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The promise of AI coding agents is driving enterprise adoption, but managing usage and controlling costs remain key hurdles. Google is seeking to address those concerns by integrating Antigravity into Gemini Enterprise and equipping it with new budgeting and consumption controls. These tools, which were not available as part of Antigravity’s earlier enterprise deployment model through what was fo…

GPU bills get most of the scrutiny when it comes to AI budget reviews , but there’s another important area that teams overlook. If you’re not preparing and slimming down the data that feeds into a model’s context, you’re merely paying to process noise. Teams building AI applications often default to old habits — collect all the data that might be relevant and worry about what’s important later. T…

Neoclouds have staked their claim to AI compute infrastructure with low-cost GPU-based alternatives and purpose-built features for AI training and inference . But can this new class of alternative clouds actually take business from the hyperscalers? Some argue that neoclouds are poised to capture a growing share of AI-native workloads. Neocloud revenue exceeded $25 billion in 2025, reports Synerg…

Software development is rarely a one-person job. A request or an idea may begin with a product manager or another employee, before moving through developers, designers, reviewers, and other stakeholders on its way to becoming working code. Salesforce now wants to put an AI coding agent directly into that workflow to reduce the number of handoffs and additional time involved in moving a software p…

Malicious versions of three Rust packages, including the widely used arrayref, were published to the crates.io registry on August 20, carrying a backdoor that executed automatically when affected projects were compiled. Security researchers at Wiz said the attack also shares infrastructure with recent supply-chain campaigns attributed to North Korean threat actors. The compromised releases were “…

Python can’t stop, won’t stop evolving. Python 3.15, due in fall 2026 but available now in its first release candidate, abounds with useful new features worth trying out: lazy imports, a new profiling technology, immutable dictionaries, and its ever-evolving JIT (just-in-time) compiler. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Speed boost your Python programs with new lazy imports Don’t let a fa…

The reported $10 billion deal between Anthropic and AI cloud startup Volta is more than just another big-number headline in the AI infrastructure race. It’s a sign of where cloud computing is headed. When a frontier AI company needs massive amounts of specialized compute, and a relatively young cloud provider claims it can deliver that capacity, billions of dollars shift hands before most enterpr…

Rust is slated to play a huge part in Ubuntu’s future. As a language that allows programmers more control over resource use and performance as well as removing many classes of memory safety issues, it’s an especially good choice for building security-sensitive software. But modernizing huge amounts of the legacy C code that currently powers the Linux operating system has been, and continues to be…

TrueFoundry has launched TrueForge, an open-source agent harness that lets developers build and run AI agents using models from different providers, positioning it as an alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents. The San Francisco-based enterprise AI infrastructure startup was founded in 2021 by a team that included former Meta engineers. It initially focused on software for deploying mach…

AI coding assistants are supposed to reduce the work required to turn a developer’s intent into working software. But some users of Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models say they are having to spend additional time, prompts, and tokens correcting the models’ language, sometimes even routing their output through cheaper AI models to make it usable. In a detailed GitHub issue , Peter Bower, founde…

Building an AI agent that looks impressive in a demo is now a weekend project. Building one that an enterprise will actually let touch its CRM, its data warehouse, and its customers is a different discipline entirely — and almost none of the challenges associated with shipping an agent live in the model. The challenge is infrastructure around the model, including who it is allowed to be, what it …

Microsoft’s open sourcing of .NET not only has sped up the development of the platform, but also has allowed new languages and features to be built on top of the .NET runtime and compilers. At the same time, the extensibility features of Visual Studio Code make it easy for developers to provide the tooling we need to use those new platform capabilities. One of the more interesting new projects to…

I run 49 scheduled AI agents on one laptop. Another 24 sit beside them, deliberately switched off. That distinction matters more than it sounds. After eighteen months, I have stopped being surprised by model errors. Models misunderstand requests and occasionally produce confident nonsense. I expect that. I test for it. What still catches me is how rarely those errors cause an outage. No serious f…

AI coding tools are increasingly becoming the place where developers write and modify software. SpaceX-owned Cursor now wants to bring code hosting into that same environment, potentially challenging GitHub’s position as the center of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The company, earlier this week, launched Origin , an early-beta code-hosting platform that brings repositories, pull requ…

While some organizations are still getting started with their AI strategies, others are in pilot purgatory , with few experiments or proofs of concept (POCs) reaching production. Only 25% of organizations have moved 40% or more of their AI experiments into production, according to The State of AI in the Enterprise . We discussed delivering AI proofs of concept that matter at a recent Coffee With …