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When was the term artificial intelligence coined?

Discover when the term artificial intelligence was first introduced and how it shaped the future of AI research and machine learning. This video breaks down the origin of AI and its historical significance in modern technology. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Enabling Proactive ITOps with Skylar Advisor

By continuously connecting signals across your IT environment, Skylar Advisor turns operational complexity into clear, prioritized guidance. It highlights potential impact, explains why it matters, and delivers clear next steps so IT teams can act early and stay ahead of alerts before they turn into issues.

GitKraken Desktop 11.10 Release: Pin Branch, Sparse Checkout, Word Wrap and MORE!

GitKraken Desktop 11.10 is live! This release focuses on control over the commit graph, rebases, and more. The kind that makes working in complex repositories feel intentional instead of chaotic. Here’s what’s new: These updates bring long requested structural improvements directly into the GitKraken Desktop UI. If you care about clean history, readable diffs, and managing serious repos without jumping to the CLI, this release is for you.

CloudZero Launches Claude Code Plugin To Bring Cost Intelligence Into Engineering Workflows

Today we’re announcing the CloudZero Claude Code Plugin, a new capability that puts CloudZero’s full cost intelligence model directly inside Claude Code, where engineers and technical FinOps practitioners already work. The plugin connects a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and nine pre-packaged investigation skills to CloudZero’s cost data, covering cloud and AI spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.

Why Website Change Monitoring Matters for Modern Brand Management

A competitor quietly slashes their prices, and the sales team doesn’t find out until deals start falling through. A rogue plugin update changes the homepage headline to something nobody approved. These scenarios play out constantly for brands without visibility into what’s happening on their own websites and their competitors’ sites. Website change monitoring provides that visibility through automated tracking and alerts, turning potential blind spots into strategic advantages.

Introducing Cortex as the Engineering Operations Platform

Software Engineering is once again being forced to evolve. We are entering the era of infinite code where the cost of writing code tends to zero. The data tells us that companies are only moving 20% faster than when humans wrote code by hand. We’re writing orders of magnitude more code than ever, yet our processes are barely keeping up with what we had before. The chaos and complexity is only being amplified by this new shift in how we work as developers.

Saved queries now support template variables | Grafana Cloud

In this video, Collin Fingar, Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how template variables can be used in saved queries, a feature that enables users to reuse queries they or others in their org have saved. You'll see how a query that contains variables can be reused, and how the variables can be replaced at the point of reuse.