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I still care about the code

Martin Fowler

Even with LLMs, Birgitta Böckeler still cares about the code: “LLMs are NOT compilers, interpreters, transpilers or assemblers of natural language, they are inferrers.

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Hertz adopts AI for fleet and workforce management

CIO

Hertz got its start renting out a dozen Model T Fords more than 100 years ago. Today, Hertz operates in 160 countries and has more than 20,000 employees and 500,000 vehicles in its fleet. To streamline an operation with so many moving parts, the company has deployed Hertz Connected Fleet OS, an AI-enabled operating system for fleet management. “This is all around our purpose for our customers, which is making sure we have the right car, at the right place, at the right time,” said EVP and CIO Ti

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Accelerate AI development with Amazon Bedrock API keys

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, we’re excited to announce a significant improvement to the developer experience of Amazon Bedrock : API keys. API keys provide quick access to the Amazon Bedrock APIs, streamlining the authentication process so that developers can focus on building rather than configuration. CamelAI is an open-source, modular framework for building intelligent multi-agent systems for data generation, world simulation, and task automation.

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Infrastructure from Code: simplifying cloud deployments

Xebia

Over the years, I’ve worked with several infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, and one challenge stands out: the effort required to bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure management. Infrastructure from Code addresses this issue by abstracting infrastructure directly from application logic, making development workflows more seamless and agile.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web

The New Stack

Thirty years ago, Netscape engineer Brendan Eich famously created a new client-side scripting language in just ten days. It was initially called Mocha, but by the end of the year it would be renamed JavaScript. In 1995, nobody could’ve predicted that JavaScript would become the world’s most popular programming language. But that’s exactly what happened.

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Has CISO become the least desirable role in business?

CIO

After nine years as CSO and senior vice president of IT at Sumo Logic, George Gerchow had had enough. The job was stressful and he was burnt out. So, after some soul searching, he took a different job — as head of trust — at MongoDB. Not long after he arrived, the CISO quit, “which is a pattern that I’m seeing over and over again,” Gerchow says. Then, Gerchow became the interim CISO.

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Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A 

Crunchbase News

Parspec , a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. The company aims to help sales agents and wholesale distributors “efficiently bid and supply” construction products. The company claims its key differentiator is its ability to “instantly identify products available in the market that satisfy complex specifications provided by the customer” u

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No Rules, Just Data: How My Chess Engine Learned the Game on Its Own

Xebia

They say you should never build something that can outperform you at your own game. Naturally, I ignored that advice. This is the story of how I built Knightmare , a deep learning-powered chess engine that leverages data of thousands of human and machine games, a custom neural network, and a dash of Monte Carlo Tree Search and what happens when you mix machine learning and a lot of FEN strings. data driven chess engine Source code TL;DR and want to head straight to the source code?

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Don’t Build Chatbots — Build Agents With Jobs

The New Stack

You wouldn’t give every employee root access to your production servers. So why give AI agents unfiltered access to your business? There’s a growing fantasy in the AI world: fully autonomous agents that can handle any task, in any domain, with zero oversight. It’s a compelling vision, but one of the biggest reasons enterprise adoption continues to stall.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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How Rocket streamlines the home buying experience with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Rocket Companies is a Detroit-based FinTech company with a mission to “Help Everyone Home.” Although known to many as a mortgage lender, Rocket’s mission extends to the entire home ownership journey from finding the perfect home, purchasing, financing, and using your home equity. Rocket has grown by making the complex simple, empowering clients to navigate the home ownership journey through intuitive, technology-driven solutions.

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CIOs tackle the AI change management challenge

CIO

Every Monday at 7 a.m., a cohort of Principal employees jump on a Teams call for a quick study group. Typically chaired by the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer (CDAIO) or someone else on the team, the 300-plus and growing learning community digs into the technology, cultural, and organizational impacts of generative AI. There are deep dives into the implications of new gen AI models, discussions of compliance and ethical risks, and knowledge sharing around emerging use cases and

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After 24 hours with Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7, one big thing stands out

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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AI Promptception – Iterating GitHub Copilot Prompts for Maximum Impact

Xebia

AI Promptception – Iterating GitHub Copilot Prompts for Maximum Impact GitHub Copilot is an impressive AI coding assistant, but it’s only as good as the prompts you give it. The difference between a useful output and a frustrating mess often comes down to how well you structure your request. This article explores how to improve prompt engineering for GitHub Copilot using real-world examples , focusing on Playwright test automation.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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10 Insights from Integrating AI into My Coding Workflow

The New Stack

Software development is full of competing pressures: We’re expected to move quickly, innovate constantly and still ship high-quality, maintainable code. That’s a tall order on the best of days — and that’s where AI tools can help. Over the past few months, I’ve been integrating AI into my daily workflow as a senior software engineer at DataStax.

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Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-written with Payal Singh from Cohere. The Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now generally available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Embed 4 model is built for multimodal business documents, has leading multilingual capabilities, and offers notable improvement over Embed 3 across key benchmarks. In this post, we discuss the benefits and capabilities of this new model.

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EU finalizes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice for enterprises

CIO

The European Commission has published the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice to help enterprises comply with their obligations on transparency, copyright, safety, and security under the European Union’s AI Act. Following the code of practice is voluntary — but the Commission presented it as a way for enterprises to be sure they meet their obligations under the law.

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Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger Companies

Crunchbase News

Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows. Q2 funding reached $91 billion, up from $82 billion in Q2 2024, per Crunchbase data. However, quarter-over-quarter funding fell from $114 billion in Q1 , which marked the highest quarter for funding since Q3 2022.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Three worthwhile articles yesterday

Martin Fowler

Three articles I enjoyed yesterday: Stephen O’Grady talks about how Gen AI tools break two common constants with developer tools: they are willing to flit between Gen AI tools and they are willing to pay for them. This implies that it’s not too late for new tools to appear, and that enterprise adoption will be slowed by a lack of consensus on which direction to go.

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How to Write Rust Code Like a Rustacean

The New Stack

Rust is no longer the “new kid on the block.” It’s become a staple of a developer’s tech stack , helping to power performance-critical systems, and trusted by technologists for its memory safety , zero-cost abstractions and expressive type system. If you’ve worked with JavaScript and want to explore something that’s both expressive and system-level, Rust is the perfect next step, especially in our Linux-driven world.

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Effective cross-lingual LLM evaluation with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Evaluating the quality of AI responses across multiple languages presents significant challenges for organizations deploying generative AI solutions globally. How can you maintain consistent performance when human evaluations require substantial resources, especially across diverse languages? Many companies find themselves struggling to scale their evaluation processes without compromising quality or breaking their budgets.

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It’s time to retire the ticket: An IT roadmap for agentic AI

CIO

For decades, IT teams have treated tickets as the cornerstone of service management. Tickets document, route, escalate and measure. Tickets prove we’re working. And yet, tickets are also a tax. A tax on time, morale and, increasingly, on innovation. The truth is, tickets were never designed for the speed, complexity and scale of modern enterprise environments.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Fintech Attracts Biggest Rounds While AI Holds Strong

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. This week was a productive period for fintech funding, with two companies in the space — iCapital and Bilt Rewards — pulling in the largest rounds.

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I tried Perplexity's Comet AI browser - here's what you need to know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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Hono Shows the Way for Microframeworks in a Post-React World

The New Stack

This week, a web framework called Hono announced on X that it had “finally” reached 25,000 GitHub stars. While 25,000 fans is not exactly under the radar, Hono hasn’t had the attention it deserves either. Given it is built on web standards, rather than (for example) React, Hono seems like an indicator of where frameworks are headed post-React.

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Intelligent document processing at scale with generative AI and Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Extracting information from unstructured documents at scale is a recurring business task. Common use cases include creating product feature tables from descriptions, extracting metadata from documents, and analyzing legal contracts, customer reviews, news articles, and more. A classic approach to extracting information from text is named entity recognition (NER).

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO

What is enterprise architecture? Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Field Gets Boost from New CSA Framework and from SANS - OWASP Partnership

Tenable

Check out a new Cloud Security Alliance framework for securing AI systems. Plus, SANS Institute and OWASP are joining forces to deliver AI security controls. Meanwhile, Accenture finds orgs unprepared to counter AI-powered cyber attacks. And get the latest on the Iran cyber threat, SMB cyber defenses and CIS Benchmarks! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending July 11. 1 - CSA unveils new security framework for AI systems If you’re looking for guidance on how to protect your

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Prime Day tablet deals 2025: 30+ deals on iPads, Android, and more

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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