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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

JetBrains previews no-code app builder

Called Kineto, the AI-powered platform promises to let anyone create, deploy, and maintain websites and apps without writing a single line of code.

By Paul Krill

Aug 5, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI No Code and Low Code

Python popularity boosted by AI coding assistants – Tiobe

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises.

By Paul Krill

Aug 4, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Programming Languages Python

Apache Flink integrates AI for real-time decision-making

Stream processing engine allows users to define and manage AI models in Java, Python, and Flink SQL and invoke them in real time within Flink SQL.

By Paul Krill

Aug 1, 2025 3 mins

Java Python SQL

Google upgrades Agent2Agent protocol with gRPC and enterprise-grade security

Version 0.3 of the open-source A2A protocol introduces gRPC support, signed security cards, and enhanced integration with Google’s Agent Development Kit to simplify agent orchestration for enterprises.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 1, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

.NET Aspire 9.4 boasts CLI core commands, AI integrations

Described as a major release, .NET Aspire 9.4 features a set of CLI core commands for building cloud-ready, distributed apps and AI hosting integrations.

By Paul Krill

Aug 1, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Devops Microsoft .NET

Informatica enhances IDMC with AI-powered MDM, governance, and compliance tools

Informatica’s latest release brings self-service tuning, LLM integration, and model governance to the forefront of enterprise data management.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 31, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

AI use among software developers grows but trust remains an issue – Stack Overflow survey

84% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow either use or plan to use AI tools, while 64% cited ‘almost right’ AI output and debugging AI code as their top frustrations.

By Paul Krill

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Google’s new toolset to help connect AI agents to BigQuery

The new toolset, though, can only be implemented in combination with Google’s Agent Development Kit and MCP Toolbox for Databases.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Google patches Gemini CLI tool after prompt injection flaw uncovered

Critical flaw in new tool could allow attackers to steal data at will from developers working with untrusted repositories.

By John E. Dunn

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Security Software Development

FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform

Startup leverages infrastructure-as-code principles to enable cloning, migration, and remapping of infrastructure across heterogeneous clouds.

By Paul Krill

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Multicloud

Debian shifts to 64-bit time storage to head off Epochalypse

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Software Development

Snowflake brings analytics workloads into its cloud with Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the data is.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 29, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Data Management Data Warehousing

Teradata joins Snowflake, Databricks in expanding MCP ecosystem

The new Community Edition Model Context Protocol server supports agentic workflows and generative AI use cases, with a commercial-grade version in the works.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 29, 2025 4 mins

Analytics Generative AI

GitHub previews natural language app builder for AI-powered apps

GitHub Spark allows developers to build and deploy full-stack, LLM-powered apps on the GitHub platform by describing their idea for an app.

By Paul Krill

Jul 28, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language

The as-yet-unnamed language in development would produce cross-platform applications and make AI code generation more controllable, transparent, and useful.

By Paul Krill

Jul 25, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Kotlin Programming Languages

Not ready for prime time: Agentic IDEs need maturity before enterprise rollout

Analysts advise IT leaders to experiment cautiously as pricing volatility, latency, and security concerns plague early adopters of autonomous development tools.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 25, 2025 7 mins

Engineer Generative AI

Supply chain attack compromises NPM packages to spread backdoor malware

Phishing attacks on package maintainer accounts led to infected JavaScript type testing utilities.

By John E. Dunn

Jul 24, 2025 1 min

Engineer Malware Open Source

Google Labs introduces Opal for developing AI mini apps

Now in public beta, developers can use Opal to build and remix AI mini apps using conversational natural language commands, a visual editor, or both.

By Paul Krill

Jul 24, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Natural Language Processing

Subliminal learning: When AI models learn what you didn’t teach them

Fine-tuned “student” models can pick up unwanted traits from base “teacher” models that could evade data filtering, generating a need for more rigorous safety evaluations.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 24, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Generative AI

Hacker inserts destructive code in Amazon Q tool as update goes live

The incident highlights rising AI risks as malicious actors exploit powerful tools amid weak safeguards and oversight.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 24, 2025 1 min

Security Software Development

Hacker inserts destructive code in Amazon Q as update goes live

The incident highlights rising AI risks as malicious actors exploit powerful tools amid weak safeguards and oversight.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 24, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Vulnerabilities

MCP C# SDK updated to support latest Model Context Protocol spec

Update to the MCP SDK for C# brings an improved authentication protocol, elicitation support, structured tool output, and support for resource links in tool responses.

By Paul Krill

Jul 23, 2025 2 mins

C# Generative AI Microsoft .NET

XMLUI builds React-based UIs with simple markup

Open-source framework wraps React and CSS and provides a catalog of components and a theme system for composing user interfaces declaratively with XML.

By Paul Krill

Jul 23, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Microsoft Fabric to lose auto-generated semantic models

Microsoft is moving more of the data governance workload to users, but says that this will lead to greater accountability and transparency.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 2025 5 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Alibaba rolls out new AI coding model Qwen3-Coder, says it’s their most powerful

The company also launched a command-line tool based on Gemini Code, optimized for agentic coding and compatible with popular developer tools.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 23, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Microsoft C++ static analysis tool bolsters warning suppressions

Microsoft C++ Code Analysis has been updated in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 to provide better tracking, justification, and overall management of warning suppressions.

By Paul Krill

Jul 22, 2025 2 mins

C++ Development Tools Programming Languages

AWS imposes caps on Kiro usage, introduces waitlist for new users

AWS is also rethinking its pricing plan for the agentic AI-driven IDE.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 22, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Engineer

Java Applet API removal slated for JDK 26

Removal of the obsolete API becomes first feature targeted for Java update due in March 2026.

By Paul Krill

Jul 22, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Nuxt 4.0 improves project organization, data fetching, TypeScript support

Major release of the Vue-based JavaScript framework for building full-stack web applications and websites also brings updated UI templates and a speedier CLI.

By Paul Krill

Jul 21, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

Google launches TPU monitoring library to boost AI infrastructure efficiency

Integrated with LibTPU, the new monitoring library provides detailed telemetry, performance metrics, and debugging tools to help enterprises optimize AI workloads on Google Cloud TPUs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 21, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

GitLab introduces AI agent-enabled devsecops platform

GitLab Duo Agent Platform is a devsecops orchestration platform designed to enable asynchronous collaboration between developers and AI agents.

By Paul Krill

Jul 18, 2025 2 mins

DevSecOps Development Tools Devops

Oracle launches MCP server to power context-aware AI agents for enterprise data

With native support for Oracle Databases, the MCP server will allow developers to build AI agents that can autonomously query, reason, and generate insights without custom integration layers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 18, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases

AWS previews AgentCore services to ease AI agent deployment

Developers can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services to build foundational infrastructure for deploying and operating AI agents at scale.

By Paul Krill

Jul 17, 2025 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

MCP server announced for JFrog supply chain management platform

More of these servers are being announced weekly, but an expert urges infosec pros to move to the technology slowly.

By Howard Solomon

Jul 17, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

From prompts to specs: AWS’s Kiro signals the next phase of AI coding tools

Kiro’s structured, agentic workflow challenges the Copilot model, offering a spec-first IDE with hooks, task orchestration, and enterprise-grade design generation.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 17, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Engineer

.NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

Latest preview of the next version of .NET also introduces enhancements for JSON, Blazor WebAssembly, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and .NET tools.

By Paul Krill

Jul 16, 2025 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Qdrant Cloud adds service for generating text and image embeddings

Qdrant Cloud Inference simplifies building applications with multimodal search, retrieval-augmented generation, and hybrid search, Qdrant said.

By Paul Krill

Jul 16, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

Perforce unveils agentic AI test tool for web and mobile apps

Part of the Perforce Continuous Testing Platform, Perfecto AI generates execution-ready test actions from natural language prompts to validate applications across web, Android, and iOS.

By Paul Krill

Jul 16, 2025 1 min

App Testing Mobile Development Web Development

AWS looks to cut storage costs for LLM embeddings with Amazon S3 Vectors

AWS says you can do without specialty vector databases for generative AI and agentic AI applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 16, 2025 3 mins

Cloud Storage Databases Generative AI

Oracle’s Java licensing shift sparks mass migration to open source

A new survey reveals that nearly 80% of ITAM and SAM professionals are moving away from Oracle Java, citing cost hikes, audit risks, and licensing confusion as key drivers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 16, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Java

Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf

The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new battleground.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 15, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Firebase Studio adds autonomous Agent mode, MCP support, Gemini CLI

Google’s cloud-based, AI-assisted development environment offers three different modes of interacting with the company’s Gemini AI model.

By Paul Krill

Jul 15, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Akka releases platform for agentic AI

The Akka Agentic Platform includes capabilities for orchestrating long-running systems, building agents, providing in-memory context to agents, and providing high-performance stream processing.

By Paul Krill

Jul 15, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

JavaScript, MacOS lead usage in worldwide developer survey

Average yearly income for developers in the US topped the list at $144k, while Android use led iOS use among all respondents to the State of Devs 2025 survey.

By Paul Krill

Jul 15, 2025 2 mins

Java JavaScript Python

Visual Studio Code bolsters Copilot Chat, MCP support

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol.

By Paul Krill

Jul 11, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI