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Introduction Want to build your first AI-powered application? In this step-by-step beginner tutorial, we will integrate Claude AI with Python using the Anthropic API, send a message, display its answer, and upgrade the example into an interactive chatbot. Every code block includes a Copy Code button. What you will learn What Claude AI is and how its API works Setting up Python, VS Code and the Anthropic SDK Using an API key securely Sending a request and reading its response Building a chatbot with conversation history 1. What is Claude AI? Claude is a family of large language models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic. It can explain concepts, help write code, summarize documents and power custom AI applications. The Claude chat interface lets people chat directly; the API lets software communicate with Claude programmatically. 2. How does Claude API integration work? User → Python application → Anthropic API → Claude model → API response → User. Our program sends a message t...

Introduction Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the way organizations create, manage, and personalize digital experiences. As customer expectations continue to rise, marketers and content teams face increasing pressure to deliver more content, faster, and with greater relevance. This is where SitecoreAI comes in. SitecoreAI introduces AI-powered capabilities that help organizations accelerate content creation, build intelligent audiences, improve personalization, and simplify digital operations. Combined with XM Cloud, SitecoreAI represents a significant step toward a more intelligent and composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP). In this article, we'll explore SitecoreAI, its key capabilities, and why developers and architects should pay close attention. What is SitecoreAI? SitecoreAI is an art...

Item display name is not accepting special character Hello friends, I have a requirement where I need to enter ( ) special character on display name of item but special character is being converted into encoded character as below. I found this issue in Sitecore 9.2 & 9.3 version.                     However, it is working in lower version. After trying some workaround, finally, I raised a Sitecore ticket and Sitecore support team has accepted that it is a bug in 9.2 & 9.3 version and the issue is fixed in Sitecore 10.0 version.  If you want this feature in Sitecore 9.2 /9.3 then raise a support ticket to get available hot fix for your respective version. I got below hot fix for Sitecore 9.2 version.   After getting hot-fix, file. Follow below steps to install hot fix. ·         Launch Update Installer – o    Login into Sitecore as admin o    Click...

Publishing issue with subitems of "related items" from Experience Editor Hello friends, I was trying to publish item from experience editor with publishing option “related item” but subitems of related item was not getting published. I would like to explain scenario and solution here. A)   Publishing “Related Items” To publish all the related items to the selected item, select  Publish related items . Out of the box pipeline cover below “Related items” while publishing: ·         Clones – items that are clones of the selected item. ·         Media items – media items that are referenced by the selected item. ·         Content items - data sources that are referenced by the selected item. ·         Design items - renderings, layouts and templates used by the selected item. ·         Aliases...

Sitecore Experience Platform 10.0 Initial Release Hello friends, Sitecore 10.0 released today on 4 th August and I would like to cover some key highlights here.     Sitecore® Experience Platform™ 10.0 focuses on product updates and enhancements that provide more development and deployment options, increase usability and improve overall performance – all centered around enabling both Marketing and IT teams equally, thus making it easier and faster to launch and evolve digital customer experiences. New delivery options including support for Docker, Kubernetes and new Sitecore-provided image repositories, helping delivery teams move to a continuous delivery model more easily with infrastructure-as-code deployments and more efficient solution and team onboarding. The addition of the ASP.NET Core SDK and headless rendering host architecture also provides developers with a new way of building their solutions allowing for faster development iterations. Exciting new developer...