Software engineering stories - Page 3

Firms cool tech hiring wars as 83% of recruiters say success now hinges more on AI upskilling existing staff than bringing in new talent.

Linux Foundation research finds active open source contributors gain up to a fivefold ROI, while passive users rack up hidden technical debt.

MarketAxess has appointed William Quan as chief technology officer to drive global platform modernisation and expand AI across its systems.

Lightrun has launched an AI-driven SRE tool that taps live runtime context to debug production systems and automate incident remediation.

CodeBase founder Stephen Coleman shifts from chief executive to Group Chair as Jon Hope and Richard Lennox take interim leadership roles.

Potpie AI secures USD $2.2m pre-seed to build an ontology-first context layer helping AI agents navigate massive enterprise codebases.

Snowflake adds dbt and Apache Airflow support to Cortex Code CLI and unveils its first standalone subscription for non-Snowflake users.

Treasure Data launches Treasure Code, an AI-native command line that lets teams manage complex CDP operations and workflows in plain English.

Google has begun rolling out Gemini 3.1 Pro, a more advanced AI model for complex reasoning, to developers, enterprises and consumers.

OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 will spotlight AI-era search, observability and “sovereign AI” as it brings 50-plus open source sessions to Prague.

Synechron partners with Cognition to embed AI engineer Devin in bank modernisation work, targeting faster upgrades and legacy code overhauls.

Tata and OpenAI strike a sweeping India-focused AI pact spanning enterprise tools, new data centres and youth skills programmes.

WaveMaker launches an agentic AI app platform letting teams turn Figma designs and prompts into governed, production-ready code at scale.

Emergent launches mobile app for its AI software builder after hitting USD $100m annual run rate and doubling revenue in just one month.

Hiscox launches a multi-site technology graduate scheme across London, Lisbon and York as it ramps up hiring for digital and cyber roles.

Bunq adopts Orq.ai's standalone AI Router to replace its in-house system, amid rising costs and sovereignty concerns across Europe.

Checkmarx adds IDE-native security checks to AI-focused Kiro, aiming to catch vulnerabilities earlier and cut security rework for teams.

Memgraph launches Atomic GraphRAG, collapsing complex GraphRAG LLM pipelines into a single Cypher query to cut code and simplify retrieval.

Datadog opens registration for DASH 2026 in New York, putting AI-in-production observability, security and reliability centre stage.

Qodo 2.1 debuts an AI-driven rules layer that learns from code history to enforce consistent standards and analytics-led code review.