OpenAI has announced the availability of a new feature in ChatGPT to allow customers to make the chatbot fit their needs. Custom instructions can now be used to add preferences or requirements for ChatGPT to use when generating responses. Custom instructions can be applied to all future conversations, eliminating the need to restate these requirements … continue reading
Unity is a popular game engine, which has now expanded beyond video games to technologies related to virtual reality, automotive, and architecture. For now the Unity extension is available in preview. According to Microsoft, the extension builds on the C# Dev Kit that was released earlier this year, and other C# extensions. “With this extension, … continue reading
Chaindesk (previously called Databerry) is an open-source no-code platform for building your own large language model (LLM) agent. Data can be loaded from any source, making it easy to make a chat agent that is specific to your data. Potential sources include text, PDF, Excel, Notion, Airtable, Word, and more. Chaindesk connects these sources with … continue reading
OWASP, the organization known for its list of the top 10 security vulnerabilities in software, has just published version 1.0 of a new top 10 list devoted to risks related to large language model (LLM) applications. “The frenzy of interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) following of mass-market pretrained chatbots in late 2022 has been … continue reading
The developer security company Sonar has announced an update to its platform, which will make it even easier for developers to write what Sonar calls “Clean Code,” or code that is “easy to read, maintain, understand and change through structure and consistency yet remains robust and secure to withstand performance demands.” The company has added … continue reading
Synopsys is working to make it easier for security teams to align their strategy across different projects, teams, and application security testing (AST) tools. They have released the Synopsys Software Risk Manager, which brings together security testing engines with policy-driven test orchestration and vulnerability management. According to Synopsys, Software Risk Manager allows teams to centrally … continue reading
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA have teamed up with the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). This new alliance will focus on promoting the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Universal Scene Description (USD) technology, which is something Pixar developed to allow for the interchange of 3D data. … continue reading
Dell has announced it is expanding its offerings to provide customers with generative AI capabilities. These new capabilities expand on the previously announced Project Helix, which is a collaboration with NVIDIA providing capabilities to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models. One of the new capabilities, Dell Validated Design, is also in … continue reading
The API management company Gravitee has announced new tools for API management in its latest release. Customers will now be able to create and expose a number of types of APIs from the Gravitee API creation wizard. These include REST APIs, WebSocket APIs, Webhook subscriptions, gRPC APIs, SSE APIs, GraphQL APIs, Kafka topics, MQTT topics … continue reading
Last week, seven companies convened at the White House and committed to developing AI technology in a way that is safe, secure, and transparent. Now, four of those companies — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — have announced that they have teamed up to launch the Frontier Model Forum, an industry organization dedicated to safely … continue reading
Stack Overflow is leveraging the millions of questions and responses on its platform to create new AI-based capabilities that can make better use of this information and provide developers with solutions to their problems faster. “For the last fifteen years, developers have come to Stack Overflow to get a solution to a specific problem. With … continue reading
Last year, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom joined forces to launch the Overture Maps Foundation and create “reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.” Now nearly eight months later the group is releasing its first open map dataset. The new dataset includes four data layers: places of interest (POIs), buildings, transportation network, and administrative boundaries. … continue reading
