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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

Node.js 24 drops MSVC support

ClangCL is now required to compile Node.js on Windows, while updated V8 JavaScript engine brings support for new JavaScript features.

By Paul Krill

May 7, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

The new updates are designed to help enterprises manage, analyze, and govern data better.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 7, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Engineer

Google updates Gemini 2.5 Pro model for coders

The company says developers can expect meaningful improvements for front-end and UI development as well as for fundamental coding tasks.

By Paul Krill

May 6, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

IBM updates watsonx Orchestrate with new agent-building capabilities

Big Blue unveiled tooling to help developers build and manage the lifecycle of agents at its annual Think conference.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 6, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Generative AI No Code and Low Code

Static analysis proposed to ‘rehabilitate’ shell programs

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say.

By Paul Krill

May 6, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Software Development

JetBrains open-sources Mellum LLM

Company aims to grow Mellum, which was designed for code completion, into a family of models specialized for different coding tasks.

By Paul Krill

May 5, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

How MCP could add value to MongoDB databases

Analysts believe that all database vendors will soon start adding the Model Context Protocol to their offerings to aid developers with LLM app development.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases

Deno 2.3 adds compile improvements, support for local NPM packages

Improvements to deno compile allow compiled binaries to include and work with native libraries or Node plug-ins.

By Paul Krill

May 4, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

AWS changes the pricing of CloudWatch logs in Lambda

In contrast to the previously charged flat rate, the cloud service provider is introducing new tiered pricing to lower costs for high-volume enterprise users.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 2, 2025 4 mins

Software Development

Amazon launches Nova Premier, its ‘most capable’ AI model yet

Featuring multimodal support and model distillation for training smaller AI models, the new Nova Premier signals a strategic shift by AWS in the enterprise market, analysts say.

By Mastufa Ahmed

May 2, 2025 1 min

Amazon Web Services Generative AI

Leaderboard illusion: How big tech skewed AI rankings on Chatbot Arena

Meta, Google, and OpenAI allegedly exploited undisclosed private testing on Chatbot Arena to secure top rankings, raising concerns about fairness and transparency in AI model benchmarking.

By Gyana Swain

May 2, 2025 1 min

Generative AI Machine Learning Technology Industry

JetBrains AI Assistant panned in JetBrains Marketplace

JetBrains acknowledged removing some negative reviews, because the issues they described had been resolved or because of policy violations such as swearing.

By Paul Krill

May 1, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Open source has a ‘massive role to play’ in AI orchestration platforms, says Microsoft CEO

Nadella also revealed that AI has built up to 30% of the code currently in Microsoft’s repositories.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 30, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Oracle releases FIPS-validated crypto module for Java

Jipher is a cryptographic service provider for Java that packs a FIPS 140-2 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module.

By Paul Krill

Apr 30, 2025 2 mins

Application Security Java Libraries and Frameworks

Zoho adds AI capabilities to its low code dev platform

Enhancements include a new AI assistant for developers and the ability to transform unstructured data from various file types into customized apps.

By Paul Barker

Apr 30, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools No Code and Low Code

Meta will offer its Llama AI model as an API too

Enterprises will be able to access Llama models hosted by Meta, instead of downloading and running the models for themselves.

By Gyana Swain

Apr 30, 2025 5 mins

APIs Generative AI

Apiiro launches AI-powered risk analysis map for software

Software Graph Visualization offers real-time visualization of software architectures across all components, vulnerabilities, and changes, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Apr 29, 2025 2 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Generative AI

GCC 15 compilers arrive with Rust, C, C++, and Cobol enhancements

Major release of the open-source compiler collection also includes vectorization improvements and faster compiling of very large input files.

By Paul Krill

Apr 29, 2025 2 mins

C Language C++ Rust

Microsoft previews SignalR client for iOS

SignalR Swift client allows iOS developers to build chat, live streams, and other real-time communications features into their SwiftUI or UIKit apps.

By Paul Krill

Apr 28, 2025 2 mins

Microsoft .NET Mobile Development Swift

AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability

With the update, the generative AI-powered capability now supports modality enablement and an increased overall document page limit of 3,000 pages.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 28, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web Services

Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race

One month after initial release, the company has launched upgrades to its foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, at its developer conference.

By Paul Barker

Apr 25, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Thesys introduces generative UI API for building AI apps

C1 by Thesys is a generative UI API that uses large language models to generate user interfaces on the fly.

By Paul Krill

Apr 25, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Docker’s new MCP Catalog, Toolkit to solve major developer challenges, experts say

While the Catalog is expected to serve as a marketplace for publishing and discovering new tools, the Toolkit is expected to help reduce the management of MCP servers

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 25, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Databricks to infuse $250M to double its R&D staff in India this year

The new staff are expected to contribute to the development of LLMs, and new capabilities for managing multi-cloud deployments.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 24, 2025 3 mins

Careers Generative AI IT Jobs

Microsoft touts AI Dev Gallery for Windows

An open source app for use with .NET, the preview looks to assist developers with integrating AI capabilities into apps.

By Paul Krill

Apr 24, 2025 2 mins

Devops Generative AI Programming Languages

Puppet devsecops updated to deal with security maladies

As AI powers more threats, Perforce's release improves collaboration between operations and security teams.

By Paul Krill

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Generative AI

Microsoft updates AI chat template for cloud app dev

.NET AI Chat Web App template gets a second preview that works with vector data and the C# Dev Kit.

By Paul Krill

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins

C# Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model

Hybrid reasoning model allows developers to turn thinking on or off and set thinking budgets to balance quality, cost, and latency.

By Paul Krill

Apr 18, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

JetBrains IDEs now include AI tools by subscription

JetBrains' AI Assistant and coding agent are available under a single subscription, with a free tier available with an IDE license.

By Paul Krill

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Onehouse opens up the lakehouse with Open Engines

New addition to the platform, says analyst, ‘breaks the Siamese connection between compute and storage.’

By Paul Barker

Apr 17, 2025 6 mins

Data Architecture Managed Cloud Services Open Source

Gleam 1.10 improves compiler, JavaScript codegen

Latest release of the programming language for the Erlang VM and JavaScript runtimes adds ‘find references’ feature and exhaustiveness analysis for strings.

By Paul Krill

Apr 16, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

JRuby 10 brings faster startup times

Latest version of the Ruby implementation for the JVM also updates Java version support and Ruby language compatibility.

By Paul Krill

Apr 15, 2025 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Ruby

OpenAI GPT-4.1 models promise improved coding and instruction following

The GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano models, available only via the API, will provide better performance than GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini at a lower price, OpenAI said.

By Lynn Greiner

Apr 15, 2025 4 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsoft .NET Aspire adds resource graph, publishers

Publishers, now in preview, are a new type of integration that help developers package and deploy .NET Aspire apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, and other destinations.

By Paul Krill

Apr 14, 2025 3 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Microsoft .NET

.NET 10 Preview 3 bolsters standard library, C#, WebAssembly

Latest preview of the .NET platform update expected in November also brings enhancements to the runtime, SDK, and .NET MAUI.

By Paul Krill

Apr 12, 2025 3 mins

C# Devops Microsoft .NET

Google Cloud Next 2025: News and insights

The latest advances and the future of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing in general are on display at Google Cloud Next ’25 (April 9-11, in Las Vegas).

By Dan Muse

Apr 11, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Google Cloud Platform

Grok 3 gets an API — but will enterprises trust it?

Enterprises need to think carefully before adopting the API for the xAI’s newest LLM, which is still only available in beta.

By Andrea Benito

Apr 11, 2025 3 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Vector Institute aims to clear up confusion about AI model performance

DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1 models performed the best across the various benchmarks, but all models still struggle in a range of tasks, so there is much more work to be done.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 10, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI ROI and Metrics

Google unveils Firebase Studio for AI app development

Cloud-based development environment leverages tools such as Project IDX, Genkit, and Gemini in Firebase to build, test, and run AI applications.

By Paul Krill

Apr 10, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Google’s BigQuery and Looker get agents to simplify analytics tasks

The agents integrated with BigQuery, Looker, and Colab will come at no additional cost, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 10, 2025 5 mins

Data Science Generative AI

GitHub Advanced Security now offers security campaigns

Security campaigns available with the Copilot Autofix tool aim to manage risk and increaase collaboration between developers and security teams.

By Paul Krill

Apr 9, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development Version Control Systems

Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB

At its Cloud Next conference, Google is showing off a new AI engine for AlloyDB that enables developers to embed natural language questions in SQL queries.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 9, 2025 5 mins

Databases Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center

Application Design Center combines Gemini Cloud Assist chat with a visual, canvas-style approach to designing and deploying cloud-native and generative AI applications.

By Paul Krill

Apr 9, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Google Cloud Platform

Google adds open source framework for building agents to Vertex AI

Vertex AI is also getting a new Agent Engine for deploying and maintaining agents or multi-agent systems.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 9, 2025 4 mins

Engineer Generative AI

Google’s Agent2Agent open protocol aims to connect disparate agents

The open protocol is designed to automate complex workflows that span multiple systems, increasing productivity and reducing integration costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 9, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Generative AI

What misleading Meta Llama 4 benchmark scores show enterprise leaders about evaluating AI performance claims

AI benchmarking is critical to determine performance, but results can be irrelevant to enterprise workflows; enterprise buyers should consider benchmarks, but also perform company-specific evaluations.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 8, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI ROI and Metrics