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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’s Semantic Kernel is ready to pop

Now available in a release candidate, a simpler and easier Semantic Kernel SDK now automates function calling with OpenAI.

By Paul Krill

Dec 7, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Microsoft Copilot AI to flex more muscle

Microsoft Copilot soon will be able to generate responses using the OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo model, which will enable users to tackle more complex and longer-running tasks.

By Paul Krill

Dec 7, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Django 5.0 simplifies templates for form field rendering

Field group templates in Django 5.0 make it easier and more concise to render form field elements such as labels, widgets, help text, and errors.

By Paul Krill

Dec 5, 2023 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python Web Development

AI Alliance, led by IBM and Meta, to promote open standards and take on AWS, Microsoft, and Nvidia

Reminiscent of the recurring battle between open source and proprietary ecosystems, the AI Alliance includes about 50 members and is expected to help IBM, Meta and AMD challenge the largest players in generative AI.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 5, 2023 6 mins

Generative AI Open Source Technology Industry

AWS re:Invent 2023: 7 takeaways from the big annual event

Generative AI was the watchword at re:Invent 2023, as AWS rolled out new chips, foundation models, updates to its generative AI-based application building service Amazon Bedrock, a new generative AI assistant dubbed Amazon Q, support for vector data

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 4, 2023 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Generative AI

Here’s what AWS revealed about its generative AI strategy at re:Invent 2023

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky and other top executives at the company’s annual re:Invent conference revealed updates and new products aimed at challenging offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and IBM.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 1, 2023 8 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI Technology Industry

AWS delivers AWS SDK for Rust

Now available at crates.io, the AWS SDK for Rust provides access to some 300 AWS cloud services, each with its own Rust crate.

By Paul Krill

Nov 30, 2023 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Rust

AWS updates its Clean Rooms service with machine learning features

The capabilities, currently in preview, will allow enterprises to run machine learning on shared data while collaborating with partners and maintaining data privacy and security.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 30, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing Machine Learning

Deno adds Deno Cron for job scheduling

Deno Cron jobs can perform actions such as updating state in Deno KV, pinging a website, sending email, initiating a database backup, and calling an API at regular intervals.

By Paul Krill

Nov 30, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

AWS updates Bedrock, SageMaker to boost generative AI offerings

The updates include the addition of new foundation models along with vector capabilities for several databases.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 29, 2023 5 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Generative AI

Keras 3.0 deep learning API backs TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax

Full rewrite of the deep neural network API supports Keras workflows on top of the three leading machine learning frameworks.

By Paul Krill

Nov 29, 2023 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning Software Development

Microsoft ML.NET 3.0 expands deep learning capabilities

Update to the machine learning framework for .NET developers brings new capabilities in object detection, named entity recognition, and question answering.

By Paul Krill

Nov 29, 2023 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning Microsoft .NET

AWS adds more zero-ETL integrations to Amazon RedShift

The new integrations include updates to relational and non-relational databases, such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS for MySQL.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 29, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing Databases

AWS adds new enterprise pricing tier for Amazon CodeCatalyst

The new pricing tier includes a custom blueprint feature that allows enterprises to encapsulate best practices for application code, workflows, and infrastructure.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 28, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing

Amazon Braket Direct program to help reserve quantum computers

The new program allows researchers to cut through waiting queues or wait times while providing the option to connect with experts to seek guidance on quantum workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 28, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing Quantum Computing

New Amazon Lex AI features aim to let developers quickly build, enhance bots

Amazon has added generative AI capabilities to Lex, its chatbot development tool.

By Sascha Brodsky

Nov 27, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI Software Development

PHP 8.3 brings typing of class constants

Major update to PHP adds support for declaring class, interface, trait, and enum constant types. Readonly properties and randomness also get attention.

By Paul Krill

Nov 27, 2023 2 mins

PHP Programming Languages Web Development

Generative AI adoption speed unprecedented, O’Reilly survey says

Survey of enterprise users of generative AI finds rapid adoption but also hurdles, with difficulty finding business use cases, legal uncertainties, and high infrastructure costs top concerns.

By Paul Krill

Nov 22, 2023 2 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

TypeScript 5.3 arrives with support for import attributes

ECMAScript import attributes will support additional types of modules in a common way across JavaScript environments, starting with JSON modules.

By Paul Krill

Nov 21, 2023 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

Microsoft unveils Microsoft Copilot Studio

SaaS-based low-code tool allows users to customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone AI assistants that connect to other business data.

By Paul Krill

Nov 16, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Google Cloud certifications nab highest-paying IT jobs

Skillsoft survey finds four Google Cloud certifications among the top 10 highest-paying, with cloud computing and cybersecurity certifications generally drawing higher salaries.

By Paul Krill

Nov 16, 2023 2 mins

Careers Certifications IT Skills and Training

Microsoft’s F# 8 stresses simplicity, performance

Major upgrade of functional-first programming language brings lambda shorthands, faster compilation, new diagnostics, and ‘quality of life’ improvements.

By Paul Krill

Nov 15, 2023 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

C# 12 brings simpler syntax

C# 12 simplifies code with collection expressions, primary constructors for all classes and structs, syntax to alias any type, and default parameters for lambda expressions.

By Paul Krill

Nov 15, 2023 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Microsoft .NET 8 arrives with cloud-native stack preview

Performance, cloud-native development, and generative AI get special attention in the latest upgrade to Microsoft’s application development platform.

By Paul Krill

Nov 14, 2023 4 mins

C# Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Rust compiler front end gains parallel execution

The Rust compiler front end can now use fine-grained parallelism to significantly reduce compile times. Currently experimental, the parallel front end is due in a stable compiler in 2024.

By Paul Krill

Nov 14, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Kotlin keeps climbing the Tiobe popularity index

JetBrains’ Java rival and the leading language for Android development moves up to 15th place in Tiobe’s index of programming language popularity.

By Paul Krill

Nov 13, 2023 2 mins

Java Kotlin Mobile Development

Spin 2.0 shines on Wasm component composition, portability

Framework for building and running server-side WebAssembly applications allows you to compose apps from Wasm components written in different programming languages.

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2023 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Software Development Web Development

Red Hat Linux revs streamline container management

Expanded Podman capabilities in RHEL 9.3 and forthcoming RHEL 8.9 allow users to automate the configuration of container networks, health checks, and secrets and use Quadlet container definitions.

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2023 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Angular 17 previews control flow, better type checking

Update to the TypeScript-based web application framework also brings hydration and signal-based reactivity out of developer preview.

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2023 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Oracle open-sources Jipher for FIPS-compliant SSL

Oracle also plans to release the Oracle Zero Trust Packet Routing Platform, which is based on an initiative to develop a new open standard for data and network security.

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Security Java Technology Industry

GitHub Copilot Chat is coming to GitHub

GitHub Copilot Chat will be generally available in December. And GitHub will be integrating the AI assistant directly into the GitHub platform.

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2023 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

Microsoft .NET 8 enhances ID management

.NET 8 aims to simplify identity management and login for single-page applications and Blazor web apps.

By Paul Krill

Nov 7, 2023 2 mins

Application Security Development Tools Microsoft .NET

OpenAI DevDay: 3 new tools to build LLM-powered apps

Among the news from OpenAI's first developer conference, here are three products or platforms that might pique your interest for a generative AI project — plus one new open-source alternative in response.

By Sharon Machlis

Nov 7, 2023 6 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Software Development

Microsoft to use Oracle’s OCI Supercluster for Bing conversational searches

Microsoft and Oracle have entered into a multiyear agreement to support inferencing of AI models that are being optimized to power Bing’s conversational searches.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 7, 2023 2 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Deno 1.38 features HTML documentation, hot module replacement

The latest updates enhance documentation and client-side navigation in Deno and the Fresh web framework.

By Paul Krill

Nov 6, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools JavaScript Software Development

Python Pandas creator Wes McKinney joins Posit

Python pandas creator Wes McKinney has joined data science company Posit as a principal architect, signaling the company's efforts to play a bigger role in the Python universe as well as the R ecosystem.

By Sharon Machlis

Nov 6, 2023 2 mins

Data Science Python Technology Industry

Elon Musk to take on ChatGPT with Grok AI

xAI team has warned that the chatbot is a “very early beta product” and has been unveiled with just two months of training.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 6, 2023 4 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning

Kotlin upgrade advances K2 compiler

JetBrains' high-performing compiler moves to beta for all platforms and can be used in all Kotlin projects.

By Paul Krill

Nov 3, 2023 1 min

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

Oracle Helidon 4 Java microservices framework stresses virtual threads

Significantly higher performance is anticipated from the open source cloud-native set of libraries.

By Paul Krill

Nov 3, 2023 2 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Visual Studio Code update emphasizes audio cues, Activity Bar

The upgrade also cites Python coding via extension and says goodbye to Windows 32 support.

By Paul Krill

Nov 2, 2023 3 mins

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Software Development

JetBrains’ Kotlin Multiplatform is now stable

Designed to simplify cross-platform development, Kotlin Multiplatform's stable release features a stabilized API and improved interoperability with Objective-C and Swift.

By Paul Krill

Nov 1, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Kotlin Programming Languages