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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
At InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) hype. The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI.
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Generative AI Capabilities for Logic Apps Standard with Azure OpenAI and AI Search Connectors
Microsoft has announced that the Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors for Logic Apps Standard are now generally available, following an earlier public preview. These connectors are fully integrated into Azure Integration Services, providing developers with powerful tools to enhance application functionality with advanced AI capabilities.
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Mistral Introduces AI Code Generation Model Codestral
Mistral AI has unveiled Codestral, its first code-focused AI model. Codestral helps the developers with coding tasks offering efficiency and accuracy in code generation.
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Recap of MSBuild 2024: Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, GPT-4o on Azure AI
Microsoft recently held its annual MSBuild developer conference, where it made several significant announcements, including updates to its AI capabilities, focusing on Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, and GPT-4o now available on Azure AI.
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University of Washington AI-Powered Headphones Let Users Listen to a Single Person in a Crowd
"Target speech hearing" is a new deep-learning algorithm developed at the University of Washington to allow users to "enroll" a speaker and cancel all environmental noise surrounding their voice.
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Recap of Google I/O 2024: Gemini 1.5, Project Astra, AI-powered Search Engine
Google recently hosted its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2024, where numerous announcements were made regarding Google’s apps and services. As anticipated, AI was a focal point of the event, being incorporated into almost all Google products. Here is a summary of the major announcements from the event.
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Rider 2024.1: New Monitoring Tool Window, Collection Vizualizer, .NET Aspire, AI Assistant Plugin
JetBrains has released Rider 2024.1. This release contains a new monitoring tool window and a collection visualizer. There also appeared the plugins: .Net Aspire, AI Assistant and features regarding debugging.
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Technical Preview of Github Copilot Workspace: Copilot-Native Developer Environment
Recently, GitHub released a technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace, a developer environment built on GPT-4 Turbo explicitly designed for Copilot. This workspace lets developers quickly brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code using natural language.
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Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Developer Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Q a generative AI-powered assistant tailored for businesses and developers. Amazon Q Developer provides code suggestions and recommendations in real time, while Amazon Q Business enables companies to get insights from structured and unstructured data.
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People, Planet, Cloud and AI: Key Takeaways from QCon London
This year’s QCon London brought a wealth of talks directly or indirectly related to software architecture, ranging from the rise of AI to more established areas like anything cloud-related to the usual classics like architecture quality traits . The conference also featured many talks about sociotechnical aspects of software architecture and engineering and broadly considered sustainability.
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is Now Generally Available with AI Features
Confluent announced last month the general availability (GA) of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink. This fully-managed service enables real-time data processing and the creation of high-quality, reusable data streams. The service is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution
During her presentation at QCon London, Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of explosion.ai (the maker of spaCy), stated that economies of scale are not enough to create monopolies in the AI space and that open-source techniques and models will allow everybody to keep up with the “Gen AI revolution”.
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Enhancing Developer Experience for Creating Artificial Intelligence Applications
For one company, large language models created a breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) by shifting to crafting prompts and utilizing APIs without a need for AI science expertise. To enhance developer experience and craft applications and tools, they defined and established principles around simplicity, immediate accessibility, security and quality, and cost efficiency.
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Devnexus 2024 Celebrates 20 Years of Java Developer Conferences
Celebrating its 20th year, Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on tracks such as: Agile; Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Technology; Core Java; Jakarta EE; Core Java; and Security.
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Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches
At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castlepoint Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools help with the ever-increasing data volumes as long as ethical principles are considered, allowing decisions to be challenged.