Loraine Lawson

1 day ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Cloud-based platform 10Web.io allows users to create a fully functional WordPress e-commerce site from a natural language prompt in minutes. After the company released an API, that capability can be embedded into any B2B platform. The RESTful API allows businesses to white label the AI-powered web generation tool on their own platform by adding a generation link or a text-based prompt field to the customer dashboard.

2 days ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

AI isn’t going to be limited to changing how we use the internet and create code — it will also change how applications function, enabling them to interact with the physical world in new ways. Research scientist Stefania Druga of Google Deep Mind showed developers what this might look like, including demos of four applications, at last week’s Infobip Shift Miami and Infobip CX Unlocked Americas conferences.

3 days ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Canva launched Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for its developer platform last month. Its use of MCP over AI agents provides a preview of what developers might expect in the near future from companies that host their own app marketplaces. It also shows how MCP could be a game-changer for building apps. MCP is an emerging open standard from Anthropic that provides a way for AI models to interact with external data sources and tools.

6 days ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

This week, Svelte published a roundup of new feature upgrades and bug fixes. The big news is that Asynchronous Svelte is now available in Svelte’s full-stack web application framework, SvelteKit. In its GitHub repository, the project explained that this is actually an old idea reborn in a more efficient manner. “In olden times, we did asynchronous work like fetching data inside onMount or an {#await ...} block.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Edwin Gnichtel has seen some big balls of mud in his time — and by balls of mud, he means legacy applications and IT systems. Gnichtel is the CEO of CodeLogic, a software intelligence automation platform that’s deploying AI to resolve technical debt. Previously, he was CodeLogic’s chief technology officer and has also worked in low-level software engineering. It’s so bad, it’s difficult to graph, he told the audience at Tuesday’s Infobip Shift Miami, a developer conference focused on AI.