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The UK’s digital watchdogs have warned enterprises that they can’t evade their legal responsibilities by blaming errors on AI agents that they have deployed. “By taking action on behalf of users, such as making purchases and communicating with businesses, these agents could transform how people use digital services, engage with markets and unlock wider innovation,” said the Digital Regulation Coo…

OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company in order to incorporate the San Francisco-based software developer’s Code.Storage infrastructure layer for Git into its Codex AI-powered programming tool. Pierre Computer, whose employees number just barely in the double digits, has got plenty of clout for its small size. It’s well-known for Code.Storage offering, as well as for its open-source software li…

A memory-safety flaw in CPython can allow malicious AI model templates to escape code sandboxes and execute arbitrary code inside inference servers, according to security researchers at RunSybil. “By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could gain a foothold inside servers responsible for processing millions of user requests,” Darius Houle, a security researcher at RunSybil, wrote in a blog p…

Most enterprise AI conversations still start in the wrong place. They begin with models, platforms, and cloud services. Which foundation model is best? Which provider has the most GPUs ? Which tool can build the flashiest demo? Those questions matter, but they are not where production AI usually succeeds or fails. The better question is: Where should the inference actually happen? That sounds sim…

A major experimental component of Python, its native JIT (just-in-time) compiler , is to be removed. But that won’t make Python any less attractive or powerful. Follow the links below to read about all its new features, explore one of its major libraries for computer vision, discover how Python apps can be made into click-and-run executables, and more. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Py…

AWS on Thursday launched Kiro bots, generally available within Kiro Crew, its open-source multi-agent development environment, to help developers coordinate parallel coding tasks, maintain context across sessions, and automate recurring software development workflows. Kiro bots are designed to take responsibility for specific parts of a developer’s workflow rather than execute isolated tasks with…

Meta has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, gaining technology that coordinates work across competing AI coding agents as it seeks a bigger role in software development tools. Conductor announced the move on Wednesday, saying it would wind down its existing product while developing a new interface that it plans to introduce in early 2027. The company did not disclose financial terms or provide…

Enterprise AI has produced a lot of noise about models, GPUs, vector databases, and agent frameworks. Those conversations matter. But the shift that will decide whether enterprise AI works is happening underneath the models. For decades, metadata meant documentation. Teams built catalogs so people could find data sets, governance programs recorded definitions and ownership, and lineage helped rec…

A few years into working with data, I’ve learned that the hardest part of an AI system is rarely the model. Usually it’s the question of who gets to ask what. That question came up for me while building an LLM analytics tool on Snowflake Cortex for healthcare engagement and field-performance data. The tool let people ask questions in plain English, and it cut recurring analytics turnaround from d…

MariaDB on Wednesday said it was adding four new agent-focused capabilities to Enterprise Platform 2027, the latest version of its enterprise database platform, to help developers retrieve enterprise data faster, maintain agent memory across sessions, and reduce the cost and latency of repeated model queries. These new capabilities include AI Retrieval, AI Plugins, Agent Memory, and Semantic Cach…

Something strange is going on in the job market for software developers. Everyone is worried that their job is going to go away and businesses are going to turn software development over to the machines. Few dispute that agents write good code . I’ve even argued that our days of writing code are pretty much over . Sure, agents are writing the code, but we aren’t quite ready to turn the whole thin…

htmx lets you add rich functionality to web pages without writing JavaScript . But it also lets you integrate JavaScript if you need it, either by adding functions in-line to elements or by writing more complex hooks for events. These behaviors let you take web pages that already use JavaScript, and either migrate to htmx entirely or add htmx only where it’s needed — for instance, in new parts of…

Snowflake is hoping to improve the reliability of AI agents with a new tool called Business Ontology, as part of its Horizon Catalog, meant for data discovery, management, and governance. Horizon Catalog received a boost in June with the launch of Horizon Context , a set of semantic and metadata management capabilities to help enterprises collect, enrich, and organize metadata across their data e…

Ever since Stephen O’Grady’s The New Kingmakers , we’ve all been trying to figure out how to appeal to developers. Now we’re going to have to figure out how to appeal to their agents. AI agents , after all, increasingly write our code and decide which tools, libraries, etc., to use in writing that code. This means that although developers still own the application, it’s often the agents that own …

Most enterprises went into cloud computing with the idea that flexibility was part of the deal. Move faster. Scale on demand. Pay for what you use. Avoid long procurement cycles. Stop buying hardware that sits around waiting for peak demand. That was the promise, and much of it was real. However, many enterprises also made an assumption that turned out to be only partly true: If you need to leave…