A number of companies have announced the formation of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), a group dedicated to addressing the security risks related to using AI. CoSAI was founded by Amazon, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Cohere, GenLab, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Paypal and Wiz. It will be hosted at the standards body OASIS … continue reading
DevPod is a tool for creating and managing development environments without needing a server-side setup. It can be used as an open-source alternative to GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains Spaces, or Google Cloud Workstations. Environments run in containers and can be spun up wherever there is a need, such as on a local computer, a cloud machine … continue reading
While the occurrence of software supply chain attacks just keeps getting worse every year, there appears to be a disconnect among leaders on the importance of securing those supply chains. According to research from IDC, there has been a 241% increase year-over-year in supply chain attacks, but a new survey from JFrog had only 30% … continue reading
The visual collaboration company Miro has announced the launch of Intelligent Canvas, an AI-based idea generation platform. “Miro’s Intelligent Canvas is built to support business processes well beyond the brainstorming phase,” Jeff Chow, CPTO of Miro. “It combines AI, composable workflows, and a more intuitive, interactive experience to drive higher team productivity. Miro’s canvas is … continue reading
Infragistics, a provider of various UI controls and components, has announced several new features in its low-code platform App Builder. The editor can now generate React code, which has been a highly requested capability by the community, according to Infragistics. With this addition, App Builder now covers all of the major web frameworks. “Whether you … continue reading
UserTesting has announced the latest release of its platform that helps developers gain insights into their customer base. The platform now offers branching logic, which allows developers to create surveys that adapt questions based on responses to previous questions. Image tasks and matrix questions have also now been added as new question types in surveys, … continue reading
OpenText is releasing a new static application security testing (SAST) tool called Fortify Aviator designed to change the way developers manage application security. Fortify Aviator uses AI to provide intelligent code fix suggestions based on analysis of the existing codebase, which significantly reduces the time developers need to spend on remediating issues. According to the … continue reading
GraphRAG is an open source research project out of Microsoft for creating knowledge graphs from datasets that can be used in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG is an approach in which data is fed into an LLM to give more accurate responses. For instance, a company might use RAG to be able to use its own … continue reading
Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was giving up its observer board seat at OpenAI, a company it has invested over $10 billion in and whose AI models are heavily integrated across the Microsoft product line. Microsoft’s board seat was a nonvoting seat, meaning they were only on it to observe what the board was doing. The … continue reading
Developers today are responsible for a lot more than the developers of 10 years ago were. Not only do they write code, but they’re managing quality, security, incidents, observability, infrastructure, and more. This has led to a lot of tool sprawl in development environments. Developers need an IDE to write the code, an incident management … continue reading
Amazon hosted its annual AWS Summit today in NYC where it announced several updates related to its generative AI offerings. Here are the highlights from today’s event: AWS App Studio now in preview AWS App Studio is a no-code platform for building applications using generative AI, without having to have any software development knowledge. For … continue reading
Anthropic’s developer Console now allows developers to generate, test, and evaluate AI prompts, allowing them to ultimately improve response quality. Claude 3.5 Sonnet introduced a built-in prompt generator that allows a user to describe a task and have Claude convert it into a high-quality prompt. For example, they could describe that they need to triage … continue reading
