Developer Tools News & Updates

Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now receive direct access to Google Cloud credits, making it easier to build and deploy AI applications.

Anthropic launched a new feature within Cowork, a general-use AI tool, to expand its plugin capabilities for enterprise users. Plug-ins aim to automate specialized tasks in various departments, increasing efficiency.

ZDNET's expert shares personalized AI model preferences for various tasks, highlighting the differences in capabilities and costs across popular models.

Google has added auto-browsing features to Gemini AI in Chrome, allowing users to perform complex multi-step tasks and enhancing AI capabilities.

NVIDIA integrated its CUDA Tile backend into OpenAI's Triton, enabling researchers to write efficient GPU code without CUDA experience.

ZDNET identifies six common signs of AI-generated images, including garbled text, anatomical irregularities, and an uncanny appearance. Free tools like Circle to Search can detect AI images, but they're not 100% accurate.

Cloudflare launched Moltworker, a self-hosted AI agent designed to run on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and Developer Platform APIs, providing a secure and efficient way to execute AI applications.

NVIDIA's MPS delivers significant throughput wins for small language models (<3B parameters) with short-to-medium context, and engines with significant CPU overhead, but falls short for larger models or longer contexts.

AI agents should be managed using management 101 skills, with tasks suitable for automation, delegation, or manual handling determined by human baseline time, probability of success, and AI process time.

NVIDIA's AI Red Team highlights the growing attack surface of agentic systems, emphasizing the need for robust security controls to prevent indirect prompt injection and other threats. Required controls include network egress controls, block file writes, and protect agent configuration files. Recommended controls include using a secret injection approach, preventing reads from files outside the workspace, and establishing lifecycle management controls.

LM Studio 0.4.1 introduces an Anthropic-compatible endpoint for Claude Code, enabling users to leverage local models with the popular IDE.

Moltbot, a viral AI assistant, poses security concerns due to its rapid growth, exposed credentials, prompt injection attacks, and malicious skills.

Home Assistant's Claude Code simplification enables users to set up their smart home system using natural language, making it more accessible for those without extensive technical knowledge.

OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a technical breakdown of Codex's 'agentic loop,' providing insight into AI coding tools that aid developers in writing code, running tests, and fixing bugs.

A new AI model CorrDiff is shown to downscale coarse climate projections into higher-resolution fields, revealing local details not resolved in raw data, enabling more accurate climate risk assessments.

Professional developers have varying opinions on AI coding tools, acknowledging their efficiency gains but expressing concerns about job security, technical debt, and the future of syntax-based programming.

Agentic AI and RPA are two automation technologies that offer different approaches to solving problems. Agentic AI is best suited for complex, dynamic workflows, while RPA excels at executing repetitive tasks.

The best AI automation tools at a glance. Zapier is the top choice for cross-team AI orchestration, while Boomi excels at legacy and on-prem systems.