that it has completed the restructuring of its business. When the company was founded in 2015, it was launched as a non-profit organization and that non-profit has controlled the for-profit arm of the business. Today’s restructuring turns the for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation called OpenAI PBC. The OpenAI Foundation—the new … continue reading