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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…

Neoclouds are specialized clouds devoted to the wildly dynamic world of artificial intelligence , currently experiencing explosive 35.9% annual growth . Built from the ground up to meet AI’s significant computational demands, neoclouds first emerged several years ago. Dozens of providers have arrived since then, with CoreWeave, Crusoe, Llambda, Nebius, and Vultr among the neocloud leaders. The ”n…

Signals is a simple idea with massive power. In one fell swoop, Signals provides reactivity while keeping state simple, even in large applications. That’s why the Signals pattern has been adopted for inclusion in Solid , Svelte , and Angular . This article introduces Signals and demonstrates its fresh approach to state management, bringing new life to the JavaScript front end. Introducing the Sig…

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 1, a planned update to the cross-platform software development platform that features JIT performance improvements, faster compression, CoreCLR support on WebAssembly , and a host of other capabilities. Unveiled February 10 , the preview can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com . Improvements cover areas ranging from the runtime and libraries to the SDK, …

As enterprises shift from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production environments, Google is rolling out a structured skills program aimed at helping developers build, test, and operationalize AI agents using Google Cloud tools, specifically its Agent Development Kit (ADK). Named the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready ( GEAR ) program, the initiative packages hands-on labs, 35 free m…

For more than two decades, IT operations has been dominated by a reactive culture. Engineers monitor dashboards, wait for alerts to fire and respond once systems have already begun to degrade. Even modern observability platforms equipped with distributed tracing, real-time metrics and sophisticated logging pipelines still operate within the same fundamental paradigm: something breaks, then we fin…

Dedicated desktop applications for agentic AI make it easier for relatively non-technical users to work with large language models . Instead of writing Python programs and wrangling models manually, users open an IDE-like interface and have logged, inspectable interactions with one or more LLMs. Amazon and Google have released such products with a focus on AI-assisted code development— Kiro and A…

There’s a palpable tension in IT today. Teams are stretched to their limits with a growing backlog of initiatives, while executives expect IT to lead the charge on transforming an organization into an AI-driven one. And the numbers paint a somber picture. IT teams are drowning in work as digital transformation projects have not slowed down but rather accelerated. In fact, IT project requests in 2…