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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

Visual Studio Code adds port forwarding

Built-in port forwarding system allows developers to share locally running services over the internet with other users.

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Java plan would support GPUs and other foreign programming models

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Teradata adds ask.ai generative AI assistant to VantageCloud Lake

Enterprises will be able to use the ask.ai natural language assistant to ask questions about their data from within Teradata’s multicloud analytics platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 11, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases

Bun 1.0 is out of the oven

All-in-one toolkit for building, testing, debugging, and running JavaScript and TypeScript is available in a production-ready release.

By Paul Krill

Sep 8, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

IBM unveils generative AI foundation models

IBM Granite series foundation models apply generative AI to natural language and coding tasks. Plus, Watsonx generative AI capabilities are coming to the Watsonx data lakehouse.

By Paul Krill

Sep 7, 2023 3 mins

Analytics Generative AI Technology Industry

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 ups control, security

GitHub Projects planning tool is now generally available.

By Paul Krill

Sep 7, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development Version Control Systems

Developers have doubts about WebAssembly, report finds

State of WebAssembly 2023 study finds mostly optimism among software developers about future adoption of Wasm, but also doubts and challenges.

By Paul Krill

Sep 7, 2023 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Software Development Web Development

InfluxDB Clustered targets on-premises time-series database deployments

InfluxDB Clustered is an open source, distributed time-series database alternative to InfluxDB Enterprise that has been built on the company’s next-generation time-series engine that supports SQL queries.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 6, 2023 3 mins

Databases Private Cloud

Cosmonic touts life-cycle management in WebAssembly PaaS

The platform was built on wasmCloud for multifaceted app deployment for the cloud, browser, edge, and other platforms.

By Paul Krill

Sep 6, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing PaaS Software Development

Node.js upgrade adds environment variable config

The JavaScript runtime also boasts ECMAScript modules.

By Paul Krill

Sep 6, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools JavaScript

Azul Java learns to cut warmup times

Azul’s ReadyNow technology learns from application usage and automatically selects the best warmup optimization patterns, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Sep 1, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing Java Programming Languages

Microsoft axes Visual Studio for Mac

Microsoft advises current users of Visual Studio for Mac to switch to Visual Studio Code, run Visual Studio for Windows in a VM, or use Microsoft Dev Box on Azure.

By Paul Krill

Aug 31, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Rust changes Cargo package guidance

Rust’s Cargo team used to recommend committing Cargo.lock for files with binaries but not libraries, but now says do what is best for your project.

By Paul Krill

Aug 31, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Enterprise

Generative AI chatbot designed for use inside organizations offers enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited access to GPT-4, up to 2x better performance, larger context and prompt windows, and customization options.

By Paul Krill

Aug 29, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Google expands Duet AI features across its cloud services

At its Google Cloud Next conference, the company said that it was adding Duet AI to cloud services around data analytics, databases, and infrastructure and application management.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 29, 2023 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud’s Colab Enterprise environment to help tune LLMs

At its Cloud Next conference, the company added new features for advanced MLOps for generative AI and launched Ray on Vertex AI for scaling AI workloads efficiently.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 29, 2023 3 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI

Google’s new Vertex AI features to unlock advanced LLM capabilities

At its annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced new tools, such as Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI Connectors, while updating Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversations with new features.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 29, 2023 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 shines on dialogs, popups, iOS

JetBrains’ declarative UI framework for Kotlin lets developers build UIs for desktop, Android, iOS, and web from a single code base.

By Paul Krill

Aug 29, 2023 2 mins

Kotlin Mobile Development Web Development

More developers are using the Rust language

2022 State of Rust Survey finds that Rust language usage continues to grow, while language difficulty and complexity are top concerns.

By Paul Krill

Aug 25, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

TypeScript 5.2 brings explicit resource management

Fresh update to Microsoft’s strongly-typed JavaScript also backs decorator metadata for consuming metadata on classes.

By Paul Krill

Aug 25, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Meta releases Code Llama LLM for coding

Code Llama is a specialized version of the Llama 2 large language model that has been fine-tuned for generating and discussing code.

By Paul Krill

Aug 25, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Software Development

Python-based Textual apps are coming to the web

Textual Cloud Service will allow Python-based terminal applications built with the Textual framework to run in web browsers.

By Paul Krill

Aug 22, 2023 1 min

Python Software Development Web Development

IBM Watsonx to use generative AI to translate COBOL code into Java

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 22, 2023 2 mins

Generative AI Java Technology Industry

Swift language group gets behind structured concurrency

Swift Server Workgroup also aims to port the popular Swift toolchain installer for Linux to macOS and Windows.

By Paul Krill

Aug 21, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development Swift

Flutter 3.13 speeds rendering on iOS

Latest update to Google’s cross-platform UI framework makes Impeller the default graphics renderer on iOS, introduces two-dimensional scrolling.

By Paul Krill

Aug 18, 2023 2 mins

Mobile Development Technology Industry Web Development

Fresh web framework for Deno speeds page loading

Ahead-of-time compilation results in assets being served 45x to 60x faster than just-in-time rendering, the Fresh development team says.

By Paul Krill

Aug 17, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Zenhub previews AI for software project management

Zenhub is adding AI capabilities to automate task labeling, prioritize work, estimate completion dates, and provide insights into challenges and blockages.

By Paul Krill

Aug 15, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs

Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 14, 2023 2 mins

APIs Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Visual Studio 2022 updates spotlight productivity

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 and a preview of 17.8 promise to streamline development with enhancements to diffs, comparisons, searches, pull requests, unit tests, and more.

By Paul Krill

Aug 12, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

Suse, Oracle, CIQ join forces to fuel RHEL-compatible Linux distros

The Open Enterprise Linux Association will provide the source code needed to create downstream distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the companies announced.

By Paul Krill

Aug 11, 2023 2 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

Ahead of time compilation proposed for the JVM

An OpenJDK plan would improve Java Virtual Machine startup times with the ability to load Java applications and libraries already compiled to native code.

By Paul Krill

Aug 11, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Google Project IDX brings AI to cloud-hosted development environments

Google Cloud service combines Codey-powered AI assistance and templates for popular JavaScript frameworks in a cloud-hosted Linux VM. Google said support for Python, Go, and other languages is coming soon.

By Paul Krill

Aug 10, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Golang 1.21 brings built-in functions, profile-guided optimization

The latest update of the Go programming language also introduces an experimental port for WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface.

By Paul Krill

Aug 9, 2023 2 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

OpenJDK plan would add computed constants to Java

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states.

By Paul Krill

Aug 9, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft previews new F# syntax for string interpolation

Improved syntax makes it easier to work with text like CSS that contains many curly braces, while maintaining backwards compatibility with F#’s triple-quoted strings.

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2023 2 mins

Microsoft .NET Programming Languages Software Development

Visual Studio Code enhances diff editor, GitHub interop

With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default.

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2023 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Julia language cracks top 20 in Tiobe popularity index

Qualities such as speed and scalability make Julia an attractive alternative to Python, R, and MATLAB for data science and mathematical computation, Tiobe said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 7, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Python moves to remove the GIL and boost concurrency

Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 4, 2023 7 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Salesforce Einstein Studio to help enterprises train generative AI models

Einstein Studio can also help enterprises connect their data from Salesforce Data Cloud to third-party AI offerings including Amazon SageMaker and Google’s Vertex AI for model training.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 4, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI SaaS

AWS updates Amazon Bedrock service with new large language models

Apart from adding new features to Amazon Bedrock, AWS has also launched a new generative AI service, dubbed AWS HealthScribe, to help automatically create clinical documentation.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 27, 2023 4 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI Machine Learning

AWS’ Entity Resolution service to help enterprises improve data quality

The machine learning-powered service, accessible via a no-code interface in the AWS Management Console, can be used to match data from multiple data lakes or AWS storage, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 26, 2023 3 mins

Data Management Data Quality Machine Learning

Teradata acquires Stemma to boost AI-based data search for analytics

Stemma offers integrations with data warehouses, business intelligence tools, collaboration software and security tools.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 25, 2023 2 mins

Analytics Data Integration

Microsoft unveils TypeChat library for building natural language interfaces

Open source library draws on TypeScript and type definitions to retrieve structured responses from AI models that are type-safe.

By Paul Krill

Jul 21, 2023 2 mins

Generative AI JavaScript Technology Industry

GitHub Copilot Chat available in a preview for businesses

GitHub has made a beta release of its AI-powered coding chatbot available to all customers of GitHub Copilot for Business.

By Paul Krill

Jul 20, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

JetBrains ships Qodana static code analysis tool

Qodana integrates into CI/CD pipelines and with JetBrains IDEs and uses static code analysis to flag code quality, security, and performance issues.

By Paul Krill

Jul 20, 2023 2 mins

Build Automation Development Tools Software Development

JFrog Curation blocks malicious open source software packages

DevSecOps system validates incoming software packages against JFrog’s security research library to establish a repository of trustworthy components for software developers to use.

By Paul Krill

Jul 19, 2023 1 min

Application Security Devops Open Source

Splunk’s new AI tools aim to ease security, observability tasks

The AI tools introduced at the company’s .conf2023 include the Splunk AI Assistant, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit 5.4, Splunk App for Anomaly Detection, and the Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning 5.1.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 19, 2023 3 mins

Data Management Data Science Generative AI

Meta lets loose second generation of Llama AI models

Meta says organizations can download Llama 2 for free, and run it wherever they wish, for research and commercial purposes. Microsoft and AWS are already hosting it.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning