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The EU AI Act and what it means for managing incidents

If you've been in earshot of tech leadership lately, you've probably heard the words 'EU,' 'AI,' and 'compliance' in conversation. The EU AI Act is officially upon us, and with it comes a whole new set of incident response and reporting requirements that might feel like a yet another bureaucratic set of requirements to worry about. But there's a different way to look at this legislation.

AI on constrained embedded devices with Ubuntu Core

As AI moves closer to production, running inference on embedded devices is becoming essential, but challenging. In this session, Gabriel Aguiar Noury (Product Manager at Canonical) explores how snaps and Ubuntu Core simplify the packaging and deployment of AI models on resource-constrained devices, while maintaining security and updatability.

Building a real-time AI autocomplete app with Next.js and Vercel AI SDK

Over the past ten years, Azure has become one of the most prominent cloud computing platforms available, rivaled only by AWS. Part of Microsoft’s suite of Azure services, Azure web apps provide a packaged environment for hosting web applications built in many languages. Because this environment is fully managed by Azure, developers have limited options for control.

Social Media Marketing Tips for Freelance Professionals

In today's day and age, investing in social media marketing truly is essential for freelance professionals looking to build an online presence. When utilized effectively, platforms like Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn can help you build a strong personal brand and connect with people who might be interested in your services. And with an audience-centric approach to your content development, social media marketing can really be a viable strategy no matter your budget.

How AI Is Reframing the Software Development Operation Rules

There's a revolution in the making in software development. It's about working smarter. Teams scale without lag and produce consistently high-performing systems. And artificial intelligence is stepping up as a game-changing partner. This shift isn't automation - it's intelligence. AI is bringing sense to complexity, allowing teams to cut through noise and ship quality code. It makes DevOps pipelines stronger than ever. Let's get in there and look at how AI is taking drudgery off the table and redefining operational excellence for the tech stack.

The use of AI has become the expectation, are you keeping up?

In the last few months, it feels like LLMs have gone from a nice place to consult for a few ideas to the first place you might turn for input. An AI can offer insight on that work presentation you need to put together, it will write you a business plan outline with two lines of prompting—and include categories you might forget to add, and, most impressively for me recently, it will even criticise your tone in work correspondence.

Dynamic Demands, Dynamic Solutions: IT's Role in the Next AI Workflow Evolution

I have just finished reviewing the Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report for 2025, which offers fascinating insights into the next wave of organizational evolution. I am particularly excited about the section titled ‘Journey to the Frontier Firm’ and what is possible in phase three, where employees will harness the power of multiple AI agents, creating an ‘agentic swarm’ capable of executing tasks at a scale and speed previously unimaginable.

Streamline your LangChain deployments with Langserve on GCP

Deploying Large Language Model (LLM) applications can transform ideas into valuable services. But, deployment challenges can slow down even experienced developers. In this tutorial, you will build and deploy a LangChain application using LangServe and CircleCI on Google Cloud Run. You will create a text summarization tool powered by Google’s Gemini model. You will use Langserve to expose it as an API. You will automate testing and deployment to Google Cloud Run using CircleCI.

Use AI to resolve CI test failures with zero guesswork

Test failures are inevitable. A broken condition, a missed edge case, or a last-minute refactor can trip up even the most careful changes. That’s part of shipping software. What shouldn’t be part of the job is spending half your afternoon parsing logs and chasing down the root cause. Now, there’s a faster way. This guide shows how to use the CircleCI MCP server to identify, understand, and resolve failing tests in a CI/CD build without ever leaving your editor.