Sam Altman and Greg Brockman have announced their return to OpenAI. Last Friday, the company’s board had unexpectedly fired Altman, and co-founder and president Brockman resigned upon learning the news. The two had been announced to be forming a new team at Microsoft, a company that has heavily invested in OpenAI. “i love openai, and … continue reading
Canonical has announced that its chiselled Ubuntu containers are now generally available. These are ultra-small OCI images that just deliver an application and its runtime dependencies, leaving out things like operating system-level packages, utilities, or libraries. According to Canonical, not including unnecessary components in the final image reduces bloat, increases efficiency, and reduces attack surfaces. … continue reading
OpenAI has caused quite the stir over the weekend. On Friday, the board of directors fired CEO Sam Altman, leading to a cascade of events, including OpenAI trying to rehire him, co-founder and president Greg Brockman also resigning, Altman and Brockman joining Microsoft to lead up a new AI research team there, and over 500 … continue reading
The OpenAI board of directors made headlines on Friday when it suddenly removed Sam Altman, the CEO of the company, from his position. Over the weekend, there were several events that happened following the announcements. Board tries to get Altman back immediately Following the announcement of his removal, the OpenAI board very quickly started trying … continue reading
OpenAI’s board of directors has just announced that CEO Sam Altman will be leaving the company after the board voted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” In a statement published by OpenAI, the company said that the board felt that Altman was not consistent in his communications, which … continue reading
JetBrains is officially gearing up for new developments in its Kotlin Multiplatform tool next year, after having announced its first stable release a few weeks ago. The company just released its development roadmap for the tool for 2024. “We’re dedicated to making Compose Multiplatform a framework that allows creating beautiful and performant applications that look … continue reading
Refine is a React framework for developing CRUD applications. Specifically, it is good at being used to build things like internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and business-to-business (B2B) apps. It provides industry standard components for crucial elements of an app, such as authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and internationalization. The framework is headless … continue reading
ServiceNow has released updates to its Now Assist portfolio, which is the company’s generative AI suite. Now Assist in Virtual Agent is a feature that allows users to create and deploy their own chatbots. ServiceNow has added support for Q&A in Knowledge Management and multi-turn conversations that allow customers to provide additional context within the … continue reading
Yesterday, to kick off Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced over 100 new features and products designed to help companies on their AI journeys. Earlier this year, the company announced Copilot for Microsoft 365, and at Ignite the company announced some results of a survey it did on use of the tool. Seventy percent of respondents said … continue reading
The Android development team is making several changes aimed at supporting Android developers and their growth. It is adding new capabilities around creating and managing Google Play listings, including the ability to save listings as drafts, schedule listings to publish at a specific time, and test listings with a portion of your audience. This follows … continue reading
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just published a roadmap for safely and responsibly utilizing AI. This follows President Biden’s Executive Order on AI last month. “In last month’s Executive Order, the President called on DHS to promote the adoption of AI safety standards globally and help ensure the safe, secure, and responsible … continue reading
Microsoft is hosting its annual .NET Conf today through Thursday, and the company has kicked off the event by announcing that .NET 8 is now generally available. “With this release, .NET reshapes the way we build intelligent, cloud-native, applications and high-traffic services that scale on demand,” Gaurav Seth, partner director of product for developer platforms … continue reading
