The AI platform Dataiku is making it easier for customers to ensure they are complying with the EU AI Act, which is a regulatory framework for AI passed late last year, which companies will have 12 to 36 months to comply with. The new law classifies different AI use cases based on potential risk to … continue reading
Apache Pinot is an open-source analytics platform that utilizes an OLAP database to provide low-latency insights into large amounts of data. OLAP stands for Online Analytical Processing and is a method in which data from multiple sources can be used together, allowing companies to group data from websites, applications, internal systems, and more together for … continue reading
Anthropic has just released an update to its AI assistant Claude that will make it much more powerful, as the model now has the ability to interact with external tools and APIs. According to Anthropic, this will enable Claude to perform complex tasks, manipulate data, and provide more dynamic responses. For example, it can pull … continue reading
The CI/CD platform provider Harness has announced its plans to acquire the feature management company Split Software. By incorporating Split Software’s capabilities into its platform, Harness will be able to offer a software release platform where developers can not only release software, but run A/B tests and measure adoption of specific features. With the acquisition, … continue reading
OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee as it begins training its next frontier model. Over the next 90 days, the committee will begin evaluating the company’s current processes and safeguards. Then, it will share its findings with OpenAI’s Board, which will then share the updated recommendations publicly. The overall goal of the … continue reading
AI company QX Lab AI has announced the launch of Ask QX Pro, which is a multimodal generative AI platform, designed specifically for use in European regions. It builds on the company’s existing platform, Ask QX, and adds multimodal capabilities such as text to image, image to text, document analysis, and text to code. This … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation has just announced its largest release ever of Eclipse Temurin, which is an open source build of Java based on OpenJDK, otherwise known as Eclipse Adoptium. The new release supports 54 different platform and version combinations and five major versions of OpenJDK. According to the Eclipse Foundation, this flexibility highlights the organization’s … continue reading
GitHub has announced the second cohort of GitHub Accelerator, which is a program that funds and supports chosen open-source projects. Each project receives $400,000 in support, broken down into $40,000 in non-dilutive sponsorship funding from GitHub Sponsors and $350,000 in Microsoft benefits, such as Azure and OpenAI credits, free Copilot and GitHub projects, and connection … continue reading
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), which is a Linux Foundation project devoted to improving open source software security, has announced a collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation’s Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group to work on the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) establishes security requirements for hardware and software products for sale … continue reading
Apple has just announced it redesigned its developer forums to make it easier to navigate and get connected with Apple experts and other developers to get answers to questions. The redesign comes just in advance of WWDC24, which is Apple’s annual developer conference. The forums are now organized by larger topics in order to help … continue reading
Phi-3 is a family of open source small language models developed and made available by Microsoft. “Small language models are designed to perform well for simpler tasks, are more accessible and easier to use for organizations with limited resources, and they can be more easily fine-tuned to meet specific needs. They are well suited for … continue reading
JetBrains has just released Kotlin 2.0, which it says is a major update to the programming language. It was announced at KotlinConf 2024, happening May 22-24, which is an event full of talks about using Kotlin. “Today we are excited to release Kotlin 2.0 with a stable K2 compiler, which is multiplatform from the ground … continue reading
