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OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?

A product consolidation raises bigger questions about where OpenAI is really headed.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 20, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

ECMAScript 2025 JavaScript standard approved

The ECMAScript 2025 specification, now final, standardizes new JavaScript capabilities including JSON modules, regex capabilities, Set methods, and sync iterator helper methods.

By Paul Krill

Jul 8, 2025 4 mins

JavaScript Technology Industry TypeScript

Microsoft brings OpenAI-powered Deep Research to Azure AI Foundry agents

New API and SDK will enable enterprises to embed research automation into business workflows, enhancing decision-making with source-traceable, AI-generated insights.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 8, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Deno 2.4 restores JavaScript bundling subcommand

Update also stabilizes OpenTelemetry support and eases dependency management with a new ‘deno update’ command.

By Paul Krill

Jul 7, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

AWS adds incremental and distributed training to Clean Rooms for scalable ML collaboration

The new capabilities are designed to enable enterprises in regulated industries to securely build and refine machine learning models using shared data without compromising privacy.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 3, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Machine Learning

Alibaba Cloud launches Eigen+ to cut costs and boost reliability for enterprise databases

The new memory management system improves efficiency by 36% and eliminates service-disrupting OOM errors.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 3, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases

Google touts Python client library for Data Commons

The open source Data Commons platform organizes the world’s publicly available statistical data.

By Paul Krill

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins

Data Center Programming Languages Python

Rust 1.88 adds support for naked functions

Naked functions omit compiler-generated epilogue and prologue, allowing full control over the generated assembly for the function.

By Paul Krill

Jun 26, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Teradata aims to simplify on-premises AI for data scientists with AI Factory

The data analytics software provider has repackaged existing products to help data scientists manage the full AI lifecycle on premises, instead of having to rely on a hybrid solution.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 26, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science

Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 11

Latest release of the enterprise Java platform features simpler data access, more streamlined testing, and other enhancements for cloud-native and enterprise-level Java development.

By Paul Krill

Jun 26, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Java Programming Languages

Google unveils Gemini CLI for developers

Now in preview, Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that brings the capabilities of Google’s Gemini AI model into the developer’s terminal.

By Paul Krill

Jun 25, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

New AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance

Now open source, xbench uses an ever changing evaluation mechanism to look at an AI model's ability to execute real-world tasks and make it harder for model makers to train on the tests.

By Paul Barker

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Kotlin 2.2.0 arrives with context parameters, unified management of compiler warnings

Context parameters represent a significant improvement in managing dependencies through simplified dependency injection, according to JetBrains.

By Paul Krill

Jun 24, 2025 3 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

o3-pro may be OpenAI’s most advanced commercial offering, but GPT-4o bests it

In a head-to-head comparison, o3-pro was far less reliable and secure, and reasoned excessively compared to GPT-4o.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Google’s Agent2Agent project moves to Linux Foundation

The A2A protocol addresses the need for autonomous AI agents to coordinate actions across a wide array of applications and data infrastructure, the Linux Foundation said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 23, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Open Source

Ktor adds dependency injection and HTMX modules

Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous applications also now automatically deserializes configuration files into data classes in addition to primitive types.

By Paul Krill

Jun 23, 2025 2 mins

Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages

GitHub’s AI billing shift signals the end of free enterprise tools era

Premium request limits reflect the industry-wide transition to sustainable AI business models.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 23, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

GitHub hit by a sophisticated malware campaign as ‘Banana Squad’ mimics popular repos

Attackers use typo-squatting, obfuscation, and fake accounts to slip Python-based malware into open-source projects, raising fresh alarms for OSS supply chain security.

By Shweta Sharma

Jun 20, 2025 1 min

Engineer Malware Security

IBM combines governance and security tools to solve the AI agent oversight crisis

With AI agents multiplying across enterprises, IBM’s watsonx–Guardium integration aims to provide unified AgentOps visibility, automated red teaming, and regulatory accelerators to future-proof compliance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 20, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Security

Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Reasoning model optimized for cost and speed shines for high throughput tasks like classification or summarization at scale, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 18, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development

Parasoft C/C++test adds AI assistant

AI assistant in Parasoft C/C++test 2025.1 answers task-focused questions based on product documentation and integration with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or other LLM provider.

By Paul Krill

Jun 18, 2025 2 mins

App Testing C Language C++

Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge

A report from a code analysis vendor compares the details behind genAI rollouts between the two verticals, revealing that 61% of retail genAI code repositories show active development, compared to 22% of financial services’ repositories.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 18, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Approaches Generative AI

Malicious PyPI package targets Chimera users to steal AWS tokens, CI/CD secrets

“Chimera-sandbox-extensions” exploit highlights rising risks of open-source package abuse, prompting calls for stricter dependency controls and DGA malware detection.

By Shweta Sharma

Jun 17, 2025 1 min

Engineer Malware Python

Amazon Bedrock faces revamp pressure amid rising enterprise demands

As rivals double down on integrated AI development tools, AWS is under pressure to evolve Bedrock from a model hub to a true orchestration platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 17, 2025 7 mins

Amazon Web Services Development Tools Generative AI

Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors

Some file operations on Windows have been changed for the sake of safety and consistency in the upcoming Java update.

By Paul Krill

Jun 16, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Windows

Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025: Five takeaways for data professionals, developers

Automation and integration were key themes at Databricks’ annual customer conference, as it showed off new generative and agentic AI features coming to its cloud data lakehouse platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 16, 2025 5 mins

Data Management

SmartBear unveils AI-driven test automation for iOS and Android apps

Reflect Mobile uses generative AI and record-and-replay to make test creation intuitive, fast, and codeless, SmartBear said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 13, 2025 2 mins

App Testing Development Tools Mobile Development

Visual Studio Code bolsters MCP support

Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization.

By Paul Krill

Jun 13, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

GitHub launches Remote MCP server in public preview to power AI-driven developer workflows

With secure OAuth support and real-time repo access, the tool is designed to modernize AI assistant integration in enterprise workflows.

By Mastufa Ahmed

Jun 13, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

.NET 10 Preview 5 highlights C# 14, runtime improvements

The latest .NET preview release includes user-defined compound assignment operators for C# 14 and an extension to JIT compiler escape analysis in the .NET runtime.

By Paul Krill

Jun 12, 2025 3 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Databricks One mirrors Microsoft Copilot strategy to transform enterprise data access

Databricks One offers low-code and no-code capabilities, aiming to democratize analytics for business users while maintaining enterprise-grade governance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 12, 2025 5 mins

Data Management

Apple rolls out Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode updates

Swift 6.2 improves concurrency and interoperability with C++ and Java, SwiftUI adds support for the new Liquid Glass design, and Xcode 26 extends to LLMs beyond ChatGPT.

By Paul Krill

Jun 11, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Swift

Salesforce changes Slack API terms to block bulk data access for LLMs

Using LLMs to search data across siloed platforms just got harder. Will other platforms follow suit?

By John E. Dunn

Jun 11, 2025 1 min

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Databricks aims to optimize agent building for enterprises with Agent Bricks

Agent Bricks uses technology developed by MosaicML’s research division to optimize the agent development process and help control the cost of running agents.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Databricks targets AI bottlenecks with Lakeflow Designer

The no-code ETL tool works by combining a generative AI assistant for pipeline creation and Unity Catalog for governance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 11, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Mistral AI unveils Magistral reasoning model

Mistral AI’s first reasoning model is designed for research, strategic planning, operational optimization, and data-driven decision-making, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 10, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Cisco Live: AI will bring developer workflow closer to the network

AI is reshaping networking in ways that demand a new degree of programmability, observability, and optimization, and that promise to change developer roles.

By Travis Van

Jun 10, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud-Native Network Security

Digital AI introduces Quick Protect Agent, a no-code way to protect mobile apps

The agent helps developers secure their apps with enterprise-grade, OWASP MASVS-aligned defenses like obfuscation, anti-tamper, and anti-analysis.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 10, 2025 4 mins

Application Security Mobile Development Mobile Security

SQL slips in language popularity index

‘Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

By Paul Krill

Jun 9, 2025 3 mins

Databases Programming Languages SQL

Cloud assets have 115 vulnerabilities on average — some several years old

The state of cloud security has reached a critical tipping point, as attackers increasingly turn attention to cloud environments that enterprises aren’t doing enough to secure.

By Lucian Constantin

Jun 9, 2025 1 min

Cloud Security

New AI tool targets critical hole in thousands of open source apps

The tool, created by university researchers, is designed to find and automatically create a patch for vulnerabilities in large repositories like GitHub, but it isn’t perfect yet.

By Howard Solomon

Jun 9, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Threat and Vulnerability Management Vulnerabilities

Spring Java creator unveils AI agent framework for the JVM

With the Embabel agent framework, written in Kotlin, Rod Johnson aims not only to catch up with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

By Paul Krill

Jun 6, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Java Kotlin

Adobe adds Product Support Agent for AI-assisted troubleshooting

The new operational troubleshooting agent is part of a planned suite of AI agents powered by the Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator.

By Paul Krill

Jun 5, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

Workday’s new dev tools help enterprises connect with external agents

Among the additions are some improvements to Workday’s Developer Copilot, which can now generate application code snippets, data queries, and functional orchestrations.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 5, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

AI is powering enterprise development, GitHub says

Teams will get better at devops with agents, which help developers with tasks ranging from fixing bugs to performing dependency upgrades, according to GitHub.

By Paul Krill

Jun 4, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

Snowflake customers must choose between performance and flexibility

Snowflake’s Gen 2 warehouses promise increased performance, while its Adaptive Warehouses will fit to data demands, but enterprises can’t have both at once.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Warehousing

Kotlin cozies up to Spring Framework

Kotlin creator JetBrains aims to make the popular JVM language a top choice for server-side development.

By Paul Krill

Jun 3, 2025 2 mins

Java Kotlin Programming Languages

Snowflake acquires Crunchy Data for enterprise-grade PostgreSQL to counter Databricks’ Neon buy

Analysts say that the chess match between Snowflake and Databricks isn’t about big data analytics anymore, but about becoming the 'AI-native data foundation unifying analytics, operational storage, and machine learning.'

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 3, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Engineer

Snowflake takes aim at legacy data workloads with SnowConvert AI migration tools

With the free agent-based suite of migration tools, Snowflake says enterprises can move workloads without increasing complexity.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 3, 2025 3 mins

Data Management Data Warehousing

C# 14 introduces file-based apps

New capability in .NET 10 Preview 4 allows developers to run a stand-alone C# file directly, without requiring a project file or project structure.

By Paul Krill

Jun 3, 2025 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Snowflake’s Cortex AISQL aims to simplify unstructured data analysis

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its new SQL functions powered by generative AI.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 3, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI SQL