AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. A popular use case right now is ChatGPT, which allows you to conversationally ask questions to a chatbot and get back relevant information because the AI can understand what you’re asking in plain language. Beyond just answering questions, these AIs are capable of writing code, creating detailed plans based on your specifications, summarizing documents, and more.
AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. AI can be baked into applications to improve end user experience by creating personalized recommendations and tailoring experiences to the end user. AI-assisted development tools can complete the piece of code you started writing, or even offer suggestions for how to improve your code. Generative AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, can be used to ask for specific code snippets to perform a task, can explain what is happening in a piece of code, or can be used to troubleshoot why your code isn’t working as intended.
Read the articles below for more information on what you need to know about AI.
Microsoft has announced a preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows. It supports creating individual agents as well as graph-based workflows to connect up multiple agents. According to Microsoft, the Agent Framework is a direct successor to its other projects Semantic … continue reading
Anthropic claims its newly released Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the “best coding model in the world” Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared … continue reading
Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models. “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive,” Newsom said. “This legislation strikes that balance. AI is the … continue reading
Salesforce is announcing several major updates to Slack that will enable customers to leverage their conversation history for AI apps and agents. The company is announcing a real-time search (RTS) API, which surfaces up-to-date discussions, files, and channels to provide agents access with context-aware information. To ensure secure use of information, data remains in Slack … continue reading
The promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize how businesses interact with their data has captured the imagination of enterprises worldwide. Yet, as organizations rush to implement AI solutions, they’re discovering a fundamental challenge: LLMs, for all their linguistic prowess, weren’t designed to understand the complex, heterogeneous landscape of enterprise data systems. The gap … continue reading
UiPath today announced several updates across its portfolio at its user conference, UiPath FUSION, in Las Vegas. “Available today, this combination of pre-built solutions, new capabilities for orchestrations, and supporting tools for building and testing agents and automations creates an ecosystem that enables organizations to deploy rapid agentic automation,” the company wrote in an announcement. … continue reading
Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4. For external comparison, GPT-5 … continue reading
Google adds Data Commons MCP Server, new versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite The Data Commons MCP Server allows AI developers to easily access all of Data Commons’ publicly available datasets. It can be accessed via the Gemini CLI or in Google Colab, and Google has a sample agent in Colab as well to … continue reading
Microsoft has restructured its Marketplace to serve as a central place for organizations to find cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. This new reimagining brings together Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource to simplify cloud and AI management, Microsoft explained. It includes tens of thousands of cloud and industry solutions that can help with everything from … continue reading
CData has announced the launch of a new managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform bringing together AI assistants, agent orchestration, workflow automation, and embedded AI applications—combined with access to over 300 enterprise data sources. According to the company, Connect AI preserves data semantics and relationships in enterprise data to give AI agents better context while … continue reading
OpenAI updates Codex The company released GPT-5-Codex, a variant of GPT-5 that is optimized for Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding agent. It was trained on real-world engineering tasks like building projects from scratch, adding features and tests, debugging, large-scale refactoring, and code reviews. “With these updates, Codex moves closer to what we’ve been building toward all … continue reading
Engineering leadership and executives are out of touch when it comes to software testing and how AI can be applied to the process, according to Sauce Labs’ 2025 Software Testing Vibe Check: Agentic Edition report. 61% of survey respondents—who consisted of 400 testing executives and engineering leaders surveyed in June 2024—said that their top leadership … continue reading
