Microsoft has acquired AI-based data engineering firm Osmos for an undisclosed sum, as part of its effort to reduce data engineering friction inside Fabric, its unified data and analytics offering, as enterprises continue to push analytics and AI projects into production. Osmos’ technology, which applies agentic AI to turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready

A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig. Claude AI technology is being leveraged for developing Rue. Written entirely in Rust, the language is

Devops used to be a simple process. Take one component of the stack, run some unit tests, check a microservice in isolation, confirm it passed integration tests, and ship it. The problem is, that doesn’t test what actually matters—whether the system as a whole can handle production workloads. This simple approach breaks down fast when

Sometimes, you stumble onto a digital discovery of some sort and need a touch of time to wrap your head around if or how it could help you. Other times, you slap something new onto your favorite phone and instantly realize your life has been upgraded. Today, my friend and fellow holiday-hibernation waker, we’ve got

Last week, news broke that Meta is buying Chinese AI startup Manus for around $2 billion. The company is known for its AI agent that can handle everything from job interviews to stock analysis. Meta plans to integrate Manus’ AI agent into its own products. Now, the Financial Times reports that China’s Ministry of Commerce

Ever since the first version of Android was released in 2008, anyone who wanted to could access the source code of the operating system. However, Google has now announced that the source code will only be released twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Since there are four major updates

Open AI has presented a new report entitled AI as a Healthcare Ally. In the report, we learn that it is very common for users to ask questions about their health to Chat GPT. One in four users (over 200 million) asks health-related questions every week, while one in twenty users (over 40 million) asks

In conjunction with the CES show in Las Vegas, HP has shown off the Eliteboard G1a, a keyboard computer aimed primarily at business users. Despite the fact that the computer is built into the keyboard, we are offered decent specifications, namely an AMD Ryzen AI processor, AMD Radeon 800 graphics, up to 64 gigabytes of

After years and years of work, Apple at last has the crease-free folding display it needs for the iPhone Fold — and Samsung is displaying some of the first manufacturing prototypes at this year’s giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Reports from the show floor seem excited by the display, confirming it displays no visible crease whatsoever. It’s made

LAS VEGAS — AI everywhere was the big theme at CES this week, with the technology showing up in nearly every application and device, no matter whether users actually want it or not. Beyond AI-enabled refrigerators and smart glasses, the transformative story of this year’s show actually had an enterprise bent: the arrival of physical AI. That’s the