
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.
Timeline

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...

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 ...


Pulumi builds toolchains for Internal Developer Platform
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) company Pulumi has created what it calls a “modern” Internal Developer Platf...

Microsoft addresses Windows 11 24H2 update issue
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevented Windows 11 24H2 feature updates from rolling out via Wind...