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This week in AI updates: Amazon Quick Suite, Gemini Enterprise, and more (October 10, 2025)

Amazon launches Quick Suite to provide agentic AI across applications and AWS services Amazon Quick Suite allows users to ask questions, conduct deep research, analyze and visualize data, and create automations. It can connect to internal repositories, like wikis or intranet, and AWS services. Amazon also offers 50+ built-in connectors to applications like Adobe Analytics, SharePoint, Snowflake, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, ServiceNow, and Databricks, as well as support for over 1,000+ apps via connecting to their MCP servers. This deep connection across the enterprise enables Quick Sight to analyze data across all of a company’s systems and create complex business workflows across multiple applications and departments. “Unlike traditional business intelligence tools that work only with databases and data warehouses, Quick Sight’s agentic experience analyzes all forms of data across all your systems and apps, including your documents,” Amazon wrote in a blog post . Google unve...

From vibe coding to vibe deployment: Closing the prototype-to-production gap

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” with a tweet that instantly resonated across the developer community. The idea was simple yet powerful: instead of writing code line-by-line, you describe what you want in natural language, and an AI model scaffolds the entire solution. No formal specs, no boilerplate grind, just vibes. Vibe coding quickly gained traction because it removed the friction from starting a project. In minutes, developers could go from a vague product idea to a working prototype. It wasn’t just about speed, it was about fluid creativity . Teams could explore ideas without committing weeks of engineering time. The viral demo, like the one Satya Nadella did and various experiments, reinforced the feeling that AI-assisted development wasn’t just a curiosity; it was a glimpse into the future of software creation. But even in those early days, there was an unspoken reality: while AI could “vibe” out an MVP, the leap from prototype to production...

LaunchDarkly Accelerates Journey to Self-Healing Software with Feature-Level Observability That Reduces Developer Friction and Accelerates Triage

LaunchDarkly , the comprehensive feature management platform, today unveiled key new AI capabilities and integrations that let developers ship software at even higher velocity while keeping risks at bay. These updates further the company’s vision for Self-Healing Software that allows engineers to focus on delivering amazing user experiences instead of anxiously awaiting late-night calls to fix bugs and outages. Pressure has been mounting on developers to ship code faster and faster as organizations have moved from yearly to seasonal to agile deployments. And now, the rise of AI-assisted ‘vibe coding’ is accelerating that pace even more, increasing the volume of code shipped – and with it, the risk of shipping buggy software. Traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, while still essential for infra and system-wide monitoring, were never built to tie the performance of the features being shipped to the underlying observability data. That has left a critical gap in obse...

Redis Acquires Featureform to Help Developers Deliver Real-time Structured Data into AI Agents

Redis today announced the acquisition of Featureform , a powerful framework for managing, defining, and orchestrating structured data signals. The acquisition helps Redis solve one of the most critical challenges developers face with production AI: getting structured data into models quickly, reliably, and with full observability. AI agents need more than LLMs—they depend on real-time data, past interactions, and knowledge bases to deliver accurate results. Getting that context to models at the right time remains a persistent challenge in deploying AI apps and agents into production, and delivering an exceptional experience to users once in production. Redis makes it simple by serving as the real-time data platform developers trust to power AI agents with memory, knowledge, and structured data—now supercharged by the integration of Featureform. Featureform will become a part of Redis’ feature store solution, complementing the fastest benchmarked vector database powered by Redis Quer...

Redgate Software’s Data Modeler aims to help companies that manage multiple database platforms

Redgate Software has announced the launch of its new data modeling tool that helps organizations deal with the complexity of working with multiple database platforms. Redgate Data Modeler is a rebranded version of the Vertabelo Data Modeler, following Redgate’s acquisition of the company. According to Redgate, the tool had already been used by thousands of data professionals, and will now be able to take advantage of a stronger product roadmap backed by Redgate. Redgate recently conducted a report where it found that 79% of organizations surveyed use more than one database platform and 29% use more than five. Redgate Data Modeler supports 10 different database types and allows companies to visualize, document, and evolve their database structures without having to write an SQL. It currently supports Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, IBM DB2, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, HyperSQL, and Google Big Query. “We’ve been aware of Vertabelo’s presence in the database ...

Google unveils Gemini Enterprise to provide companies a more unified platform for AI innovation

Google is announcing a new offering built around Gemini, designed specifically with large enterprise use in mind. Gemini Enterprise consolidates six core components: Advanced Gemini models A no-code workbench for analyzing information and orchestrating agents Pre-built Google agents for tasks like deep research or data insights The ability to connect to company data A central governance framework for visualizing and securing all agents Access to an ecosystem of over 100,000 industry partners “By bringing all of these components together through a single interface, Gemini Enterprise transforms how teams work. It moves beyond simple tasks to automate entire workflows and drive smarter business outcomes — all on Google’s secure, enterprise-grade architecture,” Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post . Gemini Enterprise offers tools for building custom conversational agents. For example, using a low-code visual builder, companies will be able to build a customer...

Atlassian shares major updates to its genAI assistant Rovo at Team ‘25 Europe

Atlassian is hosting its annual user conference Team ‘25 Europe this week in Barcelona, and during the event, the company shared several new and upcoming updates to its generative AI assistant Rovo . “With so many customers embracing our AI vision, we’re not slowing down. We’ve been busy packing Rovo full of new AI-powered skills, smarts, and places to transform your workday,” the company wrote in a blog post . Atlassian announced the general availability of its AI coding agent Rovo Dev. Rovo Dev can help with code reviews, documentation, dependency cleanups, and more, and it leverages context from tickets, docs, incidents, and business goals to provide developers with information that will help them make more informed decisions. “Powered by Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, Rovo Dev understands your company, your projects, and your goals—and connects the dots across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Compass, Jira Service Management, and more. It’s not just about code: Rovo Dev brings together...

Google launches ecosystem of extensions for Gemini CLI

Google is launching Gemini CLI extensions to allow different development tools to connect up to the Gemini CLI. Each extension includes a playbook that teaches the CLI how to effectively use that tool, eliminating the need for developers to configure them. “If you want to look under the hood, Gemini CLI extensions package instructions, MCP servers and custom commands into a familiar and user-friendly format,” Google wrote in a blog post . Twenty-two extensions are available at launch from Google partners Atlassian, Canva, Confluent, Dynatrace, Elastic, Figma, GitLab, Grafana Labs, Harness, HashiCorp, MongoDB, Neo4j, Pinecone, Postman, Qodo, Shopify, Snyk, Sonar, Stripe, ThoughtSpot, Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, and WIX. Google itself offers several extensions to connect the Gemini CLI to its other tools, such as Chrome DevTools, Firebase, Flutter, Genkit, and more. It also supports extensions that were created by the community. Google has created a new website that lists all...

Tempo Launches Collections to Simplify The Path to Adaptive SPM

Tempo is launching Collections , a new modular offering that makes it easier for organizations to begin their Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) journey. Tempo will officially unveil Collections at Atlassian Team ’25 Europe in Barcelona, showcasing how the solutions help teams gain clarity, alignment, and faster time-to-value while laying the foundation for Adaptive SPM. “Organizations are struggling with disconnected tools and outdated planning processes that can’t keep up with the pace of change – leading to misalignment, wasted resources, unrealized ROI, and compromised outcomes,” said Vic Chynoweth, CEO of Tempo. “With Collections, teams can address those challenges immediately while building toward continuous, intelligent portfolio management. SPM realization is a journey, not a one-time project – and this is the on-ramp.” The Age of Adaptive SPM “The organizations that thrive in the next decade won’t be the ones with the best plans, but the ones that can adapt their plans f...

Meta donates React and React Native to the Linux Foundation

Today at React Conf , Meta announced that it would be donating its JavaScript UI libraries React and React Native to the Linux Foundation, which will be forming the React Foundation to support these libraries. The React Foundation includes founding members Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel. Its executive director will be Seth Webster, who is currently the head of React at Meta. According to the Linux Foundation, the new organization will provide governance, manage core infrastructure, organize events (including React Conf), and launch new programs that encourage community collaboration. “The move to a neutral home is the natural next step in the evolution of this important open source technology to ensure React and React Native remain open, innovative and community led,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “This will be a major milestone for the open source ecosystem, and we look forward to welcoming the React Foundatio...

XMLUI: A modern web development tool based on a component model

Back in the mid-1990s, if you wanted to build useful software, you didn’t necessarily need to be a coding prodigy. You had tools like Visual Basic, an ecosystem of components, and the ability to simply wire them together. You were, in essence, standing on the shoulders of giants – the coders who built those foundational components. It was a time of rapid iteration, where ideas could quickly become tangible applications. If you’re under 45, you might not fully grasp the magic of that era, or perhaps you’ve noticed that the modern web, despite its advancements, hasn’t quite replicated that seamless component-driven development experience. That’s where XMLUI comes in. It aims to bring that Visual Basic model to the modern web, specifically leveraging the React-based component ecosystem. XMLUI wraps React and CSS, providing a suite of components that you can compose using simple XML markup. It’s about democratizing UI development, making it less of a black art and more of a structured, ac...

IBM adds new capabilities to watsonx Orchestrate to facilitate agentic AI at scale

Today as IBM kicked off its annual developer event TechXchange 2025, it announced several new capabilities to enable organizations to unlock value from agentic AI. “There’s certainly been a lot of buzz in the industry,” said Bruno Aziza, vice president of Data, AI, and Analytics Strategy at IBM Software. “I think if you look at the context of everything that’s going on, customers are struggling. They’re struggling to get value from their investment. It announced many updates to its AI agent orchestration platform, watsonx Orchestrate. The platform now includes AgentOps, an observability and governance layer for AI agents; Agentic Workflows, standardized and reusable flows that can be used to build and sequence multi-agent systems; and Langflow integration to reduce agent setup time. “The thing we’ve learned here is that it’s not just about the agents themselves,” said Aziza. “It’s about the ability to run agents in concert with everything else that’s going on: your rules, your tools...

Breaking down data silos: The power of Microsoft Fabric and Progress DataDirect

Organizations are dealing with unprecedented amounts of data, and while this data has the potential to help drive more informed business decisions and facilitate AI projects, data silos can arise and prevent companies from realizing the true potential of their data. “Integrating diverse data sources requires not only bridging differences in data models and protocols but also enforcing consistent security controls and without these, organizations risk exposing sensitive information and fragmenting their data landscape,” said Kumar Vikesh, senior technical product manager at the data connectivity company Progress . One solution to this challenge is Microsoft Fabric , a platform that allows data from multiple different sources to be unified in a single data lake where it can be connected to different analytics and reporting tools, like Power BI. Under the hood, these connections are made possible by the Synapse Endpoint, a connection interface for querying data with SQL in OneLake, Fab...

OpenAI DevDay: ChatGPT Apps, AgentKit, and GA release of Codex

OpenAI held its annual Developer Day event today where it announced several updates to its products. The company unveiled apps in ChatGPT as well as an SDK for developers to build them. Companies that have created apps that are already available include Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow. When a user says the name of an available app in a prompt, ChatGPT will automatically surface that app in the chat. For example, saying “Spotify, make a playlist for my party this Friday” will bring in the Spotify app. ChatGPT will also be able to suggest apps when it thinks they’re relevant to the conversation, such as suggesting Zillow’s app in a conversation about buying a house. The first time an app is used, the user will need to connect to it and approve what data can be shared. Apps are available for all ChatGPT users (must be logged in), except those in the EU. OpenAI also announced AgentKit, which is a set of tools for building, deploying, and optimizing ag...

Google’s coding agent Jules now works in the command line

Google’s coding agent Jules now can be used directly in developer’s command lines so that it can act as more of a coding companion. According to Google, it created this new command line interface—called Jules Tools—out of a recognition that the terminal is where developers spend most of their time. Jules Tools allows developers to spin up tasks, inspect what Jules is doing, and integrate Jules into automation. “Think of Jules Tools as both a dashboard and a command surface for your coding agent,” Google wrote in a blog post . It is based around Commands, which tell Jules what to do (ex. list all remote tasks), and Flags, which let developers customize Jules (ex. switch the theme of the interface). “Jules Tools makes your coding agent more tangible. It’s not just something running in the cloud, it’s right there in your terminal, responding to you,” Google said. Additionally, the company announced that it created an API for Jules . With the API, a developer could do things like get ...

Coupa’s Newest Release Expands Agentic AI Collaboration and Orchestration Capabilities

Coupa , the leading AI platform for Total Spend Management, today announced a significant platform release delivering powerful new capabilities that help finance, procurement, and supply chain leaders address today’s most pressing market challenges with AI. These updates, which include more than 100 platform enhancements, are focused on bringing greater automation and intelligence to the user experience across the entire spend management lifecycle with the Coupa Navi agent portfolio. “Companies are facing increased pressure to grow revenue while simultaneously boosting profitability in the face of ongoing supply chain and market volatility,” said Salvatore Lombardo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Coupa. “This release helps tackle those challenges head-on by rearchitecting procurement practices with AI. By helping buyers and suppliers navigate growing complexities with a seamless and transparent ecosystem, we’re providing a clear path to streamline operations, enhance decision...

This week in AI updates: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server, DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI updates, and more (October 3, 2025)

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server now available The AgentCore MCP server offers built-in support for runtime, gateway integration, identity management, and agent memory. It was created to speed up the process of creating components that are compatible with Bedrock AgentCore. “What typically takes significant time and effort, for example learning about Bedrock AgentCore services, integrating Runtime and Tools Gateway, managing security configurations, and deploying to production can now be completed in minutes through conversational commands with your coding assistant,” AWS wrote in a blog post . DigitalOcean updates Gradient AI Platform The Gradient AI Platform is a platform for building AI agents without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. New features that have been added include support for image generation, auto-indexing of knowledge bases, and VPC integration. Additionally, DigitalOcean revealed that it will be expanding the platform further in the next few we...

Microsoft announces preview of its new Agent Framework

Microsoft has announced a preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework , an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows. It supports creating individual agents as well as graph-based workflows to connect up multiple agents. According to Microsoft, the Agent Framework is a direct successor to its other projects Semantic Kernel and AutoGen , utilizing foundations from both. It brings together Semantic Kernel’s enterprise-grade features like thread-based state management, type safety, filters, telemetry, and model and embedding support, with AutoGen’s abstractions for single- and multi-agent patterns. “Both had passionate users — but each had gaps,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post . “Developers asked us: why can’t we have both — the innovation of AutoGen and the trust and stability of Semantic Kernel — in one unified framework?” Like Semantic Kernel and AutoGen, the Agent Framework will also be open-source and Microsoft welcomes the com...

September 2025: AI updates from the past month

Anthropic claims its newly released Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the “best coding model in the world” Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5 , which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4. For external comparison, GPT-5 Codex scored at 74.5%, GPT-5 scored 72.8%, and Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 67.2%. Additionally, it leads in the OSWorld benchmark, which tests AI models on real-world computer tasks. It scored 61.4% on that benchmark, beating out Claude Sonnet 4, which scored 42.2%. “Sonnet 4.5 can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user,” Anthropic says . Google adds Data Commons MCP Server, new versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite The Data Commons MCP Server allows AI developers to easily access all of Data Commons’...