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Notion courts developers with a platform for AI agents and workflow automation
Notion is expanding its collaborative workspace software with a developer platform for building AI-enabled workflows around enterprise data and workspace content. The Notion Developer Platform adds custom code execution, database sync, external agent support, and workflow triggers, allowing developers and coding agents to extend Notion beyond its traditional role as a workspace app, the company said in a statement. The launch comes as enterprises experiment with agentic AI but still struggle to give those systems access to the work context that is spread across business applications and intern
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Using continuous purple teaming to protect fast-paced enterprise environments
Enterprise environments are changing quickly as organizations adopt cloud platforms , automated infrastructure, and continuous delivery pipelines. Software updates are released more often, and systems are set up automatically using infrastructure-as-code automation tools. While this acceleration allows organizations to deliver software and services faster, it also creates new challenges for security teams responsible for protecting constantly changing systems. Today’s enterprise security teams must defend environments that are dynamic, distributed, and difficult to fully observe. As organizati
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A better way to work with SQL Server
Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data Studio , its development tool for the SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Part of a range of tools designed to work with Microsoft’s on-premises and in-cloud SQL databases, Azure Data Studio focused on building and testing queries rather than database administration. In other words, it was a developer-focused, lighter-weight alternative to SQL Server Management Studio . Azure Data Studio was a useful tool for developers. It made it easy to explore databases and craft the queries that could be integrated into your code. You weren’t limited to quer
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Evidence-driven workflows: Rethinking enterprise process design
From runtime architecture to process design In a recent InfoWorld article, I introduced t he concept of the Agent Tier — a runtime architecture that separates deterministic enterprise execution from contextual reasoning. The core idea was straightforward: as enterprise workflows incorporate more signals and adaptive models, embedding contextual judgment directly inside branching logic leads to increasingly fragile systems. A dedicated runtime layer can interpret context and determine the next appropriate action, while deterministic systems continue to enforce authoritative state transitions. T
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AWS debuts Graviton-powered Redshift RG instances to cut analytics costs
AWS has released new Graviton-powered RG instances for its Amazon Redshift data warehouse service aimed at helping enterprises reduce both rising analytics costs and the operational complexity of modern lakehouse architectures. At the core of the new instances is an integrated data lake query engine that AWS says can run SQL analytics across both Redshift warehouse data and Amazon S3 data lakes , delivering faster query performance and lowering analytics costs. “Earlier, Amazon Redshift RA3 systems operated as two separate engines, with Redshift handling warehouse data and Spectrum handling S3
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SAP’s AI promises last year? Most are still rolling out
SAP made bold promises about AI at Sapphire 2025 : Knowledge Graph, Joule Studio, and AI Agent Hub would ship by the end of the year. Those tools are now technically available, but adoption has lagged, and SAP is already announcing version 2.0. “Joule Studio adoption has been minimal compared to what we’d like,” said Manoj Swaminathan , SAP’s chief product officer for Business Suite, in a briefing ahead of this year’s Sapphire. The tool “was limited to content-based experiences,” he said. “Anytime more complex agents were involved, it had limited capabilities.” The issue, according to SAP’s ch
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First look: Lemonade serves up local AI with limitations
Lemonade , created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI ). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with a variety of runtimes and back-end engines. It supports AMD GPUs, Ryzen NPUs, Vulkan, and CPU execution (although not for all tasks), along with the llamacpp , whispercpp , sd-cpp , kokoro , ryzenai-llm and flm back ends. In addition to providing its own
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AI is ready to take over Python programming, but not much else
Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained in a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate , written by Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban , Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a benchmark they created called DELEGATE-52 that allowed them to simulate workflows that might be part of a knowledge worker’s tasks. The paper is currently under review. They said that the benchmark contains 310 work environments acro
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Mistral AI SDK, TanStack Router hit in npm software supply chain attack
The TeamPCP threat group has pulled off another big supply chain attack which within a few hours this week was able to successfully compromise 170 Node Package Manager (npm) and PyPI packages. The attack affected the entire TanStack Router ecosystem (@tanstack) of 42 packages, a routing library hugely popular among React web application developers. Multiple other packages were also affected, including @squawk (87 packages), @uipath (66 packages), @tallyui (30 packages), @beproduct (18 packages), as well as Mistral AI’s SDK suite on both npm and PyPI, and the Guardrails AI PyPI package. The att
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GitLab CEO sees developer tool bill increasing 100-fold
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says enterprises’ monthly bill for developer platform services has risen from tens of dollars per seat to hundreds over the last year, and is headed toward the thousands, signaling a structural change in how they will be billed for AI-enabled software development tools . The increase in cost reflects the volume of work AI agents generate inside development pipelines, Staples wrote in an open letter to customers, investors, and employees titled “GitLab Act 2. “Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human
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Red Hat adds support for agentic AI development
As use of agentic AI accelerates, Red Hat is hoping to position itself as the critical behind-the-scenes plumbing and connective fabric. To this end, the company has unveiled new desktop and developer suite functions, skills bundles, and a rolling Linux release to help enterprises move beyond the experimental phase. Announced at Red Hat Summit today, the new features and services are included in the latest release of Red Hat AI, with no additional usage charge. Tools are not metered and usage is not limited, Red Hat execs emphasized in a briefing. “We’re helping developers accelerate and own t
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What’s new and exciting in JDK 26
With the release of JDK 26 , which arrived March 17, we’ve now seen 17 versions of Java delivered under the time-based six-month release cadence. Nobody can call this anything other than a huge success for Java . In the last eight years, we’ve seen the Java platform move forward faster than at any time in its history. In addition, the faster release cadence has made preview features and incubator modules a practical reality. This allows fully developed features to be tested by developers, with feedback incorporated before the feature is finalized. Within practical limits, Java developers get e
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Kill the loading spinner with local-first data and reactive SQL
It’s not every day that a radically new architecture comes along, but here we are: in-browser SQLite , combined with reactive SQL and auto-syncing. The promise is instant interactivity on the front end, while maintaining data symmetry with the back end. As a direct challenger to the RESTful group-think that has dominated web development for a decade, it is well worth a look. Not really new, but improved This idea isn’t brand new. Developers have been doing this kind of thing in one fashion or another for years (think of how some apps work offline). But this new-generation stack feels different
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A networking revolution at AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reshaping its underlying network foundation , a move that could redefine how enterprises approach cloud technology, costs, and operational efficiency. As enterprises contemplate next-generation workloads, from generative AI to globally distributed applications, AWS’s end-to-end custom networking stack is a new calculus for cloud economics, agility, and security. Let’s take a deeper look at what AWS has announced, why it matters, and how smart enterprise technologists should plan to navigate the landscape of opportunities. Let’s begin with AWS’s new networking philo
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Tokenmaxxing is super dumb
It seems that the software developers at Meta, who are all in on AI-powered coding, came up with a notion they called “Claudeonomics” to measure their all in-ness. This manifested itself as an internal dashboard/scoreboard of who was burning the most tokens with Claude Code . The race was on to see who could burn through the most tokens. Never mind whether this conflagration of Claude tokens was actually producing anything good. The chart merely gave boasting rights to the developer who cranked through the most processing power, declaring leaders as “Token Legend” and “Cache Wizard.” Similar t
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Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included a malicious loader.py file that fetched and executed credential-stealing malware on Windows hosts, AI security firm HiddenLayer said in a research advisory . “The repository
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How to add AI to an existing product (without annoying users)
While generative AI has shown promising results in advancing software engineering, its inclusion within end-user applications is a different story. Features labeled as AI continue to pop up across every UI, but they’re not always helpful or useful. Often driven by hype , they can become a distraction, or worse, a productivity killer. “Many fall into the trap of tacking on AI capabilities to cash in on the hype rather than because they solve a real, tangible user problem,” says Jody Bailey , chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow . “The results are brittle features that introduc
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Your AI doesn’t need another database
Every hot, new workload gets its own database. Briefly. You know the drill. From search to JSON (documents) to graph , as an industry we have this weird fixation with building new databases. DB-Engines now tracks 434 of them. We’re now doing it again with vector databases , which were hailed almost overnight as the essential new persistence layer for AI. The story was simple and, for a time, convincing: Traditional databases don’t understand vectors! AI applications need vectors! So AI applications must need vector databases. Right? Nope. After all, that first premise became untrue almost imme
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What happens when engineering teams reorganize around AI agents
I counted at least 10 events in San Francisco last night aimed at matching AI startups with VCs. Just another Thursday. But what made Camp AI’s “Agents at Work” event (hosted by Auth0 ) stand out was its showcase of companies that are in various stages of reorganizing their engineering processes around AI agents. Browserbase , Mastra , Fireworks AI , Drata , Mya , MindFort , and Corridor are all part of the vendor ecosystem trying to enable secure and performant agentic AI , but the most revelatory stories were their own successes and the challenges they faced restructuring their engineering o
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Python isn’t always easy
It’s harder than it might seem to create a stand-alone Python app. It’s also harder than you might think to reliably back up SQLite databases, but Python has the tools for it. And while it’s not easy to install Python on an air-gapped machine, it absolutely can be done. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps Python’s dynamism is one of its most powerful features. It’s also why making stand-alone apps from Python programs is such a bear. How to back up SQLite databases the right way (not by copying them!) SQLite databases are single files, s
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