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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’...

DigitalOcean and Laravel partner to simplify server provisioning for devs

DigitalOcean and the company behind the PHP framework Laravel have announced a new partnership to help developers more easily provision servers for web development. Their new offering, Laravel VPS, brings together server creation and application management within the server provisioning platform Laravel Forge. With Laravel VPS developers can purchase and deploy fully configured servers within Laravel Forge. According to the companies, this partnership will save developers a significant amount of time and consolidate costs into a single, predictable invoice. “We are thrilled to partner with Laravel to bring Laravel VPS to the developer community,” said Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean. “This partnership with Laravel demonstrates that startups and digital native enterprises can build their business on our platform. It also allows us to focus on infrastructure innovation, including our AI offerings through DigitalOcean Gradient AI, while partners like Laravel build specialized ...

EDM Association Completes Acquisition of Assets of Object Management Group, Creating World’s Largest Data and Standards Community

EDM Association , the global trade association for data management and technology standards, announces the successful completion of its acquisition of the assets of the Object Management Group ® (OMG ® ), the open membership, not-for-profit technology consortium. This unites two organizations with complementary expertise, creating the world’s largest association for data, software, systems, and standards professionals. The acquisition strategically aligns OMG’s globally adopted standards, frameworks, and communities—including the OMG Standards Development Organization (SDO), Digital Twin Consortium ® , AREA (Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance), and CISQ (Consortium for Information and Software Quality)—with EDM Association’s data management best practices and professional development programs. By leveraging a single authoritative standards partner and global expert community, members will have a wider range of tools, support, training and expertise to advance data and technol...

California passes law to ensure safe innovation of frontier AI models

Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models. “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive,” Newsom said. “This legislation strikes that balance. AI is the new frontier in innovation, and California is not only here for it – but stands strong as a national leader by enacting the first-in-the-nation frontier AI safety legislation that builds public trust as this emerging technology rapidly evolves.” The law, SB 53, establishes requirements for companies developing frontier AI models, spanning five categories: transparency, innovation, safety, accountability, and responsiveness. To ensure transparency, SB 53 requires that frontier model developers publish a framework on their website that describes how they are incorporating national and international standards and industry best p...

Slack evolves to support agentic capabilities built on conversational data

Salesforce is announcing several major updates to Slack that will enable customers to leverage their conversation history for AI apps and agents. The company is announcing a real-time search (RTS) API, which surfaces up-to-date discussions, files, and channels to provide agents access with context-aware information. To ensure secure use of information, data remains in Slack and the API adheres to existing user access permissions and only retrieves data that is relevant to the query. “It unlocks your organization’s collective intelligence, securely connecting agents to conversations and decisions that were once trapped in silos,” Salesforce wrote in a blog post . Slack also now has its own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which will enable AI agents to find information and act autonomously on behalf of Slack users. “With this foundation, developers can move beyond basic integrations to create contextual, intelligent experiences that automate complex workflows. Their agents can n...

When Should Testing Start in the Development Process? – Complete Guide Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

Typically speaking, developing software is a long series of stages that starts with requirements gathering to development to testing , to final release. Each stage requires the respective members to contribute to the final development of the product in their own capacity. The business analyst’s job is to collect requirements from the client and validate their feasibility with a technical architect. The technical architect studies the whole environment and performs the impact analysis of placing a new solution in it. Based on feasibility, they may recommend changes in the requirements. After long discussions and to and fro of requirements, the development of the product begins. Then the development team faces its own challenges. They encounter unforeseen events while building the software that may require either updating the design or a change in the requirements themselves. Then the next stage of testing arrives when the product is tested against different criteria. Even this stage ma...

VibeSec embeds security analysis into AI coding models to prevent generation of insecure code

OX Security is shifting security as far left as it can go with the launch of VibeSec , which it says can stop insecure AI-generated code before the code even gets generated. It does this by embedding dynamic security context into the coding model so that it doesn’t suggest code that contains security issues. “VibeSec doesn’t just accelerate security – it fundamentally changes how security operates. For the first time, security moves faster than vulnerabilities,” said Neatsun Ziv, co-founder and CEO, at OX Security. According to recent data from BaxBench , 62% of AI-generated code contains flawed or vulnerable code, and another study found a 37.6% increase in critical vulnerabilities after an LLM does five iterations on code. OX Security believes this confirms that the more AI is applied to coding, the more insecure it becomes, and why the company created VibeSec in response to the vibe coding movement. VibeSec is built on top of the company’s security intelligence engine OX Mind. ...

Bridge the gap between LLMs and business data

The promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize how businesses interact with their data has captured the imagination of enterprises worldwide. Yet, as organizations rush to implement AI solutions, they’re discovering a fundamental challenge: LLMs, for all their linguistic prowess, weren’t designed to understand the complex, heterogeneous landscape of enterprise data systems. The gap between natural language processing capabilities and structured business data access represents one of the most significant technical hurdles in realizing AI’s full potential in the enterprise. The Fundamental Mismatch LLMs excel at understanding and generating human language, having been trained on vast corpora of text. However, enterprise data lives in a fundamentally different paradigm—structured databases, semi-structured APIs, legacy systems, and cloud applications, each with its own schema, access patterns, and governance requirements. This creates a three-dimensional problem space: Fi...

UiPath adds new capabilities for simplified agent development

UiPath today announced several updates across its portfolio at its user conference, UiPath FUSION, in Las Vegas. “Available today, this combination of pre-built solutions, new capabilities for orchestrations, and supporting tools for building and testing agents and automations creates an ecosystem that enables organizations to deploy rapid agentic automation,” the company wrote in an announcement . The company announced UiPath Agents, which allows teams to build AI agents using a combination of low-code and traditional coding. Its Agent Builder provides a visual canvas for debugging and optimizing agents, as well as reusable templates for agents that cut down on deployment time. Additionally, new integrations with Teams, Slack, and Copilot enable development teams to extend the capabilities of conversational agents in those platforms, such as added support for voice, desktop triggers, and human hand-offs. Other new agent building capabilities for developers include Coded Agents wi...

Zapier Adds Copilot Assistant and Enterprise-Grade Governance to AI Orchestration Platform

Zapier , the most connected AI orchestration platform, today announced major upgrades to let every company drive impact with AI. Zapier has launched Copilot, made multiple core tools free, enhanced enterprise governance, connected agents to data with Model Context Protocol (MCP), and added 30+ AI integrations. Unveiled at Zapier’s ZapConnect user conference, the additions signify the biggest evolution of the platform. By combining AI-powered workflow discovery and enterprise-grade governance tools, Zapier aims to act as the central nervous system for business AI deployment. “Organizations are dealing with AI tool overload just like they faced software overload a decade ago,” said Chris Geoghegan, Vice President, Product, at Zapier. “Copilot doesn’t just help you build automations; it helps you find opportunities you never knew existed. We’re making powerful AI orchestration as easy as having a conversation, whether you’re a business user getting more productive, or an IT team support...

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 . According to Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4.5 also shows better domain-specific knowledge and reasoning in the fields of finance, law, and medicine. This model performs better on safety and alignment evaluations, the company claims. It shows a reduction in behaviors such...

Microsoft releases Aspire 9.5

Microsoft is attempting to improve the developer experience for those building distributed applications with the latest updates to Aspire, a collection of tools, templates, and packages for building such apps. One of the new features in Aspire 9.5 that Microsoft drew attention to is a preview for a new command: aspire update . This new command automatically detects and updates SDK and AppHost packages, validates package compatibility before applying changes, and asks for confirmation before making changes. It supports stable, daily, or custom builds. Aspire 9.5 also adds a preview for the ability to create an Aspire AppHost from a single apphost.cs file without needing a project file. Developers can then add other resources and projects after the AppHost is created. “This approach reduces the complexity of the Aspire configuration, especially for folks outside of the .NET ecosystem, without comprimising the full power of .NET. New users to Aspire can get started in seconds and can ...