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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 pushes .NET 9 Preview 6 with a range of improvements

Latest .NET 9 preview brings code layout improvements to the RyuJIT compiler, caching improvements to ASP.NET Core, Metrics Gauge instrument, and much more.

By Paul Krill

Jul 16, 2024 3 mins

C# Devops Microsoft .NET

OpenJDK plan calls for restricting JNI usage

Java enhancement proposal would preserve the status of the Java Native Interface as a standard way to interoperate with native code, while disallowing interoperation with native code by default.

By Paul Krill

Jul 16, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

HR professionals trust AI recommendations

HireVue survey finds 73% of HR professionals trust AI to make candidate recommendations, while 75% of workers are opposed to AI making hiring decisions.

By Paul Krill

Jul 11, 2024 3 mins

Careers Technology Industry

OpenSilver 3.0 previews AI-powered UI designer for .NET

Free open-source UI framework introduces a drag-and-drop UI designer that also allows users to create and modify UIs using natural language commands.

By Paul Krill

Jul 11, 2024 3 mins

C# Devops Microsoft .NET

Microsoft moves forward with C# 13, offering overload resolution

Partial properties and params are also highlighted in the planned language update.

By Paul Krill

Jul 10, 2024 3 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Amazon Bedrock updated with contextual grounding, RAG connectors

In addition to adding new LLMs to its Bedrock generative AI service, AWS is releasing a new Guardrails API that is open for use across other platforms.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 10, 2024 5 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Google, Udacity offer free course on Gemini API

Udacity recommends that learners already know basic Python skills.

By Paul Krill

Jul 9, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Judge dismisses lawsuit over GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant

GitHub, its owner Microsoft and OpenAI free to train on code samples despite DMCA.

By Paul Barker

Jul 9, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI

Researchers reveal flaws in AI agent benchmarking

Princeton University researchers suggest fixes for common issues in benchmarking methods.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 8, 2024 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Approaches Generative AI

Rust leaps forward in language popularity index

Fast and memory-safe, the Rust programming language has landed the 13th spot—its highest ever in the Tiobe index.

By Paul Krill

Jul 8, 2024 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Technology Industry

FTC’s non-compete ban almost certainly dead, based on a Texas federal court decision

Unless there is congressional action, non-compete rules will now vary from state to state; IT workers are back to precisely where they were a few months ago.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 8, 2024 5 mins

Careers Employee Protection Technology Industry

What’s new in MySQL 9.0

Say hello to JavaScript stored programs in MySQL Enterprise Edition, say goodbye to SHA-1.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 4, 2024 3 mins

Databases

Visual Studio Code previews incoming/outgoing changes graph

Experimental feature provides a graph view of the current branch, the current branch’s upstream branch, and an optional base branch.

By Paul Krill

Jul 4, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

ECMAScript 2024 JavaScript standard approved

The ECMAScript 2024 specification includes a new feature for transferring ArrayBuffers and advanced capabilities for working with string sets and constructing promises.

By Paul Krill

Jul 3, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

JetBrains launches Qodana Self-Hosted

Code quality platform based on the static code analysis engine of JetBrains IDEs is now available to run on your own infrastructure.

By Paul Krill

Jul 3, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

AWS approach to RAG evaluation could help enterprises reduce AI spending

AWS researchers have developed a new method for designing an automated RAG evaluation mechanism that could help enterprises build apps faster and reduce costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 3, 2024 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Rust types team moves forward on next-gen trait solver

Team reports getting close to compiling the standard library and the compiler with the new solver enabled everywhere.

By Paul Krill

Jul 2, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Qdrant unveils vector-based hybrid search for RAG

Qdrant’s BM42 search algorithm delivers more accurate and efficient retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation applications, the company says.

By Paul Krill

Jul 2, 2024 2 mins

Databases Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Anthropic launches fund to measure capabilities of AI models

The new initiative will fund evaluations developed by third-party organizations that can effectively measure advanced capabilities in AI models.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 2, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

Eclipse Theia IDE arrives for desktop, browser

Cross-platform IDE built on TypeScript-based Eclipse Theia Platform is compatible with VS Code extensions available from the Open VSX Registry.

By Paul Krill

Jul 1, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2024 Nominations Now Open

Submission Deadline: Friday August 30, 2024 5:00PM ET

By Doug Dineley

Jul 1, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Machine Learning

Google opens access to 2 million context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro

The company also has enabled code execution for Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash, allowing the models to generate and run Python code and learn from the results.

By Paul Krill

Jun 28, 2024 2 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Google Cloud’s Vertex AI gets new grounding options

The new grounding features will help enterprises to reduce hallucinations across their generative AI-based apps and agents, the company says.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 28, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

GitHub Artifact Attestations sign and verify software artifacts

Artifact Attestations guarantee the integrity of artifacts built inside GitHub Actions by creating and verifying digital signatures that link the artifact to source code and build instructions.

By Paul Krill

Jun 27, 2024 1 min

Application Security Build Automation DevSecOps

Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE

Posit, formerly RStudio, has released a beta of Positron, a ‘next generation’ data science development environment based on Visual Studio Code.

By Sharon Machlis

Jun 27, 2024 3 mins

Data Science Python R Language

Microsoft adds code assessment to .NET Upgrade Assistant

Code assessment tool scans your source code and identifies potential issues to address when upgrading between versions of .NET or .NET Core.

By Paul Krill

Jun 26, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

OpenJDK proposal would bring value classes and objects to Java

Value objects would be distinguished only by their field values, not by identity, providing an easier programming model for simple values.

By Paul Krill

Jun 26, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

SingleStoreDB joins the Apache Iceberg bandwagon

The latest update includes Iceberg integration, faster vectors, high-relevance full-text search, and autoscaling.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 26, 2024 4 mins

Databases

Oracle HeatWave’s in-database LLMs to help reduce infra costs

Oracle has added new features to the service formerly known as MySQL HeatWave to help in generative AI-based app development.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 26, 2024 4 mins

Databases Generative AI

GitLab devsecops survey finds progress, new priorities

Two-thirds of respondents said their software development life cycle is mostly or completely automated, while security overtook cloud as the top priority for IT investment.

By Paul Krill

Jun 25, 2024 2 mins

DevSecOps Devops Software Development

OpenAI acquires Rockset to enhance ChatGPT real-time data processing

Acquisition of search and analytics startup in reported seven figure deal is likely OpenAI’s biggest to date.

By John E. Dunn

Jun 25, 2024 3 mins

Databases Generative AI Technology Industry

Java’s Project Leyden arrives in early-access build

Project Leyden is an OpenJDK project intended to improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of Java programs.

By Paul Krill

Jun 25, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

DataStax updates tools for building gen AI applications

The updates include a new open source version of Langflow and the addition of new capabilities to its RAGStack suite.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 25, 2024 4 mins

Databases Generative AI

JetBrains AI Assistant to integrate Google Gemini AI models

JetBrains will add Gemini Pro 1.5 and Gemini Flash 1.5 to the AI-powered programming assistant in the coming weeks.

By Paul Krill

Jun 24, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

TypeScript 5.5 is now generally available

TypeScript 5.5 brings inferred type predicates, regular expression syntax checking, performance optimizations, and support for ECMAScript Set methods.

By Paul Krill

Jun 24, 2024 4 mins

Devops JavaScript TypeScript

SUSE plans more support for gen AI workloads

The Linux packager’s SUSE AI Early Access Program could interest companies wanting to run generative AI on premises.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 18, 2024 1 min

Generative AI Hybrid Cloud Software Development

Oracle APEX adds generative AI assistant

APEX AI Assistant allows users to create applications using natural language and add a conversational AI interface to any application being developed.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 18, 2024 5 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Technology Industry

Rust stabilizes inline const expressions

Associated item bounds syntax also is stabilized in the Rust 1.79 release.

By Paul Krill

Jun 14, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Python pick: Monkeytype automates type hints

This half-month report includes a way to add type hints automatically to untyped Python code, getting started with Django 5, and a deep dive into CPython garbage collection and memory management.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 14, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Technology Industry

Microsoft finalizes .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code

.NET MAUI extension provides tools for building cross-platform apps using C# and XAML.

By Paul Krill

Jun 13, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

Apple’s Xcode 16 adds AI-powered code completion

Swift 6 also gets accommodations in the update to the Apple platform IDE, now in beta.

By Paul Krill

Jun 12, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Swift Technology Industry

Databricks expands Mosaic AI support for generative AI apps

New Mosaic AI capabilities, all in preview, will help enterprises building generative AI applications on Databricks’ platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 12, 2024 5 mins

Data Warehousing Generative AI

Multicloud: Oracle links database with Google, Microsoft to speed operations

Oracle will interconnect with Google’s cloud to make its database services more widely available, while Microsoft is extending its Azure services into Oracle’s cloud to give OpenAI access to more capacity.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 12, 2024 4 mins

Databases Generative AI Multicloud

Databricks races with Snowflake to open up data catalog source code

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 12, 2024 4 mins

Data Management Open Source

Swift the best choice to succeed C++, Apple says

Company cites safety, speed, approachability, and built-in C and C++ interoperability as Swift’s compelling advantages.

By Paul Krill

Jun 11, 2024 2 mins

C++ Programming Languages Swift

Apple readies AI for iPhone, Mac, iPad

Apple Intelligence will put generative AI models at the core of its three platforms, drawing on personal context to assist with everyday tasks.

By Paul Krill

Jun 11, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

C++ language rises in Tiobe popularity index

C++ takes second place in Tiobe index for June, despite White House warning, while C drops to third place. Go and Rust also rise.

By Paul Krill

Jun 10, 2024 3 mins

C Language C++ Programming Languages

TypeScript adds support for ECMAScript’s Set methods

TypeScript 5.5, now in a release candidate, also features inferred type predicates, regular expression syntax checking, and performance and size optimizations.

By Paul Krill

Jun 7, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

OpenAI unveils OpenAI library for .NET

The OpenAI .NET API library, now in beta, supports the entire OpenAI API including Assistants v2 and Chat Completions as well as the GPT-4o model.

By Paul Krill

Jun 7, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

AWS is investing heavily in building tools for LLMops

The hyperscaler has been making investments into building capabilities around operationalizing and managing foundation large language models, a top executive said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 7, 2024 3 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI