Twilio’s Event Triggered Journeys, OutSystem’s Agent Workbench, and more – Daily News Digest

Twilio launches Event Triggered Journeys in Twilio Engage This new capability allows developers to incorporate personalized, scalable messaging into their applications by utilizing event data, user profile information, and context from the data warehouse, such as loyalty status or account details. According to Twilio, it can help with use cases like cart abandonment, ad suppression, …

Harness Infrastructure as Code Management expands with features that facilitate better reusability

Harness is expanding its Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) platform with two new features that should enable greater reusability. “During customer meetings one theme came up over and over again – the need to define infrastructure once and reuse it across the platform in a secure and consistent manner, at scale. Our latest expansion of …

Amazon launches spec-driven AI IDE, Kiro

Amazon is releasing a new AI IDE to rival platforms like Cursor or Windsurf. Kiro is an agentic editor that utilizes spec-driven development to combine “the flow of vibe coding” with “the clarity of specs.” According to Amazon, developers use specs for planning and clarity, and they can benefit agents in the same way.   Specs …

Akka introduces platform for distributed agentic AI

Akka, a company that provides solutions for building distributed applications, is introducing a new platform for scaling AI agents across distributed systems.  “Agentic systems are forcing IT leaders to rethink their technology stack,” said Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka. “IT systems must adapt from controlling predefined workflows to managing intelligent, adaptive systems operating in open-ended …

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JFrog finds MCP-related vulnerability, highlighting need for stronger focus on security in MCP ecosystem

Earlier this week, JFrog disclosed CVE-2025-6514, a critical vulnerability in the mcp-remote project that could allow an attacker to “trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running mcp-remote when it initiates a connection to an untrusted MCP server.”  Mcp-remote is a project that allows LLM hosts to communicate with remote MCP servers, even if …

This week in AI dev tools: Gemini API Batch Mode, Amazon SageMaker AI updates, and more (July 11, 2025)

Gemini API gets Batch Mode Batch Mode allows large jobs to be submitted through the Gemini API. Results are returned within 24 hours, and the delayed processing offers benefits like a 50% reduction in cost and higher rate limits.  “Batch Mode is the perfect tool for any task where you have your data ready upfront …

Vibe Loop: AI-native reliability engineering for the real world

We’ve come a long way since Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book reframed uptime as an engineering discipline nearly a decade ago. Observability and automation have made building and running complex software systems saner and more reliable. What they haven’t done, though, is change the fundamentally reactive nature of troubleshooting production systems. AI agents may change that equation. …

Docker Compose gets new features for building and running agents

Docker has updated Compose with new features that will make it easier for developers to build, ship, and run AI agents.  Developers can define open models, agents, and MCP-compatible tools in a compose.yaml file and then spin up an agentic stack with a single command: docker compose up. Compose integrates with several agentic frameworks, including …

Report: AI coding productivity gains cancelled out by other friction points that slow developers down

AI adoption is saving developers a significant amount of time, but several friction points still exist throughout the software development life cycle that developers are still losing time to. According to Atlassian’s 2025 State of Developer Experience report, 99% of developers are saving time by using AI, and 68% save at least 10 hours a …

Coder reimagines development environments to make them more ideal for AI agents

Coder is announcing the launch of its AI cloud development environments (CDEs), bringing together IDEs, dynamic policy governance, and agent orchestration into a single platform.  According to Coder, current development infrastructure was built for humans, not agents, and agents have different requirements to be successful. “Agents need secure environments, granular permissions, fast boot times, and …

Newest LF Decentralized Trust Lab HOPrS identifies if photos have been altered

OpenOrigins has announced that its Human-Oriented Proof System (HOPrS) has been accepted by the Linux Foundation’s Decentralized Trust as a new Lab. HOPrS is an open-source framework that can be used to figure out if an image has been altered. “If we’re doing things like rotating images, or cropping them, or changing the saturation, turning …

Sonatype Open Source Malware Index, Gemini API Batch Mode, and more – Daily News Digest

Sonatype finds 188% increase in open source malware since last year The company published its Open Source Malware Index for Q2 2025, finding 16,279 new malicious open source packages. Compared to the same quarter last year, there was a 188% increase in the number of malicious packages discovered.  4,400 of the packages were designed to …

Anthropic proposes transparency framework for frontier AI development

Anthropic is calling for the creation of an AI transparency framework that can be applied to large AI developers to ensure accountability and safety.  “As models advance, we have an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate scientific discovery, healthcare, and economic growth. Without safe and responsible development, a single catastrophic failure could halt progress for decades. Our …

Last week in AI dev tools: Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers by default, Perplexity Max subscription, and more (July 7, 2025)

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on.  The company explained that by switching to …

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