Google has rolled out new upgrades to Opal, its low-code AI-based application builder, aimed at significantly improving debugging capabilities and its overall performance, as part of its push to streamline AI app development for non-experts. Opal, which was first introduced by Google’s Labs division in July in public beta, was billed as an experimental low-code

Qualcomm will acquire Arduino, the open-source hardware and software platform popular with millions of developers, in a move aimed at expanding its reach into the robotics, IoT, and AI edge ecosystems. The company said Arduino will keep its independent brand and mission, while new offerings such as the Qualcomm-powered Arduino UNO Q and the AppLab

React, a popular open source JavaScript library for web and native user interfaces, will be transferred from Meta to the React Foundation, a new organization being formed under the Linux Foundation. The new foundation will be the home for React, React Native, and supporting projects. With the React Foundation, React’s move to a neutral home

Oracle Java Management Service (JMS), an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service for managing the use of Java in the enterprise, has added an Analyze Applications capability, for gaining quick, actional insights on Java applications. Other enhancements, including advanced task scheduling and observability for Java workloads in Kubernetes environments, are slated to boost management of Java

Earlier this year, Microsoft said it would bring its two different agent development platforms together, merging Semantic Kernel and AutoGen. It has now launched that merged platform as the Microsoft Agent Framework. At the time of the announcement, I noted that it made sense; Semantic Kernel was an in-production AI workflow engine that had evolved

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. Although minimal APIs don’t use controllers, and require only minimal code and minimal configuration, they nevertheless allow us to implement advanced features and important security mechanisms such as Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, or CORS. In this

Google is expanding the reach of its developer-focused AI tools with the launch of Gemini CLI Extensions, a new system that lets third-party developers integrate their own services directly into the Gemini command-line interface. The update will enable integrations with companies like Figma and Stripe, giving developers new ways to bring AI assistance into everyday

Broad adoption of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) technologies remains at an early stage, but many businesses are already seeing value in the systems they’ve rolled out: immersive training for frontline employees, for example, or engineers who can collaborate on design using 3D models.   But getting these systems up and running can be complicated. Despite evidence of

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

A breakdown in AI governance at Deloitte Australia has forced the consulting giant to refund part of an AU$440,000 (US$290,000) government contract after AI-generated fabrications were included in a final report, exposing vulnerabilities that analysts said are symptomatic of broader challenges as enterprises rapidly scale up AI adoption. Deloitte used OpenAI GPT-4o to help produce