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• Paul Sawers

Cloud code: Conductor joins rush toward remote coding agents

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AI coding agents are starting to leave the laptop behind. Tools that started as running only inside terminals and IDEs

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• Paul Sawers

GitLab is betting a 19th-century economic theory will shape its AI era

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As one of the stalwarts of the modern developer tooling industry, GitLab needs little introduction. The company helped popularize the

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• Meredith Shubel

Anthropic splits billing again: Agent SDK gets separate credit pools

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Anthropic announced this week that programmatic usage, including third-party apps built on Agent SDK, will draw from a new monthly

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• Monica White

The Rust sidecar pattern that fixes Python AI’s biggest weakness

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In the world of AI, “it works on my machine” is the most dangerous phrase a developer can muster. Transitioning

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• Matthew Burns

Fivetran’s CPO: Closed data stacks won’t survive the agent era

At Google Cloud Next 2026, Fivetran Chief Product Officer Anjan Kundavaram argued that enterprise data systems are unprepared for the scale of AI-driven analytics.

An AI agent let loose on a data warehouse can run ten or a hundred times more queries than a

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• Adrian Bridgwater

MinIO’s MemKV promises 95% better GPU utilization by ending AI recompute tax

The shiny upper surface of agentic AI services showcased in chatbots and copilots belies where the real development is happening

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Red Hat’s skill packs give AI agents something a bigger model never could: 20 years of institutional memory

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Red Hat believes giving users access to agent skills will be AI’s next inflection point.  At the Red Hat Summit

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• Meredith Shubel

Anthropic’s Claude Code agent view is a better dashboard. So why aren’t developers convinced?

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This week, Anthropic announced agent view in Claude Code, a CLI dashboard that lets developers manage multiple Claude Code sessions

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• Janakiram MSV

OpenAI’s Daybreak and Anthropic’s Glasswing have nearly identical benchmarks — and 3 of the same partners

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This week, OpenAI launched Daybreak, its cybersecurity initiative built around GPT-5.5, a tiered access framework, and Codex Security as the

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• Nick Lucchesi

I tested OpenAI’s three claims about GPT-5.5 Instant, and only one fully held up

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Last week, OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT’s default model with GPT-5.5 Instant, rolling it out to all users for

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• Nick Lucchesi

Temporal hits 3,000 paying customers with its crash-proof workflow engine

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If you work the high wire at a circus, you’d better have a net down below if you want to

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• Monica White

Cloud native application challenges: installing the walking skeleton

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Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Manning book, Platform Engineering on Kubernetes. This excerpt

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• Darryl K. Taft

Cimento emerges from stealth to secure the one thing no firewall can protect

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The security industry has spent decades and billions of dollars building tools to protect systems. The founders of Cimento, which

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• Monica White

Why agent harnesses fail inside cloud-native systems

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Coding agents perform better with a harness that gives them the tools, guidance, and feedback signals to know what to

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• Monica White

How to build a skills library for your engineering team

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A few months ago, we realized that every engineer on our team was running a different version of their AI

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• Monica White

Why enterprise AI needs customization

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Most organizations are approaching AI adoption the same way they once bought enterprise software: pick a vendor, standardize on a

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• Frederic Lardinois

The new FinOps problem isn’t cloud bills

At Google Cloud Next 2026, Finout co-founder and CEO Roi Ravhon and Google Cloud FinOps lead Pathik Sharma discussed how FinOps is rapidly evolving for the AI era.

At Google Cloud Next this month in Las Vegas, The New Stack sat down with Finout co-founder and CEO Roi

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• Darryl K. Taft

Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott bet on OpenShell to secure enterprise AI agents

From left to right, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Servicenow CEO Bill McDermott, at the Servicenow Knowledge conference in May 2026 in Las Vegas.

The software stack that powers enterprise applications was built for humans. It assumes human-speed interaction, human-managed credentials, and human oversight

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• Nick Lucchesi

The API portal is the clearest signal of whether your company can handle AI agents

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When I recently talked to Kin Lane, API evangelist and co-founder of Naftiko, I was repeatedly struck by the parallels

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• Matthew Burns

AI is creating a generation of developers who can’t debug their own code

On the surface, everything looks fine. The tests passed, the review is clean, and the junior who worked on it

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Red Hat is betting on AgentOps to close the gap between AI experiments and production

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On Tuesday, Red Hat announced significant advancements to Red Hat AI (RHAI) 3.4 at its Red Hat Summit in Atlanta. Red Hat

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• Nick Lucchesi

AI teams are spending months on web scrapers that SerpApi replaces with one API call

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If you want fresh data inside an AI system, you usually end up doing something messy to get it. For

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• Monica White

Living off the agent: The new tactic hijacking enterprise AI

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The moment employees started using AI tools with real company data, the game changed. Productivity jumped, but so did the

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• Frederic Lardinois

SAP launches AI Agent Hub at Sapphire 2026 to tame vendor agent sprawl

SAP wants to be the place where enterprises manage every AI agent in their environment, no matter which vendor built

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• Frederic Lardinois

SAP launches managed Joule Studio with Cursor and Claude Code support

SAP is all-in on making it easier for its users to build custom agents. At Sapphire 2026 in Orlando on

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• Monica White

As agentic dev tools boom, workflow auditability becomes the constraint

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Recently, I was working with a senior engineering leader at a large financial institution to review their DevSecOps platform engineering

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• Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Claude Platform comes to AWS

As part of Anthropic’s and AWS’s expanded collaboration, which the two companies announced in April, Anthropic said it would bring

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Anthropic trains Claude to resist blackmail & self-preservation behavior via agentic misalignment

Anthropic doubled down on the fight against agentic misalignment on Friday, the mechanics of which could cause AI models to

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• Monica White

How AI-native systems are built

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The core problem: the “brittle” enterprise Traditional enterprise software is deterministic; composed of a series of “If-Then” statements that break

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• Monica White

Why your AI agent doesn’t actually remember anything

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A few months ago, I was reviewing a customer support agent who had a strange failure pattern. A user would

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