The professional development company Dale Carnegie just published results of its survey where it set out to determine the qualities that separate highly effective teams. Using the 2,650 responses to its survey, it was able to narrow down seven recommendations to build a high performing team. Define a clear purpose and vision Teams must have … continue reading
Microsoft revealed the addition of a new series, “Generative AI for Innovators,” to the AI Kick-off Projects collection, which is a collection of projects that use AI that students can learn from. This series is designed for aspiring AI entrepreneurs, providing them with guidance on utilizing the capabilities of AI, including tools like GPT-4 and … continue reading
Atlassian announced that the first wave of Atlassian Intelligence capabilities is generally available across its cloud platform. “Our mission at Atlassian is to unleash the potential of every team. We believe the future of teamwork will be a partnership between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), wherever work gets done,” the company wrote in a blog … continue reading
Over the weekend, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators concluded three days of talks to reach a provisional agreement on a proposal for regulating AI in the European Union (EU). “The draft regulation aims to ensure that AI systems placed on the European market and used in the EU are safe and … continue reading
Project estimation holds a pivotal role in the domain of project management. It entails foreseeing the labor, time, and resources necessary to achieve project completion. This vital step significantly bolsters a team’s capacity to manage their workflow efficiently and set feasible expectations. Project estimation offers transparency regarding resource prerequisites, allowing managers to assess the viability … continue reading
Meta’s AI team has announced the release of a new project called Purple Llama that will include tools and evaluations to assist in responsibly building AI models. The components within Purple Llama will be released with a permissive license to enable collaboration by the community and to help standardize the development of trust and safety tools. … continue reading
JetBrains has introduced an AI Assistant in all of its IDEs, with availability in other JetBrains products expected soon. “Empowering developers with AI-backed features supports the long-standing mission of JetBrains: to improve your experience by automating common and repetitive tasks, enabling you to stay in the flow and focus on the big picture,” said Svetlana … continue reading
HCL Software has announced it has renamed its DevOps portfolio to better align products with their core functionality. The company hopes that with this rebrand, it will be easier for customers to navigate the portfolio and get to the right product. The company recently hosted a webinar to announce the changes, where Chris Haggan, head … continue reading
The ingress platform ngrok has announced the release of ngrok-python, which is an SDK that enables developers to implement ingress in their Python applications. This allows Python developers to serve their apps through ngrok’s network without much configuration. The SDK creates a secure, persistent connection to ngrok’s ingress-as-a-service platform, and then ngrok transmits the application’s … continue reading
IBM and Meta have come together — along with 50 other organizations — to form the AI Alliance, “a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI.” By bringing together a diverse set of types of organizations, the AI Alliance hopes … continue reading
Google has announced its latest AI model, Gemini, which was built from the start to be multimodal so that it could interpret information in multiple formats, spanning text, code, audio, image, and video. According to Google, the typical approach for creating a multimodal model involves training components for different information formats separately and then combining … continue reading
Vercel is releasing new features in its Developer Experience Platform to enable development teams to “move fast, don’t break things.” “As organizations grow, it can become hard to sustain fast release cycles without diminishing code health and letting errors slip into production. It shouldn’t be this way. We should be able to move fast without … continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced it would be bringing together several of its separate AI products — including Bing Chat and the AI capabilities in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, and Windows — under the single umbrella of Microsoft Copilot to provide a more unified experience. Now the company is announcing it has started … continue reading
The database company MongoDB has announced new capabilities to enable companies to better leverage generative AI. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search is now generally available, which allows customers to build generative AI into their applications based on their own data. This enables the AI to provide accurate, relevant responses for a specific organization or domain. Customers … continue reading
