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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech
By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs
At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageM
AWS takes the cheap shots
The rise of generative AI opens up a massive new market for the large cloud providers, but it’s also a bit of a reset. Unlike the rise of containers, for example, generative AI is an entirely ne
AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, promises 10x write speed improvement
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service: AWS S3 Express One Zone, a new high-performance and low latency t
AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent
As enterprises move to the cloud, figuring out how and where they are spending their money has become increasingly difficult. The different SaaS provider and cloud platforms use their own definitions
Microsoft Teams gets an AI-powered home decorator, voice isolation at Ignite 2023
During Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event, the company’s annual IT pro conference, a slew of interesting updates were revealed for Teams, its Slack-like collaboration and messaging service. Amo
Microsoft combines Microsoft To Do, Planner and Project into a new Microsoft Planner in Microsoft Teams
At Microsoft Ignite 2023 today, the company announced that it plans to bring together its various planning tools like Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for the web into what it
GitLab expands its AI lineup with Duo Chat
Earlier this year, GitLab unveiled Duo, a set of AI features that aim to help developers be more productive by summarizing issues and generating descriptions of epics and issues, as well as through co
Japan’s MagicPod takes its no-code testing platform global
Tokyo-based MagicPod is a no-code test automation platform for web and mobile apps that, until now, almost exclusively focused on the Japanese market. There, it counts Line, Japan’s most popular
Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Micro
Darwinium brings digital security and fraud prevention to the perimeter
Back in 2018, LexisNexis acquired the digital identity platform ThreatMetrix for just under $820 million in cash. In 2021, ThreatMetrix co-founders Reed Taussig and Alisdair Faulkner returned to the w
Adobe’s Project Fast Fill is generative fill for video
As part of its MAX conference, Adobe traditionally shows off some of its more forward-looking tech, which may or may not end up in its Creative Cloud apps at some point in the future. The idea here is
Adobe Firefly can now generate more realistic images
At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation service. According to Adobe, the Firefly Image 2
Adobe Firefly’s generative AI models can now create vector graphics in Illustrator
Illustrator is Adobe’s vector graphics tool for graphic artists and it’s about to join the generative AI era with the launch of the Firefly Vector Model at Adobe’s MAX conference tod
Adobe’s Project Stardust is a sneak preview of its next-gen AI photo editing engine
The latest version of Adobe’s Project Stardust AI photo editor already thoroughly leaked earlier this month, but at its MAX conference, the company now officially launched this project as a snea
EngFlow and tipi.build launch a remote CMake build execution service for your C and C++ code
EngFlow, the well-funded build acceleration startup, today announced that it has invested in tipi.build. With this, EngFlow is teaming up with tipi to extend its services beyond support for build tool
Docker launches remote container builds, new debugging tools and more
Docker today announced a slew of new products at DockerCon, the company’s user conference which has returned as an in-person event. These include a new remote build service, new debugging tools
Yubico can now ship pre-registered security keys to its enterprise users
Physical security keys remain one of the best ways to secure user accounts, but the fact that new users have to register them before they can use them often adds quite a bit of friction. Yubico, the c
PlanetScale forks MySQL to add vector support
It seems like everyone in the database business is thinking about how to capitalize on the growth of AI by adding support for vectors to their products. That, after all, remains to be the easiest way
Dry Studio’s Black Diamond 75 is a gaming keyboard that actually looks good
Whenever I reviewed an Angry Miao keyboard in the past, I always wondered what the company would be able to do if it brought its engineering and design chops to a more affordable segment. The typical