Python stories
OpenAI is buying Python tooling specialist Astral to fold its uv, Ruff and ty projects into Codex and deepen ties to developers.
OpenAI brings its Codex desktop app to Windows, targeting the nearly half of professional developers who use the platform daily.
Chainguard expands its rebuilt-from-source Libraries to Python, Java and JavaScript, targeting malware risks in AI-driven software supply chains.
Red Hat launches AI Enterprise and AI 3.3, deepening its Nvidia tie-up to target production-grade, hybrid cloud agentic AI at scale.
ActiveState launches a 79m-component secure open source catalogue to centralise software supply chains and cut enterprise vulnerability risk.
Leadership and communication top 2026 workplace learning as employees prioritise human and business skills alongside rising AI adoption.
Constructive launches secure-by-default Postgres platform to hardwire Row-Level Security and permissions into databases from creation.
Developers granting AI agents broad, unsupervised access to code and systems are creating new software supply chain and data exposure risks.
GitHub Copilot tops 4.7m paid users as GitHub pitches Agent HQ as the central hub for multi-vendor coding agents across its platform.
GitHub launches a Copilot SDK in technical preview, letting developers embed AI agent workflows into apps without building orchestration.
Google has launched an open Universal Commerce Protocol to standardise AI shopping flows across search, apps, merchants and payments.
WiseTech pledges AUD $8.7 million to keep Grok Academy's coding platform free for every school and student in Australia and New Zealand.
Aptitude tests have surged 54-fold in software hiring as AI shifts demand from coding syntax to problem-solving, judgement and core skills.
By 2026, Java is tipped to be AI's production backbone, driving heavier compute, tighter security and runtime modernisation.
LF Energy brings Apple, Microsoft and Shell onto its board as membership surges and event attendance hits records across three continents.
Anthropic donates its Model Context Protocol to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardise agentic AI tools.
Dublin-based SMACT Works leverages Oracle Cloud AI to swiftly develop healthcare applications, showcasing accelerated innovation and enterprise-scale solutions.
Memgraph launches Atomic GraphRAG, collapsing complex GraphRAG LLM pipelines into a single Cypher query to cut code and simplify retrieval.
Tech roles keep topping UK pay charts as AI skills drive a 9% rise in median salaries to GBP £48,595, outpacing wider wage growth.
MongoDB bakes Voyage 4 AI models into Atlas and automates vector search, targeting scalable, production-grade retrieval applications.
