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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

Google adds automated code reviews to Conductor AI

The Conductor extension now can generate post-implementation code quality and compliance reports based on developer specifications.

By Paul Krill

Feb 13, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Code Security Generative AI

Last JavaScript-based TypeScript arrives in beta

TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 4 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Visual Studio adds GitHub Copilot unit testing for C#

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 2 mins

App Testing C# Devops

Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs

LLMs tend to lose prior skills when fine-tuned for new tasks. A new self-distillation approach aims to reduce regression and simplify model management.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 12, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Go 1.26 unleashes performance-boosting Green Tea GC

New garbage collector promises a 10% to 40% reduction in garbage collection overhead in real-world programs that rely heavily on garbage collection.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 3 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft unveils first preview of .NET 11

Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.

By Paul Krill

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Google Cloud launches GEAR program to broaden AI agent development skills

The learning pathway, housed within the Google Developer Program, aims to equip developers with hands-on expertise in building and deploying AI agents using the Agent Development Kit.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Developer IT Skills and Training

Java use in AI development continues to grow – Azul report

Nearly two-thirds of Java users surveyed rely on Java for developing AI applications, with JavaML, Deep Java Library, and OpenCL being the most-used libraries.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Java Programming Languages

GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

Single prompt breaks AI safety in 15 major language models

The GRP‑Obliteration technique reveals that even mild prompts can reshape internal safety mechanisms, raising oversight concerns as enterprises increasingly fine‑tune open‑weight models with privileged training access.

By Gyana Swain

Feb 10, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Security

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

By Paul Krill

Feb 9, 2026 3 mins

Programming Languages Python R Language

Salesforce may be prepping to phase out Heroku

Salesforce’s decision to halt new enterprise sales for Heroku most likely signals a strategic de-prioritization of the once-prominent PaaS as the company pivots towards AI-led growth, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 9, 2026 6 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft bumps .NET Framework 3.5 from Windows installers

Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows.

By Paul Krill

Feb 6, 2026 1 min

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Claude AI finds 500 high-severity software vulnerabilities

Anthropic is reporting the flaws to developers — but only after having humans verify them.

By Maxwell Cooter

Feb 6, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Google unveils API and MCP server for developer documentation

Developer Knowledge API and Model Context Protocol server. Together connect AI agents to Google’s developer and Google Cloud documentation.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Visual Studio Code update shines on coding agents

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 3 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

By replacing repeated fine‑tuning with a dual‑memory system, MemAlign reduces the cost and instability of training LLM judges, offering faster adaptation to new domains and changing business policies.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 5, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Deno Sandbox launched for running AI-generated code

Deno Sandbox works in tandem with Deno Deploy—now in GA—to secure workloads where code must be generated, evaluated, or safely executed on behalf of an untrusted user.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 2 mins

Code Security JavaScript TypeScript

Apple’s Xcode 26.3 brings integrated support for agentic coding

Apple platform developers can leverage AI coding agents such as Claude Agent and Codex directly in the IDE and throughout the application development workflow.

By Paul Krill

Feb 4, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Swift

GitHub eyes restrictions on pull requests to rein in AI-based code deluge on maintainers

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, AI-generated submissions is overwhelming open-source projects.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Azure outage disrupts VMs and identity services for over 10 hours

A misconfiguration in Microsoft-managed storage accounts triggered cascading failures across virtual machine operations, managed identities, and developer workflows.

By Nidhi Singal

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Software Development

Vercel revamps AI-powered v0 development platform

Platform has been rebuilt to close the prototype-to-production gap for vibe coding in the enterprise, Vercel said.

By Paul Krill

Feb 3, 2026 2 mins

Development Approaches Development Tools Web Development

Snowflake: Latest news and insights

Stay up-to-date on how Snowflake and its underlying architecture has changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists approach cloud data management and analytics

By Dan Muse

Feb 3, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

OpenAI launches Codex app as enterprises weigh autonomous AI coding tools

The app gives developers a centralized workspace to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects without losing task context, OpenAI said.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 3, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Snowflake debuts Cortex Code, an AI agent that understands enterprise data context

By understanding sensitive tables, costly transformations, and mission‑critical pipelines, Cortex Code helps teams move from prototypes to governed, production‑ready data and AI workloads faster.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 3, 2026 4 mins

Code Editors Development Tools Generative AI

Wasmer beefs up Python support

WebAssembly runtime introduces experimental async API and support for dynamic linking in WASIX, enabling much broader support for Python packages and native modules.

By Paul Krill

Feb 2, 2026 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python WebAssembly

AI use may speed code generation, but developers’ skills suffer

As companies move to more AI code writing, humans may not have the necessary skills to validate and debug the AI-written code if their skill formation was inhibited by using AI in the first place, researchers find.

By Taryn Plumb

Jan 30, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools IT Skills and Training

Google expands BigQuery with conversational agent and custom agent tools

The additions let data teams ask progressive, context‑aware questions in natural language while enabling developers to deploy governed analytics agents across applications via unified API endpoints.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 30, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Who profits from AI? Not OpenAI, says think tank

New research from Epoch AI suggests any revenue surplus from one model ‘gets outweighed’ by the expense of developing the next.

By Paul Barker

Jan 29, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsoft previews GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++

GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ helps to streamline the process of adopting the latest version of the MSVC Build Tools.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

C++ Development Tools Generative AI

Suse offers cloud sovereignty assessment tool

Web-based self-assessment tool measures an organization’s compliance with the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Governance

New PDF compression filter will save space, need software updates

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression filter.

By John E. Dunn

Jan 29, 2026 5 mins

Software Development

Apiiro’s Guardian Agent guards against insecure AI code

Application security agent rewrites developer prompts into secure prompts to prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Code Security Generative AI

Crooks are hijacking and reselling AI infrastructure: Report

Researchers at Pillar Security say threat actors are accessing unprotected LLMs and MCP endpoints for profit. Here’s how CSOs can lower the risk.

By Howard Solomon

Jan 28, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Vulnerabilities

Google’s LiteRT adds advanced hardware acceleration

New GPU engine in the on-device AI framework delivers comprehensive GPU and NPU support across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and web platforms.

By Paul Krill

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Teradata unveils enterprise AgentStack to push AI agents into production

AgentStack targets the biggest blocker in enterprise AI, operationalizing multi‑agent systems without locking developers into a single cloud or data platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 28, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Gemini Flash model gets visual reasoning capability

Agentic Vision combines visual reasoning with code execution to ground answers in visual evidence, delivering a 5% to 10% quality boost across most vision benchmarks, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Jan 27, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Programming Languages Python

OpenSilver 3.3 runs Blazor components inside XAML apps

New version of the open-source replacement for Microsoft Silverlight also brings support for .NET 10 and C# 14.

By Paul Krill

Jan 27, 2026 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Anthropic integrates third‑party apps into Claude, reshaping enterprise AI workflows

The new capability allows tools like Asana, Figma, Slack, and Canva to run directly inside Claude’s interface, reducing integration friction and advancing agentic AI adoption.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 27, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking expands enterprise AI model choices

The company claims the model demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jan 27, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Unplugged holes in the npm and yarn package managers could let attackers bypass defenses against Shai-Hulud

A researcher at Koi Security says the two key platforms have not plugged the vulnerabilities enabling the worm attacks, and ‘the JavaScript ecosystem deserves better.’

By Howard Solomon

Jan 26, 2026 4 mins

Development Tools GitHub JavaScript

Descope introduces Agentic Identity Hub 2.0 for managing AI agents

Update to no-code identity platform allows developers and security teams to manage authorization, access control, credentials, and policies for AI agents and MCP servers.

By Paul Krill

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins

Application Security Generative AI Identity and Access Management

Kotlin-based Ktor 3.4 boosts HTTP client handling

Update to the Kotlin-backed framework brings duplex streaming to the OkHttp client engine and the ability to cancel in-flight HTTP requests when the client disconnects.

By Paul Krill

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins

Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages

Zero-trust data governance needed to protect AI models from slop

Gartner recommends new measures to defend against AI-generated data in the enterprise.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Generative AI

GitHub Copilot SDK allows developers to build Copilot agents into apps

Available in a technical preview, the SDK for Node.js, Python, Go, and .NET provides programmatic access to the agentic power of the Copilot CLI.

By Paul Krill

Jan 23, 2026 2 mins

Golang Microsoft .NET Python

Go developers meh on AI coding tools – survey

Most Go developers are using AI-powered development tools, but their satisfaction has been hindered by quality concerns, according to the 2025 Go Developer Survey.

By Paul Krill

Jan 23, 2026 3 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

JetBrains IDEs integrate OpenAI Codex

OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model is natively integrated into JetBrains AI chat in the 2025.3 version of IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, and others.

By Paul Krill

Jan 22, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Rust 1.93 updates bundled musl library to boost networking

New Rust release brings major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver and tweaks the standard library to aid global allocators.

By Paul Krill

Jan 22, 2026 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

MuleSoft gains Agent Scanners to rein in enterprise AI chaos

The new Agent Scanners feature automatically detects and catalogs AI agents across platforms like Copilot, Vertex AI, Bedrock, and Agentforce — giving CIOs long‑missing visibility into fragmented, shadow AI deployments.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 22, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development