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Snowflake acquires TruEra’s AI observability platform
The acquisition would help Snowflake deliver evaluation and monitoring capabilities for LLM-based applications and machine-learning models for customers.
Microsoft’s Power Platform updates hint at the future of enterprise coding
Copilot-powered security tools, simplified developer collaboration, and easier integration of voice-activated generative AI into mobile apps are among the changes on show at Build.
C# 13 enhances params, introduces extension types
Forthcoming update to the C# language extends params parameter support and introduces a new type that supplies extension members for an underlying type.
JDK 23: The new features in Java 23
Plans for Java 23, due in September, include previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, and flexible constructor bodies.
Microsoft Build 2024: Cosmos DB for NoSQL gets vector search
Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB.
Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
Microsoft Fabric adds real-time intelligence, workload development kit
Fabric updates announced at Build 2024 also include Snowflake and Databricks integrations and the general availability of Copilot for Power BI.
Microsoft unveils third-party extensions for GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot Extensions from DataStax, Docker, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, and others will be available in the GitHub Marketplace.
Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features
At Build 2024 Microsoft also announced that the Azure AI Studio toolkit for building generative AI applications is generally available.
Microsoft Copilot Studio to build AI agents
Low-code tool kit for creating custom copilots will also gain connectors that allow copilots to use various data sources including public websites.
IBM previews watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications
The generative AI-based code assistant is aimed at accelerating Java application lifecycle with capabilities, such as code generation, code explanation, and test generation.
GitLab unveils GitLab 17, AI for devsecops
GitLab Duo Enterprise will bring AI assistance to finding and fixing vulnerabilities and other aspects of the software development life cycle.
JetBrains releases Aqua IDE for test automation
Polyglot IDE understands Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL and supports the Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright testing frameworks out of the box.
Ruby steps toward frozen string literals
Beginning with Ruby 3.4.0, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment will behave as if they were frozen.
IBM builds out Qiskit quantum computing platform
IBM is extending its quantum development software into a full stack that includes middleware, serverless functions, and AI coding assistance.
Google pitches WebAssembly for Flutter, Dart
Google announces Flutter 3.22 and Dart 3.4 releases, focused on WebAssembly improvements and integration.
Google unveils PaliGemma, announces Gemma 2
PaliGemma is an open vision-language model designed for tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and object detection.
Angular 18 will arrive next week
The next major version of Google’s web framework will move deferred views and built-in control flow from developer preview to stable.
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