NVIDIA has announced that its researchers have developed a new generative AI model capable of creating audio from text or audio prompts. Fugatto, which is short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1, can create music from text prompts, remove or add instruments from existing audio, or even change the accent or emotion in a … continue reading
OpenAI has just made a number of announcements that developers working with its products ought to know about. First, the company announced that the API and ChatGPT now have access to the latest GPT-4o snapshot: gpt-4o-2024-11-20. This snapshot features better creative writing ability, with more natural, engaging, and tailored responses. Its ability to work with … continue reading
With all the potential benefits promised by the use of AI, it’s no wonder companies are wanting to get in on the action. But a new survey from Capital One reveals a stark disconnect between how confident business leaders are in their company’s ability to implement AI and how the technology professionals actually implementing the … continue reading
Microsoft’s annual development and IT conference, Microsoft Ignite, kicked off this morning, with announcements ranging from updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot to a new bug bounty event for AI vulnerabilities. Here is a list of some of the highlights from the event: Microsoft 365 Copilot updates The company announced several new capabilities across Microsoft 365 … continue reading
Anthropic is making it easier for developers to leverage best practices of prompt engineering by adding a feature for improving prompts and allowing example responses to be managed within the Anthropic Console. According to Anthropic, while prompt quality is important, it can be time-consuming to implement best practices, and those best practices might also vary … continue reading
JetBrains has announced the 2024.3 releases of its AI Assistant and several of its IDEs. AI Assistant 2024.3 adds support for Gemini models, enabling users to now choose between models from Gemini or OpenAI, or use local models. The assistant also now offers advanced code completion, enhanced context management, and inline prompt generation. “We’re excited … continue reading
Companies that are successfully maximizing their AI investments are seeing at least a 25% improvement in their revenue growth rate, according to a new report from IBM. The company surveyed 2,000 companies across the U.S., U.K, India, Japan, and Germany, and categorized 15% as AI Leaders who are ahead of their peers and the other … continue reading
GitHub Copilot’s chat functionality is being updated to provide developers guidance on how to reword their prompts so that they can get better responses. Microsoft shared that user feedback on GitHub Copilot indicated that some developers struggle with creating prompts, including understanding phrasing and what context to include. “In some cases, the experience left users … continue reading
One of Google’s security research initiatives, Project Zero, has successfully managed to detect a zero-day memory safety vulnerability using LLM assisted detection. “We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software,” the team wrote in a post. Project Zero is … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot is now integrated with Data Wrangler, an extension for VS Code for viewing, cleaning, and preparing data. By integrating GitHub Copilot capabilities into the tool, users will now be able to clean and transform data in VS Code with natural language prompts. It will also be able to provide … continue reading
The API management platform WSO2 has announced a slew of new updates aimed at helping customers manage APIs in a technology landscape increasingly dependent on AI and Kubernetes. The updates span the releases of WSO2 API Manager 4.4, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (APK) 1.2, and WSO2 API Microgateway 3.2, which are all available today. … continue reading
IBM is releasing a family of AI agents (IBM SWE-Agent 1.0) that are powered by open LLMs and can resolve GitHub issues automatically, freeing up developers to work on other things rather than getting bogged down by their backlog of bugs that need fixing. “For most software developers, every day starts with where the last … continue reading
