This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

Near-Astra intelligence at up to 8x faster speeds than Sol Standard, so you can build as fast as the ideas come. API pricing ...

JPCERT/CC links Japan's recent data leaks to mobile API abuse and known software flaws, including an exploited Metabase SQL ...

Discover MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: secure, type-safe agent orchestration for enterprise Java, with decoupled auth and AlloyDB & Spring Boot support.

Quarkus 4.0.0.Beta1 requires Java 21 or later, ending support for Java 17. Jackson 3 and changes to Hibernate database defaults introduce compatibility checks for existing applications. The beta adds ...

The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business ...

Web3 developers can add swaps, lending, staking and yield via DeFi APIs, DEX routers, Morpho vaults and account abstraction - ...

Announced on October 1, 2026, by Vittorio Rivabella of the Foundation’s dAI team, the design—called zkAPI—is already running on Ethereum and implements an ...

Helidon 27 ties new framework releases to Java’s release cycle, while retaining Helidon 4.5 as the long-term support option for teams delaying migration.

But Anthropic changed the competitive picture again Tuesday morning with Claude Opus 5.5. The new model costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, making GPT-6 Sol 50% ...

Cardano just got plugged into the plumbing of the internet’s payment layer. The blockchain’s native integration into the x402 SDK means that applications and autonomous AI agents can now pay for API ...