Frederic Lardinois

Portland

Senior AI Editor at The New Stack

I write about tech. Sr. Enterprise Editor at TC. Signal 860-208-3416 [email protected]

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Augment Code's Remote Agents Code in the Cloud

2 days ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Augment Code, the AI coding tool that specifically targets professional developers, recently previewed a feature it calls Remote Agents. These AI agents extend Augment Code’s existing code completion and chat features in a way that’s not unlike GitHub’s recently announced Coding Agent.
Aptori Is Building an Agentic AI Security Engineer

4 days ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

In application security, one of the promises of AI agents is that they will be able to test and scan your code for vulnerabilities 24/7 — and then fix any issues autonomously, whether during the development phase or in production. We’re not quite there yet, but plenty of startups and incumbents are making a run at this. One of the startups in this space is Aptori, which is building an AI security engineer for the enterprise.
Veris AI Is a Training Gym for AI Agents

4 days ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

While talk about AI agents is seemingly everywhere, seeing them in production is actually still relatively rare. In part, that’s because a lot of the tooling around building, testing and deploying them remains a work in progress, making it harder for developers to ensure that these agents don’t just work in a demo but are ready for production.
Traceloop Launches an Observability Platform for LLM-Based Applications

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Traceloop today launched its observability tool for LLM-based applications into general availability and also announced a $6.1 million seed funding round led by Sorenson Capital and Ibex Investors. One of the problems of building on top of large language models (LLMs) is that they are probabilistic. Without the right tooling, you can’t always know if something that worked today is guaranteed to work tomorrow.
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

SAN FRANCISCO — At its first developers conference, Code with Claude, AI company Anthropic today launched the latest versions of its large language models (LLMs): Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. These updates promise significant advancements for developers and engineering teams, particularly in coding and long-context reasoning.
Google Cloud Next Wrap-Up

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

To wrap up this year’s Google Cloud Next, The New Stack founder Alex Williams, The New Stack AI editor Frederic Lardinois, and our analyst friend and regular contributor Janakiram MSV sat down to discuss the news from the conference. Given that the conversation at Google Cloud Next was all about AI agents, it’s no surprise that the discussion here also focused on exactly this topic, with a focus on agent frameworks.
Google's Gemini Models Go Deeper

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Google’s I/O developer conference this year is all about AI. That’s really not that much of a surprise, given that the company got most of the traditional Android updates it would typically feature at the event out of the way a few weeks ago. Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai declared the beginning of the Gemini era and in some ways, we’ve now hit the Gemini 2.0 era (or maybe 2.5, given the current version numbers of its models).
Google Embraces MCP

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data sources. Google, at its I/O developer conference, today announced that it, too, will now support MCP as a built-in part of its Gemini API and SDK. The company also says that it is looking to make it easier for developers to deploy MCP servers and other hosted tools for AI agents, but it did not provide any details about what this would look like.
GitHub Launches Its Coding Agent

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Earlier this year, GitHub teased Project Padawan, its agent for assisting software engineers and act on their behalf to handle routine tasks like reviewing code, refactoring it, troubleshooting and more. Today, at the annual Microsoft Build conference, GitHub is launching its first iteration of this coding agent, dubbed the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent.
Microsoft Brings MCP, Local AI Models and Post-Quantum Security to Windows

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Unsurprisingly, this year’s Microsoft Build conference is all about AI and agents, and Microsoft is using the event to position its Windows operating system as a platform where developers can easily build AI-enabled applications. To do so, it is also building features like local MCP servers, the tools for running models locally, and even the ability to fine-tune Microsoft’s Phi Silica model with custom data, right into the operating system.