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Today’s large language models are verbose, even if they’re being asked to recommend a simple decision, driving up usage costs through the sheer volume of tokens they consume or generate. Enterprises looking to incorporate AI into automated workflows will want something less verbose — both because machines are often just looking for a categorical answer, and because automated workflows are likely …

As debate over AI safety intensifies, new research is drawing attention to a more immediate risk for enterprises: AI agents that can alter the models they rely on while carrying out routine tasks. Researchers at AI security firm Irregular asked a coding agent to solve a software maintenance problem involving an application built on a local AI model that was returning incorrect answers. Instead of…

Walk into any boardroom or technology conference today, and the conversation is entirely consumed by the promise of agentic AI . We are told that autonomous AI agents will soon handle our corporate analytics, democratizing data so that anyone, from an intern to the CEO, can type a natural-language question into Slack and get an instant, data-backed answer. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. If you…

Visual Studio is a lot more than an editor and debugger; it’s the host for Microsoft’s cross-platform build tools. MSBuild is one of those forgotten heroes, a tool that’s at the heart of all your development processes, but one that’s hidden behind the façade of your development environments. MSBuild is where your code, libraries, and SDKs are marshaled and delivered to .NET and other compilers. I…

The green dashboard is one of the most comforting objects in software engineering. It says the build passed, the tests passed, the service is healthy and the incident queue is quiet. When an AI agent is writing code or repairing tests, though, those green signals can become dangerously local. Each layer can report success while the system’s actual behavior drifts away from what a human intended. …

A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with implications for how organizations access, deploy, and govern AI systems. The latest flashpoint came after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for neutral evaluators to independently test AI models, pushing back on calls from rivals to slow deve…

AWS is betting that AI agents need a different interface as they move beyond answering prompts and start working autonomously in the background. The company has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that gives users an inbox for managing work delegated to AI agents, with separate threads for ongoing tasks and a queue for work that is completed or needs human input, rather than keeping…

Career paths for software developers have always been a touch problematic. Early on, you started out as a junior developer, and maybe there were ladder rungs that got you raises until you became a senior developer. But there was typically a ceiling to that, leaving you with little choice but to move into a management position if you wanted to continue to advance and make more money. On top of tha…

One of the first questions I ask devops organizations is to walk me through their development and operations standards. What are the non-negotiable devops practices ? What are the data governance first principles ? What observability standards are in place? How is security embedded in devops ? This is the starting point. From there, we might review standards on how functional requirements are wri…

A swarm of hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded “malicious packages” to RubyGems and tried to steal API keys, the Ruby community gem hosting service revealed Friday. OpenAI confirmed part of the disclosure, saying , “our agents used the RubyGems platform to access the internet to carry out benign tasks and retrieve public information. We’ll continue to investigate as part of our broader review of a…

Java Development Kit 27 , an Oracle-driven, planned update to standard Java, is now generally available. This latest update to standard Java has features ranging from making the Garbage-First (G1) garbage collector the default collector and adding structured concurrency to simplify concurrent programming. Overall, there are nine features listed on what is described as a reference implementation o…

Attackers have opened a new front in their war on software developers: Vite servers, which they are probing for sensitive data including cloud credentials, infrastructure configuration and environment files. Vite was created as a build tool for Vue , a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and web applications, but has now become a widely used development server and build tool across …

Cockroach Labs, the company behind distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is betting that the rise of agentic applications will make traditional database provisioning, where systems are sized for peak demand, increasingly difficult to justify as agents create highly concurrent, unpredictable and often short-lived database workloads that can leave provisioned compute idle between bursts. Its soluti…

If you like the idea of running an LLM on your own computer but tried awhile ago and were disappointed, it may be time to give it another chance. “A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together,” Simon P. Couch, senior software engineer at Posit, posted on Bluesky this spring. “[The April] Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%.”…

There is a quiet war happening underneath the AI boom, and most people are not paying attention to the right front. While headlines focus on which model is winning, which startup is raising money, or which chatbot is gaining users, a parallel race is playing out in data centers and corporate boardrooms across the world. The race is for AI infrastructure: the GPU clusters, power contracts, cooling…