EFF thinks it’s cracked the AI slop problem

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday changed its policies regarding AI-generated code to “explicitly require that contributors understand the code they submit to us and that comments and documentation be authored by a human.” The EFF policy statement was vague about how it would determine compliance, but analysts and others watching the space speculate that…

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AWS adds Design-first and Bugfix workflows to Kiro

AWS is recognizing that most developers don’t work the way Kiro, its Visual Studio Code–based agentic IDE, forces them too — so it’s adding two new software development workflows to Kiro that meet developers where they are: working on existing projects, fixing bugs. Kiro started out with a vision of helping developers through a process…

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ThoughtSpot Pushes Upstream With Agentic Data Preparation

Agentic analytics platform ThoughtSpot launched its next generation of Analyst Studio, which it claims offers a “new suite of capabilities to revolutionize how data teams deliver AI-ready data with speed, flexibility and control.” The analytics market has spent the last decade obsessing over usability. They wanted faster dashboards and queries, while keeping the interface easy…

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Context Engineering Will Decide Enterprise AI Success, Says Cognizant CIO Neal Ramasamy

Artificial intelligence dominated discussions at Davos this year, but inside enterprises the conversation has shifted from excitement to execution. Organizations are moving quickly to deploy agents and automation. However, many are discovering that technology alone does not guarantee operational value.  Against that backdrop, Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer at Cognizant, shared his perspective with BigDATAwire…

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Community push intensifies to free MySQL from Oracle’s control amid stagnation fears

Pressure is building on Oracle to loosen its grip on MySQL, with a group of database veterans, developers, and long-time contributors urging the company to transition the open source database to an independent foundation model. The call, articulated in an open letter, reflects mounting concern about MySQL’s development velocity, roadmap transparency, and role in an…

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Enterprise use of open source AI coding is changing the ROI calculation

Coders are understandably complaining about AI coding problems, with the technology often delivering what’s become known as “AI slop,” but their concerns are signaling a more strategic issue about how enterprises calculate coding ROI. The issues, according to IT analysts and consultants, go far beyond vastly faster production of code accompanied by the kinds of…

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GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance

GitHub is readying a new feature to automate some of the most expensive work in DevOps: the invisible housekeeping no one wants to own. Developers would rather be building features than debugging flaky continuous integration (CI) pipelines, triaging low-quality issues, updating outdated documentation, or closing persistent gaps in test coverage. In order to help developers…

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