Microsoft joins AI race at last: two models mark its first move
In March 2024, Microsoft set up its own AI team. The goal was clear: to break away from its reliance on OpenA...
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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Dropping the SBOM, why software supply chains are too flaky
The software supply chain and software bill of materials (SBOM) has never been so fervently debated, conflate...
Microsoft expands fine-tuning capabilities in Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft has announced a significant update for model fine-tuning in Azure AI Foundry. This environment alre...
Google demonstrates AI software agent
Alphabet's Google demonstrated various products to employees and external developers ahead of its annual deve...
OpenAI opens the door to reinforcement fine-tuning for o4-mini
OpenAI is making reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) available to external developers using the o4-mini reasoning...
Apple MDM service Jamf finally expands to Android
Long-standing Apple specialist Jamf will start offering mobile management services (MDM) for Android in July....
Google’s new AI model harms victim support
An update turns Google Gemini into a prudish system and renders apps for trauma survivors unusable. The la...
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ServiceNow goes after the mid-market with its AI-based Core Business Suite
ServiceNow wants to attract more organizations
Anthropic joins the search engine battle
Anthropic is joining competitors OpenAI and Perplexity AI in the battle against Google Search. The company...
Google restricts search access to favor Gemini
Google has restricted access to key search functions for its AI service Gemini, while other AI companies are ...
