Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic rolls out several enterprise-friendly features around its Claude model, Slack thinks it has found a better way to search for company data, and the quote of the week.
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Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic rolls out several enterprise-friendly features around its Claude model, Slack thinks it has found a better way to search for company data, and the quote of the week.
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Mmm, dashboards: Compared to its frontier-model rival OpenAI, Anthropic appears to have done a better job ingratiating itself with enterprise customers over the last couple of years. And this week it unveiled two new additions to its Claude model that follow a well-honed enterprise software playbook.
Claude Code, which has been the talk of the developer crowd over the last few months, now offers a dashboard that engineering managers can use to "understand developer usage patterns, track productivity metrics, and optimize their Claude Code adoption," according to Anthropic. And the Claude AI assistant now integrates with several common enterprise software tools, including Notion, Canva, and Stripe, which will make it easier for users to feed Claude data from external sources.
Do it again: It's been a year since Harness entered the infrastructure-as-code market, hoping to add another product line to its suite of software-development tools. This week it released two updates to Harness Infrastructure as Code Management that were designed to prevent teams from reinventing the infrastructure wheel with every new project.
Module Registry allows companies to build, test, and evaluate infrastructure "golden templates" that can be reused by teams across a company, Harness said in a blog post. Those teams can also specify Workspace Templates for future projects that have all the configuration knobs dialed in exactly as needed.
Marked as read: We're at the point of the generative AI boom where every piece of software you touch at work is going to get some type of AI feature whether you like it or not. Slack joined the party this week with several updates that the company believes will make it easier to use Slack to find information and get things done.
The most interesting new feature is an upgrade to Slack's search function, which now allows users to "ask questions in your own words and instantly get answers from your organization’s collective knowledge base," including outside services such as Google Drive or Microsoft Teams, Slack said in a blog post. However, VentureBeat rightly pointed out that Slack recently changed its own policies to prevent outside software from accessing Slack conversations, noting that "if competing AI platforms deliver significantly better results using data from other sources, Salesforce risks pushing customers toward alternative messaging platforms that offer more open integration."
Caveat vector: Database companies and cloud providers have been predicting the end of the standalone vector database pretty much from the moment they caught fire a few years ago, and this week's launch of vectors in AWS's S3 won't quiet that crowd. But startups like Qdrant nevertheless persist, and this week it introduced a new service that promises to make it easier for developers to index both images and text without having to create two different workflows.
Qdrant Cloud Inference allows customers to "generate, store and index embeddings in a single API call, turning unstructured text and images into search-ready vectors in a single environment," the company said in a blog post. "Traditionally, embedding generation and vector search have been handled separately in developer workflows,” Qdrant co-founder and CEO André Zayarni told SiliconAngle, but this new service can handle both.
Ayy, robot: Someone is going to define the next generation of AI-assisted software-development tools, and the former Google DeepMind researchers behind Reflection AI would seem to have as good a chance as anyone else. This week they launched Asimov, which the company rather boldly called "our first product milestone on the path to superintelligence."
Asimov was designed to absorb the lessons from existing enterprise codebases, because "without deeply understanding large codebases and the business logic around them, coding agents will be stuck with shallow capabilities, unable to solve problems on the critical path to an engineering organization," it said in a blog post. Users can ask Asimov questions about issues or bugs and it will search across GitHub repositories and internal sources of knowledge to find answers, according to the company.
It feels like a new, more powerful DDoS attack hits the internet just about every week in hopes of flooding the target server with so much traffic it has no choice but to go offline. But according to new research from Cloudflare, 63% of DDoS attack victims believe their competitors are behind the attacks on their infrastructure; as they say, you aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.
"Within our lifetime, engineers will go from bricklayers to architects, focusing on the creativity of designing systems rather than the manual labor of putting them together." — Cognition co-founder and CEO Scott Wu, explaining why his company acquired what was left of Windsurf after Google hired dozens of its top executives.
Astronomer announced that it is conducting a "formal investigation" into the tender moment between CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristen Cabot caught on camera during Coldplay's show at Gillette Stadium this week; nobody said it was easy.
Cisco urged customers of its Identity Services Engine to patch a flaw that earned the CVSS's maximum "this is really bad" score of 10.
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