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updated @ 10/03/2026 05:27:02

Allstacks Gives Product Managers a Dedicated Senior Engineer
Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:38:02 +0000

RALEIGH, N.C. — Allstacks, the product and engineering intelligence layer for modern development, has announced Allstacks Code Engine (ACE), a new Product Studio capability that gives product managers direct answers about how their product’s code works. ACE indexes every connected code repository, so a product manager can assess feasibility for work, size efforts, and ground specifications... … continue reading

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Product teams share their thoughts on AI, work, in new Atlassian ‘State of Product 2007’ report
Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:09:48 +0000

Organizations work hard to differentiate their products in the marketplace, but the introduction of AI into product development is leaving product owners and managers fearing that AI-native competitors will quickly match any new capabilities, according to Atlassian’s State of Product 2027 report. Aside from the competitors, respondents say they have a fear that using AI... … continue reading

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SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 1 , 2026 — IBM Bob, JetBrains Air, Qodo 3.0
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:34:15 +0000

IBM announces self-hosted deployment for IBM Bob IBM Bob, the company’s agentic software development platform,  helps teams move beyond code generation to apply AI to the work of software delivery and modernization. The platform enables organizations to bring AI software development to on-premises, private-cloud, sovereign-cloud, and air-gapped environments where they have control, the company said.... … continue reading

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Leapwork Play a continuous validation platform for Playwright test suites
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:57:45 +0000

Leapwork Play, available today, is an AI-native continuous validation platform designed for users to build, run and manage Playwright test suites at scale. The open-source Playwright framework has become popular for enabling organizations to keep testing up to speed with the pace of AI-generated code. But that code speed created a problem for organizations, which... … continue reading

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Progress Software Connects Enterprise Knowledge Across Business Systems with New Agentic RAG Capabilities
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:32:46 +0000

Burlington, Mass. — Progress Software, an AI infrastructure software leader, today announced new capabilities within Progress Agentic RAG, an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platform for AI agents and LLMs that connects enterprise knowledge to AI-powered experiences through a shared Agentic Knowledge Layer.  The release includes a native Microsoft Teams application, a new Smart Agent for... … continue reading

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Eclipse Foundation Launches the Sovereign AI Foundation
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:29:29 +0000

BRUSSELS  – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced the formation of the Sovereign AI Foundation, a vendor-neutral initiative that will help member organizations understand their AI dependencies, evaluate open source alternatives, and make more informed decisions about the technologies on which they rely. As AI moves from... … continue reading

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AI confidence is high, evidence lags behind, SmartBear report finds
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:35:16 +0000

While 81% of organizational leaders believe AI can reliably catch its own errors, despite having any evidence, only 64% of software practitioners trust it, exposing a gap in confidence about AI software quality, according to SmartBear’s State of Software Quality and Testing 2026 report. In fact, according to the survey, 46% of teams have shipped... … continue reading

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Quantum Computing Is Getting Real. Developers Have An Opportunity.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:35:12 +0000

Every computing transition follows the same pattern. Mainframes needed compilers. The internet needed browsers and application frameworks. Mobile needed SDKs. In each case, hardware created the possibility, and software created the access. Quantum computing is no different, yet the public conversation has been dominated by qubit counts and error-correction milestones, as if the machines will... … continue reading

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Postman Introduces the Control Plane for the Agentic World with General Availability of Fabric Gateway
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:32:52 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — Postman, the world’s leading API platform, today announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while centrally controlling what... … continue reading

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MongoDB Launches Atlas Agent Engine to Put AI Agents in Production Without a New Stack
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:18:37 +0000

NEW YORK — MongoDB today launched Atlas Agent Engine, a unified execution, memory, and governance layer for production AI agents, at its Investor Day at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. While AI agents prove their value quickly in proof-of-concept testing, bringing them into production remains a major bottleneck. Doing so requires accurate retrieval,... … continue reading

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