AI agents combine language and reasoning models with the ability to take action through automations and APIs. Agent-to-agent protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enable integrations, making each agent discoverable and capable of orchestrating more complex operations. Many organizations...

   Last week at AWS re:Invent, amid many product announcements and cloud messages, AWS introduced AWS AI Factories. The press release emphasizes accelerating artificial intelligence development with Trainium, Nvidia GPUs, and reliable, secure infrastructure, all delivered with the ease, security, and...

   AI agents must be able to cooperate, coordinate, and execute across large contexts and long time periods, and this, says Nvidia, demands a new type of infrastructure, one that is open. The company says it has the answer with its new Nemotron 3 family of open models. Developers and engineers can use...

   InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products From AI-powered coding assistants to real-time analytics engines, the software stack is undergoing its biggest shakeup in decades. Generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI tools are redefining how code is written, tested, and deployed even as experts debate...

   It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise in the world of artificial intelligence. Every day brings a new benchmark, a new state-of-the-art model, or a new claim that yesterday’s architecture is obsolete. For developers tasked with building their first AI...

   Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces multi-agent orchestration, a new feature that allows developers to use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together to speed up software development tasks. Released December 10 and also referred...

   OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an expert level compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers major improvements across a range of...

   Cython has been the most viable option for converting Python code to C, but PythoC could change that with distinct compile-time advantages. We also have a first look at Databot, a new LLM add-on for the Positron IDE; a chance to learn the finer points of debug logging in Python and Java; and a...

   Nearly a decade ago, a major financial services firm faced an AWS account manager during an aggressive cloud migration. AWS advised to keep it simple, run everything on AWS, and avoid other clouds. This seemed wise, as AWS promised ease of use, top-tier services, and little interoperability trouble...

   Rust 1.92, the latest version of the Rust programming language, emphasizes deny-by-default never type lints for compilation. The update was unveiled by the Rust release team on December 11. Developers can upgrade to version 1.92 by running rustup update stable. The release team noted that, with...

   JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, stating that it could not justify maintaining two general-purpose IDEs. The JetBrains flagship IDE is IntelliJ, and Fleet did not succeed as a standalone product, the company said. JetBrains revealed on December 8 that beginning December 22, Fleet will no...

   Enterprises don’t often admit it out loud, but a good share of their cloud bills can be traced back to something deceptively mundane: inefficient code. A research report from software delivery platform provider Harness, which was co-authored with AWS, cited 52% of 700 engineering leaders and...

   At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux Foundation announced that DocumentDB a MongoDB-compatible document database built on PostgreSQL had joined the foundation as a new open source project. This new project, first announced by Microsoft in early 2025, is designed to support developers...

   Much of modern application development depends on APIs. In the past we may have built massive monolithic applications, but modern cloud-native development depends on collections of microservices, linked by APIs that offer everything from remote procedure calls to database operations. This approach...

   It appears Meta has opted to go in a whole new direction in response to this week’s formation by The Linux Foundation of a group called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), designed to help enterprises develop and manage AI agents through a shared ecosystem of tools, standards and community-driven...

   GitHub has this week implemented the final part of a security upgrade it hopes will make the vast and hugely popular npm Node.js registry more resistant to the growing menace of supply chain compromise. As it warned it would do two months ago, on December 9, the npm (Node Package Manager) registry...

   If programming were nothing more than taking an idea and turning it into running code, AI-assisted development might fully deliver on its promise. But AI’s ability to transform natural language prompts into runnable software ultimately highlights the importance of non-mechanical aspects of...

   Python and C share more than it might seem. The reference version of the Python interpreter is written in C, and many of the third-party libraries written for Python wrap C code. It’s also possible to generate C code from Python. Generating C code with Python has typically involved libraries like...

   I’ve written about how coding is so over. AI is getting smarter every day, and it won’t be long before large language models (LLMs) write better code than any human. But why is coding the one thing that AI agents seem to excel at? The reasons are simple and straightforward. At their core, LLMs...

   Many enterprises use GitHub Action Secrets to store and protect sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and tokens used in CI CD workflows. These private repositories are widely assumed to be safe and locked down. But attackers are now exploiting that blind trust, according to new...