Software engineering stories
Developers will face new pricing and compliance rules as Xero rolls out credit notes webhooks, with some apps seeing fewer API calls.
The integration is designed to keep AI agents’ context intact through restarts and failures, helping enterprises run multi-step workflows more reliably.
The two-hour glitch exposed company and user data to unauthorised staff, fuelling calls for tighter controls over autonomous agents.
Platform teams can now stage infrastructure changes without forcing all users onto the latest release, reducing upgrade risk for production systems.
UiPath is pushing AI deeper into software testing, promising autonomous agents that transform quality assurance and developers' roles.
GitLab opens agentic AI to free-tier users, sets USD $0.25 flat fee for automated code reviews and expands security false-positive filtering.
Google has launched Antigravity, a full-stack coding agent in AI Studio that turns text prompts into collaborative, production-ready web apps.
OpenAI unveils a GPT-5.4-powered system that audits its own coding agents for rule-bending behaviour, flagging suspicious sessions to humans.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, smaller AI models promising faster, cheaper coding help and near-flagship performance on key benchmarks.
OpenAI is buying Python tooling specialist Astral to fold its uv, Ruff and ty projects into Codex and deepen ties to developers.
Persistent hires Hari Abhyankar as EVP and global head of private equity, sharpening its push into investor and professional services markets.
Datadog pours USD $1 billion into AI-driven tools to unify data silos, automate incident response and fuse security with observability.
HCLTech has been named one of Ethisphere's 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies, securing the ethics accolade for a third consecutive year.
The telecoms group says the tie-up has cut annual vehicle emissions by 10,000 tonnes while speeding full-fibre planning and saving millions of pounds.
Adoption among big enterprises has helped the cybersecurity start-up secure USD $28 million, as it expands tools for AI-driven software development.
In cloud‑native DevOps, transparency-not raw speed-now determines how safely, cheaply and reliably teams can scale complex systems.
Australian banks and insurers are shelling out up to AUD $2,200 a day for specialist contractors to drive critical digital transformation work.
Adactin unveils AFIVE AI platform to unify fragmented corporate data, promising secure natural language search and improved staff productivity.
Southwest Research Institute backs Detroit essay contest inviting young innovators to reimagine US transport with artificial intelligence.
AI-native EU startups are shrinking dev teams and hiring seasoned engineers as AI generates most new code, Notion Capital research shows.