Deltix, an AI-driven testing platform, announced its open beta, offering free AI agents that test iOS and Android apps by executing plain-English tasks on simulators and emulators. The platform, which…
Blacksmith raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the San Francisco startup at $550 million as AI coding tools increase the volume of software requiring validation. Th…
Jerry Orr's essay argues that development pipelines, including CI/CD and QA environments, should be treated as production systems with outage-level urgency, a view echoed by Hacker News commenters. Th…
CircleCI has rewritten its CLI from scratch in Go, shipping it as a 1.0 beta with a built-in MCP server for agent hosts like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code. The CLI emits JSON on every data-returning com…
A developer at Nylas built a CI/CD alert triage agent that uses its own email inbox to receive, cluster, and summarize noisy pipeline notifications. The agent, created via Nylas's custom grant API, re…
Cognition killed the Cascade agent on July 1, breaking CI pipelines and automation scripts that invoked it by name, with no deprecation warnings or grace period. The replacement, Devin Local, is a Rus…
CircleCI Principal Engineer Michael Webster presented how AI is transforming software development at the company, highlighting three epochs: manual copy-paste, AI-assisted IDEs, and headless agents. H…
A developer reports that AI assistants like Claude can save hours authoring GitLab CI YAML pipelines, but warns of common pitfalls including rules/except confusion, empty variables on MR pipelines, an…
CircleCI launched Chunk Sidecars, a feature that runs CI-style microbuilds inside AI coding agents' inner development loops, now in Preview for Performance and Scale Plans. The sidecars execute lint, …
CircleCI launched Chunk Sidecars, a feature that brings CI-style validation directly into AI coding workflows by providing fast, pre-configured cloud environments for testing and quality checks before…
CircleCI released an official MCP Server that gives AI coding agents read access to pipeline data, allowing them to query build failures, test results, and config validation directly without manual co…
AI-assisted development has increased pull request queues by 59% year over year, but main-branch throughput fell 7% and success rates dropped to 70.8%, according to CircleCI's 2026 data. The bottlenec…
Socket detected a coordinated PyPI compromise involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages, part of the Shai-Hulud/Miasma campaign that uses Python startup execution to download Bun and r…
A cybersecurity prediction log forecasts a wave of low-skill attackers exploiting CI/CD configuration files (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI) at scale, beginning in Q3 2026. The prediction disting…