The Automation Layer Wants to Own Enterprise AI
Organizations want AI systems capable of prioritizing alerts, routing workflows, coordinating across applications, initiating remediation steps, summarizing operational data and adapting dynamically based on changing context. The system is no longer following a rigid set of instructions. It is participating in operational decision-making. That changes the operational risk profile dramatically. When deterministic automation fails, the blast radius is usually constrained. Probabilistic systems introduce a completely different level of complexity because behavior can evolve dynamically during runtime.
OpenSSF’s CRob: ‘The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out’ on EU CRA Readiness
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act kicks into high gear this September, and companies are still clueless about how they must obey its strictures. MINNEAPOLIS — At Open Source Summit North America, Christopher “CRob” Robinson, Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF), spoke about the European Union’s (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). CRob […]
1Password Allies With OpenAI to Secure Codex AI Coding Tool
DevSecOps teams can now manage coding agents as a tenant rather than another vault where secrets might be stored, ensuring credentials are never exposed to an AI agent or LLM as plain text. The MCP server does not read or return secret values through the MCP channel, allowing Codex to create environments and invoke applications while the values themselves never leave the 1Password vault.
We Spent 15 Years Automating Infrastructure. Now We’re Automating Decisions
As DevOps shifts from deterministic infrastructure automation to AI-driven probabilistic judgment, organizations face a profound transition from automating tasks to automating operational reasoning. Discover why this requires a fundamental evolution in platform engineering, trust, and governance.
Cursor’s Composer 2.5 Brings Smarter, More Reliable AI Coding Agents
AI-assisted coding tools are getting a meaningful upgrade. Cursor has released Composer 2.5, the latest version of its proprietary coding agent model, and the improvements go well beyond a version bump. Composer 2.5 is described as a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over its predecessor, Composer 2. It handles sustained work on long-running tasks […]
GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own App — and It’s More Than a Coding Assistant
GitHub has launched a standalone Copilot desktop app in technical preview, moving beyond the IDE to introduce a dedicated cockpit for agentic development. The app enables developers to manage parallel, isolated agent sessions directly from GitHub issues, while introducing “Agent Merge”—a feature that autonomously fixes CI failures and handles code reviews to streamline the entire PR lifecycle.
CI/CD Was Built for Deterministic Software — Agents Just Broke the Model
CI/CD was built around a comforting idea: Software should do tomorrow what it did today, assuming the inputs are the same. That assumption sits underneath a lot of modern DevOps. It is why we have build pipelines, test suites, artifact repositories, deployment gates, rollback strategies, infrastructure-as-code and all the other machinery that turned software delivery […]
Microsoft Copilot Studio Brings Computer-Using Agents to the Enterprise
For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor portals, and proprietary line-of-business platforms rarely offer APIs. That means someone, usually a human, ends up clicking through screens, entering data, and completing transactions by hand. […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
GitLab Act 2: Still an Open Book
An analysis of GitLab’s “Act 2” transition under CEO Bill Staples, examining whether the company can successfully pivot to an AI-native, agentic software delivery model while dismantling the radically transparent, remote-first culture that originally defined its brand and operational success.
Widespread Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Is a Matter of Trust
The latest series of attacks using the notorious Shai-Hulud worm puts into sharp focus the threats facing software developers and their CI/CD pipelines, an issue that has been raised in recent months as bad actors increasingly turn their attention to DevOps environments. That said, these most recent Shai-Hulud incidents attributed to the TeamPCP group also […]
xAI Enters the Coding Agent Race With Grok Build
Elon Musk’s xAI has entered the developer workspace with Grok Build, a local-first coding agent featuring an automated “Arena Mode” that runs and ranks parallel AI outputs to rival Anthropic and OpenAI
Survey Surfaces Multiple Challenges Measuring AI Coding Productivity
A Harness survey reveals that while 89% of organizations see AI boosting developer productivity, a third of the workday is consumed by untracked AI tasks like fixing bugs, code reviews, and managing cognitive load
Copado Brings AI Agents to DevOps Platform for Building Custom Salesforce Apps
Copado has added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps platform for building and deploying custom applications for the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce. At launch, Copado is making available Agentia AI agents specifically that can be assigned plan, build and testing tasks via an orchestration agent that manages the overall workflow. Each Agentia […]
AWS Security Agent Brings Full Repository Code Scanning to Preview
Security teams have long relied on static analysis tools to catch vulnerabilities before code ships. Those tools are useful, but they have a fundamental limitation: they match code against known patterns. They don’t understand your application. AWS is taking a different approach with its latest addition to AWS Security Agent. The company recently released full […]
Hacktron Plans to Build AI Platform to Test Code for Vulnerabilities
Hacktron revealed today it is developing a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to continuously test code for vulnerabilities. Fresh off raising $2.9 million in seed capital, Hacktron founder Zayne Zhang said the company’s platform will employ multiple AI models to test every pull request and code change to identify vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable. […]
AWS Extends Scope of AI Engines Embedded in Kiro Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today added additional capabilities to its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that promise to further reduce the time and effort needed to build software. Kiro now includes a Parallel Task Execution engine that accelerates application development by eliminating the need to complete a set of tasks sequentially, along with a […]
OpenAI’s Daybreak Challenges Anthropic in AI Cybersecurity Race
OpenAI has moved deeper into enterprise cybersecurity with the launch of Daybreak, a platform that identifies software vulnerabilities, validates fixes, and speeds up patching workflows using AI models and its Codex Security system. Daybreak places OpenAI more directly in competition with Anthropic, whose Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos models also offer dual-use AI systems built […]
Red Hat Previews AI Agent Integration with Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat today revealed it is extending the reach of its Ansible Automation Platform for IT operations to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, in addition to making it simpler to build AI agents using existing application development tools. Announced at the Red Hat Summit conference, version 2.7 of the Ansible Automation Platform adds a technology preview […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
GitHub’s Spec Kit Puts the Spec Back in Software Development
GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit aims to eliminate “vibe coding” by prioritizing durable specifications over vague prompts, providing a structured, agent-agnostic workflow for Copilot, Claude, and Gemini.
Vercel’s deepsec Brings AI-Powered Security Scanning Into the Development Workflow
Security has long been the last item on the checklist. Code gets written, reviewed, merged—and then, somewhere down the line, a security team takes a look. That model worked when development moved at a human pace. It doesn’t work as well when AI writes and refactors code faster than any team can keep up with. […]
Survey Surfaces Significant Levels of IDP Investment to Reduce SDLC Friction
A survey of 954 IT decision-makers suggests more resources are now being allocated to reducing friction across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Conducted by CDW, the survey finds more than two-thirds of respondents (68%) report their organization has adopted an internal developer platform (IDP). The primary goal is to improve operational efficiency (57%), provide better […]