Teleport tackles agentic trust with new Agentic Identity Framework

Teleport has announced the launch of its new Agentic Identity Framework that defines policies, practices, developer tools, and a reference architecture for securely deploying agents in production. According to the company, agentic AI introduces new security challenges, as they invoke tools, access sensitive data, delegate tasks, and operate across environments at scale, all without human …

Anthropic makes tools within Claude interactive

Anthropic has announced that users will now be able to directly interact with certain tools within Claude. Claude already had the ability to connect to tools and take action on a user’s behalf in those tools, so what’s new today is the ability for the user to actually go in and interact with those tools …

This week in AI updates: GitHub Copilot SDK, Claude’s new constitution, and more (January 23, 2026)

GitHub Copilot SDK now in technical preview The SDK allows developers to embed agentic capabilities into their applications using the same execution loop used by the GitHub Copilot CLI. The SDK repository includes setup instructions, starter examples, and SDK references for all of the supported languages. GitHub recommends starting by defining a single task, such …

New Relic adds monitoring for ChatGPT apps

New Relic customers will now be able to monitor their custom ChatGPT apps to ensure they’re delivering the intended performance, reliability, and user experience. “Bringing business services into the natural flow of a ChatGPT conversation is a powerful, intuitive, and revenue-generating strategy,” said Brian Emerson, chief product officer of New Relic. “But once your carefully …

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Testlio launches new AI-powered QA analysis solution

Testlio has announced the release of a new AI-driven QA analysis solution called LeoInsights. The new platform is powered by the company’s intelligence layer LeoAI Engine, which was trained on 13 years of testing data, 2.6+ million test cases, and 600,000+ devices. It can provide executive summaries featuring key changes, emerging risks, and critical issues, …

Codenotary updates its free SBOM scanning tool with capabilities that better support AI apps

Codenotary is adding new capabilities to its SBOM.sh service, which provides free analysis of software bills of materials (SBOMs). According to the company, the updates were made in consideration of AI applications, and the tool now treats datasets as software supply chain artifacts. “Traditional SBOM tools were built for an earlier era – focusing primarily …

AI lacks theory of mind – why that matters

A lot of interest has been garnered by large language models (LLMs) and their abilities, but there’s one ability that remains solely human.  We don’t share it with mammals or machines.  That ability is called “theory of mind,” and it’s the mind-reading ability that allows us to coordinate and collaborate with others. Mind reading sounds …

GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform is now generally available

GitLab has made its Duo Agent Platform generally available, providing development teams with agentic AI automation that has access to an organization’s full context, standards, and guardrails. The GA release includes Agentic Chat, providing context-aware assistance throughout the GitLab platform. Agentic Chat builds on the previously released Duo Chat, and brings in context from issues, …

MetalBear launches mirrord for CI to improve testing process for cloud native apps

MetalBear is launching a new tool that allows development teams to run CI tests against Kubernetes environments without needing to deploy code to it or spin up test environments. According to MetalBear, testing cloud native applications can be difficult because a change made to a single service requires other services to be tested to see …

Report: Companies with technical debt unlikely to see benefits from AI adoption

Organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t, according to a new survey from Cloudflare. The 2026 App Innovation Report found that 93% of leaders believe that updating their software was “the single most important factor in boosting …

Chainguard adds 10 new projects to EmeritOSS program for prolonging the life of open source tools

Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away. “EmeritOSS exists for the projects that have earned their stripes. They’ve shipped, scaled, and supported real systems, and while their maintainers may be ready to …

This week in AI updates: Google’s UCP standard, a redesigned Slackbot, and more (January 16, 2026)

Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, …

Box Extract intelligently pulls information from unstructured content to help with workflow automation

Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. According to the company, a lot of organizational knowledge lives in contracts, product specifications, policy documents, charts, and other types of unstructured content. Box …

Copilot Studio Extension now available in VS Code

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE. According to Microsoft, the extension is useful because developers need to have similar controls and processes when developing agents as they do for other …

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