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Harness Launches Two Products to Give Enterprise Teams Full Visibility into ROI of AI Spend
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (334+ words) Nearly all engineering leaders surveyed" " 94% " for the State of Engineering Excellence report say they are not finding cost metrics in their current measurement frameworks, making it difficult to ascertain if each dollar of their AI spend is producing a real…...
Eating Our Own Dog Food: How SD Times Killed the 'Burner Email' Problem for 1. 2 Cents a Record
3+ day, 53+ min ago (772+ words) Let's clear the air right out of the gate: We know exactly what you guys do when you hit a registration wall on SD Times. You want to read that deep-dive whitepaper, grab an architecture cheat sheet, or watch a…...
Hexo Labs Releases SIA: An Open Source "Self-Improving AI" That Accelerates Superintelligence
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (266+ words) SD Times Hexo Labs Releases SIA: An Open Source "Self-Improving AI" That Accelerates Superintelligence Superintelligence research lab Hexo Labs today has launched SIA, an open-source agent framework that improves itself for task performance and autonomy. According to an Open AI…...
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4. 8
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (546+ words) SD Times Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4. 8 Anthropic today announced Claude Opus 4. 8, with improvements across benchmarks, and is a more effective collaborator. Opus 4. 8 launches alongside several new features. Users on claude. ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude…...
AI Coding Assistants in 2026: Avoiding Pitfalls and Maximizing Value
1+ week, 3+ day ago (627+ words) Across all industries, AI is forever transforming the way work gets done." For those of us working in software development and delivery, AI coding assistants are now essential for engineering teams. But the days of simply handing out licenses in…...
Jet Brains Launches Course Creators Program Bringing Education into the IDE
1+ week, 5+ day ago (210+ words) SD Times Jet Brains Launches Course Creators Program Bringing Education into the IDE Jet Brains has officially announced the launch of its Course Creators Program, a new initiative designed to integrate online programming education directly into professional development environments. This…...
Microsoft ushers in AI-native era with open agentic stack, Linux updates
2+ week, 21+ min ago (459+ words) SD Times Microsoft ushers in AI-native era with open agentic stack, Linux updates At the Open Source Summit North America 2026, Microsoft today revealed a sweeping set of updates aimed at strengthening the foundation of the AI-native era. Central to these…...
The Invisible Burden: How AI is Redefining Developer Productivity in 2026
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (306+ words) A new study of 700 engineering practitioners and managers across the U. S. , U. K. , France, Germany, and India reveals a fundamental shift in the software development landscape. While generative AI has accelerated code production, it has introduced a massive "invisible" workload that traditional productivity…...
Empromptu Launches Alchemy Models: The Next Wave of AI After Vibe Coding
2+ week, 3+ day ago (271+ words) SAN FRANCISCO " Empromptu AI, "the company leading enterprises through the transition of static Saa S to self-improving AI-native applications, today announced Alchemy Models, a new capability that allows companies to create, train, and deploy their own production AI models by…...
Open AI announces Codex for mobile devices
2+ week, 3+ day ago (211+ words) With the speed of AI-generated code and the quality and security teams overwhelmed by the avalanche, engineers who need to be dialed in to what's happening at all times now don't have to look any farther than their cellphones. Today,…...