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• Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft really, really, really wants developers to love Windows again

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At its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft is launching so many new features for developers, it’s hard to keep

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• Frederic Lardinois

With Intelligent Terminal, Microsoft is reinventing the Windows terminal

The good old terminal has been through a bit of a comeback in recent months, largely thanks to the popularity

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• Meredith Shubel

Microsoft debuts “Scout” at Build, a new personal agent for work

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At Microsoft Build on Tuesday in San Francisco, the company debuted Microsoft Scout, a new personal agent for work that

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• Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s Codex adds new tools — Sites, Annotations, more plugins — for knowledge workers

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As OpenAI announced on Tuesday, 20% of Codex’s 5 million weekly active users are now knowledge workers and not coders.

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• Paul Sawers

GitHub Copilot’s usage-based billing is live: Here’s what you need to know

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We knew it was coming, and as of Monday, it’s here. GitHub has officially retired Copilot’s premium request model and

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• Darryl K. Taft

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI all fail on type of attack, study finds

The safety benchmarks enterprise buyers rely on to evaluate AI models are measuring the wrong thing. That’s the finding from

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• Paul Sawers

JetBrains open-sources Mellum2 to go where Claude Code can’t

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JetBrains announced on Monday it has open-sourced Mellum2, a 12B-parameter coding model aimed at the infrastructure layer of agentic AI

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• Janakiram MSV

Claude Code vs. Cursor vs. Codex vs. Antigravity — six months in

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Six months ago, the agentic coding tool was still an argument about form. By the start of June 2026, the

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• Darryl K. Taft

This coding agent doesn’t want your feedback — it ships without it

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The pitch for most AI coding tools is speed. Write a prompt, get a draft, iterate. The faster the model,

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• Frederic Lardinois

“Blowing things up”: The one move vendors got wrong on AI agents

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Just about every enterprise software vendor now agrees on one thing, at least: AI agents are only as useful as

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• Frederic Lardinois

At Sapphire, SAP makes the case that enterprise AI is a context problem

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At SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando in May, SAP made the case that the enterprise AI race will not be

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• David Eastman

Gavriel Cohen found his own code inside OpenClaw, so he walked away

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When Gavriel Cohen first saw OpenClaw, he knew he wanted it. At the time, Cohen (soon to be the founder

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• Tim Young

AI retrieval at scale is becoming a systems problem, not a tooling problem

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AI retrieval has moved well beyond embeddings and vector search. Early retrieval architectures focused primarily on semantic similarity. Still, production

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• Darin Zook

The DIY platform trap that’s burning out engineering teams

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Platform engineers are some of the most resourceful people in IT. Give them a problem, and they’ll automate their way

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• Jessica Wachtel

I tested Cursor’s new Jira integration and it’s 5 stars, no notes. Here’s why.

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Cursor launched its Jira integration last week. The integration was marketed as simple: assign a ticket in Jira and Cursor

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Why GPT-5.4, Claude, and Gemini can’t agree on basic, real-world facts

As the frontier model race accelerates, AI devotees are splitting their loyalty across the major providers at both the user

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• Darryl K. Taft

Replit’s vibe coding platform just got a Visa-backed identity layer for AI agents — and it changes how agents spend money

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Replit is deepening its enterprise push: The vibe coding platform is partnering with Visa Inc. to embed payment infrastructure alongside

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• Matthew Burns

Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent.

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

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• B. Cameron Gain

Why Linux creator Linus Torvalds gets angry hearing “99% of code is AI”

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During his keynote at the recent Open Source Summit North America, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds did not mince

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• Adriana Villela

Vendor neutrality isn’t magic: A hard look at the OpenTelemetry ecosystem

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The OpenTelemetry (OTel) ecosystem provides us not only with a standard data format and transport mechanism for generating, processing, and

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• Luis Villa

“The AI did it” won’t save you when EU regulators come knocking

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The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is just months away from ushering in a new era of accountability that’s

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• Jennifer Riggins

The fix for soaring AI cloud bills exists — so why won’t we trust it?

To hear Yasmin Rajabi, chief operating officer at CloudBolt, tell it, there’s an imbalance in how we view automation. We’re

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• Darryl K. Taft

AI is shipping code faster than security was built to handle

Snyk has entered the AI-powered penetration testing market with a new product it says addresses the gap in how enterprises

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• Frederic Lardinois

Why AWS scrapped OpenSearch’s architecture to chase agent workloads

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AWS on Thursday launched what it calls a near-total rebuild of its managed search and vector engine, in an effort

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• Meredith Shubel

Claude Opus 4.8 is here: effort controls, dynamic workflows, cheaper fast mode, better honesty, less deception

On Thursday, Anthropic released the newest version of its flagship model, Opus 4.8, which allows users to control Claude’s effort,

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• Chris J. Preimesberger

Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake

L-R: Percona co-founder Peter Zaitsev, CEO Peter Farkas, co-founder Vadim Tkachenko with the goat cake.

Percona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting

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• Oluwadamilola Oshungboye

Why OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams

Companies adding AI to their products often think that a powerful model is the key to successful integration. This assumption

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• Darryl K. Taft

Claw-style AI agents are coming to the enterprise. The governance infrastructure is still catching up.

The press release version of Automation Anywhere‘s EnterpriseClaw announcement is straightforward enough: a new capability for deploying what the company

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• Justin Dolly

The agentic identity crisis: Why your security isn’t ready for the AI revolution

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The transition from traditional web applications to agentic ecosystems is more than a change in the UI; it is a

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• Oladimeji Sowole

Debugging the undebuggable: building observability into probabilistic AI systems

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Debugging used to be straightforward: A service failed, you checked the logs, followed the stack trace, and fixed the bug.

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