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The arrival of generative AI-enhanced business intelligence (GenBI) for enterprise data analytics has opened up access to insights, while also increasing the speed, relevance and accuracy of those insights. But that’s in best-case scenarios. Often, AI-powered analytics leads data teams to the same challenges: Hallucinations, security and governance snafus, outdated or incorrect answers, low famil…

In the beginning, there was devops : a new philosophy that aimed to break down the silos of software development and IT operations and combine both teams into a single group with shared responsibility. Devops practices borrowed from agile development methodologies , insisted on continuous integration and continuous delivery , and helped make the era of cloud development possible. Devops became so…

Codex CLI is an open-source coding agent from OpenAI, written primarily in Rust , that runs locally on your computer. Codex IDE extension is a coding agent that runs in Visual Studio Code and its forks, such as Cursor and Windsurf . Codex Web , which connects to Codex Cloud , can work on tasks in the background, in parallel, using its own cloud-based environment. You can display Codex Web on your…

Python didn’t become the lingua franca of artificial intelligence by accident. I’ve argued that Python’s dominance in AI isn’t due to blazing performance or fancy features, but because it offers the shortest distance from idea to working code. It’s an accessible, general-purpose language that “ everyone knows ,” perhaps not as a first programming language but often as a second. No wonder Python h…

The chilling reality of a Salesforce.com data breach is a jarring wake-up call , not just for its customers, but for the entire cloud computing industry. In recent months, a wave of cyberattacks has targeted cloud-based platforms that house and process massive amounts of personal and corporate data. The latest extortion attempt is from Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, a group that claims to hold stolen…

Codex, OpenAI’s AI-powered software engineering agent that can work on tasks in parallel, is now generally available. Since being launched as a research preview in May, Codex has added Slack integration, an SDK, and admin tools. OpenAI announced general availability of Codex on October 6 . Developers can log in to chatgpt.com to try out Codex. Since the research preview , Codex has evolved into a…

Google Labs has introduced Jules Tools and the Jules API, a command-line interface and API respectively for the Jules coding agent . Jules Tools and the Jules API were announced October 2 . Jules Tools is a new CLI that brings Jules directly into the developer’s terminal, where they can start, stop, and verify Jules tasks next to their own commands. Google Labs said this was the simplest way to m…

Starburst is updating its AI services to help enterprises build multi-agent workflows and monitor these agents for compliance and cost effectiveness. The data lakehouse provider, earlier in May, released a set of AI services , comprising the Starburst AI Ag ent and AI Workflows, across the Starburst Enterprise Platform and Starburst Galaxy, aimed at adding an agent-supporting layer to its lakehou…

Google is expanding the reach of its developer-focused AI tools with the launch of Gemini CLI Extensions, a new system that lets third-party developers integrate their own services directly into the Gemini command-line interface. The update will enable integrations with companies like Figma and Stripe, giving developers new ways to bring AI assistance into everyday coding and design workflows. “E…

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. Although minimal APIs don’t use controllers, and require only minimal code and minimal configuration, they nevertheless allow us to implement advanced features and important security mechanisms such as Cross-Origin Resource Sharing , or CORS. In this post, we’ll…

Earlier this year, Microsoft said it would bring its two different agent development platforms together , merging Semantic Kernel and AutoGen . It has now launched that merged platform as the Microsoft Agent Framework . At the time of the announcement, I noted that it made sense; Semantic Kernel was an in-production AI workflow engine that had evolved to support new agentic models, while AutoGen …

Oracle Java Management Service (JMS), an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service for managing the use of Java in the enterprise, has added an Analyze Applications capability, for gaining quick, actional insights on Java applications. Other enhancements, including advanced task scheduling and observability for Java workloads in Kubernetes environments, are slated to boost management of Java flee…

React, a popular open source JavaScript library for web and native user interfaces, will be transferred from Meta to the React Foundation, a new organization being formed under the Linux Foundation. The new foundation will be the home for React, React Native, and supporting projects. With the React Foundation, React’s move to a neutral home helps ensure that React and React Native remain open, in…

Google has rolled out new upgrades to Opal, its low-code AI-based application builder, aimed at significantly improving debugging capabilities and its overall performance, as part of its push to streamline AI app development for non-experts. Opal, which was first introduced by Google’s Labs division in July in public beta, was billed as an experimental low-code tool for non-technical users that w…

Qualcomm will acquire Arduino, the open-source hardware and software platform popular with millions of developers, in a move aimed at expanding its reach into the robotics, IoT, and AI edge ecosystems. The company said Arduino will keep its independent brand and mission, while new offerings such as the Qualcomm-powered Arduino UNO Q and the AppLab development environment will give developers easi…