Google has updated its managed database service — Spanner — with a new columnar engine to help enterprises run complex analytical queries on real-time transactional data for better decision-making. The update, currently in preview, will tackle a typical challenge that most enterprises face: running a database that can handle both online transaction processing (OLTP) and

Google has made a series of incremental updates to its managed BigQuery data warehouse service to help data practitioners across enterprises further automate data analytics tasks. These updates were made to the data engineering and data science agents in BigQuery that the hyperscaler announced in April during its annual Google Cloud Next event. Data engineering

TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, is now available as a production release. The new TypeScript release brings support for ECMAScript’s deferred module evaluation and a preview of expandable hovers for viewing variable type details. General availability of TypeScript 5.9 was announced August 1, following a July 25 release

As we continue to move away from using AI tools to power chatbots, new ways of working are becoming more important. Agent technologies have proven to be an interesting way to automate business processes. They treat AI models as a flexible orchestration layer that makes it possible to dynamically build payloads for existing APIs based

AI coding assistants are a frequent topic for InfoWorld and probably most tech publications. However, the dirty secret is that this landscape changes daily. Not long ago Claude Code practically obliterated the competition. How? Well, it wasn’t that the CLI was amazing (or Aider would have run the board a year ago). It was Anthropic’s

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing

Setting your phone on silent sure ain’t what it used to be. If you’re among the smart and enlightened animals embracing Android and you’re rockin’ a device that’s been updated to the current Android 16 software, you’ve no doubt noticed a new series of options surrounding your phone’s primary silencing function. Or, heck, maybe you

Historically, Microsoft seems cursed: It’s often early to big technological shifts, and it’s great at prototyping them. But then, after a hype-filled launch where Microsoft celebrates its lead, the company seems to lose interest — while competitors pull ahead and release more polished products. That’s what appears to have happened with Microsoft’s generative AI (genAI)

OpenAI has released its first open-weight language models since GPT-2, marking a significant strategic shift as the company seeks to expand enterprise adoption through more flexible deployment options and reduced operational costs. The two new models — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — deliver what OpenAI describes as competitive performance while running efficiently on consumer-grade hardware. The