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Oracle and AWS have expanded their collaboration to make the Oracle Database@AWS service generally available in the US. The Oracle Database@AWS service, previewed in September last year, is a continuation of Oracle’s strategy to partner with hyperscalers to offer its database services in the latter’s infrastructure. In September 2023, Oracle started collocating its Oracle database hardware (inclu…

A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent , which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial model. Google recently released the Agent Development Kit , a library for Python and Java that handles many boilerplate aspects of creating AI agents…

The debate about intelligence versus wisdom is as old as history, but artificial intelligence has transformed it into an intensely practical question. The cheaper professional knowledge becomes, the more precious it is to know how to wield it. It’s becoming ever clearer that the most valuable thing is not just the power to do things but wielding it effectively. Formulating and comprehending aims …

Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid application development was changing the way software was built. Being able to produce a Windows application with a few drag-n-drops and a few lines of c…

AI platform company Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an offering designed to give developers and MLops engineers flexible options for deploying and managing AI models. Unveiled July 8, AI Runners let users connect models running on local machines or private servers directly to Clarifai’s AI platform via a publicly accessible API, the company said. Noting the rise of agentic AI , Clarifai said AI…

ECMAScript 2025 , the latest version of the ECMA International standard for JavaScript , has been officially approved. The specification standardizes new JavaScript capabilities including JSON modules, import attributes, new Set methods, sync iterator helpers, and regular expression modifiers. The ECMAScript 2025 specification was finalized by ECMA International on June 25. All told, nine finishe…

Welcome to the 25 th annual InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards. The InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best and most innovative products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Since 2001, the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards have celebrated the most groundbreaking products in information te…

Agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping how software interacts with the world. New frameworks for agent-to-agent collaboration and multi-agent control planes promise a future where software acts with more autonomy and shared context than ever before. Yet amid all this excitement, one quietly persistent idea holds everything together: metadata. Known in data management circles for decades, metadata …

Microsoft has added OpenAI-developed Deep Research capability to its Azure AI Foundry Agent service to help enterprises integrate research automation into their business applications. The integration of research automation is made possible by Deep Research API and SDK, which can be used by developers to embed, extend, and orchestrate Deep Research-as-a-service across an enterprise’s ecosystem, in…

Nvidia’s recent initiative to dive deeper into the GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) model marks a significant and strategic shift that reflects an evolving landscape within the cloud computing market. As enterprises increase their reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, the demand for high-performance computing has surged. Nvidia’s move is not only timely, but al…

LinkedIn has become the new Twitter now that Twitter is… well, X. LinkedIn is a place of shockingly bold claims. One person claimed to be so confident in agentic development that they are going to generate their own operating system on the level of iOS or Android. Ever the iconoclast, I pointed out that it was not possible they would ever publish or install it. Another pitchman promoted the idea …

Across 10 countries in Europe, Deutsche Telekom serves millions of users, each with their own questions, needs, and contexts. Responding quickly and accurately isn’t just good service; it builds trust, drives efficiency, and impacts the bottom line. But doing that consistently depends on surfacing the right information at the right time, in the right context. In early 2023, I joined a small cross…

Deno 2.4, the latest version of Deno Land’s JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, has been released with the restoration of the deno bundle subcommand for creating single-file JavaScript bundles. Announced July 2 , Deno 2.4 also stabilizes Deno’s built-in OpenTelemetry support for collecting and exporting telemetry data, and offers easier dependency management, Deno Land said. Current users of Deno …

In this second half of a two-part introduction to JUnit 5 , we’ll move beyond the basics and learn how to test more complicated scenarios. In the previous article , you learned how to write tests using the @Test and @ParameterizedTest annotations, validate test results using JUnit 5’s built-in assertions, and work with JUnit 5 lifecycle annotations and tags. In this article, we’ll focus more on i…

Today’s developers navigate a complex landscape marked by slow development cycles, skills gaps, talent shortages , high customization costs, and tightening budgets. The burden of maintaining legacy systems, while adapting to business evolution, adds further strain. With the pressure to drive ROI from software investments, organizations often find themselves caught in the “build vs. buy” dilemma, …