
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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xAI shows preview of new multimodal LLM Grokv 1.5
xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, recently previewed its new multimodal LLM Grok Vision (Grokv) 1.5. This LLM is m...

Microsoft to raise Dynamics 365 prices significantly
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Dynamics 365 application suite by ten percent or more. As an explanati...

ChatGPT provides shorter answers after upgrade
Paying users of ChatGPT can now use a new version of GPT-4 Turbo. In addition to more accurate answers than b...

Arcadis operates as a global company on Oracle Fusion foundation
For consulting and engineering organization Arcadis, a company that operates globally in the fields of buildi...

Mistral introduces new powerful Mixtral 8x22B LLM
Open-source AI specialist Mistral has recently introduced its new LLM Mixtral 8x22B. This LLM is the successo...

Qualcomm and Qt team up to accelerate development for IoT devices
Chip company Qualcomm and Qt Group, provider of frameworks for creating GUIs, are broadening their existing p...

Windows Server 2025 no longer requires a reboot for security updates
The new version of Windows Server allows organizations to install security patches without rebooting servers....

Intel and Nvidia have radically different visions for AI development
Is the future of AI development open or closed? Both Intel and Nvidia have both tackled that question - and g...

Reuters: ‘Smaller browsers used more after DMA went into effect’
A recent survey shows that smaller providers of internet browsers are seeing an uptick in usage after the EU'...

Google Cloud unveils updates to Gemini, Imagen, Gemma and Vertex AI
At Google Cloud Next this year, AI once again plays centre stage. Google Cloud is bringing the necessary upda...