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OpenAI has launched a standalone Codex app to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects, pushing beyond chat-based code generation as enterprises weigh the impact of more autonomous tools on development workflows and governance. The move comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Anthropic and GitHub. Last month, Anthropic introduced Cowork , a research-preview feat…

Snowflake has launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that aims to extend AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. Cortex Code is designed to understand enterprise data context, including schemas, governance rules, compute constraints, and production workflows, Christian Kleinerman , EVP of Product at Snowflake, said during a pre…

The impacts of AI are mostly viewed through the lens of improving business processes, but AI is poised to have long-term impacts on engineering too. Not only can AI make it easier for engineers to bring their ideas to life, but it can also remove the burden of manual toil that keeps them from focusing on more business-critical issues. The growing integration of AI into engineering workflows will …

GitHub Copilot is one of the more mature AI assistants in use, having begun life as a way to use AI tools for code completion. Since then, Copilot has added features, becoming a resource for coordinating and orchestrating a wide variety of development-focused agents and services. Part of that development has been making Copilot available everywhere developers are: inside the browser, in your code…

The pace of innovation in cloud computing continues unabated, with AWS recently unveiling durable functions for AWS Lambda . This move could have significant implications for how enterprises design and orchestrate complex serverless workflows. As someone who has tracked and analyzed cloud evolution for decades, I view Amazon’s new offering as both a testament to the maturation of serverless pract…

Wasmer has released Wasmer 7, an upgrade of its WebAssembly runtime that introduces an experimental async API that enables full async support in Python . The update also brings support for dynamic linking to WASIX, broadening the platform’s support for Python packages. Introduced January 30 , Wasmer 7 introduces an experimental async API that offers first-class support for async functions in Pyth…

The software industry is collectively hallucinating a familiar fantasy. We visited versions of it in the 2000s with offshoring and again in the 2010s with microservices . Each time, the dream was identical: a silver bullet for developer productivity, a lever managers can pull to make delivery faster, cheaper, and better. Today, that lever is generative AI , and the pitch is seductively simple: If…

AI agent development is off to the races. A 2025 survey from PwC found that AI agents are already being adopted at nearly 80% of companies. And, these agents have an insatiable lust for data: 42% of enterprises need access to eight or more data sources to deploy AI agents successfully, according to a 2024 Tray.ai study . “AI relies on data, and since 90% of data today is unstructured, it is impor…

Emerging technologies from AI and XR to digital twins and more are driving big changes in the manufacturing world. This issue explores the technologies that are taking the factory floor to a new level of efficiency, security, and innovation.

There’s a lot of hype about AI coding tools and the gains developers are seeing when it comes to speed and accuracy. But are developers also offloading some of their thinking to AI when they use them as copilots? Anthropic researchers recently put this to the test, examining how quickly software developers picked up a new skill (learning a new Python library) with and without AI assistance, and, …

Google has added Conversational Analytics to its BigQuery data warehouse, which it says will allow enterprise data teams and business users to ask questions about data in natural language, in turn speeding up data analytics for AI use cases. The agent, currently in preview, can be found under the Conversations tab in the new Agents Hub inside BigQuery and activated by pointing to data tables. It …

The cloud isn’t new, but the way enterprises use it keeps evolving. AI workloads, new platform services, and tighter governance mean teams can’t rely on outdated knowledge. The real issue isn’t ignorance but drift. Assumptions once valid are now proven wrong through outages, security rework, or surprise bills. That’s why free, on-demand courses have become strategically advantageous. They’re fric…

I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has expired. We have now entered the second quarter of the 21st century. These are the opening acts of the millennium. Fortunately, it looks like AI 2027 may not pan out and we may, as yet, avoid LLM doom. We almost definitely won’t have a superintelligence that absorbs the power grid for its own purposes. And furthermore, we will probably sti…

Findings from a new study by Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, appear to poke major holes in the notion that AI firms, and specifically OpenAI, will eventually become profitable. The research paper written by Jaime Sevilla, Hannah Petrovic and Anson Ho, suggests that while running an AI model may generate enough revenue to cover its own R&D costs, any profit is outweighed by the cost of …

Microsoft has launched a public preview of GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++. The company had previewed C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot in December. Both previews are available via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ helps developers upgrade C++ projects to newer MSVC Build Tools versions. The public preview was announced January 27. …