The Android development team has announced the addition of Agent Mode for Gemini in Android Studio. With Agent Mode, a developer can describe a complex goal, then the agent will come up with an execution plan and then complete the tasks. Examples of tasks Agent Mode can tackle include building a project and fixing errors, … continue reading
At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides a way to connect agents to different data sources … continue reading
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash are generally available and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in preview According to Google, no changes have been made to Pro and Flash since the last preview, except for the pricing for Flash is different. When these models were first announced, there was separate thinking and non-thinking pricing, but Google said that … continue reading
Google has announced updates across its Gemini 2.5 family of reasoning models, including making Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash generally available and introducing a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. According to Google, no changes have been made to Pro and Flash since the last preview, except for the pricing for Flash is different. When these … continue reading
IBM is announcing new capabilities to help companies unify their security and governance strategies for their AI agents. “AI agents are set to revolutionize enterprise productivity, but the very benefits of AI agents can also present a challenge,” said Ritika Gunnar, general manager of data and AI at IBM. “When these autonomous systems aren’t properly … continue reading
We commonly bifurcate technologies into two groups: the old (or “legacy”) and the new (or “modern” and “next gen”). Operating an on-premises bare-metal hardware infrastructure in a colocation provider, for example, may be considered legacy by most measures compared to the more modern approach to using cloud service providers. Monolithic application architectures are more legacy; … continue reading
Parasoft released the latest version of its testing solution for C and C++ code, Parasoft C/C++test 2025.1. According to Parasoft, this latest update includes new capabilities that are designed to meet the strict requirements of applications in heavily regulated industries. It now supports MISRA C:2025, which are guidelines for using C in critical systems; has … continue reading
The team behind the open-source distributed NoSQL database ScyllaDB has announced a new iteration of its managed offering, this time focusing on adapting workloads based on demand. ScyllaDB X Cloud can scale up or down within a matter of minutes to meet actual usage, eliminating the need to overprovision for worst-case scenarios or deal with … continue reading
Advancements in artificial intelligence continue to give developers an edge in efficiently producing code, but developers and companies can’t forget that it’s an edge that can always cut both ways. The latest innovation is the advent of agentic AI, which brings automation and decision-making to complex development tasks. Agentic AI can be coupled with the … continue reading
AI may be the loudest voice in the room right now, but it’s far from the only one shaping modern software development. The full development life cycle still relies on a rich ecosystem of tools and platforms, from APIs and databases to observability and testing frameworks. In this year’s SD Times 100, we celebrate the … continue reading
Many companies today find themselves having to rethink how they build their workforce in the face of urgency to digitally transform and adopt AI, while politics and the global economy are impacting from where talent with those skills can be sourced, according to a new report on talent acquisition. The evolution of what is being … continue reading
Apple announces Foundation Models framework The Foundation Models 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 to process data without it leaving the device, ensuring better data privacy for users. According to Apple, Automattic’s journaling app Day One utilized … continue reading
OpenAI has announced that o3-pro can now be accessed through the OpenAI API. Additionally, Pro and Team users can now use o3-pro in ChatGPT. The pricing for using o3-pro in the API will be 87% cheaper than o1-pro, and the price of o3 is also being cut by 80%. “We optimized our inference stack that … continue reading
Despite having just celebrated its 30 year anniversary, Java is still going strong. Scroll through the list of other programming languages created in the 90s and you won’t find many names you’d still recognize today, yet Java is still prevalent across the industry. TIOBE’s Programming Community index for June 2025 ranks Java as the fourth … continue reading
