Hyperparallel experimentation to improve evaluation metrics without bloating resources RapidFire AI, the company accelerating AI experimentation and customization, today announced at Ray Summit 2025 RapidFire AI RAG, an open-source extension of its hyperparallel experimentation framework that brings dynamic control, real-time comparison, and automatic optimization to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and context engineering workflows. Agentic RAG pipelines

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has gathered nine features so far. The latest slated for the release include ahead-of-time object caching, an eleventh incubation of the Vector API, second previews of lazy constants and cryptographic objects encodings, a sixth preview of structured concurrency, and warnings

The Spring Framework is possibly the most iconic software development framework of all time. It once suffered from a reputation of bloat, but it has long since shed that perception. In this article, we’ll take fresh look at Spring, including an overview of Spring Boot and how Spring handles standard application needs like persistence and

Holy cow, things are moving fast in the software business—ideas are coming like an oil gusher, and keeping up is a challenge. Here are a few observations, amazements, puzzlements, and prognostications regarding AI and software development that have occurred to me recently.  Vibe coding for the win Vibe coding has come a long way in

Name a language used for machine learning and artificial intelligence. The first one that comes to mind is probably Python, and you wouldn’t be wrong for thinking that. But what about the other big-league programming languages? C++ is used to create many of the libraries Python draws on, so its presence in AI/ML is established.

When I first started working with multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems, they felt like something out of science fiction. It’s a group of autonomous digital entities that negotiate, share context, and solve problems together. Over the past year, MAC has begun to take practical shape, with applications in multiple real-world problems, including climate-adaptive agriculture, supply chain

I think by this point we can all agree that AI is not exactly trustworthy when it comes to giving us answers, providing life advice, or writing code, right? My favorite recent example was the infamous case when Replit’s AI vibe coding assistant deleted a live company database during a code freeze, ignored direct human

The Louvre Museum in Paris, victim of an audacious burglary involving a furniture lift last month, has been struggling for over a decade to upgrade outdated software, including that controlling its video surveillance systems, according to a French newspaper report. Thieves used a furniture lift to break in through a second-floor window on October 19,

Apple has a great reputation for platform security, one it has earned through consistent focus on keeping its operating systems secure. However, as the number of threats against its platform grows, it needs to find ways to stay ahead. That’s why Apple’s latest iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates enable a new security feature, Background Security Improvements. What

A new report from Forrester suggests that many companies that have been cutting workers in the name of AI are likely to face a backlash, according to The Register. “Many companies claim they are laying off staff because of AI. Some of these ventures lead to spectacular failures…. Other times, AI doesn’t actually replace human