Organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t, according to a new survey from Cloudflare. The 2026 App Innovation Report found that 93% of leaders believe that updating their software was “the single most important factor in boosting … continue reading
Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away. “EmeritOSS exists for the projects that have earned their stripes. They’ve shipped, scaled, and supported real systems, and while their maintainers may be ready to … continue reading
Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, … continue reading
Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. According to the company, a lot of organizational knowledge lives in contracts, product specifications, policy documents, charts, and other types of unstructured content. Box … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE. According to Microsoft, the extension is useful because developers need to have similar controls and processes when developing agents as they do for other … continue reading
Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models. Kaggle is a community platform run by Google that offers models and resources for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Last year, it had introduced Kaggle Benchmarks to provide evaluations from … continue reading
Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack. “By bringing the full power of the Agentic Enterprise where billions of workplace conversations already happen every week, working with enterprise-grade AI becomes as natural as talking to a coworker,” Salesforce wrote in an … continue reading
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. “As consumers embrace conversational experiences, … continue reading
Unit testing company Typemock has released the latest version of its C++ testing solution, Isolator++. Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros. According to the company, this allows for cleaner, more expressive test code, as well as improving IDE integration and code completion. This … continue reading
Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management, and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Now called OpenEverest, the platform was redesigned to be modular, enabling users to mix and match database engines, storage backends, and deployment strategies. Several popular tools are already available as … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio. It provides a number of tools and resources for XAML development, including live editing and interacting, a binding debugger, a data context editor, the ability to auto-save … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos. It plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric. According to Microsoft, Osmos’ AI agents turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets that can be used by OneLake, which is Fabric’s unified data lake. Microsoft says that … continue reading
