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As enterprises deploy increasing numbers of AI agents across applications and organizations, the Linux Foundation on Wednesday announced plans to launch a new Agent Name Service framework designed to establish identity, ownership, and trust for these systems. The ANS framework , which is expected to allow systems and users to verify who an agent represents, what permissions it has, and whether it…

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, in what the US AI company described as the largest known attack of its kind against it. The campaign, carried out between April 22 and June 5, generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, according to a June 10 letter Anthropic sent to senior members of the US Sen…

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That commitment got a boost at Build 2026 with a bundle of announcements that focused on tools and features that help developers take advantage of the platform. The most obvious is support for the standar…

Key takeaways Backstage solved the portal problem, not the platform problem. A portal organizes catalogs, documentation, and templates. A platform owns deployments, environments, policies, and runtime operations. Backstage assumes that the execution layer exists beneath it. Point-to-point integrations become a maintenance burden. Many organizations end up with a “messy middle” where Backstage is …

Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries. According to Gartner , these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools , it reflects a trend toward consumption-based licensing model…

Claude Tag is Anthropic’s latest attempt at getting Claude out of your DMs and into your team’s Slack channels. AI assistants are increasingly showing up in the workplace to perform research, coding, writing, and analysis, but the results of those interactions typically remains tied to individual conversations rather than being shared across projects and teams. That limitation is what Anthropic i…

Microsoft has been pushing hard to make Visual Studio Code a major way to consume its AI services, mostly in the form of GitHub Copilot . GitHub Copilot’s deep integration with VS Code brings many conveniences — inline autocomplete, for instance — but it’s frustrating for those, like me, who would rather use another model provider, or even a locally hosted LLM, for those functions. Visual Studio …

Unless you’ve been living under an old woodpile in your backyard, you have certainly seen how agentic coding is rocking the software development world. Things are happening fast and furious, and keeping up is practically a full-time job. The latest area that is catching the attention of developers is how agentic coding is affecting the open source community. The open source movement has been defe…

Separating transactional databases from analytical systems was, until recently, considered good architecture. Now, as enterprises adopt AI agents that continuously read, reason over, and act on business data, data warehouse and database vendors are increasingly deciding that separation has become a liability. Just weeks after Databricks unveiled its Lakehouse Transaction and Analytical Processing…

The European Commission’s latest push to reduce dependence on foreign technology providers is not surprising. If Europe believes that critical digital services could be disrupted by foreign governments, foreign legal systems, or foreign-owned providers, it will, of course, respond. That concern is now being expressed in the language of “kill switch” risk, meaning the fear that the cloud, AI, or s…

OpenAI has launched a program with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits to use AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely used open-source software, as enterprises face growing risks from flaws buried deep in their software supply chains. The initiative, called Patch the Planet , uses AI-assisted vulnerability research alongside human review to help turn security findings into tested fixes that can…

For nearly as long as the web has existed , web development has wrestled mightily with the right way to connect components over the network. This is the question of the remote API . It influences every aspect of the software we build. We sort of arrived at a tolerable compromise with JSON APIs. While these have their limitations, you have to appreciate their underlying simplicity. But the advent …

In the past year, the enterprise AI ecosystem has gained enormous capability and zero consensus. Developers now have a remarkable set of tools for building AI agents: OpenAI’s frameworks, Anthropic’s Claude tooling, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Microsoft AutoGen, and a growing list of alternatives. Each promises to coordinate reasoning loops, manage multi-step task execution, and connect agents …

Stung by a surge in cyberattacks that have run amok in developer environments, GitHub has strengthened the security of actions/checkout to block ‘pwn request’ attacks that exploit insecure use of the pull_request_target workflow trigger to run an attacker’s code with the workflow’s full privileges. Announced on June 18, actions/checkout v7 now automatically blocks and fails workflows when used in…

AI coding agents are making it easier than ever to produce software. Ensuring that software is secure before deployment is another matter — one that AWS thinks AI should help with too. As enterprises adopt agentic development workflows, the volume of first-party code being created and modified is rising rapidly. Yet the process of validating vulnerabilities, determining whether they are exploitab…