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Perplexity Launches Search API to Power Next-Gen AI Applications
Perplexity has introduced the Search API, opening up access to the same infrastructure that underpins its public answer engine. With coverage of hundreds of billions of webpages and infrastructure tuned for AI-heavy workloads, the new API is aimed at developers who want real-time, reliable search results for building their own agents, applications, and retrieval-augmented pipelines.
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VS Code MSSQL Extension v1.35 Brings Schema Compare, Designer and Local Containers to GA
Microsoft’s August 2025 release of the MSSQL extension for VS Code finalises three flagship features that were previously in preview: Schema Compare, Schema Designer and Local SQL Server Container. Version 1.35 promotes these capabilities to general availability (GA) and delivers usability and performance improvements across the extension.
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Pulumi Launches Neo: an Agentic AI Platform Engineer for Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure automation company Pulumi has introduced what's claimed to be the first artificial intelligence-based platform engineering agent for the industry, named Neo. The tool works to resolve some of the infrastructure bottlenecks that develop as a side effect of AI tools speeding up software development.
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DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 for Embodied Reasoning
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, a new embodied reasoning model for robotic applications. The model is available in preview through Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
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Nuqs Adds Debounce, Standard Schema Integration and Key Isolation
Nuqs, the type-safe URL state manager for React, just rolled out exciting features in version 2.5, including debounced URL updates, standardized schema generation, and improved re-render control. With experimental TanStack Router support and zero runtime dependencies, Nuqs enhances URL management while maintaining a lightweight footprint. Elevate your React applications with Nuqs!
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Google Stax Aims to Make AI Model Evaluation Accessible for Developers
Google Stax is a framework designed to replace subjective evaluations of AI models with an objective, data-driven, and repeatable process for measuring model output quality. Google says this will allow AI developers to tailor the evaluation process to their specific use cases rather than relying on generic benchmarks.
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OWASP Flags Tool Misuse as Critical Threat for Agentic AI
Earlier this year OWASP released guidance for Agentic AI security called Agentic AI - Threats and Mitigations. The document highlights the unique challenges involved in securely deploying this emerging technology and suggests mitigations and architectural patterns for defense.
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Hugging Face Introduces mmBERT, a Multilingual Encoder for 1,800+ Languages
Hugging Face has released mmBERT, a new multilingual encoder trained on more than 3 trillion tokens across 1,833 languages. The model builds on the ModernBERT architecture and is the first to significantly improve upon XLM-R, a long-time baseline for multilingual understanding tasks.
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Instagram Improves Engagement by Reducing Notification Fatigue with New Ranking Framework
Meta has introduced a diversity-aware ranking framework for Instagram notifications. The system applies multiplicative penalties to reduce repetitive alerts from the same creators or product surfaces, improving engagement while maintaining relevance and introducing content variety.
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.NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support
Microsoft has delivered the first release candidate (RC1) of .NET 10 along with go‑live support, indicating that the company considers the framework ready for production use. The RC1 notes focus on observability improvements, tweaks to existing controls and an experimental new runtime option for Android.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Liberica NIK, Spring AI Milestone, Open Liberty, JobRunr, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for September 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs Lazy Constants (Second Preview) and Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview); BellSoft Liberica Native Image Toolkit 25; the October 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the second milestone release of Spring AI 1.1.0; and point releases of JobRunr, LangChain4j and Quarkus.
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Swift 6.2 Released with Improved Concurrency, Safer Raw-Memory Access, Wasm Support and More
The most significant new feature in Swift 6.2 is approachable concurrency, a default, low-complexity approach to writing safe concurrent applications. Swift 6.2 also introduces new features to simplify low-level programming, including the InlineArray and Span types, and adds support for WebAssembly.
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DORA Report Finds AI Is an Amplifier in Software Development, But Trust Remains Low
Nearly 90% of technology professionals now use artificial intelligence in their work. But according to the 2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development report, there's still a significant gap in trust between developers and the tools they increasingly rely upon. The report findings found that while AI adoption has become "nearly universal," there are still some organisational challenges.
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Apollo GraphQL Client 4.0 Released with Leaner Bundles and Strengthened TypeScript Safety
Apollo GraphQL has launched Apollo Client 4.0, featuring a streamlined architecture, enhanced TypeScript support, and modular APIs to reduce bundle sizes by 20-30%. Key updates include opt-in features, improved error handling, and a decoupled core library, making it easier for developers to manage GraphQL operations across various frameworks. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
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Google's Agent Development Kit for Java Adds Integration with LangChain4j
The latest release of the Agent Development Kit for Java, version 0.2.0, marks a significant expansion of its capabilities through the integration with the LangChain4j LLM framework, which opens it up to all the large language models supported by the framework.