To enable companies to more easily incrementally adopt GraphQL without needing to overhaul their existing systems, Apollo GraphQL has announced a public preview of Apollo Connectors, which enables developers to turn a REST API into a GraphQL endpoint. According to the company, this helps to bridge the gap between REST architectures and GraphQL deployments, which … continue reading
Over the last year, Atlassian has been introducing a number of AI enhancements across its products to help users be even more productive, such as generative AI in Confluence and Jira, suggestions on how to break down large projects, and AI generated automation rules. Additionally, earlier this year, the company announced Atlassian Rovo, a generative … continue reading
The collaboration workspace platform Miro has announced a new evolution of its platform called the Innovation Workspace, which the company says is the most significant update to the platform since 2012. According to the company, other productivity apps follow a document-first or task-first approach, while Miro follows a canvas-first approach. This makes it easier to … continue reading
Having the correct customer information in your databases is necessary for a number of reasons, but especially when it comes to active contact information like email addresses or phone numbers. “Data errors cost users time, effort, and money to resolve, so validating phone numbers allows users to spend those valuable resources elsewhere,” explained John DeMatteo, … continue reading
Microsoft has announced and is open-sourcing a new data processing system called Drasi that can detect and react to changes in complex systems. This new project “simplifies the automation of intelligent reactions in dynamic systems, delivering real-time actionable insights without the overhead of traditional data processing methods,” Mark Russinovich, CTO, deputy chief information security officer, … continue reading
OpenAI now offers a more collaborative way of interacting with ChatGPT. ChatGPT Canvas is a new interface for conversations that makes it easier to iterate on a writing or coding project. When triggered, it opens a separate window where ChatGPT and the user can collaborate side by side. “People use ChatGPT every day for help … continue reading
The process of coming up with an official Open Source AI Definition has been progressing along, and now the Open Source Initiative (OSI) — the group that has been spearheading this effort — has announced Release Candidate 1 for the definition. The OSI started the process of creating this definition back in 2022, and for … continue reading
MongoDB has announced the release of the latest version of its database platform—MongoDB 8.0. According to the company, this release offers significant performance improvements compared to MongoDB 7.0, such as 36% better read throughput, 56% faster bulk writes, 20% faster concurrent writes during replication, and 200% faster handling of higher volumes of time series data, … continue reading
OpenAI held its annual DevDay conference yesterday, where it announced its Realtime API, as well as features like prompt caching, vision fine-tuning, and model distillation. The Realtime API is designed for building low-latency, multimodal experiences, and it’s now available as a public beta. The company shared a couple of examples of companies that are using … continue reading
Liquid AI, an AI startup spun out from MIT, has announced its first series of generative AI models, which it refers to as Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs). “Our mission is to create best-in-class, intelligent, and efficient systems at every scale – systems designed to process large amounts of sequential multimodal data, to enable advanced reasoning, … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Veeam appoints Niraj Tolia as new CTO Tolia is joining the company after being CEO and co-founder of the data management startup, Alcion, which was acquired by Veeam earlier this month. Before co-founding Alcion, he … continue reading
The testing platform BrowserStack has announced the general availability of a new solution designed to help mobile app testers make their apps more inclusive and accessible. App Accessibility Testing finds accessibility issues early on in the mobile app development process so that developers can take a more proactive approach to fixing these issues. It requires … continue reading
