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
As every company moves to implement AI in some form or another, data is king. Without quality data to train on, the AI likely won’t deliver the results people are looking for and any investment made into training the model won’t pay off in the way it was intended. “If you’re training your AI model … 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 May. Mistral launches Agents API The Agents API includes built-in connectors for code execution, web search, image … continue reading
Dynatrace has launched its Live Debugger, which allows developers to debug services running in production without interrupting running code. It allows them to access code-level data without adding new code or redeploying, inspect an application’s full state, and debug across thousands of workload instances simultaneously. Mistral launches Agents API The Agents API includes built-in connectors … continue reading
Infragistics has released an update to its UX/UI platform, adding new features to App Builder and new components across the Ignite UI Toolbox. The no-code design tool App Builder was updated with an AI-powered view generation that can be used to create UI layouts and components from text prompts. It also has new Card, Row, … continue reading
New Relic has announced a new integration with GitHub Copilot’s coding agent. It provides monitoring of code deployments and can automatically detect issues that arise as a result of changes. Whenever a problem is identified, New Relic will create a GitHub issue with any relevant context, which the developer can then assign to GitHub Copilot … continue reading
Amazon has announced that Amazon Aurora DSQL is finally generally available after first being introduced as a preview at re:Invent last year. Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database designed for always available applications, featuring capabilities focused on providing scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Specifically, Amazon claims 99.99% availability in a single … continue reading
The performance monitoring company Catchpoint has announced a number of updates to its platform, including a new solution that allows developers to perform real-user monitoring (RUM) on mobile devices. Mobile RUM is built on OpenTelemetry and provides insights into how mobile experiences are impacted by app code, network conditions, and more. “Catchpoint was an early … continue reading
