Software engineering stories
In cloud‑native DevOps, transparency-not raw speed-now determines how safely, cheaply and reliably teams can scale complex systems.
Scale By Avec urges firms to rethink hiring in AI era, backing training, human skills and entry-level pathways over headcount cuts.
Xero rolls out credit notes webhooks and new API pricing for app partners as it tightens permissions, recertification and developer access.
Aerospike adds durable memory for LangGraph agents to keep context through restarts, failures and concurrent sessions.
Meta says an internal AI agent's bad guidance exposed sensitive staff and user data to workers company-wide for hours, sparking security alarm.
Cycloid adds Stack Versioning to its service catalogue, letting platform teams test infrastructure changes without forcing immediate upgrades on users.
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.
Zoho and ManageEngine open Sydney hub to double ANZ team, court enterprise and government clients, and pitch AI as a growth lever.
Openreach widens Google Cloud partnership to speed full-fibre rollout, slash fleet emissions and save millions in annual costs.
BlueFlag Security secures USD $28 million Series A to scale its identity-first cyber platform tackling AI and developer risks in software.
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.