Microsoft broadcasts normal availability of Azure DevOps native MCP Server
The MCP server acts as an middleman between AI assistants and the Azure DevOps group. It will possibly assist inject context from Azure DevOps, like work gadgets, pull requests, and check plans. By including this context to prompts, the LLM can present extra related solutions which can be tailor-made to the customers Azure DevOps mission.
In keeping with Microsoft, it helps a lot of the essential areas of Azure DevOps, together with work gadgets, wiki, repos, search, and check plans. As a result of it’s native and never a distant MCP Server, it runs contained in the community or native improvement atmosphere, guaranteeing that non-public knowledge doesn’t depart the system.
Google introduces Coral NPU, Veo 3.1 in Gemini API, and interactive instructions in Gemini CLI
Google this week introduced that the most recent model of its picture era mannequin Veo is now out there within the Gemini API. Veo 3.1 can generate richer native audio, has an improved understanding of cinematic kinds, and options enhanced image-to-video capabilities.
The corporate additionally introduced Coral NPU, an open-source {hardware} structure for edge AI that goals to deal with the core issues of efficiency, fragmentation, and privateness on low-power units, like wearables. The structure consists of a light-weight, C-programmable RISC-V frontend for managing knowledge circulation; a single instruction a number of knowledge co-processor suitable with the RISC-V Vector instruction set 1.0; and a matrix execution unit.
Lastly, the corporate added interactive instructions within the Gemini CLI, together with vim for modifying, high for monitoring, and git rebase -i. With these additions, builders should do much less switching between totally different terminal home windows.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a price efficient different to Claude Sonnet 4 and 4.5
Anthropic has introduced the discharge of Claude Haiku 4.5, which offers comparable coding efficiency to Claude Sonnet 4, however is twice as quick and one-third as costly.
This follows the discharge of Claude Sonnet 4.5 two weeks in the past, which Anthropic claimed as “one of the best coding mannequin on the earth” when it was introduced. Claude Haiku 4.5 outperforms Sonnet 4 on SWE-bench, however falls second behind Sonnet 4.5.
“Claude Sonnet 4.5, launched two weeks in the past, stays our frontier mannequin and one of the best coding mannequin on the earth. Claude Haiku 4.5 provides customers a brand new possibility for when they need near-frontier efficiency with a lot better cost-efficiency,” Anthropic wrote in a publish.
BrowserStack provides Visible Evaluate Agent for net testing
Software program testing firm BrowserStack introduced a Visible Evaluate Agent for its visible net testing platform Percy.
“Visible testing has reached a degree the place the query is not ‘why’ however ‘the right way to make it scalable?’” Ritesh Arora, CEO and co-founder at BrowserStack “The Visible Evaluate Agent brings AI into the guts of visible testing, slicing by way of noise and surfacing what issues.”
In keeping with BrowserStack, the Visible Evaluate Agent offers an AI-generated abstract of every visible change.
The agent makes use of AI to filter out minor pixel shifts and solely flags significant adjustments, not minor adjustments like font resizes, margin shifts, or button alignment. “These noisy false positives power groups to waste time reviewing irrelevant adjustments as a substitute of specializing in what truly issues,” the corporate defined in a demo
Salesforce broadcasts normal availability of its unified agentic AI platform Agentforce 360
Agentforce was first launched final October, and during the last yr, the corporate has added a number of new capabilities to the platform, similar to the flexibility to embed brokers in workflows and improved interoperability and governance.
“These milestones have led to Agentforce 360, which transforms Salesforce past CRM — the place brokers don’t simply serve clients, but additionally empower workers, streamline operations, and collaborate with different brokers,” Salesforce wrote in an announcement.
Agentforce 360 contains the Agentforce Builder, a improvement platform for constructing, testing, and deploying brokers utilizing pure language. It features a unified workspace for all these phases of the event course of, the flexibility to change between a doc-like editor and low-code canvas, real-time previews and dwell debugging, and enterprise-grade governance.
Oracle launches AI Agent Market to allow clients to seek out and deploy validated brokers
Oracle has introduced the launch of a brand new market to assist clients discover and deploy validated AI brokers that can be utilized inside Oracle Fusion Functions, its suite of cloud-based modular enterprise purposes.
The AI Agent Market contains agent templates constructed by Oracle companions to assist with varied enterprise processes, together with finance, HR, provide chain, and buyer expertise.
For instance, IBM created a Good Gross sales Order Entry Assistant agent to assist lower down on handbook order entry errors and speed up order seize, Field presents a Knowledge Extraction agent for the Oracle Digital Assistant that extracts metadata or structured content material from paperwork saved in Field, and Stripe constructed an Infosys Bill Assortment AI that may assist with cost processing and reminder.
