Melissa’s Cicero API: Accurate address matching for legislative districts and officeholders

Getting accurate address data for customers is a challenge on its own, but getting accurate legislative district data add an entirely new level of difficulty on top. There are a number of reasons why developers might need access to that data however, such as advocacy groups trying to do outreach that involves connecting voters to …

This week in AI updates: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server, DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI updates, and more (October 3, 2025)

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server now available The AgentCore MCP server offers built-in support for runtime, gateway integration, identity management, and agent memory. It was created to speed up the process of creating components that are compatible with Bedrock AgentCore. “What typically takes significant time and effort, for example learning about Bedrock AgentCore services, integrating …

Microsoft announces preview of its new Agent Framework

Microsoft has announced a preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows. It supports creating individual agents as well as graph-based workflows to connect up multiple agents. According to Microsoft, the Agent Framework is a direct successor to its other projects Semantic …

September 2025: AI updates from the past month

Anthropic claims its newly released Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the “best coding model in the world” Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared …

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DigitalOcean and Laravel partner to simplify server provisioning for devs

DigitalOcean and the company behind the PHP framework Laravel have announced a new partnership to help developers more easily provision servers for web development. Their new offering, Laravel VPS, brings together server creation and application management within the server provisioning platform Laravel Forge. With Laravel VPS developers can purchase and deploy fully configured servers within …

California passes law to ensure safe innovation of frontier AI models

Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models. “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive,” Newsom said. “This legislation strikes that balance. AI is the …

Slack evolves to support agentic capabilities built on conversation data

Salesforce is announcing several major updates to Slack that will enable customers to leverage their conversation history for AI apps and agents. The company is announcing a real-time search (RTS) API, which surfaces up-to-date discussions, files, and channels to provide agents access with context-aware information. To ensure secure use of information, data remains in Slack …

VibeSec embeds security analysis into AI coding models to prevent generation of insecure code

OX Security is shifting security as far left as it can go with the launch of VibeSec, which it says can stop insecure AI-generated code before the code even gets generated. It does this by embedding dynamic security context into the coding model so that it doesn’t suggest code that contains security issues. “VibeSec doesn’t …

Bridge the gap between LLMs and business data

The promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize how businesses interact with their data has captured the imagination of enterprises worldwide. Yet, as organizations rush to implement AI solutions, they’re discovering a fundamental challenge: LLMs, for all their linguistic prowess, weren’t designed to understand the complex, heterogeneous landscape of enterprise data systems. The gap …

UiPath adds new capabilities for simplified agent development

UiPath today announced several updates across its portfolio at its user conference, UiPath FUSION, in Las Vegas. “Available today, this combination of pre-built solutions, new capabilities for orchestrations, and supporting tools for building and testing agents and automations creates an ecosystem that enables organizations to deploy rapid agentic automation,” the company wrote in an announcement. …

Anthropic claims its newly released Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the “best coding model in the world”

Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4. For external comparison, GPT-5 …

Microsoft releases Aspire 9.5

Microsoft is attempting to improve the developer experience for those building distributed applications with the latest updates to Aspire, a collection of tools, templates, and packages for building such apps. One of the new features in Aspire 9.5 that Microsoft drew attention to is a preview for a new command: aspire update. This new command …

This week in AI updates: Google’s Data Commons MCP Server, shared projects in ChatGPT, and more (September 26, 2025)

Google adds Data Commons MCP Server, new versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite The Data Commons MCP Server allows AI developers to easily access all of Data Commons’ publicly available datasets. It can be accessed via the Gemini CLI or in Google Colab, and Google has a sample agent in Colab as well to …

Microsoft unveils reimagined Marketplace for cloud solutions, AI apps, and more

Microsoft has restructured its Marketplace to serve as a central place for organizations to find cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. This new reimagining brings together Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource to simplify cloud and AI management, Microsoft explained. It includes tens of thousands of cloud and industry solutions that can help with everything from …

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    SD Times Live! Microwebinar Series — with Appvance

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    The Value-Driven AI Roadmap: A CIO’s Blueprint for Success

    Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …

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