OpenAI is acquiring Washington-based product development platform providing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion to speed up its generative AI-based product launches and accelerate iteration cycles of existing products such as Codex and ChatGPT. The acquisition could be a shot in the arm for the ChatGPT-maker as rivals, such as Google, AWS, and Anthropic, aggressively vie

Two supplemental point releases of the Angular 20 web framework have added production-readiness for zoneless APIs and an experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. An August 30 blog post from the Angular team announced updates and improvements in Angular 20.1 and 20.2. A highlight, zoneless APIs, became stable and production-ready in Angular 20.2. This update

It’s taken some time for GitHub’s Spark AI-powered coding platform to go beyond its initial small, closed beta. However, it’s now available to anyone with a GitHub CoPilot+ subscription, with the possibility of a wider future rollout. Unlike the standard GitHub Copilot, which acts as a smarter IntelliSense and as a virtual pair programmer that

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve imported into your working session and suggest questions you might want to ask. After you decide what to ask,

Even if you love to code, there probably are times when you’d rather ask a question like, “What topics generated the highest reader interest this year?” than write an SQL query with phrases like STRFTIME(‘%&Y’, Date) = STRFTIME(‘%Y’, ‘now’). And, if your data set has dozens of columns, it’s nice to be able to avoid

As AI reshapes every industry, the race for top IT talent is accelerating. College degrees are no longer enough. CIOs are shifting to skills-first hiring, using certifications to quickly validate readiness in key areas like AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. Certifications are no longer just credentials; they can be strategic tools that CIOs use to reduce

With rumors of an imminent AI meltdown/bubble burst growing more frequent, many enterprise boards are getting nervous. They’re pressuring CIOs to outline how they are protecting the company’s AI efforts in case of such a meltdown.  “The AI bubble is just another layer of uncertainty. Six months from now, we could be facing an entirely

Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the US government alleging the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of competitors and the detriment of the public at large. The first lawsuit, targeting Google’s search business, kicked off in mid-September 2023 and

Forgive me for going off the wall a little today, but what’s interesting about the judgment made concerning the Google-Apple search deal isn’t that not much will change, it’s that it suggests that exclusive deals between generative AI firms and Big Tech will not be permitted. That’s going to spell interesting times ahead, as the genAI firms

Google will no longer have to divest Chrome and Android businesses as a federal judge ruled in its favor in a search antitrust case, while acknowledging AI as a new competitive force. US Federal Judge Amit P. Mehta delivered the landmark ruling on Monday, rejecting the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) demand to break up the