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Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C#.

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• Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively.
• Explores how Abnormal AI utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and his team are leveraging AI to drive compounding productivity within their organization.

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Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here.

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user Smrutiranjan Sahu, who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter.

Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. 

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Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. 

Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things. 

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Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error.

DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned them a Lifeboat badge.

The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building.

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Instead of a badge, we have a question for you:  If you are a developer who is working with AI agents, what are you building? What tools are you looking for? What problems are you interested in solving with AI tools? Send us an email at podcast@stackoverflow.com. 

Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster.

Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger.

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watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub.

We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready. 

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answer to Is it possible to download a website’s entire code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files?.

Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions.

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Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android programmatically?.