AI agents have been all the rage over the last several months, which has led to a need to come up with a standard for how they communicate with tools and data, leading to the creation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic. MCP is “an open standard that enables developers to build secure, … continue reading
The Android team has announced that the Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is now stable. This release adds developer productivity enhancements, such as the ability to analyze crash reports using Gemini, generate unit tests with Gemini, and a Gemini prompt library to eliminate having to rewrite commonly used prompts every time. Compose UI also got … continue reading
Pulumi, a provider of infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, announced a new internal developer platform (IDP) for delivering cloud infrastructure for developers. Pulumi IDP allows platform teams to publish building blocks in the form of Components, Templates, and Policies. These building blocks incorporate best practices with standard configurations and enforcement of security, compliance, cost, and … continue reading
At its IBM THINK conference today, IBM introduced new updates that will help alleviate some of the challenges associated with scaling AI agents. “The era of AI experimentation is over. Today’s competitive advantage comes from purpose-built AI integration that drives measurable business outcomes,” said Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM. “IBM is equipping enterprises … continue reading
Amazon has announced a new agentic coding experience for Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code. “This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based features. You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and reviewing changes,” Amazon wrote in a blog post announcing … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. Here are all the major AI updates we covered in the month of April. Anthropic announces Integrations for Claude Integrations allows users to connect apps and tools to Claude using … continue reading
JetBrains has announced that its code completion LLM, Mellum, is now available on Hugging Face as an open source model. According to the company, Mellum is a “focal model,” meaning that it was built purposely for a specific task, rather than trying to be good at everything. “It’s designed to do one thing really well: … continue reading
Earlier this month, the Certification Authority(CA)/Browser Forum voted to significantly shorten the lifetime of TLS certificates: from 398 days currently to 47 days by March 15, 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a collective of certificate issuers, browsers, and other applications that use certificates, and they’ve long been discussing the potential for shorter certificate lifetimes. As … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Docker MCP … continue reading
Harness has announced a new offering to help developers secure their cloud-native applications and APIs, the first major update to feature Traceable’s technology since the companies merged earlier this year. Traceable Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) provides web application protection, API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense. According to Sudhir Patamsetti, senior. director … continue reading
Zencoder, a company that provides an AI coding agent, has announced that it acquired another company in the AI coding agent business: Machinet. According to Zencoder, this acquisition will solidify the company’s position in the AI coding assistant market and enable it to expand its multi-integration ecosystem into more development environments. Machinet is a plugin … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that over the next several months it will be making a few changes to its Microsoft 365 Developer Program. The program provides tools, documentation, training, access to experts, and community events for developers building apps for Microsoft 365 products. “The Microsoft 365 Developer Program has long been a great resource for developers … continue reading
