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Introducing the New SmartCore AI Components Pack 1.1 for RAD Studio 13.2

November 4, 2026

We are releasing a new version of the SmartCore AI Components Pack for RAD Studio 13.2, available through the GetIt Package Manager. Version 1.1 is a significant update, with a complete rewrite of the underlying implementation, a new architecture, and many additional capabilities for developers who want to integrate AI into their applications. The original SmartCore AI Components Pack, introduced…

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Kai 1.1.2 is Now Available: New Chat Features and Improved Local AI Support

By Marco Cantu

November 4, 2026

Today Embarcadero released Kai 1.1.2, a new update to our agentic AI solution for RAD Studio. Building on Kai 1.1 and 1.1.1, this release combines a number of new features with quality improvements, including specific work on supporting local AI engines. The most visible…

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The PHP Apocalypse

By Ian Barker

October 23, 2026

Unless you’ve been living under a rock it would have been very difficult to miss the news about the snappily named security reports CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 – more popularly known in the press as The PHP Apocalypse or PHP2Shell for those in the know.

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MCPConnect: How To Secure MCP Servers

By Luca Minuti

October 11, 2026

Securing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is not a single task. There are a few different problems to solve. Your server probably talks to something that needs a secret (a database password or an external API key) so that secret has to be stored safely. If it’s…

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Goodbye FieldByName: Typed Entities in Delphi with Trysil (free open-source ORM)

By David Lastrucci

October 11, 2026

If you write database applications in Delphi, you probably know this scene well: a TFDQuery, an SQL string, a series of ParamByName calls and then, row by row, FieldByName('...').AsString to bring the data back into your objects. It works, and it’s fast. But every…

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How Exotic Is C++Builder 13?

By Volker Hillmann

October 4, 2026

C++Builder is often treated as something of an exotic species within the wider C++ world. Sometimes that is said with a smile, sometimes quite seriously. Behind it lies a more fundamental question: how much does a development environment still belong to the C++ ecosystem…

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Building MCP Servers in Delphi with MCPConnect

By Paolo Rossi

September 30, 2026

MCPConnect is a framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with Embarcadero Delphi & C++Builder. It uses attributes (for C++Builder there is a function-based registration mechanism) to turn your existing Delphi classes and business logic into MCP tools…

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KAI 1.1.1: Supercharge Local AI in RAD Studio!

By Landerson Gomes

September 29, 2026

Technology never stops, and the ecosystem is evolving too fast! Today we’re going to take advantage of the fact that Embarcadero has released a new version of KAI , version 1.1.1 , which brings improvements to the use of local models. In this post, we’ll show you…

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Kai 1.1.1 Is Now Available

By Marco Cantu

September 25, 2026

Today Embarcadero released Kai version 1.1.1, a maintenance update that builds on Kai 1.1 with additional refinements, particularly for developers using local AI models. Enhanced Support for Local AI Engines A major focus of Kai 1.1.1 is continued enhancement of the…

Delphi News Research

What Happens When Your Compiler Jumps 12 Years of LLVM Evolution?

By Antonio Zapater

September 25, 2026

One of the nice things about a compiler upgrade is that your application code doesn’t have to change. You simply rebuild the same codebase and see what the new toolchain can deliver. Delphi 13.2 makes that comparison especially interesting on Linux. Delphi 13.1 (and…

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