Topic: ai

Solo.io Launches Agent Gateway and Introduces Agent Mesh for Unified AI Connectivity

Cloud native application networking company Solo.io today announced Agent Gateway, an open source data plane optimized for agentic AI connectivity in any environment. Agent Gateway provides drop-in security, observability, and governance for agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communication and supports leading interoperable protocols, including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). When developing and deploying AI agents, organizations face the … continue reading

Zencoder acquires Machinet to further improve its AI coding agents

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

Docker MCP Catalog to launch next month with 100+ verified MCP tools

Docker is introducing new MCP-related offerings to provide developers with tools for working with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Coming in May, Docker MCP Catalog will be a marketplace where developers can discover verified and curated MCP tools. The company partnered with several companies to build the catalog, including Stripe, Elastic, Heroku, Pulumi, Grafana Labs, … continue reading

Q&A: The skills developers need in an era of AI development

The integration of AI into the software development life cycle has brought many benefits, but it’s also brought change to the software development role.  In the latest episode of our podcast, What the Dev, we interviewed Antje Barth, principal developer advocate for generative AI at AWS, about these changes and the new skills developers need.  … continue reading

JetBrains announces a free tier for its AI tools

JetBrains has been adding several AI offerings to its portfolio over the past few years, including AI Assistant and its AI agent Junie. Now, the company is announcing that all of those AI tools will be available under a single subscription. As part of this announcement, the company said that it will offer a free … continue reading

April 11, 2025: AI updates from the past week — Google’s new tools for building AI agents, agent mode in GitHub Copilot, and more

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.  Google announces … continue reading

Agents bring the role of AI in development from reactive to proactive

AI agents are not just making developers more productive, they’re transforming the way developers are using AI to build software.  According to Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations at GitLab, the first wave of AI capabilities for developers, like GitHub Copilot or GitLab Duo, were reactive tools for helping developers do tasks … continue reading

Google goes all in on agent development, Gemini at Google Cloud Next 25

Google Cloud Next 25 is taking place today, and Google has announced a number of new announcements, mainly related to enhancing Gemini offerings and making it easier to build and adopt agents.  Here are a couple of highlights from the event: New tools for building AI agents The company announced the Agent Development Kit (ADK), … continue reading

Solo.io launches MCP Gateway to tackle AI agent sprawl

Solo.io has announced the launch of its MCP Gateway, a Model Context Protocol gateway for the cloud native API gateway kgateway (previously called Gloo). MCP is an open protocol developed by Anthropic that provides a standard for how applications connect data sources and tools to LLMs. According to Solo.io, as MCP adoption continues to grow, … continue reading

Kong AI Gateway updated with features to reduce LLM hallucination and protect sensitive personal data

Kong has announced updates to its AI Gateway, a platform for governance and security of LLMs and other AI resources.  One of the new features in AI Gateway 3.10 is a RAG Injector to reduce LLM hallucinations by automatically querying the vector database and inserting relevant data to ensure the LLM is augmenting the results … continue reading

March 2025: All AI updates from the past month

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 March. Google releases reasoning model Gemini 2.5, its “most intelligent AI model” yet Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking … continue reading

Mar 28, 2025: AI updates from the past week — Gemini 2.5, OpenAI 4o image generation, new reasoning agents from Microsoft, and more

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.  Google releases … continue reading

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