Cohere goes ‘North’ with agentic AI

Large language model (LLM) provider Cohere has unveiled its new agentic AI offering — North — a low-code platform that will allow enterprises to build and deploy agents across different business functions. The offering will compete with Microsoft’s autonomous agents,...

Ephemeral environments in cloud-native development

An emerging trend in cloud computing is using ephemeral environments for development and testing. Ephemeral environments are temporary, isolated spaces created for specific projects. They allow developers to swiftly spin up an environment, conduct testing, and then...

Why JavaScript’s still on top in 2025

Welcome to a new year of programming and the brand new monthly list of JavaScript stories just for developers! Among the highlights so far: Svelte and SvelteKit have seen a slew of incremental improvements, Astro.js 5.0 just hit, and the Next.js team is working on a...

Rust 1.84 introduces strict provenance APIs

Rust 1.84 has been released, bringing strict provenance APIs that can be used in lieu of integer-pointer casts, making the code both easier for developers to reason about and easier for the compiler to analyze, the Rust team said. Announced January 9, Rust 1.84 can be...