During a livestream today, OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according … continue reading
Elastic has announced the release of Log Essentials, providing SREs and developers with capabilities for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and alerting on logs. It is designed to enable developers to access observability capabilities without needing to manage the operations, upgrades, or tuning. “SREs need a hassle-free, scale-as-you-go, high-availability logging solution that empowers them to focus entirely … continue reading
OpenAI is joining the open weight model game with the launch of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. Gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production, high reasoning use cases, and gpt-oss-20b is designed for lower latency or local use cases. According to the company, these open models are comparable to its closed models in terms of performance and capability, but … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet. .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in. With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core … continue reading
Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and … continue reading
More and more developers are adopting AI, but the trust they have in its outputs is getting worse and worse over the years. This is according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses from 49,000 developers across 177 countries. This year, 84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI … continue reading
Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and tools, using natural language and visual editing. “Opal is a great tool to accelerate … continue reading
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available The model is Google’s fastest and cheapest model, costing $0.10/1M tokens for input and $0.40/1M tokens for output (compared to $1.25/1M tokens for input and $10/1M tokens for output in Gemini 2.5 Pro). “We built 2.5 Flash-Lite to push the frontier of intelligence per dollar, with native reasoning … continue reading
Google is adding several new features to its cloud-based AI workspace Firebase Studio, following its update a few weeks ago when it added new Agent modes, support for MCP, and integration with the Gemini CLI. Now it is announcing updated workspace templates for Flutter, Angular, React, Next.js, and general Web that use the Agent mode … continue reading
Tenable is updating its Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) method of scoring vulnerabilities to enable organizations to focus their efforts on the most critical and impactful vulnerabilities. According to the company, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which is used by the CVE database, flags 60% of vulnerabilities as high or critical. When Tenable VPR was launched … continue reading
Google is hoping to improve public trust in open source projects with the launch of a new open source project called OSS Rebuild that reproduces upstream artifacts and compares the new package with the original artifact. According to Google, this process enables customers to verify a package’s origin, understand and repeat its build process, and … continue reading
Parasoft is helping customers address the unique requirements for testing AI with several new capabilities across its various testing solutions. The company added an agentic AI assistant to its virtual testing simulation solution Virtualize, allowing customers to create virtual services using natural language prompts. For example, a user could write the prompt: “Create a virtual … continue reading
