LLMs aren’t enough for real-world, real-time projects
And let’s not overlook enterprise risk management. Suppose a group of business users asks an LLM, “What are the biggest financial risks for our business next year?” The model might confidently generate an answer based on past economic downturns. However, it lacks real-time awareness of macroeconomic shifts, government regulations, or industry-specific risks. It also lacks […]
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Devops debt: The hidden tax on innovation
Our report shows that forward-thinking organizations are already addressing this: 38% have implemented new internal rules for cloud instance usage, 35% are using more efficient compute instances and processors, and 24% have adopted high-performance JDKs specifically to enhance performance and reduce costs. The most successful organizations are implementing cross-functional finops teams with representation from engineering, […]
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Amazon Bedrock faces revamp pressure amid rising enterprise demands
While the cloud services provider did release Strands Agents, an open-source AI Agents SDK last month, Google’s ADK and Microsoft’s AutoGen, which were released earlier, have “already set a high bar for open source, developer-centric software for agent creation and is more widely adopted,” said Igor Beninca, data science manager at Indicium — a AI […]
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Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations on Windows. The File.delete command will no longer delete read-only files on Windows, and file operations on a path with a trailing space in a directory or file name will now fail consistently on […]
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Firecrawl: Easy web data extraction for AI applications
As organizations increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to process web-based information, the challenge of converting unstructured websites into clean, analyzable formats has become critical. Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling and data extraction tool developed by Mendable, addresses this gap by providing a scalable solution to harvest and structure web content for AI applications. […]
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IBM combines governance and security tools to solve the AI agent oversight crisis
IBM is integrating its AI governance tool watsonx.governance with Guardium AI Security — its tool for securing AI models, data, and their usage — to simplify and bolster AgentOps for enterprises. AgentOps, short for agent operations and also otherwise known as agent development lifecycle management, is a growing area of focus for enterprises as agent […]
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Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge
An code analysis vendor on Tuesday published a study of the generative AI (genAI) coding differences between its retail and finance customers, revealing that the retail approach is much more aggressive, whereas finance has been working on the technology longer. “Retail is pushing genAI into production faster. Finance is still experimenting. Retail companies are embedding […]
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Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
“By rethinking how data is stored and accessed, moving from siloed third-party systems to user-centric data models, organizations can create more fluid, responsive web and mobile interactions that adapt to preferences in real-time,” says Osmar Olivo, VP of product management at Inrupt. “To maintain accuracy and performance, AI-driven experiences should be trained with diverse, real-world […]
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Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025: Five takeaways for data professionals, developers
The addition of the managed PostgreSQL database to the Data Intelligence platform will allow developers to quickly build and deploy AI agents without having to concurrently scale compute and storage while preventing performance bottlenecks, simplifying infrastructure issues, and reducing costs. Integrated AI-assisted data migration with BladeBridge Databricks has finally integrated the capabilities of BladeBridge into […]
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Visual Studio Code bolsters MCP support
With VS Code’s MCP resource support, which includes support for resource templates, resources returned from MCP tool calls become available to the model, can be saved in chat, and can be attached as context via the Add Context button in chat. Developers can browse resources across MCP servers, or for a specific server, by using […]
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