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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
At InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) hype. The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI.
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Meta's Chameleon AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 on Mixed Image-Text Tasks
The Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta recently released Chameleon, a mixed-modal AI model that can understand and generate mixed text and image content. In experiments rated by human judges, Chameleon's generated output was preferred over GPT-4 in 51.6% of trials, and over Gemini Pro in 60.4%.
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Pinterest Shuts down One of the World's Largest HBase Deployments
The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
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WDL 1.2.0: Enhancing Workflow Description Language for Bioinformatics
The Workflow Description Language (WDL) team has announced the release of WDL 1.2.0, a significant update to improve workflow descriptions' flexibility and usability in bioinformatics. This new version introduces several key features and enhancements that promise to streamline workflow management and execution, making it easier for developers and researchers to implement and manage workflows.
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Java News Roundup: Keycloak 25, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Spring Framework, Hibernate ORM, Vaadin 24.4
This week's Java roundup for June 10th, 2024, features news highlighting: Keycloak 25, release reviews for Jakarta Authentication 3.1 and Jakarta Security 4.0, Spring Framework 6.2.0-M4 and corresponding service releases, Spring Data service releases, Hibernate 6.6.0.CR1 and 7.0.0.Alpha3, and the release of Vaadin 24.4.
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Apple WWDC: iOS18 and Apple Intelligence Announcements
At WWDC 2024 Apple unveiled "Apple Intelligence," a suite of AI features coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Apple’s aim with Apple Intelligence is to seamlessly integrate AI into the core of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac experience.
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OpenAI Releases Official .NET Library
Last week, OpenAI unveiled the first beta version of its official .NET library, which is available as a NuGet package for .NET developers to try. This release follows Microsoft's announcement at the Build 2024 conference, highlighting their collaboration with OpenAI to enhance the .NET ecosystem with advanced AI capabilities.
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Mistral Introduces AI Code Generation Model Codestral
Mistral AI has unveiled Codestral, its first code-focused AI model. Codestral helps the developers with coding tasks offering efficiency and accuracy in code generation.
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Meta Open-Sources MEGALODON LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
Researchers from Meta, University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California San Diego recently open-sourced MEGALODON, a large language model (LLM) with an unlimited context length. MEGALODON has linear computational complexity and outperforms a similarly-sized Llama 2 model on a range of benchmarks.
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Slack Combines ASTs with Large Language Models to Automatically Convert 80% of 15,000 Unit Tests
Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered automation, Slack's innovative approach resulted in an 80% conversion success rate, significantly reducing the manual effort required.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown, JDK 24 Expert Group, Apache NetBeans 22
This week's Java roundup for June 3rd, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 24 Expert Group; the release of Apache NetBeans 22; and five Jakarta EE specifications, namely: Jakarta Concurrency 3.1, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta Faces 4.1, Jakarta Pages 4.0 and Jakarta Servlet 6.1, having passed their respective reviews.
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AI and Software Development: Preview of Sessions at InfoQ Events
Explore the transformative impact of AI on software development at InfoQ's upcoming events. Senior software developers will share practical applications and ethical considerations of AI technology through technical talks.
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Microsoft Build 2024 Unveils .NET 9: Tensor<T>, OpenAI Collaboration, and .NET Aspire
At Microsoft Build 2024, .NET 9 was unveiled, introducing features such as the Tensor<T> type for deep learning and collaboration with OpenAI for GPT4o and Assistants v2. This release also brings .NET Aspire, streamlining cloud-native app development. Updates extend across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI, with C# 13 enhancing flexibility and performance.
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Recap of MSBuild 2024: Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, GPT-4o on Azure AI
Microsoft recently held its annual MSBuild developer conference, where it made several significant announcements, including updates to its AI capabilities, focusing on Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, and GPT-4o now available on Azure AI.
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OpenAI Publishes GPT Model Specification for Fine-Tuning Behavior
OpenAI recently published their Model Spec, a document that describes rules and objectives for the behavior of their GPT models. The spec is intended for use by data labelers and AI researchers when creating data for fine-tuning the models.