Atlassian today announced that agents have been incorporated into Jira, allowing development teams to shift work to agents while maintaining visibility of tasks and progress.

Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for organizations to perform AI inference, tune models, and deploy and manage agents.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 features improved skills in coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Coder's AI Maturity Self-Assessment and AI Maturity Curve enable software development teams to assess how effectively they have adopted AI.

Platform Engineering Labs announced that its open-source IaC platform, formae, now has beta support for multiple cloud providers.

Mirrord for CI securely connects a runner to a Kubernetes cluster, and then runs a test suite with real services, dependencies, and traffic.

The 2026 App Innovation Report found that 93% of leaders believe that updating their software was “the single most important factor in boosting their AI capabilities.”

Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects.

Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

Box Extract intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making.

The Copilot Studio Extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within VS Code.

Kaggle now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models.

An Accessibility Product Manager operates at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, and technical implementation.

The newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack.

UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.

Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.

Blind spots emerge when inefficiencies, disconnected systems, and data silos block leaders from seeing how their operations truly run.

Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management.

XAML Studio is a developer tool that can be used to prototype ideas before adding them to the rest of the application in Visual Studio.

According to Microsoft, Osmos’ AI agents turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets that can be used by OneLake.

An AI BOM extends the logic of an SBOM to reflect how AI systems are actually built and operated.

Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now Anthropic is making it an open standard.

Enterprises are making faster progress with agentic AI than many expected, not because the tooling is mature, but because companies have realized they can’t afford to wait.

When people receive workslop, 53% report feeling annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended. But the real damage runs deeper than hurt feelings.

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Our research shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.

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Generative Simulators are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios and update the rules of the world over time.

Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.

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Due to time-to-market pressure and resource constraints, mobile app developers are shipping code that’s under-tested and under-protected.

Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was introduced in October, and now Anthropic is making it an open standard.

Rather than treating AI as a third-party plugin, Bitrix24 embeds intelligence directly into the project lifecycle within a single workspace.

Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Flash, its latest frontier model designed for speed at a lower token cost.

Organizations have been kicking the tire on AI for the past several years, but 2025 saw an explosion of AI-powered offerings all along the software development life cycle.

We’re finally trading hype for hard engineering — and that’s exactly what AI needs to evolve and scale.

Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are production-ready images maintained by Docker to reduce vulnerabilities in container images.

The new functionality was built for AI, in that it can identify BOLA and broken function level authorization security concerns that SAST and DAST tools cannot.

Zenflow introduces an AI Orchestration layer to turn “chaotic model interactions into repeatable, verifiable engineering workflows.”

A2UI is a new project from Google that allows AI agents to create UIs from the client application's catalog of components.

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GPT-5.2 is optimized for professional knowledge work, scoring a 70.9% (using GPT-5.2 Thinking) on knowledge work tasks on the GDPval benchmark.

As AI coding assistants churn out ever greater amounts of code, the first – and arguably most painful – bottleneck that software teams face is code review.

Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration.

The UI company Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components.

FOCUS 1.3 adds new allocation-specific columns to enable teams to expose how they are splitting costs of shared resources.