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Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company’s new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including a profiler agent that analyzes performance and suggests fixes. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, announced September 9 ,…

The three biggest hyperscalers in the US are AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The biggest hyperscaler in China (and the sixth in the world) is Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba’s large language model and multimodal model family, Tongyi Qianwen, or Qwen, competes with models from the US hyperscalers as well as models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Qwen is free. One of the few drawbacks of Qwen models …

Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) release of standard Java, is now generally available. The release brings 18 features, five of which Oracle touts as assisting with AI development. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24 , a six-month-support release that arrived March 18. As a Long-Term support release, JDK 25 will get at least eight years of Premier commercial support fro…

MongoDB has launched a new AI-driven application modernization platform called AMP, designed to help enterprises transform legacy applications into modern, scalable services that support AI and automation. Legacy applications often accumulate technical debt , such as outdated code, architecture, and dependencies, which are costly to maintain and hinder integration of AI or agentic systems, accord…

Microsoft is adding two new features to its cloud-based Fabric to help agentic applications make more accurate decisions while navigating complex workflows and help developers integrate AI-driven insights directly into an enterprise’s data operations. The two new features — Graph and Maps — are being integrated into Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence workload. Fabric , released in May 2023, brings t…

With JDK 25 , Java reaches another Long-Term Support (LTS) milestone — and for enterprises, that makes this release unavoidable. Oracle’s licensing terms for JDK 21 will soon expire, creating a ticking clock for organizations that want to stay on a free distribution. But beyond the calendar, JDK 25 delivers real technical incentives to upgrade. Out of 18 new features, just three stand out as ente…

For years, cloud computing was synonymous with transformative innovation and, perhaps more importantly, robust security. Cloud providers proudly marketed their platforms as safer and more resilient than anything enterprise IT could match. They held themselves as stewards of trust and protection, armed with unified defenses and economies of scale to counter ever-evolving cyberthreats. But an unset…

Overall, developers using Rust are satisfied with Rust compilation performance, but slow builds and rebuilds in several common workflows limit the productivity for a significant fraction of Rust users, according to the Rust Compiler Performance Survey , which was conducted the past two months by the Rust compiler performance working group. Results of the survey, which received more than 3,700 res…

When I first started experimenting with voice AI agents for real-world tasks like restaurant reservations and customer service calls, I quickly ran into a fundamental problem. My initial monolithic agent was trying to do everything at once: understand complex customer requests, research restaurant availability, handle real-time phone conversations and adapt to unexpected responses from human staf…

Cloud computing and cybersecurity are among the featured players on the contemporary software development stage, but artificial intelligence (AI) is the star. AI continues to gain momentum as a force for business growth and opportunity, and tech and business leaders are looking to development teams to churn out products that leverage its capabilities. Naturally, there is a rising demand for certi…

When a vendor offered 2000 tokens per second (TPS) of Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct (aka Qwen3 Coder) for $50 ( Cerebras Code Pro ) or $200 ( Cerebras Code Max ), I, like many, was spellbound. However, the offer was sold out almost instantaneously. When the next window opened up, I grabbed a Max plan immediately. Not shockingly, the 2k TPS claim is basically a lie. As Adam Larson, who runs the Y…

As an industry, we’ve gotten good at buying our way out of bad decisions. Need more throughput? Add instances. Tail latencies get spiky? Add a cache in front of the cache. Kelly Sommers nails the root cause : Pattern-driven architectures can be organizationally tidy yet computationally wasteful. The fix isn’t another layer—it’s fundamentals. If you fund or run a backend team, data structures and …

Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao , its head of artificial intelligence, as rivals like Snowflake, Teradata, and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, intensify their push to develop offerings for building generative AI applications. Rao’s exit comes at a time when Databricks is aggressively trying to expand its offerings inside the…

Kotlin 2.2.20 has been released, with the latest version of the concise, multiplatform, “pragmatic” programming language bringing its WebAssembly -compilation component, Kotlin/Wasm , into beta. JetBrains announced Kotlin 2.2.20 release on September 10 . The release includes a beta version of the Kotlin/Wasm tool for compiling Kotlin code into WebAssembly (Wasm), with improvements to exception ha…

Enterprise AI tends to default to large language models (LLMs), overlooking small language models (SLMs). But bigger isn’t always better. Often, a smaller, more specialized model can do the work faster and more efficiently. What complicates things is that neither an LLM nor an SLM alone may give you everything you need, especially in complex enterprise environments. In both cases, structure is es…