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GitHub tackles vibe coding chaos with a control center for AI coding agents
Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit is trying to get a grip on the growing mass of uncoordinated artificial intelligence coding agents, launching a new control center known as the Agent HQ. It’s meant to serve as a kind of “mission control”, where software developers can manage multiple third-party coding agents in one place. These coding agents ...
Microsoft 365 gets new agents for building apps, workflows and… more agents
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its agentic artificial intelligence offerings with the launch of new agents for building applications and workflows. The App Builder and Workflows agents, available to Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers in the company’s Frontier Program, can perform tasks autonomously based on simple natural language prompts. In a blog post, Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s president ...
Redpanda’s new agentic data plane supports secure, governed deployments of AI agents
Real-time data streaming company Redpanda Data Inc. said it’s looking to tackle the regulatory challenges involved in streaming information to artificial intelligence agents with the launch of its new agentic data plane. The launch stems from Redpanda’s recent acquisition of the Structured Query Language engine startup Oxla sp. z o.o., which was also announced today. ...
Adobe’s GenStudio gets a dose of agentic automation and integrates custom models
Adobe Inc. said today it’s enhancing its popular GenStudio platform for marketing teams, adding artificial intelligence agents, tools for building custom large language models and content optimization, in order to accelerate branded content creation. The updates were announced at Adobe MAX, the company’s annual conference for creators, and are said to embed more automation into ...
Confluent shrugs off takeover reports with strong cloud growth, sending stock higher
Shares of the big-data streaming company Confluent Inc. gained more than 7% in late trading today after the company posted solid third-quarter financial results that eased past analysts’ expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 13 cents per share, surpassing Wall Street’s target of 10 cents per share, while ...
Report: Amazon to let go of up to 30,000 employees, starting this week
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly planning to let go up to 30,000 employees in what would be its largest ever round of layoffs. Some workers could be let go as early as Tuesday, as the company makes its latest in a series of moves aimed at cutting down costs and conserving cash. A report by Reuters cited ...
Anthropic strikes multibillion-dollar deal with Google to access a million TPUs
Google LLC has struck a deal with the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC that could be worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal will give Anthropic access to up to one million of Google Cloud’s tensor processing units or TPUs, which it wants to use to train and run large language models such as ...
OpenAI buys Apple Mac automation startup Software Applications
OpenAI said today it has bought a company called Software Applications Inc., which is building an artificial intelligence-based natural language interface for Apple Inc.’s Mac computers. That tool is called Sky, and it has not yet been released, but the company’s website reveals that it’s meant to work as a kind of AI assistant. Similar ...
Intel delivers first profit in six quarters as turnaround gains momentum
Intel Corp.’s turnaround continued making progress, as the company repored strong sales growth in its core personal computer chip business and lower costs from layoffs and other cuts implemented over the past year. The struggling chipmaker, which has fallen far behind rivals such as Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence race, reported a strong revenue ...
Lightricks hits the accelerator, generating video clips in just five seconds
Generative artificial intelligence video pioneer Lightricks Ltd. has responded to recent updates from OpenAI, Google LLC and others with today’s release of what it claims is the fastest video generation model in the business. The new model is called LTX-2, and in addition to the usual improvements in video quality and fidelity, it’s able to ...