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JetBrains has introduced two new tools for AI-assisted software development: Air, an environment for delegating coding tasks to multiple AI agents and running them concurrently, and Junie CLI, an LLM-agnostic coding agent. Both were announced on March 9. Air , in public preview, can be downloaded from air.dev , while Junie CLI , in beta, is accessible at junie.jetbrains.com . Air, now free for Ma…

MariaDB, the company behind the open-source fork of MySQL, is planning to acquire in-memory computing middleware provider GridGain to bolster its platform for high-performance data and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The database provider is planning to infuse its relational database with the California-headquartered startup’s in-memory technology, which it says will enable its database o…

One of the most poweful collaborations between AI and tech giants, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard for connecting AI agents. We need standards like MCP to orchestrate communication between AI agents, AI assistants, LLMs, and other resources. Such standards are also critical for developing more complex agentic workflows. The MCP protocol enables two key technologies: The MCP server conn…

In the era of support apps and chatbots, telephony continues to hold strong as the backbone of customer communication, and voice AI is entering the call center scene to further streamline customer interaction. However, this means developers are suddenly being confronted with a whole new set of challenges, foremost among them the difficulty of bridging the gap between layers of AI and “legacy” tel…

Enterprises are under intense pressure to deliver AI outcomes that are visible, measurable, and repeatable without blowing up their cloud budgets. That’s why neoclouds have arrived at exactly the right moment. By neoclouds, I’m referring to GPU -centric, purpose-built cloud services that focus primarily on AI training and inference rather than on the sprawling catalog of general-purpose services …

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases . But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a reason for Ruby’s drop. Ruby was the Tiobe language of the year in 2006, having displayed the highest growth rate in popularity that year, it is now close to dropping out of the top 30, according to Tio…

Anthropic has launched a new marketplace for tools built on its Claude large language models (LLMs) that analysts say could help streamline procurement hurdles, which often slow the adoption of generative AI for enterprises. Called Claude Marketplace , the platform currently has a limited set of partners, including Replit, Lovable Labs, GitLab, Snowflake, Harvey AI, and Rogo, offering tools acros…

When we shipped a new feature last quarter, it would have taken three months to build traditionally. It took two weeks. Not because we cut corners or hired contractors, but I fundamentally changed how we create user interfaces. The feature was a customer service dashboard that adapts its layout and information density based on the specific issue a representative is handling. A billing dispute sho…

Everyone working on artificial intelligence these days fears the worst-case scenario. The precocious LLM will suddenly glide off the rails and start spouting dangerous thoughts. One minute it’s a genius that’s going to take all our jobs , and the next it’s an odd crank spouting hatred, insurrection, or worse. Fortunately, there are solutions. Some scientists are building LLMs that can act as guar…

Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents aren’t important to software engineering because they can write code at superhuman speeds. Without the right guardrails, as I’ve highlighted, that speed simply translates into mass-produced technical debt . No, agentic coding matters because it fundamentally changes what counts as good software engineering . For years, developers could get away with opti…

The Rust team has unveiled Rust 1.94. This release adds an array windows capability as an iterating method for the Rust slice type as well as improved management of Cargo configurations. Rust 1.94 was announced March 5 . Developers using a previous version can upgrade via rustup by running rustup update stable . The array_windows method works just like windows but with a constant length, so itera…

Microsoft’s official C# SDK for implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients has reached its 1.0 milestone release. The update brings full support for the 2025-11-25 version of the MCP Specification, highlighted by enhanced authorization server discovery and icon metadata for tools, resources, and prompts. MCP C# SDK 1.0 was unveiled March 5 and can be found on GitHub . The MCP C…

In 2026, most enterprises I talk to are multicloud , not because they set out with a crisp strategy but because reality pushed them there. Mergers and acquisitions bring in workloads on different platforms. Product teams pick the cloud that best matches a short-term delivery deadline. Add leadership mandates to “avoid lock-in,” and suddenly you have three primary providers in play, whether you me…

The JavaScript innovation train is really picking up momentum lately, driven—as always—by the creativity of the JavaScript developer community. The emerging local-first SQL datastores crystalize ideas about client/server symmetry that have been a long time coming. WinterTC is bringing us closer to truly universal, isomorphic JavaScript, aka “write once, run anywhere” for client- and server-side J…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.110, an update of the popular code editor that makes agents practical for long-running and more complex tasks by giving developers new ways to extend agents, smarter session management, and more visibility and control, the company said. Introduced March 4 , VS Code 1.110, also known as the February 2026 release, can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or …