The Java vendor Azul has announced that it is acquiring Payara, a company that provides solutions for Jakarta EE-based applications. The two companies have been collaborating in various ways for the past eight years, starting in 2018 when Azul Platform Core became integrated into Payara Server Enterprise. According to Azul, by officially bringing Payara into … continue reading
Progress Software announced the latest releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI products, which both include an Agentic UI Generator that can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts. The Agentic UI Generator is currently available for Progress Telerik UI for Blazor, Progress KendoReact, and Progress Kendo UI for Angular. “With today’s release, AI-based code … continue reading
Spatial intelligence company Wherobots today announced the launch of a private preview of RasterFlow, a satellite image preparation and inference solution that will make it easier to gain insights from that type of data. “RasterFlow is a new compute engine that is going to help feed data about the physical world to all sorts of … continue reading
The Linux Foundation today announced that it is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to promote transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI. Three major projects have been donated to the foundation at launch: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. Additionally, AAIF member Obot.ai will donate its MCP Dev Summit events … continue reading
The domain name registrar name.com announced new integrations with several different development tool providers—Bolt, Netlify, Replit, and Vercel—to enable domain registration and setup to happen with developers’ existing tools and workflows. According to name.com, traditionally, domain registration has required developers to leave their workflow, leading to slower progress and increased complexity. By integrating its capabilities … continue reading
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring the data streaming company Confluent for $11 billion. Confluent is built on Apache Kafka, an open source data and event streaming platform that is used in analytics, monitoring, and event-driven architectures. The company has over 6,500 clients, including over 40% of the Fortune 500. IBM’s rationale behind … continue reading
For all the capabilities enabled by advances in generative AI technology in the past few years, problems in the underlying architecture are holding it back in multiple ways. Counterintuitive AI is a company attempting to reinvent the AI reasoning stack to address those issues, and it believes that current LLM technology suffers from what the … continue reading
Anthropic acquires Bun Bun is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and JSX toolkit, and Anthropic plans to incorporate it into Claude Code to improve performance and stability and enable new capabilities. “Bun is redefining speed and performance for modern software engineering and development. Founded by Jarred Sumner in 2021, Bun is dramatically faster than the leading competition. … continue reading
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for how companies will manage their data in 2026. Sijie Guo, CEO of StreamNative A fundamental shift is happening in how we think about data engineering. For decades, data engineers prepared data for human … continue reading
Google is adding a Data Commons extension to the Gemini CLI to make it easier for developers to access and interact with publicly available data. Data Commons is a large library of public data from around the world, gathered from sources like the United Nations, the World Bank, and a number of government agencies. The … continue reading
Despite companies wanting to implement AI and reap the benefits of it, a majority don’t have the underlying foundations in place to make it work well. According to CData’s latest report, The State of AI Data Connectivity: 2026 Outlook, there is a clear link between data infrastructure maturity and AI maturity. The report found that … continue reading
Amazon is hosting its annual user conference, re:Invent, this week in Las Vegas. The event brings together AWS practitioners, but also offers Amazon and its partners an opportunity to announce updates across the AWS ecosystem. Here are some of the highlights: Custom transformations in AWS Transform AWS Transform, a platform that can be used to … continue reading
