Three days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing ...
The best new features in Python 3.15
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...
Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities
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...
OpenAI reports three new incidents of misalignment
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 coverin...
As AI agents grow, vendors carve out decision-making as a separate model layer
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 ...
Four days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing ...
Neoclouds and the enterprises that need them
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 quart...
AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box
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 g...
AI-powered data pipeline observability: Stop monitoring and start preventing
Devops tools are making it increasingly easy to monitor data pipeline failures. But in many cases, those alerts are already too late. Take marketing campaigns, for example. Every mistake in data for marketing and sales has a tric...
Five days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing ...