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“There is just not a room for error”: SAP is putting its AI agents in the back office

Earlier this year, at its Sapphire conference, SAP outlined its plans for an “Autonomous Enterprise” run in large part by

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Text • Amanda Caswell

One MCP server used 18,000 tokens before doing anything. Here’s the workaround.

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Pi spent much of the past year leaving MCP out of its coding agent, even as the protocol became standard

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Developers are secretly hoping OpenAI fails to ship this month

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OpenAI’s 28-day Codex shipping sprint has its first result, which means subscribers hoping for a free usage reset will have

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Text • Paul Sawers

OpenAI brings text watermarking to its API — and unlike Anthropic, it’s off by default

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OpenAI has announced that developers can now opt in to watermarking text generated through its API, as the company extends

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Text • Matthew Burns

Dynatrace’s $915M Arize deal bets AI agents are just another app to monitor

Dynatrace completed its $915 million acquisition of Arize on Oct. 1, combining Dynatrace’s application and infrastructure monitoring with Arize’s AI agent tracing and evaluation capabilities. The deal aims to provide a unified view of AI applications, from model behavior to the underlying systems supporting them. Dynatrace’s Sean O’Dell emphasized that despite their complexity, AI applications are still applications

Dynatrace closed its $915 million acquisition of Arize on October 1, joining Arize’s tracing and evaluation of AI agents to

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Text • Amanda Caswell

The AI safety check that runs on a laptop and nearly matched a 35B model

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Guardrail selection has typically meant choosing between a purpose-built classifier and an LLM acting as a judge. Decision models such

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

XCOR launches to trace outages in minutes. It still pages engineers.

Palo Alto Networks introduced a new approach to AI-driven observability last week, signaling a shift from dashboards and manual incident

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Text • Arjun Iyer

Agents have made CI the bottleneck. Faster pipelines are the wrong fix.

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Three posts landed in September that I think engineering leaders should read together. Anthropic’s engineering team wrote that their continuous

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Text • Russ Andersson

AI is speeding up exploits. Vulnerability spreadsheets can’t keep up.

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Artificial intelligence has changed almost every aspect of software development and cybersecurity. But perhaps one of the most profound changes

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Text • Matthew Burns

Anthropic’s answer to Dots and Muse is already inside Claude

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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Text • Amanda Caswell

GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first

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GitHub launched computer use in public preview on Thursday, giving Copilot CLI and its desktop app the ability to operate

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Text • Bill Doerrfeld

What Kubernetes’ “monolith” lesson means for AI agent harnesses

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Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon, your source for everything Kubernetes and cloud-native as we count down the

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Text • Paul Sawers

“No reason why everyone should have an identical Claude experience”: Anthropic’s mods let you change Claude Code’s look and behavior

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Developers have long been able to customize Claude Code to their preferences, via settings, persistent instructions in CLAUDE.md, hooks, and

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Text • Peter Smails

K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t)

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The Kubernetes ecosystem has a complexity problem, and most teams already know it. Standard Kubernetes (K8s) is extraordinarily powerful, but

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI’s always-on agents are free, until one specific thing happens

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OpenAI’s new Dots can work around the clock without drawing down a user’s normal usage allowance during the launch period,

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Cloudflare brings paid access to MCP tools — who controls the agent’s spending?

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Cloudflare opened a closed beta of its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, giving domain owners a way to charge AI agents

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Text • Paul Sawers

“No human wants to look at billions of traces”: Dynatrace bought Arize because agents need a new kind of observability

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Observability has long been a staple of enterprise operations, giving companies a way to understand what their applications and infrastructure

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Text • Nick Lucchesi

Bit Cloud’s next chapter starts after the AI builds your app

For many developers, building an application from an AI prompt is already part of the workday. Turning that first version

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Text • John Sapp

Transform AI from a security blind spot into a roadmap

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I used to joke that every new technology came as a three-course CISO dinner: hype for the appetizer, hope for

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

AWS launches a local answer to TypeSafe’s Jev decision model

AWS on Thursday launched Strands Decider 2B, its take on decision models like Jev, Kev, imajev, Laya, and others. TypeSafe’s Jev kicked off the current

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

A live Kubernetes cluster can still have an ownership gap

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Day 1 of a Kubernetes deployment usually feels like a milestone to an IT department: Clusters are provisioned, networking is

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Text • Jeremy Daly

Use Graph RAG when relationships are part of the evidence

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Which team owns the service that depends on the vulnerable library? Which customers use that service, and what does each

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Text • Chaim Mazal

In AI security, there’s no room for a defender’s mindset

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In June, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint statement. Frontier AI models, they warned, are “anticipated to

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Text • Amanda Caswell

AI coding agents leaked 13,000 screenshots, and nobody hacked them.

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AI coding agents trying to work around a limitation in GitHub’s command-line tool ended up publishing more than 13,000 internal

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Text • Doug Sillars

AI agents speed up development — data access slows them down

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Building the app was never the hard part. Now, with AI agents assisting with development, teams complete applications and internal

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Gemini 4 Argon is here: It’s great, and you can’t have it yet

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Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s long-awaited flagship model, and it looks like it was worth the

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Cohere’s faster query model barely dents retrieval quality in its tests

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Cohere released Embed 5 on Wednesday, giving teams the option to index data with Embed 5 Pro and query those

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

CloudBees just committed to an AI-first pivot. Here’s why it matters for enterprise DevOps teams

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When new CloudBees CEO Mo Plassnig took the job earlier this year, his board of directors handed him a mandate

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI’s Dots boundary problem rate doubled in longer tests

OpenAI’s new Dots are built to keep working after you step away. Launched at DevDay on Tuesday, the always-on agents

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Text • Kimberly Fessel

Your AI agent aced the demo. Your data may still derail it.

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Ahhh, demo AI agents. Don’t you just love them? Cute and cuddly, solving all your company’s problems without complaints, missteps,

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