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LangChain Observability: How to Monitor LLM Apps with OpenTelemetry (With Demo App)

LangChain has become one of the most popular frameworks for building LLM-powered applications, making it easier to create agents that can reason, plan, and take actions. But like any production-grade AI app, LangChain agents can run into performance bottlenecks, hallucinations, or tool call failures. And without proper LangChain observability, it’s hard to know where things break down.

Alloy Navigator Walkthrough: Service Desk Customer Perspective

See Alloy Navigator through your end users’ eyes—whether internal employees or external customers. This quick walkthrough shows how effortless it is to report issues, request IT services, and find answers. Intuitive, multilingual, easy-to-brand interface, so users see it as part of your corporate site Effortless ticket creation and tracking Email and push notifications Build-in knowledge base Role-specific service catalogs Convenient equipment reservations Announcements and one-click approvals Mobile app for end users Smart AI assistant (coming soon)

Claude Pricing: A 2025 Guide To Anthropic AI Costs

When OpenAI surged into the spotlight with ChatGPT, not everyone inside the company agreed on the path forward. In 2021, a group of senior researchers broke away. They had concerns about safety, transparency, and the direction of AI development. They went on to found Anthropic. And their answer to ChatGPT was Claude. Anthropic’s mission is for openness now. Yet, Claude’s pricing can feel as mysterious as the model weights behind the scenes.

We vibe coded a path tracer: Here's how we used static and dynamic analysis to fix it

When developing software, the longer you intend to keep a system around, the more important it becomes to prioritize its code quality. But as more organizations move toward microservice architectures and adopt agentic AI and LLMs into their development workflows, many engineering teams have increased their emphasis on accelerating developer velocity, often at the expense of code quality. This can often result in code that fails to meet standards for performance, reliability, and security.

Imaginary Cities: Design Skylines That Could Never Exist with AI

Now imagine a skyline that twists like liquid metal, a series of towers that spiral upward as if growing like vines rather than made of steel, and glowing bridges that wrap around moons rather than rivers. These are the cities that live at the edges of dreams, places that we will never visit, but ones we can picture with insistent clarity.

Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

Zia LLM for ServiceDesk Plus Cloud, transitions in workflows, and more!

We’re rolling out some interesting AI innovations and workflow enhancements in the cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus. You can now use the native Zia LLM hosted in our own data centers as a GenAI provider (in addition to ChatGPT and AzureOpen AI), track AI adoption with the new Zia dashboard, and enable user transitions within workflows. Meanwhile, the on-premises version supports seamless user import from Microsoft Entra ID. Watch the video as our product experts walk you through each of these updates in detail.

Top 6 Duty Drawback Automation Services Streamlining Global Trade

Your business could recover millions in lost revenue through duty drawback automation services. Every year, companies pay over USD 100 billion in import duties, but only a small fraction gets refunded. Nearly USD 50 billion remains eligible yet unclaimed. These solutions offer an enormous opportunity for businesses involved in global trade to reclaim what's rightfully theirs.