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Apple plays nice with others for an OpenUSD metaverse
Meta matters less with the news that Apple, Adobe, Pixar, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and the Joint Development Foundation have joined forces to promote and develop a standard to empower mixed and virtual reality experiences.
Apple toughens up app security with API control
The company's war against device fingerprinting continues.
New monday.com data infrastructure to speed platform performance
The new schemaless architecture, dubbed mondayDB, will strengthen the work management company’s Work OS platform and offer improved levels of scalability and speed to customers.
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Microsoft Dev Box — a better path to provisioning and productivity?
While the cloud-based workstation is aimed at developers, the concept could be used to give workers in other positions quick access to the tools they need — without navigating an often lengthy hardware provisioning process.
Apple wants Xcode to make you smarter
An Apple Xcode patent shows how it wants machine learning to augment what developers can do, not replace them.
Figma offers new mode for developers, adds variables, prototyping features
With developers now making up a third of its customer base, Figma has launched a number of new capabilities that aim to bridge the gap between design and development for its product-design application.
Apple beefs up enterprise identity, device management
At this year's WWDC, the company introduced a raft of new capabilities related to Managed Apple IDs and to user identity as a whole.
WWDC: Apple gets back to the Mac in PC sales attack
In a mixed-up reality, Apple hopes to boost Mac sales with new models designed to reflect the excitement over its AR news at WWDC.
Why Apple's iOS 16.6 upgrade will be talk of the town
iMessage Contact Key Verification is expected in iOS 16.6, which should arrive around WWDC, setting the scene for new product launches at the show.
AI startup Anthropic unveils moral principles behind chatbot Claude
Amid controversy about generative AI programs giving wrong, biased, or potentially dangerous responses to queries, Anthropic reveals how it is training ChatGPT rival Claude to give safe, helpful information.
Q&A: At MIT event, Tom Siebel sees ‘terrifying’ consequences from using AI
At MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference, Tom Siebel, the CEO of C3 AI and founder of CRM vendor Siebel Systems, said he's been asked by government and military officials to create AI for what he sees as unethical...
Generative AI is about to destroy your company. Will you stop it?
If coders lied as often as ChatGPT, they would be fired immediately. Stunningly, some enterprise execs seem to be just fine with that — as long as AI continues to code quickly and for so little money.
Google’s Bard AI to take on GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer
Google’s generative AI offering is now capable of helping developers write and debug code in 20 programming languages including Python and Typescript, the company said.
Why generative AI will turbocharge low-code and no-code development
The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.
Do the productivity gains from generative AI outweigh the security risks?
Using generative AI to code is dangerous for a variety of reasons, but its efficiencies will tempt corporate leaders — especially CIOs and business execs — to use it anyway. A senior AWS executive at Amazon argues the decision doesn’t...
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UK data regulator issues warning over generative AI data protection concerns
The UK's Information Commission’s Office reminds organizations that data protection laws still apply to unfiltered data used to train large language models.
Apple's WWDC is coming — what should enterprise users expect?
Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, promised a lot when she said, “WWDC23 is going to be our biggest and most exciting yet.” Will Apple live up to the hype?
OpenAI's ChatGPT gets support for a dozen application plug-ins
The plug-ins will enable companies to offer the AI-based natural language processor for their products, allowing users to ask detailed questions and get human-like answers.
Adobe enters the age of generative AI with creative and enterprise apps
In the very near future, Adobe’s creative and enterprise apps and its own generative AI, Firefly, are likely to play a major role in the creation of everything from brand assets to illustrations.
