Topic: developer tools

  • OpenAI Launches ChatGPT App Platform for Marketers

    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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  • ChatGPT Evolves Into an App Platform, Aiming to Be Your OS

    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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  • Master Google's Gemini AI with Jules Tools: A Practical Guide

    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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  • Meta's Metaverse Aims for Global Domination

    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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  • Is It Real or Is It Sora?

    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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  • Apple's AI Opportunity Is Still Wide Open

    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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  • CommBank Named a World Leader in AI Banking

    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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  • Run Linux Desktop Apps on Your Android Phone

    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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  • Unlock Meta Llama: Your Complete Guide to the Open AI Model

    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 Adds Travel, Learning, and Real Estate Apps

    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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  • OpenAI Aims to Make ChatGPT a Universal App Interface

    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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  • ChatGPT Now Has Built-In Apps from OpenAI

    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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  • Small Language Models: AI21's Edge AI Breakthrough

    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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  • ChatGPT's Codex Upgrade: What's New and More Powerful Than Ever

    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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  • Google's Command-Line Tool Now Supports Extensions

    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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  • Build Apps Inside ChatGPT With OpenAI's New Tools

    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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  • OpenAI DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK & ChatGPT Updates

    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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  • Slack Launches AI Platform for Secure, Context-Aware Apps

    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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  • OpenAI DevDay 2025: What to Expect and How to Watch

    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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  • 19-Year-Old's AI Memory Startup Supermemory Wins Backing From Google Execs

    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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  • OpenAI DevDay 2025: What to Expect & How to Watch

    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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  • Google's Jules AI Joins Developer Toolkits Amid Coding Agent Race

    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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  • Unlock Claude Sonnet 4.5: Your Next Coding Breakthrough

    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'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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  • Claude Sonnet 4.5 Launches to Power Next-Gen AI Agents

    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's 'NET Dollar' Fuels New AI Internet Business Models

    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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  • Nvidia's AI Voice Animation Tech Is Now Free for Everyone

    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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  • Microsoft Expands AI-Powered App Access on Windows

    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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  • Google Opens Real-World Data for AI Training

    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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  • Cloudflare Plans to Hire Over 1,100 Interns to Train Future Tech Leaders

    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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  • Ex-Apple Star Aims to Build the Perfect GPU Software

    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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  • Google's AI Coding Tools: A Manager's Inside Guide

    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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  • Fortnite Creators Can Now Monetize In-Game Items

    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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  • Unlock Your Codebase with Macroscope: AI-Powered Bug Fixing

    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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  • CrowdStrike & Meta Simplify AI Security Tool Evaluation

    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'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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  • Google's Veo 3: Create Vertical AI Videos Instantly

    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 Acquires Xcode Assistant Alex Codes Team

    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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  • Visa's AI-Powered Payments Expand to More Apps with MCP Support

    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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  • Don't Miss These AI Sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt, Backed by JetBrains

    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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  • Context Engineering: The Future of Coding

    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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  • Work-Bench Raises $160M for NYC Startups

    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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  • ChatGPT's Research Tool Now Connects to GitHub for Code Answers

    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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  • AI Leads the Best Open Source Startups of 2024

    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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