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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

AWS’ Amazon Bedrock GenAI service gets cross-region inferencing feature

The feature is designed to help developers save time by automating cross-region inference routing for requests coming to Amazon Bedrock.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 28, 2024 4 mins

Amazon Web Services Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft donates Mono cross-platform .NET to WineHQ

Last major release of Mono, which blazed the trail to .NET on macOS and Linux, was more than five years ago.

By Paul Krill

Aug 27, 2024 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Kotlin update shines on garbage collector

Kotlin 2.0.20 should significantly shorten garbage collection pause time and help improve application responsiveness, JetBrains said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 27, 2024 2 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

Deno 1.46 simplifies CLI

Last 1.x release of the runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript also improves dependency management and stabilizes the standard library.

By Paul Krill

Aug 26, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

The reality of AI-centric coding

When AWS CEO Matt Garman told developers that “it's possible that most developers are not coding” by 2026, it raised the question of how different AI-centric coding environments would look.

By Evan Schuman

Aug 22, 2024 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Approaches Generative AI

Visual Studio boosts C++ development

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 brings improvements in formatted output, vectorization, and diagnostics, CMake debugger support, and nearly 4x faster conditional breakpoints for C++.

By Paul Krill

Aug 22, 2024 2 mins

C++ Development Tools Software Development

GitHub survey finds nearly all developers using AI coding tools

While almost every respondent said they used AI coding tools, only 38% of developers in the US said their organizations actively encouraged adoption.

By Paul Krill

Aug 21, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Software Development

Microsoft’s new Phi 3.5 LLM models surpass Meta and Google

The updated family of models from Microsoft outperformed rival models from Meta and Google across several benchmarks, falling behind only OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 21, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI

Microsoft dubs pairing of AI and .NET ‘heavenly’

Microsoft opened its AI-focused .NET conference emphasizing developer tools integrating AI with .NET, including GitHub Copilot.

By Paul Krill

Aug 21, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Meta working on a Self-Taught Evaluator for LLMs

The new approach trains LLMs to create their own training data for evaluation purposes.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 21, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI

Microsoft .NET 9 previews C#, runtime, SDK improvements

Microsoft .NET 9 Preview 7 also brings new features and enhancements to the ASP.NET Core web framework and .NET MAUI UI framework.

By Paul Krill

Aug 19, 2024 3 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Rust team announces 2024 development goals

Flagship goals include finalizing the Rust 2024 edition, bringing async on par with sync functionality, and smoothing the path to Linux kernel development with Rust.

By Paul Krill

Aug 16, 2024 3 mins

Rust

GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities

Copilot Autofix, a new addition to the GitHub Advanced Security service, analyzes vulnerabilities in code and offers code suggestions to help developers fix them.

By Paul Krill

Aug 15, 2024 2 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

Anthropic adds prompt caching to Claude, cutting costs for developers

Using cached prompts can save up to 90% on API input costs, the company said.

By Lynn Greiner

Aug 15, 2024 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Visual Studio v17.11 brings productivity improvements, GitHub Copilot enhancements

Microsoft also unveiled the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, featuring support for the forthcoming .NET 9 development platform.

By Paul Krill

Aug 14, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Ruby on Rails gets better production defaults

Version 7.2 of the longstanding web framework arrives with improved production defaults and a new dev container config.

By Paul Krill

Aug 14, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Ruby Web Development

Go 1.23 arrives with faster PGO build times

Build time overhead when using profile-guided optimization has been reduced significantly, Google said. The new release also adds range-over-func iterators to the language.

By Paul Krill

Aug 13, 2024 3 mins

Golang

Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say

The Open Model Initiative aims to create what it calls community LLMs that are equal or better in quality to proprietary models, but free of restrictive licensing terms that limit their usage.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 13, 2024 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Tauri 2.0 moves core functionality to plugins

Update to the Rust-based framework for building ‘tiny, fast, and secure’ native binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows has reached the release candidate stage.

By Paul Krill

Aug 12, 2024 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Rust Software Development

Google Cloud adds 3 new Apache Airflow operators to Vertex AI

The new operators will help enterprises integrate Vertex AI’s generative AI models into data pipelines orchestrated by Apacher Airflow and its managed workflow orchestration service Cloud Composer.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 12, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI Python

AWS closes several cloud services to new customers

Existing customers of AWS Cloud9, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon S3 Select, Amazon S3 Glacier Select, Amazon Forecast, and AWS Data Pipeline can continue to use those services as normal, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2024 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Software Development

Node.js unveils experimental TypeScript support

Node.js v22.6.0 introduces experimental feature that strips type annotations from TypeScript files, allowing them to run without changing TypeScript syntax.

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

Google unveils Flutter GPU API, Dart updates

Flutter GPU, available in an early preview, is a low-level graphics API for building rendering packages from scratch using Dart and GLSL.

By Paul Krill

Aug 7, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Mobile Development Web Development

Ahead-of-time class loading proposal would speed Java startups

OpenJDK proposal would boost Java application startup speed by having classes made available in a loaded and linked state when the JVM starts.

By Paul Krill

Aug 7, 2024 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

What is Google Cloud’s generative AI evaluation service?

The service is targeted at enterprise users and is designed to help businesses understand how well a large language model works for a particular use case.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 7, 2024 7 mins

Generative AI

JetBrains updates IDEs, improves AI assistant

JetBrains’ 2024.2 updates bring a more streamlined UI to the JetBrains IDEs and better code completion for Java, Kotlin, and Python to the JetBrains AI Assistant.

By Paul Krill

Aug 6, 2024 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Visual Studio Code 1.92 improves debugging experience

July 2024 version of the popular code editor also allows users to configure which browser to use for opening links and brings more control to extension updates.

By Paul Krill

Aug 6, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Python scores its highest rating in Tiobe index

Python is the first programming language to climb to an 18% rating since Java, which rated 18% nearly eight years ago.

By Paul Krill

Aug 5, 2024 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Python

Google adds Gemini to BigQuery, Looker to help with data engineering

Other updates include support for open source Apache Spark and Kafka integrations to BigQuery.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 1, 2024 4 mins

Data Engineering Generative AI

Google Cloud adds graph processing to Spanner, SQL support to Bigtable

The enhancements to cloud databases are expected to help in the development of AI-based and real-time applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 1, 2024 6 mins

Databases SQL

Google Cloud Spanner adds graph processing, graph RAG

With Spanner Graph, full-text search, and vector search, Google Cloud Spanner becomes a multi-model database with intelligent capabilities that support AI applications, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 1, 2024 2 mins

Databases Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

White House opts to not add regulatory restrictions on AI development – for now

Some industry executives had hoped the report would promise a long-term moratorium on AI regulations, but the report explicitly did not say that.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 30, 2024 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

NIST releases new tool to check AI models’ security

Dioptra — an open source software package — allows developers to determine what type of attacks would make the model perform less effectively.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 29, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI

BMC report examines DataOps practices

Success factors for data-driven business maturity are as variable as organizations themselves, finds a BMC report on DataOps and operationalizing data.

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2024 3 mins

Analytics Data Management

Rust 1.80 adds lazy types

Rust’s new LazyCell and LazyLock types delay the initialization of their data until first access. Ranged patterns also get attention in the latest update to the language.

By Paul Krill

Jul 25, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Mistral AI unveils Mistral Large 2 amid rising AI competition

The new model’s smaller footprint and higher precision may attract enterprise customers even as licensing remains a concern.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 25, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI

Visual Studio Code Java extension backs JDK 23

The newest Java extension for VS Code also brings dependency management without a build tool and support for Markdown in JavaDoc.

By Paul Krill

Jul 24, 2024 1 min

Development Tools Java

Why Meta’s Llama 3.1 is a boon for enterprises and a bane for other LLM vendors

Analysts and experts say that the openness and accuracy of the Llama 3.1 family of models pose an existential threat to providers of closed proprietary large language models.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 24, 2024 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

OpenAI announces free fine-tuning for GPT-4o mini model

Free fine-tuning allows OpenAI customers to train the GPT-4o mini model on additional data at no charge until September 23, starting with Tier 4 and Tier 5 users.

By Paul Krill

Jul 24, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Microsoft .NET Aspire automates Dockerfile builds

Latest update to Microsoft’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications also adds the ability to launch Python-based services.

By Paul Krill

Jul 23, 2024 2 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Microsoft .NET

Shiny for Python adds chat component for generative AI chatbots

Version 1.0 of the reactive web framework for Python also includes a testing framework, data frame improvements, and new styling options for interactive tables.

By Sharon Machlis

Jul 23, 2024 2 mins

Data Science Devops Python

Google Cloud Spanner gets dual-region configuration option

Google says the dual-region configuration option will help enterprises comply with data residency regulations in countries with limited cloud infrastructure.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 2024 4 mins

Databases Google Cloud Platform SQL

IBM adds Mistral Large language model to watsonx.ai

Mistral Large is a large language model optimized to handle high-complexity tasks that require advanced reasoning and multilingual capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Jul 22, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Developer productivity poorly understood, report says

Two out of three developers lose more than eight hours a week due to inefficiencies in their roles, according to an Atlassian survey.

By Paul Krill

Jul 18, 2024 2 mins

Careers Software Development

Talk of GitLab sale highlights growing importance of DevSecOps platforms

Datadog is interested in acquiring the software development platform, according to a media report, prompting analysts to consider how a sale would affect GitLab’s pricing and product plans.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 18, 2024 4 mins

DevSecOps Technology Industry

Google’s Genkit for Go brings AI app development to Go language

Free open-source framework gives Go developers a unified generation API, native vector database support, and composable abstractions that simplify the development of AI workflows.

By Paul Krill

Jul 17, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Golang Programming Languages