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Enterprises should be more ruthless about cancelling projects. That’s according to project management software company Tempo, which surveyed 667 project planning leaders at the end of last year. It found that those who deployed better scenario planning and acted ruthlessly is assessing a project’s viability would be better off. According to the survey, 90% of organizations claimed that their proj…

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on GitHub . Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor that is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS and comes wi…

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and engineering tasks. Available as a panel inside Databricks’ notebooks, SQL Editor, and Lakeflow Pipelines editor, Genie Code can be used to plan, build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, including automating experiment tracking with MLflow, monitoring p…

For the past few years, I’ve watched a specific story sell itself in boardrooms: “Software will soon be free.” The pitch is simple: Large language models can write code, which is the bulk of what developers do. Therefore, enterprises can shed developers, point an LLM at a backlog, and crank out custom business systems at the speed of need. If you believe that pitch, the conclusion is inevitable: …

Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, could Pandas finally compel you to ditch Excel? And, is Python’s native JIT the Python performance booster we’ve all been waiting for? All this and more, in this week’s report. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust “Let’s rewrite a Pyth…

Google has added a plan mode to Gemini CLI , its open-source software engineering agent that runs on the command line. With plan mode, announced March 11 , Gemini CLI focuses first on analyzing a request, planning complex changes, and understanding the codebase or dependencies in a read-only mode that is safe from accidental changes or executions. Plan mode will also ask questions to clarify goal…

JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages. Announced March 11 and accessible from GitHub , Tracy helps developers trace, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered features directly from their Kotlin or Java projects, JetBrains said. The open-source Kotlin library provides a unified API to capture structured traces and helps developers debug failures, measure e…

While Amazon Bedrock helps you build and scale generative AI applications, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides an enterprise-grade infrastructure and operations layer for deploying and managing AI agents at scale. AgentCore itself is completely agnostic about models, frameworks, and integrations, although its starter kit CLI only supports the most prominent of these. That CLI can generate agents us…

The AI economy is projected to reach $17 trillion by 2028, fundamentally altering how organizations architect their infrastructure. Driven by this shift, 95% of major global enterprises are on a mission-critical sprint to become their own AI and data platforms within the next two years. Yet only 13% of enterprises have successfully found the formula. Their secret to mainstreaming agentic AI? Aban…

AI has made writing code feel like cheating . The real trouble shows up right after git push . That is the part almost no one is talking about, and it is where most AI-assisted projects quietly die. It is not usually the code that fails. It is everything around it, because the cloud is unforgiving. Developers still run into the same problems they faced before large language models (LLMs) arrived.…

Nvidia has introduced a new reasoning-focused AI model that combines multiple neural network architectures in a bid to improve how enterprise systems handle complex tasks and automation. The company said its Nemotron 3 Super model combines Mamba sequence modeling, transformer attention, and Mixture-of-Experts routing to support so-called “agentic” AI systems that can plan and execute multi-step w…

Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent Bricks offerings, will help enterprises monitor a…

I’ve asked GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and other large language models (LLMs) to help me construct a nuclear weapon. All of them said no. Let’s be clear, my lack of knowledge is not the real barrier to constructing one. The knowledge is public, free, and well-documented. You can read The Manhattan Project’s declassified schematics online. The models know how. But just like Chinese mod…

Microsoft has published Preview 2 of its planned .NET 11 software development platform, emphasizing progress ranging from native runtime async to smaller SDK installers for Linux and macOS. Released March 10 , .NET 11 Preview 2 can be downloaded from net.microsoft.com . Preview 2 follows the February 10 release of Preview 1, with the production release expected in November. Preview 2 brings signi…

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes requested in an online letter in February, which s…