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For the fourth straight year, Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey has found that PostgreSQL tops the list of the database management systems developers prefer — and the favorability ratings even ticked up from last year. If it seems odd that a 40-year-old open-source …
Startup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models
Artificial intelligence governance startup nFOX Lab today launched a platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox designed to restrict what AI workloads can access and do. The firm, which emerged from stealth mode …
ServiceNow adds AI agent controls and employee automation tools
ServiceNow Inc. today announced new controls for governing artificial intelligence agents alongside updates to its EmployeeWorks information portal (pictured) that let employees build specialized assistants and automate routine tasks without writing code. The announcements address two connected challenges for businesses expanding their …
Broadcom adds hypervisor protection to VMware
Citing the growing speed and volume of artificial intelligence-enabled attacks, Broadcom Inc. today introduced VMware HyperArmor, software that protects the hypervisor underlying VMware Cloud Foundation and gives administrators more time to test and deploy security patches. Announced at VMware Explore in Frankfurt, …
Cisco broadens agentic features in Webex collaboration platform
Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace management and enables customer-service agents to continue working after an interaction ends. Introduced at WebexOne in …
Exclusive: Gamma revamps presentation platform to make output look more human
Gamma Tech Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-powered services for presentations, social media and websites, today introduced a rebuilt version of its platform designed to give presentations and other visual content more distinctive designs, while connecting the creation process to companies’ internal …
Anaconda expands beyond Python with agent swarms and AI security testing
Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc. is enhancing its enterprise AI platform with tools to coordinate groups of AI agents, test their security and move applications into production. Today’s introductions continue the company’s expansion beyond its roots in Python software distribution into …
IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
IBM Corp. today announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, allowing enterprises to use artificial intelligence to build and modernize applications within their own infrastructure.. The offering supports on-premises, private-cloud, sovereign-cloud and air-gapped environments. It targets …
ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk
ServiceNow Inc. is enhancing the artificial intelligence features in its service desk offering with Flow, a feature that handles employee requests via a natural language interface with extensive automation. The company said it’s targeting organizations that want to automate support without undertaking …
AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding the ability to query the popular Apache Iceberg data lake directly from its Aurora PostgreSQL database management system, allowing applications to combine live transactions with historical records without copying data or creating extract/transform/load pipelines. The capability …