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The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular open-source framework for developing and deploying AI agents. It is optimized for Gemini and the Google ecosystem, but the ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and built for compatibility with other frameworks. The ADK was designed to make agent development feel more like software development, to help developers create, deplo…

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research lab into the boardroom, the data center and virtually every business function in between. Nearly 80 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one core business process, according to McKinsey, yet widespread adoption has surfaced a persistent problem: a deep shortage of professionals who can translate AI tools into measurable business resul…

This week in New York, my Oracle team ran workshops for enterprise developers on building retrieval-augmented generation and agentic applications. Interest was so strong that we quickly had to figure out how to double the room’s capacity (much to the fire marshal’s chagrin). Interest in AI was clearly off the charts. But AI fluency was not. It was a different vibe (and audience) from what we’ve s…

The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension, which brings language support for Apple’s Swift programming language to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, now is available on the Open VSX Registy , an Eclipse Foundation-hosted open source registry for VS Code extensions. The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension adds first-class language support for projects built with Swift Package Manager, ena…

AWS is expanding its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore portfolio with a new managed service, Agent Registry, designed to help enterprises catalog, manage, and govern their growing fleets of AI agents and their associated tools. The service provides a unified directory of agents, capturing metadata such as capabilities, identities, and integrations, and is designed to support agents built with different mo…

A recent article on transfer-friendly online cloud computing degree programs highlights a shift in how cloud professionals are educated, credentialed, and hired. This trend moves well beyond a few schools experimenting with digital delivery. An impressive number of accredited colleges and universities now offer online cloud-focused degrees, allowing students to enter the profession without tradit…

Our multi-agent AI system was impressive in demos. One agent handled customer inquiries. Another managed scheduling. A third processed documents. Each worked beautifully in isolation. In production, they fought each other. The scheduling agent would book appointments while the inquiry agent was still gathering requirements. The document agent processed files using outdated context from a conversa…

Microsoft officials have confirmed, and are trying to correct, a reauthentication snafu with developers in its Windows Hardware Program which has blocked an unknown number of independent software vendors (ISVs) from access to Microsoft systems. That in turn has interrupted operations for the their customers globally. The process started in October, when Microsoft began account verification for it…

Anthropic has announced Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs for building and hosting cloud-hosted agents. The intent is to give any company building on the Claude Platform the full production stack for shipping AI agents at scale. Launched April 8 in a public beta on the Claude Platform , Claude Managed Agents is purpose-built for Claude, enabling better agent outcomes with less eff…

Meta’s new “small and fast” AI model, Muse Spark, is an acknowledgement that as enterprises scale AI systems beyond millions of users and for use on a greater variety of devices, they must make things more efficient and more application-specific. Muse Spark now powers the Meta AI assistant on the web and in the Meta AI app, and the company plans to roll it out across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook…

Running databases on Kubernetes is popular. For cloud-native organizations, Kubernetes is the de facto standard approach to running databases. According to Datadog , databases are the most popular workload to deploy in containers, with 45 percent of container-using organizations using this approach. The Data on Kubernetes Community found that production deployments were now common, with the most …

Forms remain one of the most important interaction surfaces in modern web applications. Nearly every product relies on them to capture user input, validate data, and coordinate workflows between users and back-end systems. Yet despite their importance, forms are also one of the areas where front-end complexity tends to accumulate quietly over time. For simple scenarios, Angular forms feel straigh…

Generative AI has revolutionized the space of software development in such a way that developers can now write code at an unprecedented speed. Various tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer and ChatGPT have become a normal part of how engineers carry out their work nowadays. I have experienced this firsthand, in my roles from leading engineering teams at Amazon to working on large-sca…

Minimus, a provider of hardened container images and secure container images designed to reduce CVE risk, today announced the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly created role, Nardi will lead the company’s next phase of operations, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, strategic operations, and future corporate development. As the market landscape evolves …

Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of the Microsoft’s extrensible code editor , previews a companion app called Visual Studio Code Agents, optimized for agent-native development. Additionally, the agent experience in the editor is improved for running terminal commands in the background, according to Microsoft. Introduced April 8 , Visual Studio Code 1.115 can be downloaded from the Vis…