Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry. Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and … continue reading
Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns. According to the company, as AI systems move from answering single questions to executing multi-step workflows, the static tests and training data … continue reading
Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost. According to Google, this model is ideal for iterative development, as it is able to quickly reason and solve tasks in high-frequency workflows. It also outperforms all Gemini 2.5 models as well as Gemini … continue reading
Docker has announced that it is open sourcing its catalog of over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI), which are production-ready images maintained by Docker to reduce vulnerabilities in container images. Each image includes a complete software bill of materials (SBOM), transparent public CVE data, SLSA Build Level 3 provenance, and cryptographic proof of authenticity. Available … continue reading
Zencoder is introducing its Zenflow desktop app in an attempt to help development teams transition from vibe coding to AI-First Engineering. According to the company, AI coding has hit a ceiling due to LLMs producing code that looks correct but fails in production or gets worse as it is iterated on. Zenflow introduces an AI … continue reading
Google has announced a new project that aims to leverage generative AI to build contextually relevant UIs. A2UI is an open source tool that generates UIs based on the current conversation’s needs. For example, an agent designed to help users book restaurant reservations would be more useful if it featured an interface to input the … continue reading
OpenAI announces GPT-5.2 GPT-5.2 is optimized for professional knowledge work, scoring a 70.9% (using GPT-5.2 Thinking) on knowledge work tasks on the GDPval benchmark, compared to just 38.8% for GPT-5.1 Thinking. The company has started rolling out GPT-5.2 in ChatGPT today, with Instant, Thinking, and Pro modes, starting with paid plans. It is also available … continue reading
Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration. The original survey found that 84% of developers use or planned to use AI in their development workflows, but that they often were frustrated when AI gives … continue reading
The UI company Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components. According to the company, many of its components were already free to use, but making them open source provides developers with the opportunity to freely modify and extend them. It … continue reading
The FinOps Foundation has announced the latest version of the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), aiming to solve problems related to splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness. FOCUS 1.3 adds new allocation-specific columns to enable teams to expose how they are splitting costs of shared resources, such … continue reading
