IBM is releasing a family of AI agents (IBM SWE-Agent 1.0) that are powered by open LLMs and can resolve GitHub issues automatically, freeing up developers to work on other things rather than getting bogged down by their backlog of bugs that need fixing. “For most software developers, every day starts with where the last … continue reading
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT so that its responses include results from the web, bringing the power of the search engine directly into the chat interface. “This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more,” OpenAI wrote in a post. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT … continue reading
Google is announcing that the Gemini API and Google AI Studio now both offer the ability to ground models using Google Search, which will improve the accuracy and reliability of Gemini’s responses. By grounding the responses with Google Search results, responses can have fewer hallucinations, more up-to-date information, and richer information. Grounded responses also include … continue reading
Google has announced that it is open sourcing a new Java-based differential privacy library called PipelineDP4J. Differential privacy, according to Google, is a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) that “allows for analysis of datasets in a privacy-preserving way to help ensure individual information is never revealed.” This enables researchers or analysts to study a dataset without accessing … continue reading
The AI coding assistant provider Tabnine is releasing a private preview for its Code Review Agent, a new AI-based tool that validates software based on the development team’s unique best practices and standards for software development. According to Tabnine, using AI to review code is nothing new, but many of the tools currently available check … continue reading
GitHub is hosting its annual user conference, GitHub Universe, today and tomorrow, and has announced a number of new AI capabilities that will enable developers to build applications more quickly, securely, and efficiently. Many of the updates were across GitHub Copilot. First up, GitHub announced that users now have access to more model choices thanks … continue reading
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is updating its Developing Secure Software (LFD121) course with new interactive learning labs that provide developers with more hands-on learning opportunities. LFD121 is a free course offered by OpenSSF that takes about 14-18 hours to complete. Any student who passes the final exam gets a certificate that is valid … continue reading
The explosion in interest in AI, particularly generative AI, has had many positive benefits: increased productivity, easier and faster access to information, and often a better user experience in applications that have embedded AI chatbots. But for all its positives, there is one huge problem that still needs solving: how do we power it all? … continue reading
Google is making it easier for companies to build generative AI responsibly by adding new tools and libraries to its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit. The Toolkit provides tools for responsible application design, safety alignment, model evaluation, and safeguards, all of which work together to improve the ability to responsibly and safely develop generative AI. Google … continue reading
Platform engineering has been gaining quite a lot of traction lately — and for good reason. The benefits to development teams are many, and it could be argued that platform engineering is a natural evolution of DevOps, so it’s not a huge cultural change to adapt to. According to Jonathan Harding, Senior Product Manager of … continue reading
Open source software is prevalent in almost any codebase today, and it’s assuredly only going to grow larger. According to a 2024 analysis by the Harvard Business School, the supply side value of open source software is $4.15 billion, while the demand-side value is $8.8 trillion. With numbers like those, it’s easier to see how … continue reading
Anthropic has a number of updates to share about its AI models, including an updated version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the release of Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a public beta for a capability that enables users to instruct Claude to use computers as a human would. The new version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet features improvements … continue reading
