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Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for digital agents capable of advanced reasoning and tool use across applications. The release reflects the ongoing shift from standalone chatbot deployments toward AI systems that can execute multi-step workflows and operate with minimal human prompting. In a blog post, Alibaba high…

Multicloud is having a crisis. Gartner predicts that over 50% of multicloud or cross-cloud efforts won’t deliver on expected benefits by 2029, with poor interoperability and fragmentation serving as key culprits. While these numbers don’t speak to cloud migration directly, from my own experience as an IT leader, plus from my field research in developing FluidCloud, I can tell you that multicloud …

When it comes to cloud infrastructure portability, the reigning solutions just don’t live up to their promise. Infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions like Terraform shoehorn nuanced infrastructure into too-broad terms. Cloud provider offerings like Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Services, and Google Cloud Migrate generally don’t translate native workloads into competitors’ clouds. And governance to…

The Microsoft Azure outage that dragged out for 10 hours in early February serves as another stark reminder that the cloud, for all its promise, is not immune to failure. At precisely 19:46 UTC on February 2, the Azure cloud platform began experiencing cascading issues stemming from an initial misconfiguration of a policy affecting Microsoft-managed storage accounts. This seemingly minor error ba…

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky , one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to development problems. In that fictional far future, every problem has been solved at least once, often in many ways with different interfaces for different languages and processor families. Today’s softwar…

AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after one of its developers, Nolan Lawson, last week received an email regarding the PouchDB JavaScript database he maintains from an AI ag…

OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant, to spearhead development of what CEO Sam Altman describes as “the next generation of personal agents.” The move comes weeks after OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, achieved explosive popularity despite security researchers warning of serious vulnerabilities in the open-source tool. Steinberger w…

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), coined the “USB-C for AI,” has inspired the software industry to think bigger with their AI assistants. Now, armed with access to external data and APIs , as well as to internal platforms and databases, agents are getting arms and legs to conduct impressive automation . MCP is no longer reserved for trendy AI startups or niche software-as-a-service provid…

We spent the better part of two decades arguing about text files. You can be forgiven for blotting that from your mind, but if you were anywhere near enterprise IT between 2000 and 2020, it’s pretty much all we talked about. GNU General Public License, Apache License, MIT License, etc., etc. That was on the vendor side. On the enterprise side, emergency meetings were held because someone found th…

Google’s Conductor AI extension for context-driven development has been fitted with a new automated review feature intended to make AI-assisted engineering safer and more predictable. Announced February 12 , the new Automated Review feature allows the Conductor extension to go beyond planning and execution into validation, generating post-implementation reports on code quality and compliance base…

The enterprise world is awash in hope and hype for artificial intelligence . Promises of new lines of business and breakthroughs in productivity and efficiency have made AI the latest must-have technology across every business sector. Despite exuberant headlines and executive promises, most enterprises are struggling to identify reliable AI use cases that deliver a measurable ROI, and the hype cy…

Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 6.0, an update to the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that promises to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase. TypeScript 7.0 will debut a compiler and language service written in Go for better performance and scalability. The TypeScript 6.0 beta was announced February 11 . Developers can access it through npm by runnin…

Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET , a new capability in GitHub Copilot Chat that automates the testing of C# code, generally available in the just-released Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 IDE. Microsoft announced the capability on February 11 . GitHub Copilot testing for .NET automates the creation, running, and testing of C# code for projects, files, classes, or members. It has built-i…

A new fine-tuning technique aims to solve “ catastrophic forgetting ,” a limitation that often complicates repeated model updates in enterprise deployments. Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab, and ETH Zurich have introduced a fine-tuning method designed to let models learn new tasks while preserving previously acquired capabilities. To prevent degrading existing capabilities, many organiza…

Go 1.26 has been released. The latest version of the Google-built programming language enables the higher performing Green Tea garbage collector (GC) by default. It also introduces a change to generic types that simplifies the implementation of complex data structures. Introduced February 10 , Go 1.26 can be downloaded from go.dev . The Green Tea GC, included as an experimental feature in last ye…