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Running custom agents on the SAP-managed Joule Studio runtime will remain free through December for select SAP customers, under a time-bound promotion SAP announced Tuesday at its TechEd conference. The design-time tools for building and testing agents and n8n workflows with AI-assisted development will stay free under fair-use limits, the company said in a press

A CSS property that arrived in Safari in March already has a new name. Safari 27.2, which Apple’s WebKit team detailed Monday, switches Grid Lanes from flow-tolerance to fit-tolerance after the CSS Working Group decided the new name better describes what the property does. The old name will keep working for now as a deprecated

Georgia Tech researchers have given AI users another reason to worry about their privacy by developing a forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from a phone. People are increasingly using AI for any number of tasks, including those of a personal nature. Many people are discussing their medical issues, emotional concerns, financial matters,

GitHub is letting a language model decide which of Copilot’s shell commands, file-system accesses and URL fetches are safe enough to run without asking the developer first. The option, called assisted permissions, became generally available Monday in GitHub Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app and Visual Studio Code, GitHub said in a changelog post. Without

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has designated helium a critical material, one that is vital to the manufacture of semiconductors and other advanced tech. The US has been looking for ways to end, or at least lessen, its dependence on foreign minerals and materials for advanced tech. Semiconductors and EV batteries, in particular, are

According to a recent survey, fear of AI harming the political process ranks third among Americans, topping the fear of losing a loved one to death. AI is arguably one of the most transformative technologies in history, revolutionizing countless industries, professions, and how people interact with technology. Despite, or perhaps because of, its transformative nature,

Admins who installed Microsoft’s Oct. 13 .NET security update have one more to apply. On Sunday, less than two weeks after that regular release, Microsoft shipped an out-of-band round of .NET 8.0.33, 9.0.22 and 10.0.14, plus .NET 11 Release Candidate 3, and Rahul Bhandari, a senior program manager on the .NET team, recommended updating as

Amazon Web Services will connect its data centers over Verizon fiber for AI workloads under an agreement Verizon valued at more than $2 billion. Google signed a similar fiber deal with the carrier in July, so AWS is the second of the largest AI infrastructure builders on Verizon’s books. Verizon disclosed the dark fiber agreement

About 60,000 Microsoft employees, more than a quarter of the company’s workforce, can now choose to leave with a buyout, a Microsoft spokesperson told Business Insider. Whether a given person gets the offer depends on which part of Microsoft they work in. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman introduced the Voluntary Exit Offer in a note