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Microsoft Semantic Kernel will support OpenAI plugins
Fall 2023 roadmap for the LLM-integrating SDK also lists plans for plugin testing, dynamic planners, end-to-end telemetry, and links to vector databases.
Build custom actions for Power Automate for Windows
Bundled with Windows 11, Power Automate for Windows lets you wrap low-code workflows around your desktop applications. A new SDK supports custom actions.
Red Hat kicked off a tempest in a teapot
The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.
Review: CodeWhisperer, Bard, and Copilot X
Amazon CodeWhisperer, Google Bard, and GitHub Copilot X plod through our AI pair programming challenge. Each tool has its strengths, and none of them are perfect.
Red Hat ends the RHEL clones’ free lunch
Red Hat is forcing companies to choose a successor to CentOS Linux. Think carefully about the foundation of your infrastructure and who will support it long-term.
Why isn’t Apple talking about AI?
Apple has been innovating with AI for a long time, but it focuses on the magic of the user experience, not the tech. There's a lesson here, especially since GenAI isn't always the right tool.
DataStax, Google partner to bring vector search to NoSQL AstraDB
The two companies are also partnering to launch an open source project, CassIO, aimed at making Apache Cassandra more compatible with AI and large language model workloads.
Latest Apple Xcode IDE improves code completion
Builds are faster, and the tool platform also supports Apple's new Vision Pro device.
Microsoft updates Power Automate’s Cloud Flows with Copilot
Other updates include Action SDKs for Desktop Flows and Work Queues for managing bots.
Microsoft integrates Nvidia’s AI Enterprise Suite with Azure Machine Learning
The integration of Nvidia’s software suite will further help enterprises build, deploy, and manage applications based on large language models.
Cloud-based IT operations are on the rise
You chose on-premises systems behind a firewall for security. Don’t look now; cloud-based systems may carry out those operations on the firewall's other side.
Are multiyear cloud agreements a good idea?
Discounts or better service may come with big strings attached. Losing the ability to chase innovations or adjust to market changes may not be worth it.
Google’s Dart 3 and Flutter 3.10 bring big changes
Dart 3 introduces sound null safety, major new language features, and a Wasm preview, while Flutter 3.10 fleshes out the Material 3 widget toolkit and support for macOS and iOS targets.
Google unveils PaLM 2 AI language model
The next-generation large language model boasts advanced multilingual, code generation, and reasoning capabilities, and is already being used in Bard and other Google AI tools.
IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx
The generative AI platform comes with a suite of tools for tuning large language models, a data store built on lakehouse architecture, and an AI governance toolkit.
Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel adds Copilot Chat sample app
Semantic Kernel SDK and sample app promise to ease the development of intelligent assistants based on AI large language models.
The era of cloud optimization is upon us
As everyone prepares to jump headlong into generative AI and large language models, cloud will continue its strong performance.
Google’s Bard AI to take on GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer
Google’s generative AI offering is now capable of helping developers write and debug code in 20 programming languages including Python and Typescript, the company said.
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Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation
TLA+ is a high-level programming language used to model complex, concurrent, and distributed programs and systems. It was created by Leslie Lamport and is backed by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle.
