The low-code company Qt Group has announced a new platform for creating software for use cases like manufacturing, mobility, consumer electronics, and more. According to Qt, this new offering, Qt Accelerate, is ideal for companies that must create proof-of-concepts and then deploy them quickly. The new platform provides packages of pre-designed templates that users can take … continue reading
Companies are planning to invest more heavily in AI skills and security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives this upcoming year, according to new research from O’Reilly. The company’s Technology Trends for 2025 report analyzed data from 2.8 million users on its learning platform. The research shows significant increases in interest in various AI skills, including … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Intel names two interim co-CEOs after ousting of Pat Gelsinger It was reported that Intel’s board was unhappy with the results Gelsinger was bringing for the company, such … continue reading
High-quality data is the key to a successful AI project, but it appears that many IT leaders aren’t taking the necessary steps to ensure data quality. This is according to a new report from Hitachi Vantara, the State of Data Infrastructure Survey, which includes responses from 1,200 IT decision makers from 15 countries. The report … continue reading
GitHub has announced a free tier of GitHub Copilot to expand the platform’s reach to more developers. “We couldn’t be more excited to make Copilot available to the 150M developers on GitHub,” Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, wrote in a post. The free tier provides access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per … continue reading
OpenAI announced several new capabilities for developers, including the availability of OpenAI o1 in the API and updates to the Realtime API. OpenAI o1 is the company’s reasoning model for complex multi-step tasks, and it has begun rolling out to developers on the API’s usage tier 5. Some key capabilities enabled by o1 include function … continue reading
The AI coding assistant provider Tabnine today announced a new feature, Code Provenance and Attribution, to protect companies from unintentionally adding restrictively licensed code into their codebase when using generative AI to write code. The new feature checks AI-generated code against public GitHub repositories to find matches, and flags the license type of the original … continue reading
JetBrains has released its annual State of Developer Ecosystem report, highlighting the trends across software development. This year the report includes a new section called the Language Promise Index, which ranks languages by growth, stability, and adoption willingness. Across the board since 2017, JavaScript has topped the list, with 61% of users programming in that … continue reading
Google has announced the launch of the latest model in the Gemini family, as well as a new coding agent for developers called Jules. Gemini comes in two different model variants, with Flash balancing performance with speed and Pro optimizing for performance. The newest model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is twice as fast as Gemini 1.5 … continue reading
OpenSilver 3.1 has been released, bringing new features to the open source framework for building web apps using .NET. These include a drag-and-drop XAML designer for VS code, a more modern UI theme, expanded support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) features, and full compatibility with .NET 9. The new drag-and-drop XAML designer in VS Code … continue reading
The data information and analytics company LexisNexis today announced the launch of Nexis Data+, a new API that provides access to corporate, legal, financial, and compliance data, as well as generative AI-approved licensed news content. Developers and data analysts will be able to integrate that data into their existing tools, platforms, AI models, and workflows … continue reading
OpenAI has announced the release of its Usage API, which provides developers with insights into activity across the OpenAI API, allowing them to better track costs. Developers can monitor token usage by the minute, hour, or day, and filter usage by invoice line item, API key, project ID, user ID, model, and more. The Usage … continue reading
