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Listen in to the latest episode where Jenna Barron interviews Adi Polak, director of advocacy and developer experience engineering at Confluent, about why developers need to embrace a "head chef" mindset when working with AI agents.

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Atlassian adds agents to Jira 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.

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.

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Userware today announced a new version of XAML.io, adding the ability to share code using a URL and support for NuGet packages.

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Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and apps Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for organizations to perform AI inference, tune models, and deploy and manage agents.

Red Hat's new AI Enterprise solution offers a standard environment where organizations can perform AI inference, customize and tune models, and deploy and manage agents, using any model or hardware.

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This week in AI updates: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and more (February 20, 2026) Claude Sonnet 4.6 features improved skills in coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Catch up on the AI news we covered throughout the week here ⬇️

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January 2026: AI updates from the past month Coder's AI Maturity Self-Assessment and AI Maturity Curve enable software development teams to assess how effectively they have adopted AI.

Catch up on all of the AI news we covered in the past month here ⬇️

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

Platform Engineering Labs announced that its open-source IaC platform, formae, now has beta support for multiple cloud providers, including Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OVHcloud.

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MetalBear launches mirrord for CI to improve testing process for cloud native apps Mirrord for CI securely connects a runner to a Kubernetes cluster, and then runs a test suite with real services, dependencies, and traffic.

MetalBear is launching a new tool that allows development teams to run CI tests against Kubernetes environments without needing to deploy code to it or spin up test environments. sdtimes.com/test/metalbe...

Report: Companies with technical debt unlikely to see benefits from AI adoption 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.”

Cloudflare's 2026 App Innovation Report found that organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t.

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Chainguard adds 10 new projects to EmeritOSS program for prolonging the life of open source tools Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects.

Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away.

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This week in AI updates: Google’s UCP standard, a redesigned Slackbot, and more (January 16, 2026) Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

Read on to catch up on some of the AI-related software development news we covered in the past week.

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Box Extract intelligently pulls information from unstructured content to help with workflow automation Box Extract intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making.

Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. sdtimes.com/data/box-ext...

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

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code, which allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE.

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

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

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Listen in to the latest episode of our podcast, where we interview Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, about what happens when open source projects are abandoned.

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Your accessibility strategy is missing a product manager An Accessibility Product Manager operates at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, and technical implementation.

Software teams have spent years treating accessibility like technical debt—something to address in the backlog when there's time, budget and organizational will.

That approach has failed.

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

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

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Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.

Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.

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

Unit testing company Typemock has released the latest version of its C++ testing solution, Isolator++.

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

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Eliminating enterprise blind spots: The new imperative for AI-driven leadership Blind spots emerge when inefficiencies, disconnected systems, and data silos block leaders from seeing how their operations truly run.

Even after massive investments in automation, analytics, and low-code platforms, most leaders still struggle with an uncomfortable truth: they cannot fully see their enterprise.

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Percona donates its database provisioning platform OpenEverest to the CNCF Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management.

Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management, and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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XAML Studio is now open source 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.

Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio.

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

Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos, and plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric.

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From SBOM to AI BOM: Rethinking supply chain security for AI native software An AI BOM extends the logic of an SBOM to reflect how AI systems are actually built and operated.

As AI native systems become foundational to products and operations, the traditional SBOM model no longer captures the full scope of supply chain risk.

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December 2025: AI updates from the past month 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.

Catch up on all of the AI updates we covered in the past month in our latest article.

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Agentic AI breaks out of the lab and forces enterprises to grow up 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.

The leading 10 to 20% of organizations are racing ahead, standing up internal “agent platforms” that handle planning, tool selection, long running memory, workflow coordination, and human in the loop approvals.

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AI workslop: The golden touch that's killing productivity When people receive workslop, 53% report feeling annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended. But the real damage runs deeper than hurt feelings.

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

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The top software development news of the year This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.

As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry.

Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:

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Why AI isn't replacing UX designers – it's making them indispensable Our research shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.

Research from design company OCTO shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.

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Our top trending opinion and analysis articles from the past year AI wasn't the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here's a look at the top trending stories on sdtimes.com for 2025.

Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, but AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here’s a look at the top trending stories on SD Times for 2025.

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