Artificial Agency emerges from stealth with AI ‘behaviour engine’

Artificial Agency – an AI startup focused on generative behaviour for gaming – has emerged from stealth mode with a $16 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and other notable investors.

The company, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers and AAA gaming industry veterans, aims to revolutionise game development with its AI-powered behaviour engine; designed to seamlessly integrate runtime decision-making into various aspects of...

18 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Genkit for Go: Google’s AI framework for gophers

Google has announced the alpha release of Genkit for Go, an open-source framework designed to empower Go developers ("gophers") in building AI applications and cloud services.

A result of collaboration between the Firebase and Go teams, Genkit for Go aims to combine Go's simplicity, scalability, and security with Genkit's robust libraries and tools.

Genkit for Go provides a unified generation API, native vector database support, and "Flows" for organising multi-step AI...

17 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

Judge Jon Tigar's ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and...

10 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

GitLab’s DevSecOps report highlights AI challenges

GitLab's 8th annual Global DevSecOps Report has unveiled a complex landscape of software development, highlighting disparities between executive perceptions and developer realities. The survey, conducted in April 2024, gathered insights from over 5,300 professionals across the software development spectrum.

While 69% of CxOs report shipping software at least twice as fast as last year, AI adoption remains low, with only 26% of respondents implementing AI in their workflows. This...

28 June 2024 | Approaches

Google unleashes 2M token context and code execution for Gemini developers

Google has announced a series of updates to its Gemini AI platform, offering developers enhanced capabilities and access to more powerful tools. The tech giant is opening up the two million token context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro to all developers, introducing code execution features, and adding Gemma 2 to Google AI Studio.

The two million token context window, previously behind a waitlist, is now available to all developers using Gemini 1.5 Pro. This extensive context window...

27 June 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

SlashData: Rust sees fastest growth, JavaScript still dominates

According to SlashData's findings, the JavaScript community grew by an impressive four million users in the past 12 months, solidifying its status as the most widely-used programming language globally.

Here is a breakdown of the size of various programming language communities:

JavaScript: 25.2 million developers Python: 18.2 million developers Java: 17.7 million developers C++: 11.6 million developers C#: 10.2 million developers PHP: 9.8 million...

12 June 2024 | Developer

Angel Montesdeoca, IBM: The role of AI in modern software development

In an interview ahead of Digital Transformation Week, Angel Montesdeoca, Program Director of Product Management for watsonx Code Assistant at IBM, discussed the company's approach to integrating AI into software development tools and accelerating the application lifecycle.

The age of generative AI 

According to Montesdeoca, we are living in "the age of generative AI" with huge investments being made in infrastructure, applications, and AI models across the tech industry....

31 May 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Google continues AI push with new Gemini tools for developers

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference with a clear emphasis on AI, unveiling a suite of new Gemini-powered solutions to empower developers.

At the forefront is an expansion of Google's Gemini language model, including the public preview of 1.5 Flash which is designed for high-frequency tasks. Developers can join a waitlist to preview a groundbreaking two million context window for 1.5 Pro.

"Streamline workflows and optimise AI-powered applications with...

15 May 2024 | Android

Cisco: Developers spend majority of time firefighting

A new survey from Cisco reveals that software developers are spending more than 57% of their time in "war room" meetings to resolve application performance issues, rather than focusing on building new software to drive innovation. 

The findings highlight the immense pressure facing developers today. Globally, 85% of those surveyed report increased demands to accelerate software release velocity, while 77% cite mounting pressure to deliver seamless and secure digital...

8 May 2024 | Approaches

Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to empower developers

Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced a partnership that aims to provide developers with accurate and vetted solutions by integrating Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI and validated technical knowledge into OpenAI's products, including ChatGPT.

Brad Lightcap, COO at OpenAI, said: "Learning from as many languages, cultures, subjects, and industries as possible ensures that our models can serve everyone. The developer community is particularly important to both of us. Our deep...

7 May 2024 | API