Developer Tools News & Updates

Mistral has launched Devstral 2, a 123-billion parameter dense transformer optimized for agentic software development, along with a smaller variant, Devstral Small 2, and a command-line interface, Vibe CLI. Devstral 2 achieves 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified and is available for free for a limited time via Mistral's API and Hugging Face.

AWS introduces Kiro powers, allowing developers to give their AI coding assistants instant expertise in specific tools and workflows, addressing the 'context rot' issue.

Anthropic's Claude Code feature in Slack enables developers to tag Claude to spin up a complete coding session, leveraging Slack context and automating workflows.

Anthropic has launched a beta integration of Claude Code with Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks directly from Slack.

The Linux Foundation has launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to develop and maintain open-source projects for AI agents, with support from leading tech companies including Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI.

Gemini CLI is a locally installed tool allowing users to access AI without a web browser or GUI, providing a powerful productivity boost for Linux users.

AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI to make building and fine-tuning custom large language models easier for developers.

Amazon Bedrock introduces reinforcement fine-tuning, making advanced model customization accessible to developers without requiring deep ML expertise. This feature improves model accuracy by 66% on average over base models and reduces costs.

NVIDIA introduces NVSentinel, an open-source Kubernetes AI cluster management platform, designed to monitor GPU health and automate remediation of faults. The system aims to reduce downtime and improve utilization by detecting and isolating GPU failures minutes instead of hours.

Continue's integrations with dev tools automate engineering workflows with AI, reducing manual effort and speeding up development cycles.

Continue launched a new integration that enables AI agents to create GitHub issues, generate PRs, and automate workflows directly from Slack conversations.

NVIDIA Model Optimizer enables five model optimization techniques to improve performance, reduce cost, and scale AI deployments on NVIDIA GPUs. These techniques address inference service efficiency, allowing teams to reduce cost per token, improve throughput, and accelerate inference at scale.

Gemini 3 outperformed Copilot in most AI tasks, showcasing its strength in creative and knowledge-intensive tasks, while Copilot excelled in coding tasks.

Pika partnered with fal to bring its powerful Model 2.2 to Pika's high-performance inference infrastructure, enabling seamless AI video creation for millions of developers.

Anthropic's Interviewer tool collects user feedback to learn what people want from AI products, and has published its first findings.

ZDNET shares 6 signs to identify and 3 free tools to detect AI-generated images, emphasizing the need for critical thinking in online content.

Tracing Hanging and Complicated GPU Kernels Down To The Source Code: Developers can use user-induced GPU core dump generation, coupled with line information provided by compiling kernels with -lineinfo flag, to effectively identify and debug problematic GPU kernels.