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Anthropic has added a new capability inside its generative AI-based chatbot Claude that will allow users to directly access applications inside the Claude interface. The new capability, termed as interactive apps, is based on a new extension — MCP Apps — of the open source Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP Apps, first proposed in November and subsequently developed with the help of OpenAI’s Apps …

Alibaba Cloud’s latest AI model, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, is staking a claim as one of the world’s most advanced reasoning engines after posting benchmark results that delivered competitive results against leading models from Google and OpenAI. In a blog post, Alibaba said the model was trained using expanded capacity and large-scale computing resources, including reinforcement learning, which led to …

I was promoted to CTO in my late twenties, and while it is common to see young CTOs leading startups these days, it was unusual in the ‘90s. I was far less experienced back then, and still developing my business acumen . While I was a strong software developer, it wasn’t my architecture and coding skills that helped me transition to a C-level role. Of all the technical skills I had back then, my …

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the DB-Engines ranking , and it is listed as the most deployed relational database by technology installation tracker 6sense . Yet for all its use, MySQL is seen as taking a back seat to PostgreSQL. Checking the …

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes , analytics, CI/CD , and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but a…

Javascript developers should consider moving away from the npm and yarn platforms for distributing their work because newly-found holes allow threat actors to run malicious worm attacks like Shai-Hulud, says an Israeli researcher. The warning comes from Oren Yomtov of Koi Security, who blogged Monday of discovering six zero day vulnerabilities in several package managers that could allow hackers …

Descope has announced Agentic Identity Hub 2.0, an update to its no-code identity platform for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The new release gives developers and security teams a dedicated UI and control plane to manage authorization, access control, credentials, and policies for AI agents and MCP servers, Descope said. Unveiled January 26, Agentic Identity Hub 2.0 lets MCP …

JetBrains has released Ktor 3.4, an update to its Kotlin -based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side application development. The release brings duplex streaming to the OkHttp client engine and introduces a new HttpRequestLifecycle plugin that enables the cancellation of in-flight HTTP requests when the client disconnects. Ktor 3.4 was announced January 23 . Instructions for get…

Organizations need to be less trustful of data given how much of it is AI-generated, according to new research from Gartner. As more enterprises jump on board the generative AI train — a recent Gartner survey found 84% expect to spend more on it this year — the risk grows that future large language models (LLMs) will be trained on outputs from previous models, increasing the danger of so-called m…

Most engineers have heard the phrase “ 10x engineer ” or “ force multiplier “. In practice, the highest leverage is not solo heroics but whether your presence makes everyone around you faster, safer and more effective. That is force multiplication. Early in my time as a Senior Software Engineer, I didn’t have a clear framework for how to excel as a senior IC and multiply my team’s impact. I spoke…

When one compromised agent brought down our entire 50-agent ML system in minutes, I realized we had a fundamental problem. We were building autonomous AI agents without the basic trust infrastructure that the internet established 40 years ago with DNS. As a PhD researcher and IEEE Senior Member, and I’ve spent the past year building what I call “DNS for AI agents” — a trust layer that finally giv…

For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models . If anything, the open source ecosystem has grown richer and more complex, because now there are open source models to complement the open source code. For article, we’ve pulled together some of the most intriguing and …

Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not literally, of course. We still store petabytes. But for the average developer, the database became an implementation detail; an essential but staid utility layer we worked hard not to think about. We abstracted it behind object-relational mappers (ORM). We wrapped it in APIs . We stuffed semi-structured objects into colum…

Most Go language developers are using AI-powered software development tools, but their satisfaction with these tools is middling, according to the 2025 Go Developer Survey. The survey also found that the vast majority of Go developers—91%—were satisfied with using the language. Results of the survey, which featured responses from 5,739 Go developers in September 2025, were published January 21 in…

GitHub has launched a technical preview of the GitHub Copilot SDK, a tool kit for embedding the “agentic core” of the GitHub Copilot CLI into applications. Available on GitHub , the SDK was unveiled on January 22 . Initially available for Node.js / TypeScript , Python , Go , and .NET , the GitHub Copilot SDK exposes the same engine behind the GitHub Copilot CLI, a production-tested agent runtime …