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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 .NET Community Toolkit backs partial properties

.NET Community Toolkit 8.4 brings partial properties support to MVVM Toolkit generators and introduces new MVVM Toolkit analyzers.

By Paul Krill

Dec 13, 2024 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Visual Studio Code adds overtype mode, paste with imports

VS Code 1.96 allows users to overwrite text instead of inserting it and to automatically add imports when copying and pasting code between JavaScript or TypeScript.

By Paul Krill

Dec 12, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Java Applet API heads for the exit

OpenJDK proposal would finally remove the ‘terminally deprecated’ API that neither the JDK nor web browsers support.

By Paul Krill

Dec 12, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Google’s AI coding entry with Jules signals tougher competition in coding tools

The tool’s capabilities include creating detailed, multi-step plans to address coding issues, modifying code across files, and preparing pull requests for seamless integration into GitHub.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Dec 12, 2024 5 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Google unveils Gemini 2.0 AI model for agentic era

Gemini 2.0 Flash cites multimodality advances and is expected to enable the development of AI agents as universal assistants.

By Paul Krill

Dec 11, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development

OpenSilver 3.1 brings XAML designer for VS Code

Upgrade to open-source framework for cross-platform .NET development adds drag-and-drop XAML designer and expands Windows Presentation Framework support.

By Paul Krill

Dec 11, 2024 2 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

Go eclipses Node.js in web API requests, Cloudflare reports

Node’s share of automated API requests fell by 30% year over year, while Go’s share increased 40%, according Cloudflare’s annual report on internet trends.

By Paul Krill

Dec 10, 2024 2 mins

Golang Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages

Databricks unveils synthetic data generation API to help evaluate agents faster

The new API is designed to speed up the agent development and testing process so agents can be deployed in production faster.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 10, 2024 3 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

Python a shoo-in for Tiobe language of the year

Python is not only the most popular programming language, but also the fastest growing by far, according to Tiobe’s popularity index.

By Paul Krill

Dec 9, 2024 3 mins

Java JavaScript Python

Supply chain compromise of Ultralytics AI library results in trojanized versions

Attackers exploited a script injection vulnerability via GitHub Actions to inject malicious code during the automated build process, poisoning the resulting packages of the popular Python library.

By Lucian Constantin

Dec 9, 2024 1 min

Libraries and Frameworks Python Security

Clarifai previews AI compute orchestration

Vendor-agnostic platform orchestrates AI workloads across any hardware provider, cloud provider, on-premises, or air-gapped environment, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Dec 6, 2024 2 mins

Cloud Management Devops Generative AI

OpenAI releases o1 LLM, unveils ChatGPT Pro

ChatGPT users can access the reasoning-focused LLM to replace preview

By Paul Krill

Dec 6, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

AWS re:Invent 2024: The future of cloud computing (and where AWS fits in it)

Follow our ongoing coverage of AWS re:Invent 2024 and learn about the latest innovations in cloud computing technology.

By InfoWorld Staff

Dec 6, 2024 8 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing

Better together? Why AWS is unifying data analytics and AI services in SageMaker

Demand for end-to-end platforms, the convergence of data and AI, and the evolution of roles in the generative AI era are all driving the change, say analysts.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 6, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Generative AI

OpenAI unveils API for tracking OpenAI API usage, costs

Usage API monitors token usage by minute, hour, or day and includes a costs endpoint that provides a breakdown of daily spend.

By Paul Krill

Dec 5, 2024 1 min

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Google introduces PaliGemma 2 vision-language AI models

Family of tunable vision-language models based on Gemma 2 generate long captions for images that describe actions, emotions, and narratives of the scene.

By Paul Krill

Dec 5, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

AWS amplifies developer tools with new gen AI features

From an all-new version of SageMaker to new large language models, AWS is going all out to boost its offerings for developers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 4, 2024 5 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Meta quietly leans on rival GPT-4 despite Zuckerberg’s bold Llama claims

Even as Meta touts its Llama model, the company is incorporating OpenAI’s GPT-4 to enhance internal tools and philanthropic ventures.

By Gyana Swain

Dec 4, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI

Heroku PaaS adds .NET support

Heroku also announced that its Next Generation platform, which supports building and deploying Kubernetes and AI applications, is available in a pilot.

By Paul Krill

Dec 3, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Microsoft .NET PaaS

Kotlin previews guard conditions in when expressions

Preview feature in Kotlin 2.1.0 lets developers include more than one condition for branches in when expressions and statements with subjects.

By Paul Krill

Dec 3, 2024 3 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

AWS Database Migration Service gets gen AI-powered schema conversion

Other database updates include the general availability of MemoryDB Multi-Region and new observability features for Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 3, 2024 2 mins

Databases Generative AI

Rust 1.83 expands const capabilities

The Rust Team released Rust 1.83 and announced that the Rust 2024 edition will ship in Rust 1.85 in February 2025.

By Paul Krill

Dec 2, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Red Hat Ansible service comes to AWS Marketplace

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS is a Red Hat managed service for automating the deployment and management of hybrid cloud infrastructure.

By Paul Krill

Dec 2, 2024 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud

AWS PartyRock updated with free daily usage for developers

Other updates to the mostly free low code tool for building generative AI applications includes an app search and the ability to bake in simultaneous document processing inside applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 2, 2024 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI No Code and Low Code

AWS brings RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge feature to Amazon Bedrock

AWS has also added support for custom connectors and reranking models within Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 2, 2024 4 mins

App Testing Development Tools Generative AI

Exactly what would an AI-centric OS look like?

As a startup sets its sights on building an OS for AI agents, an analyst says such an OS would be far different to what exists today.

By Paul Barker

Nov 28, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Uber branches out into AI data labeling

Scaled Solutions, the company’s new AI training and data labeling division, is hiring gig workers.

By Lynn Greiner

Nov 28, 2024 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Outsourcing

Uno Platform unveils visual designer for cross-platform .NET development

Uno Platform Studio includes a Figma plugin, hot reload, and a visual designer that updates XAML in real time, immediately reflecting the changes in the UI.

By Paul Krill

Nov 27, 2024 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Web Development

Kotlin to lose scripting features

Scripting functionality in Kotlin did not prove as popular as JetBrains expected, the company said. But Gradle Kotlin DSL and the Custom Scripting API will continue to be supported.

By Paul Krill

Nov 26, 2024 3 mins

Java Kotlin Programming Languages

Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol

Open-source MCP protocol provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems to data sources, Anthropic says.

By Lynn Greiner

Nov 26, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Open Source

USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle’s JavaScript trademark

Deno Land has petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to strip Oracle of its ownership of the JavaScript trademark, accusing Oracle of trademark abandonment and fraud.

By Paul Krill

Nov 25, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Technology Industry

PHP updates DOM API

New DOM API in PHP 8.4.1 brings standards-compliant support for parsing HTML5 documents and adds functions to make working with documents more convenient.

By Paul Krill

Nov 25, 2024 2 mins

PHP Programming Languages Web Development

TypeScript 5.7 arrives with improved error reporting

Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript is now available in a production release, featuring new checks for variables that were never initialized.

By Paul Krill

Nov 22, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Angular 19 bolsters server-side rendering with incremental hydration

Now available in a developer preview, incremental hydration allows Angular devs to annotate parts of a template to be loaded lazily on specific triggers.

By Paul Krill

Nov 21, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

Red Hat Linux to be official WSL distro

Being an official WSL distro will make it easier for Windows Subsystem for Linux users to discover and install RHEL, Microsoft said.

By Paul Krill

Nov 21, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

RHEL AI, JBoss EAP 8 coming to Azure cloud

RHEL AI is designed to streamline the development and deployment of generative AI models, while JBoss EAP provides a pathway for Java application modernization, Red Hat said.

By Paul Krill

Nov 20, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Java Microsoft Azure

Azure Container Apps launches Python, JavaScript interpreters

Also included are custom dynamic sessions, enabling fast access to built-in Python and JavaScript code interpreter sandboxes without containers.

By Paul Krill

Nov 20, 2024 2 mins

Cloud Computing JavaScript Python

Microsoft unveils imaging APIs for Windows Copilot Runtime

Generative AI-backed APIs will allow developers to build image super resolution, image segmentation, object erase, and OCR capabilities into Windows applications.

By Paul Krill

Nov 19, 2024 2 mins

APIs Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Microsoft extends Entra ID to WSL, WinGet

Iintegration with Entra ID brings identity-based access controls to the distribution and use of Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Package Manager in enterprises.

By Paul Krill

Nov 19, 2024 2 mins

Access Control Application Security Identity and Access Management

Microsoft rebrands Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry

The toolkit for building generative AI applications has been packaged with new updates to form the Azure AI Foundry service.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 19, 2024 4 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft Azure

F# 9 adds nullable reference types

Latest version of Microsoft’s functional .NEt programming language provides a type-safe way to handle reference types that can have null as a valid value.

By Paul Krill

Nov 18, 2024 3 mins

Microsoft .NET Programming Languages Software Development

Akka distributed computing platform adds Java SDK

Akka enables development of applications that are primarily event-driven, deployable on Akka’s serverless platform or on AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud instances.

By Paul Krill

Nov 18, 2024 2 mins

Java Scala Serverless Computing

Spin 3.0 supports polyglot development using Wasm components

Fermyon’s open source framework for building server-side WebAssembly apps allows developers to compose apps from components created with different languages.

By Paul Krill

Nov 18, 2024 2 mins

Cloud-Native Libraries and Frameworks Serverless Computing

Go language evolving for future hardware, AI workloads

The Go team is working to adapt Go to large multicore systems, the latest hardware instructions, and the needs of developers of large-scale AI systems.

By Paul Krill

Nov 15, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI Golang Programming Languages

Rust Foundation moves forward on C++ and Rust interoperability

Problem statement released to address the challenges to making cross-language development with C++ and Rust more accessible and approachable.

By Paul Krill

Nov 14, 2024 2 mins

C++ Programming Languages Rust

JetBrains IDEs ease debugging for Kubernetes apps

Version 2024.3 updates to IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, and other JetBrains IDEs streamline remote debugging of Kubernetes microservices and much more.

By Paul Krill

Nov 14, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Java Python

Visual Studio 17.12 brings C++, Copilot enhancements

Debugging and productivity improvements also feature in the latest release of Microsoft’s signature IDE, built for .NET 9.

By Paul Krill

Nov 13, 2024 3 mins

C++ Development Tools Microsoft .NET

Microsoft’s .NET 9 arrives, with performance, cloud, and AI boosts

Cloud-native apps, AI-enabled apps, ASP.NET Core, Aspire, Blazor, MAUI, C#, and F# all get boosts with the latest major rev of the .NET platform.

By Paul Krill

Nov 12, 2024 4 mins

C# Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Red Hat OpenShift AI unveils model registry, data drift detection

Cloud-based AI and machine learning platform also adds support for Nvidia NIM, AMD GPUs, the vLLM runtime for KServe, KServe Modelcars, and LoRA fine-tuning.

By Paul Krill

Nov 12, 2024 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI PaaS