Topic: developer tools
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Google's Jules AI Joins Developer Toolkits Amid Coding Agent Race
Google has expanded its Jules AI coding agent by launching a command-line interface and a public API, enabling integration into terminals, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration tools to strengthen its position in the AI-assisted development market. Jules Tools allows developers to assign coding task...
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Google's AI Coding Tools: A Manager's Inside Guide
Google's AI coding tools, such as Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist, are driving a significant shift in software development, with advancements in "reasoning models" like Claude 3 and Gemini 2.5 enabling more active problem-solving since April 2024. A key breakthrough is improved tool-calling cap...
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Unlock Meta Llama: Your Complete Guide to the Open AI Model
Meta's Llama is a leading open generative AI model that offers developers flexibility through downloadable and customizable options, supported by cloud partnerships and resources for fine-tuning and application development. Llama consists of a family of models, including the latest Llama 4 with v...
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ChatGPT Now Has Built-In Apps from OpenAI
OpenAI is launching a feature that allows developers to build and embed interactive applications directly within ChatGPT, enhancing user experience with tools from companies like Spotify and Coursera. The integration enables users to activate apps through natural conversation, using the Model Con...
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ChatGPT Evolves Into an App Platform, Aiming to Be Your OS
ChatGPT is evolving from a chatbot into an application platform, allowing developers to build interactive software directly within its interface through a new Apps SDK. The platform enables deep integration with partner apps like Canva and Zillow, letting users perform tasks such as designing pos...
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Slack Launches AI Platform for Secure, Context-Aware Apps
Slack has launched a new AI platform that enables developers to build secure, context-aware applications within its ecosystem, using user-owned conversational data for personalized, intelligent interactions. The platform includes key developer resources like a real-time search API, Model Context ...
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Ex-Apple Star Aims to Build the Perfect GPU Software
Chris Lattner co-founded Modular in 2022 to create a universal software layer that enables AI applications to run efficiently across diverse processors without extensive rewrites. The company's strategy involves a unifying software stack and a new Python-based programming language to maximize har...
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Is It Real or Is It Sora?
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT into a platform-like service by integrating new apps and providing developers with tools to embed it into their software. The company is also developing a social network called Sora, which has gained attention for its unique appeal and potential cultural impact. OpenAI...
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ChatGPT Adds Travel, Learning, and Real Estate Apps
ChatGPT is evolving into an all-in-one platform with integrated third-party apps for travel, learning, and real estate, enabling users to perform tasks like booking trips or designing graphics directly within the chat interface. The platform is supported by an open-source Apps SDK and AgentKit, a...
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Build Apps Inside ChatGPT With OpenAI's New Tools
OpenAI is introducing tools that let users build and interact with third-party apps directly within ChatGPT, turning it into a central hub for tasks with contextual guidance. During a demonstration, ChatGPT integrated with apps like Canva to create promotional materials and Zillow to search for p...
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Unlock Claude Sonnet 4.5: Your Next Coding Breakthrough
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5 as its premier coding model, offering significant performance improvements in coding, reasoning, and computer tasks to accelerate software development. The model excels in real-world software engineering benchmarks, outperforming previous versions and comp...
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Anthropic's AI Sustains 30-Hour Focus on Complex Tasks
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, its most advanced AI model yet, featuring major improvements in coding and computer interaction, alongside new developer tools like Claude Code 2.0 and the Claude Agent SDK. A key enhancement is the model's ability to maintain focus on complex tasks for o...
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Unlock Your Codebase with Macroscope: AI-Powered Bug Fixing
Macroscope is an AI-driven platform that automates codebase management, bug detection, and provides natural language insights for engineering teams and product leaders. Founded by former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour, the tool integrates with GitHub and other systems to analyze code and...
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ChatGPT's Research Tool Now Connects to GitHub for Code Answers
OpenAI has introduced a GitHub integration for ChatGPT, enabling developers to analyze codebases and technical documentation, initially available for Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. The GitHub connector allows querying repositories, breaking down specifications, and summarizing code, whi...
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19-Year-Old's AI Memory Startup Supermemory Wins Backing From Google Execs
Supermemory, founded by 19-year-old Dhravya Shah, is developing a sophisticated memory solution to enable AI applications to retain context across interactions, addressing the challenge of AI's lack of long-term memory. The platform functions as a universal memory API that processes multimodal da...
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ChatGPT's Codex Upgrade: What's New and More Powerful Than Ever
OpenAI has made Codex generally available to all developers, introducing key integrations with Slack, a comprehensive SDK, and enhanced administrative controls for enterprise teams. The Slack integration allows developers to receive AI-powered coding assistance directly within team conversations,...
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OpenAI Aims to Make ChatGPT a Universal App Interface
OpenAI introduced an SDK to integrate third-party apps into ChatGPT, allowing developers to control app data and interfaces directly within conversations. The SDK uses the Model Context Protocol to simplify integration, enabling apps like Figma and Spotify to operate seamlessly inside ChatGPT. De...
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Google Opens Real-World Data for AI Training
Google has launched the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, providing developers and AI systems with simplified access to a vast collection of structured public data through natural language queries. This initiative addresses the challenge of unreliable AI training data by offering ...
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Visa's AI-Powered Payments Expand to More Apps with MCP Support
Visa has expanded its Intelligent Commerce platform to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling developers to create smarter, AI-driven payment experiences. The integration includes the Visa Acceptance Agent Toolkit, which simplifies building AI commerce agents with natural language com...
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Meta's Metaverse Aims for Global Domination
Meta aims to make Horizon Worlds a universal hub connecting VR, mobile, and social media, focusing on accessible 3D social experiences and overcoming past platform criticisms. The company has shifted to higher-quality content and introduced AI tools to simplify world-building, while expanding to ...
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Apple's AI Opportunity Is Still Wide Open
OpenAI's ChatGPT now enables direct app interactions like booking travel and editing designs, potentially challenging traditional app stores but facing Apple's strong ecosystem of 1.5 billion iPhone users and hardware control. Apple plans to overhaul Siri with AI, integrating natural voice and te...
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Google's Command-Line Tool Now Supports Extensions
Google has expanded Gemini CLI with third-party extensions, allowing companies like Figma and Stripe to integrate their services directly into the AI environment. Unlike OpenAI's curated approach, Gemini CLI extensions can be published without Google's approval, hosted on GitHub for manual instal...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK & ChatGPT Updates
OpenAI's DevDay 2025 announced a strategic shift, positioning ChatGPT as an evolving operating system with new tools like AgentKit, Apps SDK, and Codex, alongside model updates such as GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 entering the API. The event highlighted enhanced developer capabilities, including the gene...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: What to Expect and How to Watch
OpenAI's DevDay 2025, held on October 6 in San Francisco, is their largest developer conference yet, featuring keynotes from CEO Sam Altman and a fireside chat with designer Jony Ive, with major announcements expected. The event highlights OpenAI's expansion into new areas like an AI device, a so...
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Microsoft Expands AI-Powered App Access on Windows
Microsoft has launched the Windows ML platform for general use, enabling on-device AI capabilities in Windows applications for devices running Windows 11 24H2 or later, which enhances responsiveness, privacy, and cost efficiency. The platform works with hardware partners to distribute execution p...
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Fortnite Creators Can Now Monetize In-Game Items
Epic Games is introducing a new revenue model for Fortnite creators, allowing them to sell in-game items on their custom islands starting in December, with a temporary 100% revenue share through 2026 to encourage early adoption. To support this initiative, Epic will release new UEFN tools and a V...
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Context Engineering: The Future of Coding
Context engineering is a systematic approach to structuring comprehensive inputs for LLMs, surpassing traditional prompt engineering by integrating documents, data, and tools for complex tasks. Industry leaders highlight context engineering as developer-centric, requiring pipelines that pull from...
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Don't Miss These AI Sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt, Backed by JetBrains
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, held from October 27–29 in San Francisco, will focus on transformative technologies with a special emphasis on artificial intelligence. A key session on October 27 will feature investors and founders discussing the AI Disruptors 60 list and how startups are shaping AI's f...
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Run Linux Desktop Apps on Your Android Phone
Running Linux desktop applications on Android is becoming practical due to a shift from software rendering to GPU acceleration, enabling mobile devices to function as portable workstations. The key advancement is GPU-accelerated rendering, which uses technologies like gfxstream to offload graphic...
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Small Language Models: AI21's Edge AI Breakthrough
AI21's Jamba Reasoning 3B is an open-source, 3-billion-parameter model designed for high performance on consumer hardware, featuring a large 250,000-token context window for processing extensive documents and complex tasks efficiently. The model employs a hybrid architecture that blends transform...
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Launches to Power Next-Gen AI Agents
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, an AI model capable of 30 hours of autonomous operation, demonstrated by independently coding a functional chat app with 11,000 lines. The model is positioned as the world's leading AI for real-world agents and coding, excelling in sectors like cybersecur...
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Cloudflare Plans to Hire Over 1,100 Interns to Train Future Tech Leaders
Cloudflare plans to hire over 1,100 interns in 2026 to invest in future tech talent by providing hands-on experience and free access to its developer tools for university students. The initiative addresses a decline in tech internships and youth employment, with CEO Matthew Prince viewing AI as a...
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CrowdStrike & Meta Simplify AI Security Tool Evaluation
CrowdStrike and Meta have launched CyberSOCEval, an open-source benchmarking suite to evaluate large language models' effectiveness in critical security tasks. The framework tests LLMs in incident response, threat analysis, and malware detection to help organizations identify genuinely effective ...
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Adobe's AI Agents and Orcherator Now Generally Available
Adobe has launched AI agents for its Experience Platform, including a reasoning engine that uses decision science and language models to interpret user intent and coordinate automated actions with human oversight. The platform features specialized AI agents for tasks like audience segmentation, c...
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OpenAI Acquires Xcode Assistant Alex Codes Team
The team behind Alex Codes, a tool that integrated AI into Apple's Xcode, is joining OpenAI's Codex division in a strategic acqui-hire. The move follows Apple's update allowing external AI model integration in Xcode, which reduced the need for third-party tools like Alex Codes. Alex Codes will co...
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AI Leads the Best Open Source Startups of 2024
Runa Capital's latest report highlights AI's dominance among the top 20 open source startups of 2024, showcasing significant growth and innovation.
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CommBank Named a World Leader in AI Banking
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia ranks among the world's top four banks for AI maturity and leads the Asia-Pacific region, according to the 2025 Evident AI Index, which evaluates banks on Talent, Innovation, Leadership, and Transparency. Its rise in the rankings reflects significant investments...
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Nvidia's AI Voice Animation Tech Is Now Free for Everyone
Nvidia has released its Audio2Face technology as open-source, allowing developers to freely create realistic facial animations for 3D avatars from voice recordings, lowering the cost barrier for professional-grade animation. The tool analyzes audio to generate natural lip-syncing and emotional ex...
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Google's Veo 3: Create Vertical AI Videos Instantly
Google's Veo 3 AI video generator now supports 1080p resolution and vertical 9:16 format, optimized for mobile and social media platforms. Both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast models are stable for scaled production, with significantly reduced pricing to encourage adoption. The enhancements enable developer...
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT App Platform for Marketers
OpenAI has launched a platform integrating third-party apps directly into ChatGPT, enabling users to access services like Spotify and Expedia without leaving the chat, positioning it as a central hub for digital interaction. The platform allows users to activate apps by name or receive proactive ...
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Master Google's Gemini AI with Jules Tools: A Practical Guide
Google offers three distinct AI command-line tools: Gemini CLI for terminal interactions, Gemini CLI GitHub Actions for repository automation, and Jules Tools for delegating complex tasks to a cloud-based coding agent. Gemini CLI provides fast, interactive access to AI models for problem-solving ...
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Work-Bench Raises $160M for NYC Startups
Work-Bench raised $160 million for its fourth fund, targeting early-stage enterprise software startups in AI, cybersecurity, developer tools, and enterprise applications with investments of $2M-$4M. The firm plans to back 23-25 startups, leveraging its disciplined approach and past successes like...
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Cloudflare's 'NET Dollar' Fuels New AI Internet Business Models
Cloudflare is launching a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin called NET Dollar to enable fast, secure transactions for the agentic web and support a new Internet economy that rewards originality. The stablecoin is designed to handle microtransactions and automated payments at scale, allowing AI agents...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: What to Expect & How to Watch
OpenAI is hosting its largest DevDay 2025 conference, featuring keynotes from CEO Sam Altman and a fireside chat with designer Jony Ive, alongside major announcements and live demonstrations. The company is expanding beyond its core AI models into new ventures, including a potential AI device, so...
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