Tel Aviv – December 11, 2023 – CitrusX exited stealth today, announcing $4.5M in seed funding for their end-to-end AI validation and explainability platform. The round was led by Canadian VC Awz with the participation of several angel investors. As more industries adopt AI, the journey from model development to deployment in production is increasingly becoming a critical bottleneck for … [Read more...]
EU reaches provisional agreement for new AI regulation
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 respect fundamental rights and EU values. This landmark … [Read more...]
Mastering Project Estimation: A Complete Guide
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 … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Purple Llama
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. RELATED CONTENT: IBM and Meta lead … [Read more...]
JetBrains adds AI Assistant to all of its IDEs
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 Zemlyanskaya, team lead for … [Read more...]
HCL Software announces rebrand of DevOps portfolio
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 of product for DevOps at HCL Software, explained that the old … [Read more...]
Ngrok releases new SDK for implementing ingress in Python applications
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 … [Read more...]
IBM and Meta lead 50 other organizations to form global AI Alliance
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 to shape AI’s evolution in a way that reflects the ranging … [Read more...]
Google unveils Gemini, a new multimodal AI model
Google has announced its latest AI model, Gemini, which was built 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 them together. What sets Gemini apart is … [Read more...]
Apiiro extends ASPM platform with supply chain visibility and toxic combination detection
Apiiro, a leading application security posture management (ASPM) solution, today announced the addition of integrated software supply chain security (SSCS) into its platform. Now, Apiiro’s ASPM is extended to natively provide source control manager (SCM) and CI/CD pipeline visibility, risk detection and assessment, and governance. Apiiro’s ultra-connected and holistic approach to software … [Read more...]
Vercel’s new Conformance feature detects issues earlier in development lifecycle
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 breaking things—making quick updates and innovating … [Read more...]
Microsoft unveils upcoming Copilot features
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 testing several new features that will be coming to … [Read more...]
MongoDB releases two new products for building and scaling generative AI applications
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 can build AI … [Read more...]
Why is building an effective Agile product development process so complicated?
I‘ve found that building and maintaining a high-performing Agile product development team is a challenge, whether in startups or large enterprises. I have been in companies where, despite having highly skilled developers and PMs, some teams fail to deliver high-quality work at a good pace. We tried everything to improve performance, but nothing worked. But once in a while, you do find … [Read more...]
Android Studio Hedgehog is stable and includes new features for developer productivity
The Android development team has announced the latest stable release of its IDE for building Android apps, Android Studio. This update aims to enhance app performance and battery life, facilitate easier application upgrades to the latest Android version, and speed up development using Jetpack Compose. The release, known as Android Studio Hedgehog, is designed to boost developer productivity, … [Read more...]
OMG announces new communities to provide technologies with resources, knowledge
The Object Management Group (OMG) is trying to provide support and direction to its members by launching a new community where they can receive insights and best practices for the latest technologies. The Managed Communities Program will include a number of communities around specific interests, the first of which is the OMG Systems Modeling Community (SMC). SMC provides a forum for sharing … [Read more...]
Analyst View: 5 Actions for Software Engineering Teams to Leverage AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how software engineering teams design, build and test applications. AI can automate much of today’s mundane software development tasks. It can also help software engineers produce code more quickly. AI coding assistants can reduce the amount of time and effort software engineers spend on programming tasks, such as typing boilerplate code, as well as … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dify.ai
Dify.AI is an open-source platform for developing generative AI applications. According to the GitHub page, one core aspect of Dify.AI is it supports model neutrality and developers can use any LLM with it. “Users can effortlessly connect Dify with their existing workflows or other open-source systems through its API, which facilitates quick data sharing and automates workflows. The … [Read more...]
Despite layoffs, software engineering and quality assurance skills remain in-demand
According to data from Layoffs.fyi, over 250,000 tech employees were laid off across over 1,100 companies in the past year. Despite this, over 23,000 development vacancies still exist on company websites, according to a report from Qt Group. The company explained that there were a lot of redundancies reported in 2023, and that many layoffs were the result of re-prioritization efforts. For … [Read more...]
A guide to low-code vendors that incorporate generative AI capabilities
The following is a listing of low-code vendors that incorporate generative AI capabilities, along with a brief description of their offerings. FEATURED PROVIDER Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the … [Read more...]
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