Developer tools stories
London's Lua secures USD $5.8 million seed backing from Norrsken22 as it expands its platform for businesses to manage AI agents.
GitLab 18.11 rolls out AI agents for security remediation, pipeline setup and delivery analytics, plus new spending caps on GitLab Credits.
Twilio unveils embeddable Flex contact centre tools for web apps, adding Salesforce voice support, enhanced reporting and new pricing.
OpenSearch 3.6 lands as first LTS release with new observability stack, APM and agent tools for search, tracing and relevance tuning.
Gr4vy unveils Agentic Development Kit to help merchants sell inside ChatGPT and other AI platforms without overhauling their payment systems.
Umbraco adds AI skills to guide backoffice development, giving agents direct access to current docs, code and examples for safer customisation.
Capsule Security emerges from stealth with $7 million backing to police AI agents at runtime as enterprises widen their use.
Thoughtworks warns AI-assisted coding is swelling software complexity, as developers lean on older controls to curb security and oversight risks.
OpenAI broadens Trusted Access for Cyber to verified defenders, giving vetted users GPT-5.4-Cyber for tougher security work and code analysis.
Leapwork unveils enterprise validation suite with new performance and AI testing tools as firms race to manage faster software releases.
American Express adds AI agent safeguards and purchase protection as it opens a developer kit for software-led buying.
Ledger names Ian Rogers as Chief Human Agency Officer, putting hardware approval and human oversight at the centre of its AI security push.
GitLab deepens Google Cloud partnership so Duo Agent Platform users can tap Vertex AI models, while counting the spend against existing commitments.
Cloudflare launches Mesh to give AI agents secure access to private networks across clouds, data centres and internal systems.
Cloudflare adds compute, storage and sandboxing tools to Agent Cloud as it races to become the infrastructure layer for AI software agents.
Cloudflare adds new tools for long-running AI software, with Dynamic Workers, Artifacts and Sandboxes aimed at making agents easier to run at scale.
Anthropic's public beta gives developers cloud-hosted AI agents with built-in execution, tracing and governance, as rivals race to simplify deployment.
Atlassian adds AI visuals and partner agents to Confluence as Remix turns pages into charts, prototypes and presentations.
Vultr joins NVIDIA's Exemplar Cloud programme after Blackwell benchmark tests on a 512-node cluster across 11 AI training models.
SambaNova and Intel have introduced a hybrid inference blueprint pairing GPUs, RDUs and Xeon 6 CPUs to run coding agents in existing air-cooled data centres.
