Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns. According to the company, as AI systems move from answering single questions to executing multi-step workflows, the static tests and training data … continue reading
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in AI in 2026. Ariel Katz, CEO of Sisense From agent hype to outcome accountability 2025 was the year agents exploded; 2026 is the year enterprises demand proof they actually work. After … continue reading
Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
AI promised to simplify project management. In practice, it often did the opposite. Instead of fewer tools and clearer execution, teams now juggle “AI add-ons” layered onto fragmented chat platforms, task trackers, and reporting systems that were never designed to work together. The result is familiar: constant context switching, duplicated effort, and project managers spending … continue reading
Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost. According to Google, this model is ideal for iterative development, as it is able to quickly reason and solve tasks in high-frequency workflows. It also outperforms all Gemini 2.5 models as well as Gemini … continue reading
The dominant story of 2025 – one that infused new challenges and opportunities for software development, delivery, security, testing, observability and more – was the rapid, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. Organizations have been kicking the tire on AI for the past several years, but 2025 saw an explosion of AI-powered offerings all along the … continue reading
Zencoder is introducing its Zenflow desktop app in an attempt to help development teams transition from vibe coding to AI-First Engineering. According to the company, AI coding has hit a ceiling due to LLMs producing code that looks correct but fails in production or gets worse as it is iterated on. Zenflow introduces an AI … continue reading
Google has announced a new project that aims to leverage generative AI to build contextually relevant UIs. A2UI is an open source tool that generates UIs based on the current conversation’s needs. For example, an agent designed to help users book restaurant reservations would be more useful if it featured an interface to input the … continue reading
Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration. The original survey found that 84% of developers use or planned to use AI in their development workflows, but that they often were frustrated when AI gives … continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform company, today announced a $240 million Series E financing round. The financing round is comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs and a planned $40 million tender offer with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures. This investment values Harness at $5.5 … continue reading
The Linux Foundation today announced that it is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to promote transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI. Three major projects have been donated to the foundation at launch: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. Additionally, AAIF member Obot.ai will donate its MCP Dev Summit events … continue reading
For all the capabilities enabled by advances in generative AI technology in the past few years, problems in the underlying architecture are holding it back in multiple ways. Counterintuitive AI is a company attempting to reinvent the AI reasoning stack to address those issues, and it believes that current LLM technology suffers from what the … continue reading
