Year in review: Generative AI takes the tech world by storm

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

Bugcrowd announces rating taxonomy for LLMs

Bugcrowd has announced updates to its Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which categorizes and prioritizes crowdsourced vulnerabilities.  The new update specifically addresses vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) for the first time. The VRT is an open-source initiative aiming to standardize how suspected vulnerabilities reported by hackers are classified.  “This new release of VRT not only … continue reading

OpenAI creates a framework for understanding and dealing with the risks of advanced AI models

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 removes waitlist for generative AI tool for creating UI components

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

Reveille 10 software update includes better ECM operations with PostgreSQL support

Reveille 10 is designed to optimize the customer experience for business-critical applications reliant on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms, according to the company in a post.  This release addresses the management challenges organizations face with expanding intelligent automation programs, offering increased visibility into ECM operations and expediting the recovery of automated issues.  Among the noteworthy … continue reading

OpenAI announces Superalignment grant fund to support research into evaluating superintelligent systems

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

Google announces next step in plan to phase out cookies

Google is testing Tracking Protection for Chrome as a feature that limits cross-site tracking. This new feature is part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative to responsibly phase out third-party cookies, which involves creating new tools for sites that serve essential functions and granting developers time to adapt.  The introduction of Tracking Protection begins with a … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ScreenLink

ScreenLink works as an open-source alternative to the screen capture tool, Loom, and it enables users to create and share screen recording demos for customers, support teams, and more in minutes. Users can easily create tutorials and presentations through screen recording, and they can record from their camera and microphone alongside their screen for more … continue reading

Report: Slow mobile app releases cost over $100,000 in lost revenue per year for 75% of companies

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

Using GPS location to obtain or target physical locations

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

Microsoft releases second preview of Visual Studio 17.9

Microsoft announced Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2, which includes improvements to the C++ and .NET MAUI development experiences.  Users can now highlight a piece of code and automatically surround that selection with bracket delimiters, such as “double quotes”, ‘single quotes’, and (parentheses), whereas previously they had to manually input both sides. To enable or disable … continue reading

Copado is bringing generative AI to DevOps with beta for CopadoGPT

Copado, a provider of a Salesforce DevOps platform, has expanded the beta program for its AI platform, CopadoGPT, to all customers after successful internal validation.  CopadoGPT serves as a cross-platform intelligence layer that provides advice and recommendations on Salesforce DevOps best practices, accelerating test generation, enriching user stories, and generating release notes.  The company created … continue reading

Google’s Duet AI for Developers is now generally available

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

Google’s Gemini Pro now available to developers via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI

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

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