A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Ashan Willy joins New Relic as CEO Willy’s appointment came into effect on December 4, 2023. He brings with him 25 years of experience in go-to-market, engineering, product management, and global strategy and planning. Previously … continue reading
In 2023, AI technologies made their way through the hype cycle. Companies researched it, maybe experimented with it, or at the very least, certainly spent a lot of time talking about it. In 2024, it will be time to actually take the lessons learned from those experiments and begin implementing these technologies in real ways, … continue reading
To say 2023 was a year taken up mostly by AI would be a massive understatement. Following the release of ChatGPT at the very end of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023. According to Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million active users by January 2023, which was just two months after it launched. … continue reading
OpenAI shared that it has created the Preparedness Framework to help track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks associated with advanced AI models that will exist in the future, or frontier models. The Preparedness Framework is currently in beta, and it covers the actions OpenAI will take to safely develop and deploy frontier models. … continue reading
Vercel, creator of the Next.js framework, has announced that the beta for its v0 offering is now accessible to everyone. It has removed the waitlist, opening it up to the 100K+ people that were previously waitlisted. First announced in October 2023, v0 is a generative AI product that allows you to easily create web interface … continue reading
OpenAI is announcing a new grant program to help companies who are working on making superintelligent systems safe, as the company believes superintelligence could be achieved within the next decade. According to the company, these advanced systems will “be capable of complex and creative behaviors that humans cannot fully understand.” The current technique for ensuring … continue reading
It’s no surprise that slow development processes are costing companies greatly, but by how much? According to a new report by the mobile testing company Kobiton, 75% of respondents said slow mobile app releases cost their company at least $100,000 each year, and 13% said it costs them between $1 million and $10 million every … continue reading
It’s easy to convert a physical address, like 12 Main Street, into its latitude and longitude coordinates, but for many businesses there are situations where you’d want to do the opposite: get the closest physical address of those coordinates. “No one says let’s pull up the property value for latitude 42, longitude 80. They say … continue reading
Google is announcing the general availability of Duet AI for Developers, a developer specific implementation of Duet AI, which is a conversational AI service. Duet AI for Developers is an AI-based coding assistance tool that integrates directly into your IDE. It offers developers capabilities like code completion, code generation, chat, and Smart Actions, which are … continue reading
After announcing its new multimodal AI model Gemini last week, Google is making several announcements today to enable developers to build with it. When first announced, Google said that Gemini will come in three different versions, each tailored to a different size or complexity requirement. In order from largest to smallest, Gemini is available in … continue reading
The professional development company Dale Carnegie just published results of its survey where it set out to determine the qualities that separate highly effective teams. Using the 2,650 responses to its survey, it was able to narrow down seven recommendations to build a high performing team. Define a clear purpose and vision Teams must have … continue reading
Over the weekend, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators concluded three days of talks to reach a provisional agreement on a proposal for regulating AI in the European Union (EU). “The draft regulation aims to ensure that AI systems placed on the European market and used in the EU are safe and … continue reading
