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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

Microsoft reportedly struggling to build its own reasoning models to rival OpenAI

Self-sufficiency in AI has become a top priority for the company, but homegrown models rumored for release last year are still in testing.

By Lynn Greiner

Mar 7, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

JFrog unveils JFrog ML for MLOps

JFrog ML brings devops best practices to building, deploying, managing, and monitoring AI/ML workflows, JFrog said.

By Paul Krill

Mar 7, 2025 1 min

Build Automation DevSecOps Devops

Anthropic’s upgraded Console targets more collaboration among developers

A new capability has been added that will allow enterprises to optimize prompts for extended thinking — a feature that shows how a model is reasoning.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 7, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1

The one caveat: ‘Comparing these models is like comparing the performance of different teams at NASCAR,’ says analyst.

By Paul Barker

Mar 6, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Visual Studio Code 1.98 shines on GitHub Copilot

February release of Microsoft’s code editor previews new capabilities in the AI coding assistant including Copilot Edits support for notebooks.

By Paul Krill

Mar 6, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

C++ founder champions profiles for memory safety

C++ founder Bjarne Stroustrup says profiles are essential to the language’s future and will not break existing code, unlike ad-hoc solutions.

By Paul Krill

Mar 5, 2025 2 mins

C++ Programming Languages Software Development

Salesforce’s Agentforce 2dx update aims to simplify AI agent development, deployment

The developer-focused update includes new features, such as an API, DX Inspector, Interaction Explorer, and support for VS Code.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops

JDK 25 kicks off with a stable values API

Stable values could speed up the startup of Java applications by breaking up the monolithic initialization of application state.

By Paul Krill

Mar 4, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Teradata adds Enterprise Vector Store to augment RAG

Teradata’s partnership with Nvidia will allow developers to fine-tune NeMo Retriever microservices with custom models to build document ingestion and RAG applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 4, 2025 4 mins

Databases Generative AI

TypeScript 5.8 reaches general availability

Microsoft introduces more granular checks for branches within return expressions in TypeScript 5.8, punts checking against conditional types in returns to TypeScript 5.9.

By Paul Krill

Mar 3, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

TrapC proposal to fix C/C++ memory safety

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++.

By Paul Krill

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins

Application Security C++ Programming Languages

Rust 1.85 arrives with long-awaited async closures

The latest Rust 2024 edition improves asynchronous programming and boosts compiler support, among other updates.

By Paul Krill

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL

New filtering and observability functionality is similar to that of PostgreSQL, but Google has optimized it for performance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins

Databases Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft’s Phi-4-multimodal AI model handles speech, text, and video

The new small language model can help developers build multimodal AI applications for lightweight computing devices, Microsoft says.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 27, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI

DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war

This could force rivals to cut costs, intensify competition, and reshape enterprise AI adoption strategies.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 27, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Microsoft’s .NET 10 arrives in first preview

Next major rev of the .NET platform packs enhancements to the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, and more.

By Paul Krill

Feb 26, 2025 3 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Red Hat OpenShift improves virtualization support

Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based application platform adds VM-friendly networking capabilities, VM live storage migration, and bare-metal support on the Google and Oracle clouds.

By Paul Krill

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

Cot framework aims to ease Rust web development

‘Batteries-included’ web framework inspired by Django is still in early development and not ready for production use.

By Paul Krill

Feb 25, 2025 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Rust Web Development

IBM acquires DataStax to boost watsonx’s generative AI capabilities

DataStax’s AstraDB will enhance the existing vector capabilities of IBM watsonx.data, while Langflow will add flexible middleware capabilities to watsonx.ai, IBM said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins

Databases Generative AI No Code and Low Code

Google rolls out free version of Gemini Code Assist for individuals

The free version offers 180,000 lines of code completion per month, where rivals offer just 2,000 lines free.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 25, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report

Most of developers’ time is consumed by operational and background tasks such as CI/CD, devsecops, and writing requirements and test cases.

By Paul Krill

Feb 24, 2025 2 mins

Devops Engineer

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI to reduce hallucinations in AI applications

MongoDB wants Voyage AI’s embedding and reranking models to help enterprises with RAG in their AI applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 24, 2025 3 mins

Databases Generative AI

Microsoft gives Azure AI users a place to experiment with latest technologies

Azure AI Foundry Labs will enable developers to experiment with new models and explore the latest frameworks, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 24, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure

Amazon concedes that Chime SDK makes far more sense than the Chime application itself

While the Chime app has failed, the Chime SDK powers features for enterprises and vendors such as Slack.

By Evan Schuman

Feb 21, 2025 1 min

Development Tools Software Development

Deno update brings OpenTelemetry integration

Deno 2.2 highlights include built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces and a major upgrade to the Deno linter.

By Paul Krill

Feb 20, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

Apollo GraphQL ships connectors for REST APIs

Apollo Connectors connect REST APIs directly to an Apollo GraphOS graph, allowing developers to write queries that mix GraphQL and REST services.

By Paul Krill

Feb 20, 2025 2 mins

APIs Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft updates VS Code C# Dev Kit extension

Improvements include experimental Hot Reload and boosted error management, debugging, and testing on Razor/Blazor web pages.

By Paul Krill

Feb 19, 2025 2 mins

C# Development Tools Software Development

Oracle extends support for on-prem Oracle Database 19c

Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai.

By Lynn Greiner

Feb 19, 2025 5 mins

Databases

Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

AI is driving an unprecedented transformation in data centers, with global data center CapEx spending projected to more than double from $430 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2029.

By Maria Korolov

Feb 18, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence

Mistral turns focus toward regional LLMs with Saba release

Saba can support use cases in Arabic and many Indian-origin languages, particularly South Indian-origin languages, such as Tamil.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 18, 2025 5 mins

Generative AI Software Development

AI coding assistants limited but helpful, developers say

DeveloperWeek conference attendees said AI coding tools need to mature, but they already find them useful and believe they will get better in the future.

By Paul Krill

Feb 14, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

JetBrains’ Ktor adds CLI for simpler project creation

Kotlin-based web framework introduces a new command-line tool to create projects and enhances server-sent events with serialization, reconnection, and heartbeat features.

By Paul Krill

Feb 13, 2025 3 mins

Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages

Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support

The newest version of the open source language also features performance improvements.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2025 3 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Snowflake announces preview of Cortex Agent APIs to power enterprise data intelligence

Anthropic partnership could be “the jewel of this release" says analyst.

By Paul Barker

Feb 12, 2025 5 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Don’t use public ASP.NET keys (duh), Microsoft warns

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified 3,000 ASP.NET keys disclosed in code documentation and repos that could be used in code injection attacks.

By Paul Krill

Feb 11, 2025 2 mins

Application Security Microsoft .NET Web Development

C++, Go, and Rust gaining popularity – Tiobe

Fast programming languages are gaining ground in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, but ‘slow’ Python still leads.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2025 3 mins

C++ Java JavaScript

A new interpreter in Python 3.14 delivers a free speed boost

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 10, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Google’s generative AI Toolbox for Databases to help connect agents with databases

The open-source server, currently in public beta, is also compatible with LangChain — a modular framework for Python and JavaScript that simplifies the development of generative AI-based applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 10, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Visual Studio Code unveils Copilot code editing suggestions

January 2025 release of VS Code includes a Copilot feature that predicts the user’s next edit, a movable Command Palette, and no-config debugging for Python scripts.

By Paul Krill

Feb 7, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Software Development

GitHub Copilot previews agent mode

New agent mode can iterate on its own code, infer tasks not specifed, recognize errors, and fix them automatically, GitHub said.

By Paul Krill

Feb 6, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

Oracle maintains hold on JavaScript trademark

Company seeks partial dismissal in trademark cancellation case brought by JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land.

By Paul Krill

Feb 6, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Technology Industry

Google rolls out cheaper AI model as industry scrutinizes costs

Flash-Lite 2 can generate captions for around 40,000 unique images at a cost of less than a dollar on Google AI Studio’s paid tier.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 6, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Generative AI

Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem – update

The malicious package, a typosquat of the popular BoltDB module, is said to be among the first known exploits of the Go Module Mirror’s indefinite module caching.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2025 2 mins

Application Security Golang Programming Languages

Digma Preemptive Observability Analysis engine tackles AI code bugs

The preemptive observability engine is active during pre-production testing to catch AI-generated bugs and other coding issues.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2025 2 mins

Application Security Generative AI Software Development

Databricks acquires BladeBridge to aid data warehouse migrations

BladeBridge will help enterprises migrate to Databricks’ lakehouse.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 5, 2025 4 mins

Data Warehousing Generative AI

AWS tightens default security on Redshift

Public accessibility to data in the managed data warehouse service has been disabled.

By Howard Solomon

Feb 4, 2025 5 mins

Data and Information Security

Rust update fixes ‘forever’ compilation

Rust 1.84.1 resolves several regressions introduced in Rust 1.84 including slow compilation related to the next-gen trait solver that ‘runs almost forever.’

By Paul Krill

Feb 4, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Automated builds, tests, and quality gates are key to software quality – report

Implementing quality gates for merge requests and feature flags for controlled rollouts are top challenges, JetBrains State of Software Quality Report finds.

By Paul Krill

Feb 4, 2025 3 mins

Software Development

Anthropic unveils new framework to block harmful content from AI models

Detecting and blocking jailbreak tactics has long been challenging, making this advancement particularly valuable for enterprises.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 4, 2025 4 mins

Data Quality Generative AI

Linux Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions

The Linux Foundation has posted a guide to navigating US Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions and other global regulations for open source developers.

By Paul Krill

Feb 3, 2025 3 mins

Application Security Data and Information Security Open Source