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Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs directly instead of processing a free-form response from a large language model (LLM). The model targets tasks such as classifying requests, prioritizing incidents, and checking AI-generated responses. Microsoft says it can handle these decisions with…

Every few weeks, another enterprise leader asks me the same question: Should our AI agents run in the cloud or in our own data center? It sounds like a simple either/or, but it is the wrong way to frame the decision. Agents are not a single workload. They are orchestrated collections of model inference, tool execution, memory state, and integration logic. Some pieces belong in the cloud, some bel…

Developers have never been more inclined to use AI, yet never less inclined to trust its output. In Stack Overflow’s surveys, the proportion of respondents using AI tools in development keeps climbing (44% in 2023, 62% in 2024 , and 83% in 2026 ), but trust hasn’t kept pace. In the 2025 accuracy question , only about 33% trusted AI’s output, while 46% distrusted it. In 2026 Stack Overflow changed…

During my tenure as InfoWorld’s blogger-in-chief I became fascinated with narrated videos of software in action. Tools existed to do that kind of storytelling but the explanatory power of what came to be called screencasting had not yet been widely recognized. Although the medium became a standard way to demonstrate software, and I went on to produce and edit many screencasts over the years, the …

Every new laptop today is marketed as an ‘AI PC’ thanks to a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU). But beyond chatting with small local LLMs, what practical work can this silicon actually do? Recently, I hit a wall with a classic IT problem: data gravity. I had about a hundred gigabytes of scanned family photos that needed to be organized and enhanced. Uploading gigabytes of media to a cloud AI …

The European Union is rolling out new cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software products sold in the EU market. Aimed at ensuring that all products “with digital elements” are safe from cyber threats, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has implications for the manufacturers of everything from smartwatches and smartphones to data center and industrial equipment — and for the producers of al…

Google Antigravity IDE is one of the most sophisticated integrated development environments available today. In contrast to Antigravity 2.0 , which focuses exclusively on managing agents, or Antigravity CLI , which is a way to interact with agents from the command line, Antigravity IDE covers the spectrum from a basic code editor, to an auto-completion engine, to an AI-powered editor, to a full-b…

One of the reasons programmers “got” agentic AI first, in the sense that it could meaningfully alter their productivity and effectiveness, is because code could be checked. They turn agents loose on a function, read the diff, run the tests, and decide whether to keep it. Output comes back to them in a form they already know how to read, so trusting the machine didn’t necessarily require a ton of …

Python 3.15 is one of the most feature-packed Python releases in many a moon, and the general release has just arrived. Here’s a rundown of the biggest, boldest, and most important innovations, changes, and fixes. Lazy imports A long-asked for feature, lazy imports allow imports to be processed only when they’re actually used by the program. For slow-importing modules that impose a large cost on …

Lightwell, the open-source security initiative set up by IBM and Red Hat, has identified more than 400 previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries — and now the companies are inviting customers to submit their own code dependencies to a new service, Lightwell Clearinghouse, for review. They’ll be looking for bugs such as the critical sandbox bypass in Java template engin…

OpenAI continues to report incidences of “misaligned” behavior by its AI models, with three new reports dropping on Oct. 2. However, they describe relatively minor issues compared to previous alignment reports and notices covering its attacks on Hugging Face , Rubygems , and a German programming wiki . The first of the new reports described how an instance of a model under test learned from an in…

As enterprises struggle to balance AI budgets with the demands of scaling agentic applications, they have been increasingly looking for ways to make those systems more efficient, from hard-coding deterministic decisions to using smaller models for specific tasks. TypeSafe’s Jev , released last month, introduced another option: using a specialized model to handle the bounded decisions that sit bet…

I’ve been tracking the rise of neoclouds in the past couple of years, and I’ll start by admitting that the numbers are genuinely staggering. Synergy Research Group reports that neocloud revenues hit $9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 alone , up 223% year over year, exceeding $25 billion for the full year. The market is forecast to approach $400 billion by 2031 at a sustained 58% compound an…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior, seeking to address security risks as enterprises give autonomous systems greater access to applications and data. The tool, called Strands Box, combines operating system-level isolation with policies that govern what agents can do. Released in …

My first attempt at vibe coding face-planted. I shook my head and stared at the screen. Well, this is obviously not for me. I became convinced the problem was the AI. I had uploaded the working Excel spreadsheet that already contained the business logic, workflows, and calculations I wanted the AI to replicate. How hard could this possibly be for “ artificial intelligence ” to translate into an a…