Applications
Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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Bing’s market share remains miniscule in 2023, despite AI hype
While Bing Chat was riding high in 2023, the search engine Bing remains as unloved as ever. This year, it's b...
Dutch hospital now uses AI chatbot to answer patient questions, a first in Europe
The Dutch-based UMCG hospital is now answering questions from patients with the help of AI. However, it's sti...
Microsoft’s stock reach record heights thanks to 1.5 trillion Big Tech boosts
Microsoft market cap has never been as high as it is today: $2.69 trillion. Despite global economic uncertain...
Google Play lets developers set their own deadline for verification
Google wants apps in its Play Store to meet the highest quality standards, and is now helping app developers ...
“Google wants to invest hundreds of millions in chatbot maker Character.AI”
Google may want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in AI chatbot specialist Character.AI. With this in...
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Lunar.dev: Houston, we have API management
As software application developers make increasing use of componetised, containerised and compartmentalised e...
OpenAI asks for online unavailable data to willing third parties
OpenAI wants to improve the quality of training data for training its LLM models. This data set should be as ...
Microsoft expands Copilot for GitHub, will soon put it into Windows 10
As far as Microsoft is concerned, 2023 is the year of Copilot - whether in GitHub or Windows 11. Now, with Gi...
Google’s AI search launches in 120 countries (but only outside Europe)
Google has continued to expand Search Generative Experience (SGE). After launches in the US, India and Japan,...
Google and European telecom providers want Apple’s iMessage included in DMA
The European Commission has until early 2024 to decide whether iMessage will become a subject of the Digital ...