Developers set the pace for genAI tools adoption
The increasingly weird interactions between everyday people and ChatGPT may make more headlines, but developers are setting the pace for AI’s future. Whether it’s coding assistants auditioning (sometimes erratically) as copilots, development platf...
The hyperscalers disrupt the sovereign cloud disruptors
The fast-paced world of cloud computing is a continuous cycle of innovation and disruption. Most recently, sovereign cloud startups have stepped into the spotlight, offering specialized cloud services with a focus on sovereignty to address pressing co...
Firecrawl: Easy web data extraction for AI applications
As organizations increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to process web-based information, the challenge of converting unstructured websites into clean, analyzable formats has become critical. Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling and data ...
Taking advantage of Microsoft Edge’s built-in AI
Large language models are a useful tool, but they’re overkill for much of what we do with services like ChatGPT. Summarizing text, rewriting our words, even responding to basic chatbot prompts are tasks that don’t need the power of an LLM and the ...
Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Google has unveiled a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, a reasoning model optimized for cost and speed, and announced that two other Gemini models, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, are now generally available. Google made the announcements June 17...
Parasoft C/C++test adds AI assistant
Parasoft has released Parasoft C/C++test 2025.1, an update to the company’s automated testing solution for for C and C++ developers that introduces an AI assistant. The new release also adds nearly 70 static analysis rules, among other improvements....
Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge
An AI security vendor on Tuesday published an analysis of the generative AI (genAI) coding differences between its retail and finance customers, revealing that the retail approach is much more aggressive, whereas finance has been working on the techno...
Get started with Python type hints
Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers because you don’t have to rigorously def...
Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine
Astro is a stable server-side platform for launching web applications. Alpine is the go-to minimalist front-end JavaScript framework. Put them together, and you have a lean, versatile stack. This article walks through developing a web application that...
OpenAI’s o3 price plunge changes everything for vibe coders
On June 10, OpenAI slashed the list price of its flagship reasoning model, o3, by roughly 80% from $10 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens to $2 and $8, respectively. API resellers reacted immediately: Cursor now counts one o3 r...
Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
Whereas large language models (LLMs) attracted consumers well before enterprise users, SaaS platforms are driving the use of embedded AI agents to improve employee experience and productivity. AI agents are changing the future of work by helping HR le...
A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP
Unlike traditional AI models that respond to single prompts (like ChatGPT’s basic Q&A mode), AI agents can plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks by interacting with tools, data sources, APIs, or even other agents. Sounds abstract? That’s bec...
Navigating the rising costs of AI inferencing
In 2025, the worldwide expenditure on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) reached $90.9 billion, a 21% rise from the previous year, according to Canalys. From I’m seeing, this surge is primarily driven by companies ...
Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations on Windows. The File.delete command will no longer delete read-only files on Windows, and file operations on a path with a trailing sp...
Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs. microservices), programming languages (JVM langu...
