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TurinTech, a leader in Evolutionary agentic code platforms, today announced that Michael Parker has joined as its Vice President of Engineering. A veteran in developer tooling and platform engineering, Parker brings decades of experience building scalable systems and leading global teams—including at Docker, where he helped modernize the company’s cloud platform and developer experience.
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Parker joins TurinTech as it prepares to launch Artemis more broadly, bringing agentic AI into the heart of the developer experience—from planning to production. Built around an outcome-first approach, Artemis helps teams guide and validate AI contributions, align work to their goals, and improve code with confidence. It’s a platform designed not just for faster development—but for trusted, measurable results.
Mike Basios, Chief Technology Officer at TurinTech, commented: “We’re building Artemis to help teams get the most out of AI—whether that’s LLMs, agents, or both. It’s not about generating more code—it’s about delivering measurably improved outcomes.”
At Docker, Parker played a key role in the company’s shift from infrastructure to developer-first tooling. He led platform modernization, scaled distributed teams, and oversaw the user experience behind Docker Hub. At TurinTech, he will oversee engineering delivery across Artemis cloud and on-prem deployments, ensuring developers can work seamlessly with AI agents, planning workflows, and outcome-based review tools.
“Agentic development is a powerful shift, but it needs structure to succeed,” said Michael Parker, VP of Engineering. “With Artemis, we’re building the planning and workflow intelligence that lets AI agents work more like real teammates. Developers stay in control, but get meaningful support—from scoping to implementation to validation. It’s about tackling the real-world friction in today’s GenAI tools and making AI genuinely useful in everyday engineering.”
Leslie Kanthan, CEO and Co-founder of TurinTech, added: “Demand for Artemis continues to grow since our limited launch earlier this year. Global enterprises like Intel and Taylor Wessing are already engaging, and we’re seeing strong developer interest in our AI-driven engineering platform. With Michael onboard, we’re excited to accelerate availability and bring the power of Artemis to more teams, faster.”
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About TurinTech
TurinTech builds intelligent systems that evolve and improve code and machine learning models. Its platforms, Artemis for code and evoML for ML pipelines, combine agentic planning, evolutionary algorithms, and real-time validation to deliver measurable, production-ready results. Whether optimizing GenAI output, modernizing legacy code, or tuning ML for performance, TurinTech helps teams move beyond generation to deliver software that’s intelligent by design—trusted, efficient, and built to deliver the results you need with the full power of AI.
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Michael Parker has joined TurinTech as its Vice President of Engineering
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Review-Journal announced Friday that it will no longer print its rival the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades, sharpening their legal dispute over the nation’s last joint operating agreement stemming from a 1970 law designed to preserve newspapers.
Readers “will not find a printed Las Vegas Sun insert inside,” the Review-Journal wrote in an editorial, noting the Sun maintains a website, has a few hundred thousand followers across social media platforms, and is free to produce its own newspaper.
“We encourage them to do so. The Review-Journal competes with countless sources of news and entertainment, but we would welcome one more. We just don’t want to foot the bill. It is time the Sun stood up on its own two feet,” the editorial said, without specifying the cost.
It was the first day in 76 years the Sun hasn’t been printed, Sun attorney Leif Reid said in an email.
“This does irreparable harm to our community, as no one benefits when a local newspaper is prevented from being published,” Reid said.
The two publications will be in court Friday and the Sun hopes a judge will order printing to immediately resume. Employees are preparing print pages as always in hopes they will be able to publish Saturday, said Robert Cauthorn, chief operating officer.
The now-rare joint operating agreement required the Sun to be printed as a daily insert in the Review-Journal, the state’s largest newspaper. Both companies remained editorially independent with separate newsrooms and websites.
A lower court found the agreement was unenforceable because a 2005 update was never signed by the U.S. attorney general, and in February the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Sun's appeal.
The Review-Journal editorial called the Supreme Court decision a decisive victory, saying that halting publication of the Sun on Friday was “a result of 6½ years of litigation between the newspapers, precipitated by the Sun.”
Such agreements between rival publications have dwindled as part of a "long, slow goodbye of newspapers as we knew them,” said Ken Doctor, a news business analyst. The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News ended a 40-year agreement last year. USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, recently announced its plans to purchase the Detroit News.
In 1950, the Sun was founded in response to the Review-Journal’s refusal to negotiate with typesetters from the International Typographical Union. The union started its own newspaper and reached out to businessman Hank Greenspun for financial backing. The Greenspuns still own the paper.
The Review-Journal has been publishing since 1909, first as the Clark County Review. It is owned by the Adelson family, who are casino magnates and Republican megadonors.
The Review-Journal’s editorials lean more conservative, while the Sun’s lean liberal. The 1970 law signed by then-President Richard Nixon, called the Newspaper Preservation Act, was designed to save newspapers costs while maintaining competition and editorial variety.
The papers first entered into a joint operating agreement in 1989 when the Sun was struggling to stay afloat financially. The agreement made the Sun an afternoon newspaper during weekdays and a section within the Review-Journal on weekend mornings, while the Review-Journal handled production, distribution and advertising. The Review-Journal also collected all revenue and was required to pay the Sun monthly to cover the Sun’s news and editorial expenses.
In 2005 the agreement was amended to make the Sun an insert in the Review-Journal every morning.
Review-Journal owners sought to end the agreement in 2019, and in response the Sun’s owners filed a lawsuit alleging that ending the agreement violated antitrust laws.
The 1970 law allowing such agreements came at a time when news options weren't as prevalent and there was more concern over news monopolies.
Las Vegas — and Nevada as a whole — today have more strong, independent news organizations compared with other places, said Stephen Bates, a journalism and media professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The Sun also publishes online. But it has argued in court that losing its print product could make it harder to recruit staff, cause a loss in readers, and even force it to close.
Genelle Belmas, a journalism professor at the University of Kansas who specializes in media law, said it would be disappointing if the last joint operating agreement in the country ends. During visits to Vegas, she's enjoyed being able to pick up the Review-Journal and see the Sun folded inside, offering two differing points of view in one place. Online news outlets make it easier for consumers to stay in their echo chambers, she said.
“Every local news outlet we lose — and that includes big towns, small towns, whatever — is a loss of perspective and a loss of a potential alternative view,” Belmas said.
Associated Press journalist Kathleen Ronayne contributed from Sacramento, California.
The exterior of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is shown Friday, April 3, 2026, in Las Vegas (AP Photo/Ty Oneil)
The front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is shown Friday, April 3, 2026, in Las Vegas (AP Photo/Ty Oneil)
FILE - This Dec. 17, 2015 file photo shows a sign outside the building housing the Las Vegas Review-Journal in Las Vegas. AP Photo/John Locher, File)
