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Jira Governed Agent Loops Enter Private Early Access: Automated Backlog-to-PR Workflows with Human Review Gates
Atlassian launches private early access for Jira Governed Agent Loops, automatically transforming unassigned backlog tickets into pull requests with human gates.
NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B: Open AI Ecosystem Pledges Neutrality
NVIDIA enters definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, pledging open-platform neutrality across 18M developers and multi-cloud hardware.
Productboard Launches Spark: The First Agentic Product System for PMs
Productboard unveils Spark, deploying specialized AI agents for VoC synthesis, PRD generation, and codebase-grounded feature prioritization linked via MCP.
Agent Client Protocol (ACP) Open Standard: Running Any AI Coding Agent in Any IDE
The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) standard lands across Cognition Devin Desktop, JetBrains, VS Code, and Google Antigravity, enabling plug-and-play AI coding agents in any editor.
Salesforce Acquires Fin AI for $3.6B: Consolidating Autonomous Customer Service into Agentforce
Salesforce enters a $3.6B definitive agreement to acquire Fin AI (spun out from Intercom), integrating its 76% resolution customer support agents directly into Agentforce.
AI-Native SAFe Released: Scaled Agile Operating Model for the Enterprise AI Era
Scaled Agile unveils AI-Native SAFe, introducing the AI Value Architect role, compressed delivery cycles, and enterprise governance for autonomous agent fleets.
Cursor Hooks and Grind Loop: Building a Deterministic Agent Control Plane
Master .cursor/hooks.json lifecycle and stop-hook validation scripts to eliminate premature agent stops, enforcing strict test, build, and audit gates.
Kotlin 2.4 Ships with Java 26 Support and Stable Context Parameters
Kotlin 2.4.0 is now GA, bringing Java 26 JVM support, stable context parameters and explicit backing fields, Wasm Component Model, incremental Wasm compilation, and Gradle 9.5 compatibility.
88% of Enterprises Report AI Agent Security Incidents: Execution Layer Is the Gap
A comprehensive analysis of the 2026 enterprise AI agent security survey, revealing an 88% incident rate and critical execution-layer vulnerabilities in.
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