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Dataminr , the leader in AI-powered real-time event, threat & risk intelligence, today announced the launch of the Dataminr Developer Portal and an enhanced Software Development Kit (SDK). This new developer-centric resource delivers a centralized knowledge hub, providing developers and product leaders with everything needed to quickly and confidently integrate Dataminr’s revolutionary AI real-time intelligence directly into customer- and partner-facing applications. The Dataminr Developer Portal dramatically streamlines the entire integration journey. Users now have frictionless access to API documentation, tools, support resources, and code samples, significantly reducing the time and complexity to build and ship Dataminr-powered solutions and workflows. By providing a clear and comprehensive view of how to integrate with Dataminr’s API, the SDK helps developers rapidly build and test customer solutions. Partners can also use the SDK to access Dataminr’s latest AI-enriched cont...

Earlier this week, Google came to a settlement in its five-year lawsuit with Epic Games, creator of the popular video game, Fortnite. Epic Games initially filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Google, saying that Google was violating antitrust laws with how it managed its app store, Google Play. Google takes a 30% cut of revenue for all purchases made through the Google Play Store, but Epic Games believed it could operate a similar storefront with a 12% revenue share. Epic Games then started allowing Fortnite players to buy in-game currency directly through its app, which caused the Android and iOS versions of Fortnite to be removed from their respective storefronts for violating the terms of use. As part of the settlement, Google has proposed a number of changes to the Play Store, Reuters reported , that will make it easier for Android users to download and install third-party app stores. One of the changes is that Android developers will be able to offer users alternative payment metho...

Somewhere, a boss-guy is banging on a conference table, shouting into the conference phone: “Bring me more AI projects! The next person who suggests buying anything, even a pencil, that doesn’t have AI in it, is fired!” Next, the EVPs and SVPs will scurry out of the room, then blast out instructions to their VPs and directors that they had better start searching for AI solutions to all of the things that managers used to do without AI, so they can reduce headcount by 50%. Unfortunately, their search for AI will land on an infinite number of results. Here’s a plan: go look at the websites of the stodgy old vendors that we already used from before AI, figure out what exactly we were doing with them, and then buy or build the AI that can do that. But when you get to their websites, every single one of them is doing AI now! Not only that, each claims to be some combination of the first, leading, easiest, best rated, and most powerful AI vendor in their space. To figure it out, let’s hi...

Vibe coding has taken off in the past year, and it’s not just a way for developers to play around with side projects. Just as low-code had in the past, vibe coding is another evolution of the movement to bring the power of software development to people without a coding background. In the latest episode of our podcast, we spoke with Angie Jones, VP of engineering for AI Tools & Enablement at the financial services company Block, about this movement and how it’s happening within Block. Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation: Q: One of the things that people talk about AI is how it can empower everyone to create code and do things they couldn’t do before, when it isn’t now just about software engineers. So how is that changing the way organizations are working, you know, creating now an army of people who can create code that may or may not have any governance behind it, any security, any testing, things like that? A: I think that engineers are adopting thes...

Microsoft has announced that Aspire is now polyglot and can be used across multiple languages, frameworks, and services. “Whether you’re building in C#, Python, JavaScript, or integrating services like Redis, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Aspire provides a unified way to develop, observe, and deploy any application,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post . This evolution of Aspire has been in the works for two years and was initially an effort to streamline distributed app development. In that time period, the platform has grown into a “thriving, community-driven, extensible, code-first platform for effortless, observable development and deployment of modern cloud apps,” according to Microsoft. Aspire allows developers to orchestrate front ends, APIs, containers, and databases entirely in code from a single CLI. The Aspire AppHost allows developers to define their app and its dependencies, and whenever a new resource is added to the AppHost, it is automatically added to the Aspire Dashboard so...

English is only spoken by about 20% of the world’s population, yet existing AI benchmarks for multilingual models are falling short. For example, MMMLU has become saturated to the point that top models are clustering near high scores, and OpenAI says this makes them a poor indicator of real progress. Additionally, the existing multilingual benchmarks focus on translation and multiple choice tasks and don’t necessarily accurately measure how well the model understands regional context, culture, and history, OpenAI explained. To remedy these issues, OpenAI is building new benchmarks for different languages and regions of the world, starting with India, its second largest market. The new benchmark, IndQA, will “evaluate how well AI models understand and reason about questions that matter in Indian languages, across a wide range of cultural domains.” There are 22 official languages in India, seven of which are spoken by at least 50 million people. IndQA includes 2,278 questions across 1...

Testlio, a company that offers crowdsourced software testing, has announced a new end-to-end testing solution designed specifically for testing AI solutions. Leveraging Testlio’s community of over 80,000 testers, this new solution provides human-in-the-loop validation for each stage of AI development. “Trust, quality, and reliability of AI-powered applications rely on both technology and people,” said Summer Weisberg, COO and Interim CEO at Testlio. “Our managed service platform, combined with the scale and expertise of the Testlio Community, brings human intelligence and automation together so organizations can accelerate AI innovation without sacrificing quality or safety.” The AI testing solution allows customers to validate AI model behavior in real-world conditions spanning different 100+ languages, 600k+ devices, and 150+ countries; detect and mitigate hallucinations, bias, or other harmful automation; simulate red team scenarios to find prompt injection, jailbreak, and compl...

Kong today unveiled the latest release of its open source platform for designing, mocking, debugging, and testing APIs. Insomnia 12 adds new features to enable developers to more rapidly build and test APIs and MCP servers. According to Kong, developers who are building MCP servers are facing similar challenges to what API developers faced years ago, and which has now been solved: validating and testing what they are building quickly, reliably, and without needing complex setups. The latest release of Insomnia aims to bring MCP developers a test-iterate-debug workflow for AI development so they can quickly develop and validate their work on MCP servers. Developers will now be able to connect directly to their MCP servers, manually invoke tools with custom parameters, inspect protocol-level and authentication messages, and see responses. Insomnia 12 also adds support for generating mock servers from OpenAPI spec documents, JSON samples, or a URL. “What used to require hours of manua...

OpenAI announces agentic security researcher that can find and fix vulnerabilities OpenAI has released a private beta for a new AI agent called Aardvark that acts as a security researcher, finding vulnerabilities and applying fixes, at scale. “Software security is one of the most critical—and challenging—frontiers in technology. Each year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases. Defenders face the daunting tasks of finding and patching vulnerabilities before their adversaries do. At OpenAI, we are working to tip that balance in favor of defenders,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post . The agent continuously analyzes source code repositories to identify vulnerabilities, assess their exploitability, prioritize severity, and propose patches. Instead of using traditional analysis techniques like fuzzing of software composition analysis, Aardvark uses LLM-powered reasoning and tool-use. Cursor 2.0 enables eight agents to work in pa...

OpenAI has released a private beta for a new AI agent called Aardvark that acts as a security researcher, finding vulnerabilities and applying fixes, at scale. “Software security is one of the most critical—and challenging—frontiers in technology. Each year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases. Defenders face the daunting tasks of finding and patching vulnerabilities before their adversaries do. At OpenAI, we are working to tip that balance in favor of defenders,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post . The agent continuously analyzes source code repositories to identify vulnerabilities, assess their exploitability, prioritize severity, and propose patches. Instead of using traditional analysis techniques like fuzzing of software composition analysis, Aardvark uses LLM-powered reasoning and tool-use. It is designed to work alongside developers and also integrates with existing workflows like GitHub and Codex so that it can provi...

OpenAI today announced that it has completed the restructuring of its business. When the company was founded in 2015, it was launched as a non-profit organization and that non-profit has controlled the for-profit arm of the business. Today’s restructuring turns the for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation called OpenAI PBC. The OpenAI Foundation—the new name for the non-profit—will still control the for-profit and hold a 26% equity stake in OpenAI PBC, which is currently valued at around $130 billion. Being a public benefit corporation differs from traditional corporate structures in that they are “required to advance its stated mission and consider the broader interests of all stakeholders, ensuring the company’s mission and commercial success advance together,” OpenAI’s website explains . According to Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board of directors, the more OpenAI succeeds, the more the OpenAI Foundation’s equity will be worth, which it can use to fund philanthropic w...

Spatial data – a record of physical or virtual data – is important to a variety of industries, yet a gap remains between collecting the raw data and gaining AI insights from it. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Damian Wylie, the head of products at spatial ETL, analytics and GeoAI company Wherobots , about the challenges of working with spatial data. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Q: What was the problem you saw with gleaning AI insights from spatial data? A: Let’s first start with what spatial data is, and then we can drill into some of the problems. So spatial data is a record of places, objects or activities, say, in a virtual or physical space. A virtual space could be something like a Metaverse or a game or an application. We’re going to spend most of our time today talking about the physical space. The physical space is anything tangible. This could represent things above our atmosphere, in space or in deep outer space, or could also be t...

The AI coding editor Cursor announced the launch of Cursor 2.0, the next iteration of the platform, featuring a new interface for working with multiple agents and its first ever coding model. The new multi-agent interface centers around agents instead of files. With this new interface, up to eight agents can work in parallel, using git worktrees and remote trees to prevent them from interfering with each other. It also allows developers to have multiple models attempt the same problem and see which one produces the best output. While this new interface is designed for agents, developers will still be able to open files or switch back to the classic IDE as needed. The new coding model, Composer, is four times faster than similar models, the company claims. It was designed for low-latency agentic coding tasks in Cursor, and it can complete most turns in less than 30 seconds. It was trained on a variety of tools, including codebase-wide semantic search, which makes it capable of under...

Organizations are spending huge dollars on AI agents, but are finding that integrating the agents into all the systems the business needs to function is a very high hurdle. To help make SaaS platforms agent-ready, integration orchestration company Workato released Workato Enterprise MCP , which the company said in its announcement can “turn existing workflows, integrations, and APIs into rich, multi-step agent skills that any large-language-model (LLM)-based agent can call, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Cursor.” Adam Seligman, chief technology officer at Workato, told SD Times that “the thing we keep coming back to over and over again is agents show a lot of promise, but to really work for business, they have to get access to business data. And they have to be able to do things inside your business, but do it in a way that you trust. And it’s really hard to get those two things right.” One of the reasons that organizations aren’t yet trusting their agents to do the right th...

During its annual conference, GitHub Universe, GitHub shared its plans for Agent HQ, its vision for the future of the platform where AI agents are natively integrated across all of GitHub. As part of this Agent HQ initiative, over the next several months, paid GitHub Copilot users will gain direct access to popular coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and more. Agent HQ brings with it several new capabilities to support this next evolution, the first of which is mission control, a central command center for assigning, steering, and tracking the work of multiple agents across GitHub, Copilot CLI, and VS Code. Mission control’s branch controls gives developers granular oversight over running checks for code created by the agents. Identity features will also be introduced to allow developers to manage agents like they would other coworkers and control which agent is building a task, manage access, and implement policies. Other mission control features include ...