Visual Studio 2026, the latest version of Microsoft’s signature IDE, is now generally available. Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” the IDE also features faster startup and improved user experience. Announced November 11, the update can be downloaded from the Visual Studio homepage. Visual Studio 2026 uses AI intelligence for such things as complex

Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, the latest version of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud application platform, is now available. The Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 release features capabilities for accelerating AI workloads and strengthening security, according to Red Hat. Introduced November 11, OpenShift 4.20 can be accessed from the Red Hat OpenShift product page. For AI, new

In January 2025, OpenAI released Operator, the first large-scale agent powered by a computer-use model to control its own browser. The demo was impressive: an AI moving the mouse, clicking buttons, and performing actions like a human would. It was received as a major step toward general-purpose autonomy. But just eight months later, in August, OpenAI quietly discontinued

The move to building and training AI models at scale has had interesting second-order effects; one of the most important is improving how we run and manage massively distributed computing applications. AI training and inferencing both require huge distributed applications to build and refine the models that are at the heart of modern machine learning

You can think of a Java stream as a pipeline through which data flows. Instead of manually writing loops and conditionals to process a list, you tell Java what should happen to each element, and the Java Stream API takes care of how it happens internally. A Java stream doesn’t hold data. Instead, it operates

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.1, an update to its GPT-5 model, aiming to deliver faster responses, improved reasoning, and more flexible conversational controls as the company works to refine its ChatGPT experience for both consumer and enterprise users. The release includes new Instant and Thinking variants designed to offer more adaptive reasoning and a broader range

No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant: You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages. The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what

Meta researchers have unveiled a new reinforcement learning framework called SPICE (Self-Play in Corpus Environments) that enables large language models (LLMs) to improve their reasoning skills without human supervision. Developed with the National University of Singapore, SPICE trains a single model to act as both a Challenger, which generates complex, document-based problems, and a Reasoner, which solves

When you pick up an iPad Pro equipped with an M5 processor you’re not only picking up a tablet more powerful than most laptops, you’re also picking up a passport to tomorrow, with a tablet that’s quite capable of running on-device AI. Tomorrow’s tablet is here Why does this matter? Well, look at the speed with which

Western European organizations are ramping up investments in local and regional cloud providers because growing geopolitical tensions are raising concerns that access to global cloud services could be disrupted for political reasons. A survey of 214 CIOs and IT leaders in Western Europe, conducted by Gartner between May and June, found that more than 61% plan to increase their reliance