Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio, a rapid protoyping tool for WinUI developers using XAML. Microsoft made the announcement on January 6. XAML Studio lets developers prototype user interface ideas before integrating them into an app within the Visual Studio IDE. Developers can prototype UWP-based (Universal Windows Platform) XAML apps. Tools and helpers are provided such

2026 is already popping with new Python goodies: an ultra-fast type checker from the makers of uv, Django 6, and a new way to generate C code with Python for faster-executing apps. Read on for these and other highlights. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Reader picks: The most popular Python stories of 2025What

Snowflake is planning to acquire AI-based site reliability engineer (SRE) platform provider Observe to strengthen observability capabilities across its offerings and help enterprises with AIOps as they accelerate AI pilots into production. “Longer term, Snowflake is positioning itself as infrastructure for AI at scale. As AI agents generate exponentially more data, vertically integrated data and

Arm has created a new Physical AI unit focused on robotics and automotive systems, a sign that enterprise AI is increasingly moving out of the data center and into machines operating in the physical world. As part of the reorganization, Arm has split its operations into three core groups, separating cloud and AI technologies, edge

Economists have time-tested models for projecting economic growth. But they’ve seen nothing like AI, which is a wild card complicating traditional economic playbooks. Some facts are clear: AI will make humans more productive and increase economic activity, with spillover effects on spending and employment. But there are many unknowns about AI. Economists can’t isolate AI’s

A federal judge has signalled that Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s transformation from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity will proceed to trial, adding legal uncertainty for enterprise customers that have built AI strategies around the ChatGPT maker’s technology. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said during a Wednesday hearing in Oakland, California, that there

Following many months of speculation, Apple has accepted JP Morgan Chase as the new issuer of Apple Card, replacing Goldman Sachs.  Apple has been on the hunt for a replacement card issuer ever since Goldman Sachs decided to abandon its push into retail banking. American Express, Synchrony Financial, and Capital One all expressed some interest in reaching the

LAS VEGAS — Not so long ago — last year, let’s say — tech industry spending was all about the big AI companies spending billions of dollars on training ever-larger frontier AI models. That’s rapidly changing, which is why at this year’s CES, AI inference was at the heart of the show’s keynote speeches and

Microsoft has backed away from its plan to introduce a limit of 2,000 emails per day in Exchange Online. The change, announced in 2024 and set to go into effect last year, was aimed at reducing the amount of online spam. But the limitation was met with fierce criticism from business users, and it is

Despite all the warnings, and constant news of devastating cyberattacks, enterprise users are still cutting corners when it comes to identity and access management (IAM). Nearly two-thirds (63%) of cybersecurity leaders admit their employees continue to bypass security controls so they can work faster, according to new research by security company CyberArk. Furthermore, enterprises are