President Biden today signed an Executive Order to facilitate building the infrastructure needed for AI. Its goal is to enable the country to set up the necessary infrastructure for AI while balancing environmental concerns. “We will not let America be out-built when it comes to the technology that will define the future, nor should we … continue reading
The Biden administration today announced new rules regarding exportation of AI chips to 120 countries, according to reports from the Associated Press (AP). The NY Times clarified that the framework divides countries into three categories: The U.S. and its 18 closest allies (including Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan), countries already under a … continue reading
The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is experiencing a transformative moment in voice technology. Anthropic’s recent release demonstrates breakthrough capabilities in natural conversation, with an enhanced ability to understand context and nuanced speech patterns. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s latest developments focus on more human-like voice synthesis and improved recognition across diverse accents and speaking styles. These advancements signal … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has launched the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative in an effort to fund open development of projects within the Chromium ecosystem. The initiative will offer a neutral space for tech companies, academia, developers, and the open source community to come together and work on these projects. The Linux Foundation hopes it will … continue reading
The latest feature drop for Android Studio Ladybug is now available, adding in several new ways to interact with Gemini. Gemini Code Transforms can modify, optimize, or add code to an app by right-clicking in the editor and selecting the Gemini > Generate Code option or highlighting code and selecting Gemini > Transform Selected Code. … continue reading
CISA, the government agency tasked with securing the U.S.’ cyber and physical infrastructure, has released new Information Technology (IT) Sector-Specific Goals (SSGs). According to the organization, the IT SSGs complement Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) and offer “additional voluntary practices with high-impact security actions.” Organizations can use them to improve the security of their software … continue reading
Software testing company Code Intelligence today announced Spark, an AI test agent that can identify bugs and vulnerabilities without human interaction. In its beta period, for instance, Spark found a vulnerability in WolfSSL where the only human involvement was running a single command to launch the agent. The agent handled analyzing the code, generating a … continue reading
Google has announced the availability of a public developer beta for Android for its Home APIs, which enable developers to create experiences for Google Home devices, such as smart speakers, thermostats, lights, and plugs. The Home APIs were first announced last year at Google I/O, with the goal of opening up access to the ecosystem … continue reading
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
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) software – meaning solutions that teams use to build, test and deploy applications – has come a long way over the past decade. Whereas organizations once cobbled together CI/CD pipelines using disparate open source tools, they now have a plethora of end-to-end, vendor-supported enterprise CI/CD platforms that they can use instead. … continue reading
AI has the potential to speed up the software development process, but is it possible that it’s adding additional time to the process when it comes to the long-term maintenance of that code? In a recent episode of the podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Tanner Burson, vice president of engineering at Prismatic, to … continue reading
Artificial intelligence is very effective at answering questions, based on the data upon which it was trained. It is, however, still quite limited in what it can do. For instance, you could ask AI to book a flight reservation to Paris, with a seat in economy plus, and to give you an itinerary once you … 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
