Apple announces Foundation Models framework The Foundation Models framework will enable any app developer to utilize Apple Intelligence’s on-device processing for their apps. Apple Intelligence leverages Apple’s silicon processors to be able to process data without it leaving the device, ensuring better data privacy for users. According to Apple, Automattic’s journaling app Day One utilized … continue reading
OpenAI has announced that o3-pro can now be accessed through the OpenAI API. Additionally, Pro and Team users can now use o3-pro in ChatGPT. The pricing for using o3-pro in the API will be 87% cheaper than o1-pro, and the price of o3 is also being cut by 80%. “We optimized our inference stack that … continue reading
Despite having just celebrated its 30 year anniversary, Java is still going strong. Scroll through the list of other programming languages created in the 90s and you won’t find many names you’d still recognize today, yet Java is still prevalent across the industry. TIOBE’s Programming Community index for June 2025 ranks Java as the fourth … continue reading
Zencoder has announced a public beta for Zentester, its new end-to-end UI testing AI agent. Zentester imitates how humans behave when interacting with web applications, such as navigating the layout, and identifying and using interactive elements. It does this by combining images (screenshots) with DOM (snapshot) information. As it runs through test scenarios, it generates … continue reading
At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced several new tools and platforms designed to better support enterprise customers who are trying to leverage their data to create company-specific AI applications and agents. Lakebase Lakebase is a managed Postgres database designed for running AI apps and agents. It adds an operational database layer to Databricks’ … continue reading
Harness has announced a major update to its IDP designed to provide platform teams with the structure, speed, and control needed to scale developer portals to a large number of developers. “Whether you’re supporting 100s or 1,000s of developers, Harness IDP gives platform teams the structure, speed, and control they need to transform developer experience … continue reading
Azul has announced an update to its Vulnerability Detection solution that promises to reduce false positives in Java vulnerability detection by up to 99% by only flagging vulnerabilities in code paths that are actually used. According to Azul, typical scanners scan JAR files for components by name, rather than what the JVM actually loads. Erik … continue reading
During WWDC today, Apple announced a number of updates to its tools for software developers, including the new Foundation Models framework, Xcode 26, Swift 6.2, and more. Foundation Models framework The framework will enable any app developer to utilize Apple Intelligence’s on-device processing for their apps. Apple Intelligence leverages Apple’s silicon processors to be able … continue reading
OpenAI announces Codex updates The coding agent Codex can now access the internet during task execution, opening up new capabilities such as the ability to install base dependencies, run tests that need external resources, and upgrade or install packages. Internet access is turned off by default. It can be enabled when a new environment is … continue reading
Ever since ChatGPT launched in 2022, developers have been bombarded with countless blog posts, news articles, podcast episodes, and YouTube videos about how powerful AI is and how it has the potential to do the work of developers. Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei made headlines a few months back when he claimed that “I … continue reading
API discoverability — the ability for developers to actually find your API and use it — has always been important, but it’s becoming increasingly more important as AI agents become more prevalent. “If your APIs are lying around and they’re not discoverable or they’re not documented, then it’s going to be very hard for people … continue reading
At its annual development conference POST/CON, Postman announced several new updates across its platforms to make it easier to design, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents and APIs. One of the main announcements is the introduction of Agent Mode, an AI agent that can interact with all of Postman’s core capabilities. Specifically, it can create, … continue reading
