Developer-focused portal Stack Overflow lays off 10% staff
The job cuts are a result of the company’s renewed focus on profitability due to macroeconomic concerns, according to CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar.
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IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx
The generative AI platform comes with a suite of tools for tuning large language models, a data store built on lakehouse architecture, and an AI governance toolkit.
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LinkedIn lays off 716 staff, shuts China job app
The layoffs, which come at a time when the company is turning 20, are part of the company’s new strategy to match evolving market conditions due to macroeconomic conditions, CEO Ryan Roslansky said in a letter to employees.
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ServiceNow, Hugging Face's free StarCoder LLM takes on Copilot, CodeWhisperer
The free large language model, which was jointly developed by the two companies under the BigCode Project, was trained on licensed source code covering over 80 programming languages.
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DataStax’s new LunaML to support Kaskada deployment
Kaskada, acquired by DataStax in January, offers an open-source based unified events processing engine aimed at helping enterprises build real-time machine learning applications.
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Databricks acquires AI-centric Okera to aid data governance in LLMs
Databricks intends to integrate Okera’s capabilities with its own data governance layer inside its lakehouse offering, dubbed Unity Catalog.
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How Oracle is taking on AWS, Snowflake with Autonomous Data Warehouse updates
Oracle is set to cut storage pricing and add major updates to its cloud data warehouse service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, in an effort to take on competing services from rivals including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Snowflake.
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Mendix aims to add generative AI to its low-code platform by year-end
Mendix has been working on adding generative AI features to its low-code platform for months now and expects to release them to enterprises by the end of the year, according to a company executive.
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Job cuts may intensify as IBM plans to use AI to replace 30% back office jobs
IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries.
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Kinetica taps ChatGPT for natural language SQL database queries
Natural language queries made to the database are routed through ChatGPT's API to produce a SQL query syntax that can be run to generate results, Kinetica says.
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Why generative AI will turbocharge low-code and no-code development
The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.
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After job cuts, MariaDB faces uncertain financial future
In addition to laying off 26 staffers out of its 340-strong workforce, the company warns that revenue won't be enough to support operations for the next 12 months, and is looking for financing.
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Why did Databricks open source its LLM in the form of Dolly 2.0?
Databricks has released an open source-based iteration of its large language model (LLM), dubbed Dolly 2.0 in response to the growing demand for generative AI and related applications.
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IBM acquires SaaS-based PrestoDB provider Ahana
IBM’s will join the Presto Foundation and aid in the development of PrestoDB.
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AWS' Bedrock offers foundation models to build generative AI apps
The new AWS cloud service, Amazon Bedrock, is designed to let enterprises select foundation models for building their own generative AI applications for targeted use cases and commercial use.
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