Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, will become chief scientist at Alphabet, succeeding Jeff Dean, who is leaving for a start-up. Hassabis will focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI…
Meta has released Muse Code, a beta coding agent for macOS and Linux that uses persistent background agents and the new Muse Spark 1.2 model to handle complex software tasks across large codebases. Mu…
Data engineering agents are emerging but adoption is slow because large language models have only been reliably good at writing SQL for the past six to nine months, according to InfoWorld. Agents exce…
Microsoft unveiled Web IQ at Build 2026, an agent-focused web search tool built on the Bing search index that provides up-to-date grounding data for LLM-based applications, reducing hallucination risk…
AI agent orchestration platforms, which coordinate role-based and task-based AI agents into multistep workflows, are among the hottest AI technologies of the year, with more than 60 commercial and ope…
In a nostalgic column, InfoWorld contributing editor Martin Heller recounts writing two shareware programs for Windows 3.x in the early 1990s — SYSBACK.EXE and WAVSHELL.EXE — and his recent attempt to…
SnapLogic introduced SnapGPT, an agentic assistant for data integration, on July 28, evolving its AI-powered integration copilot into a tool that helps enterprise teams plan, build, understand, and op…
AWS released Kiro Crew, an open-source orchestration platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to automate long-running engineering workflows, and was adopted by more than 39,000 Amazon builders in…
A recent survey highlighted by AI Secret found that 28% of people are willing to let AI do their grocery shopping, but only 6% would trust it with luxury goods or banking, a ranking the authors interp…
Superlogical, a startup founded by HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto, is developing a server-side multiplexer that turns the terminal into a persistent execution layer for AI coding agents, allo…
Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model that activates about 95 billion parameters during inference, positioning it against OpenAI and Anthropic.…
A developer's context layer fails when reused because it hard-codes content instead of acting as an interface, argues a new analysis from InfoWorld. The piece, by an unnamed author, proposes a metadat…
Enterprises are facing three major AI security mistakes as AI agents move from pilots to production, according to an InfoWorld analysis. The mistakes include unvetted dependencies from npm, PyPI, and …
Enterprises are facing three major AI security mistakes as AI agents move from pilots to production, according to an InfoWorld analysis. The mistakes include unvetted dependencies from package registr…
OpenAI has cut API prices for its GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models by 20% and 80%, respectively, effective July 30, with Terra now priced at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens,…
JetBrains open-sourced KotlinLLM, an IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype that delegates runtime logic to a large language model (LLM) from Kotlin code, enabling code generation, runtime updates, and hot-re…
Databricks is adding an agentic code conversion capability to its Lakebridge toolkit, using AI subagents to analyze, convert, and validate legacy SQL code at scale for migration to its lakehouse. The …
AI-active developers now generate 46 times more AI-written lines of code per day than the median active user, according to the Cursor Developer Habits Report, but the resulting production complexity o…
A senior test automation engineer who built a five-agent SDLC pipeline over the Model Context Protocol reports that the most expensive failure mode in multi-agent pipelines is not model error but comp…
The OWASP Agent Security Regression Harness, a community-led open-source project, aims to address the gap in AI agent security by turning discovered failures into repeatable regression tests, as tradi…