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  Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents. This promises to eliminate a lot of duplicated effort on the part of AI agents, thereby making savings in terms of cost and resources https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19009-cq-a-shared-knowledge-commons-for-ai-agents.html

  Colab integration has arrived for both VSCode and PyCharm. What does that now make possible? If you're familiar with Jupyter Notebook, you'll be right at home with Colab too. Colab addresses the limitations of the single-player notebook. Jupyter was created in an era before the cloud and the emergence of AI. Nowadays what is required is modern, collaborative tools that integrate into your existing stack. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18645-colab-is-coming-for-your-favorite-ide.html

  A brand new course from the makers of LangSmith themselves, promises to teach you how to observe, evaluate, and deploy your agents. And all that in less than 30 minutes. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18638-langchain-academys-langsmith-essentials-course.html

  Wouldn't it be great to have an interface that could work with any AI agent? Toad is Python's answer to a unified front-end for the many AI coding agents out there. Toad, not to be confused with the Oracle IDE, aims to provide a more pleasant experience for the user of Agentic coding tools. The notion is that each tool comes with its own interface, its own quirks, and its own limitations.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18619-toad-pythonic-universal-terminal-interface-for-ai-agents.html

  Recognizing the importance of AI Agents, industry stakeholders have decided to establish a Foundation that fosters common open standards and collaboration . Under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has been co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18614-agentic-ai-foundation-announced.html

  FunctionGemma is an open-source Google model fine-tuned for function calling that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with our devices. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18608-google-releases-functiongemma-model.html

  This isn't just a course, it's the complete curriculum of Stanford’s  CME295 Transformers and Large Language Models  from Autumn 2025. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18604-watch-stanfords-cme295-transformers-and-llms.html

Supabase has released Vector Buckets, specialized storage containers optimized for vector data. This is welcome as it expands your options for storing vectors.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18585-supabases-vector-buckets.html

  HuggingFace just made the process of fine-tuning open source LLMs much easier through the use of Skills. Similarly to Claude's Skills, HuggingFace Skills take care of the boilerplate required to fine tune LLMs. That boilerplate consists of validating your dataset, auto-selecting the best GPU hardware for the job, as well as submitting the job for processing, monitoring the training progress, and finally publishing the tuned model to the HuggingFace Hub. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18568-huggingface-skills-fine-tune-llms.html

  And it shows it by launching a new step by step tutorial on building AI powered application with Python. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/18557-microsoft-loves-python-ai.html

  Agentic AI and MPC are coming on strong in the database market. After the likes of Postgres and Oracle, now it's MongoDB's turn to incorporate MCP. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18540-mongodb-now-does-mcp.html

  NODES is the biggest graph community gathering dedicated to applications, data intelligence, knowledge graphs, and AI.  Let's find out what happened this year. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18536-the-gist-of-the-nodes-2025-dev-conference.html

  Claude Scientific Skills give Claude super powers, not just on coding, but about any science. We try them out to see what's on offer. But first of all what are Claude Skills. If you're familiar with CustomGPTs then Skills is something similar. They both enable the LLM to access specialized agents. In the Skills case, they are shaped as plugins which comprise of a mix of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load dynamically when trying to perform a task.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18534-turn-claude-into-your-personal-research-assistant.html

  In cooperation with the Nebius AI cloud platform, JetBrains has launched a set of ten free courses for developers that demonstrate how to incorporate AI in their workflow to become 10X productive. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18528-jetbrains-work-with-ai-effectively.html

  A new Advent calendar had joined those for Java, Kotlin and Rust. We now have  Advent of AI, a series of AI engineering challenges from Goose, that is already underway. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/18518-the-goose-advent-of-ai-has-commenced.html

  Hour Of Code has been renamed. This year and from now on it will be called "Hour Of AI", giving in to this AI-dictated era. Another indication that coding has shifted from a task of manual labor to one of automated generation. Code.org is a trend setter and crucial to kids' education relating to Computer Science, so the rebranding is highly significant. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18502-hour-of-ai-2025-about-to-start.html

  A new course, thanks to Andrew Ng and his partnership with Box, that shows how you can leverage MCP servers to offload otherwise laborious and custom-made work. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18489-build-ai-apps-with-mcp-servers-with-deeplearningai.html

  The official release of Vaadin MCP server is a reality. What does it make different? Yes I'm a fan of Vaadin. I've used it in a couple of projects and productivity was sky high. For those not initiated to the framework, Vaadin allows you to write Java code for the front-end and back-end; no Javascript required, which is an unlikely dream for full stack engineers that nevertheless turned to reality. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18481-vaadin-now-does-mcp.html

  DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already? To answer this question, yes we have; but for LLM performance, not coding agent performance. And by that we mean comparing for instance: Anthropic Claude Code CLI AI Agent            vs Google Gemini CLI AI Agent           vs JetBrains Junie AI Agent (Claude Sonnet)           vs JetBrains Junie AI Agent (GPT 5)          vs OpenAI Codex CLI AI Agent https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18475-jetbrains-developer-productivity-ai-arena-is-a-game-changer.html

The more elaborate the prompt the better the outcome. But how do I construct a really great prompt? The answer to that question is given by this free, official Anthropic step-by-step guide which shows how to construct prompts that get optimal answers out of the Claude LLM. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18470-anthropics-prompt-engineering-tutorial.html