5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1383+ words) Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard, and Llama have caught the public's imagination and garnered a wide variety of reactions. They are also expected to grow dramatically in the coming years. According to Dimension Market Research, The Global'LLM…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1478+ words) When I started out developing software back in the Cretaceous Period, my input device was a Teletype connected to a remote mainframe over a 300 baud modem, with a paper tape punch/reader. Later I had access to Hollerith cards and…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (409+ words) It's still early days for what Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott calls "the agentic web," but he suggests that MCP may be the equivalent of HTTP for interconnected AI applications. Certainly, Microsoft has made a big bet on the evolving protocol…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (339+ words) Oracle has added new prebuilt agents to Private Agent Factory, its no-code framework for building containerized, data-centric agents within AI Database 26ai. These agents include a Database Knowledge Agent, a Structured Data Analysis Agent, and a Deep Data Research Agent." While…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1327+ words) The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of systems programming. Even though it has yet to hit version 1. 0, Zig is already in use with several production projects and attracts admirers with its slew of good ideas…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (329+ words) Paul Krill is editor at large at Info World. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at Info World. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (496+ words) Snowflake (Nasdaq: SNOW) is boosting the performance of its standard data warehouses and introducing a new adaptive technology to help enterprises optimize compute costs " but customers will have to choose one or the other. Adaptive Warehouses, built atop Snowflake's Adaptive…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (289+ words) Data Warehousing | News, how-tos, features, reviews, and videos Google's is moving to counter AWS and Microsoft in the emerging AI data stack race. The acquisition will enable enterprises to build agents that can leverage real-time data to make better decisions…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (912+ words) Google is recasting its data and analytics portfolio as the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture it says is aimed at moving enterprise AI from pilot to production by turning fragmented data into a unified semantic layer that agents can reason…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (897+ words) Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java, .NET, or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Full-stack developers learned the intricacies of selected…...