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Creatio’s 8.1 Quantum low-code platform bolsters composable app development

The company has added a new generative AI interface that will allow enterprise users to generate applications via natural language prompts.

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Starburst Enterprise, Galaxy updated to support on-prem connectivity, storage

The company has also integrated Databricks’ Unity Catalog governance tool to provide an additional metastore alongside AWS Glue, Hive HMS, and the Galaxy Metastore.

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Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs come to Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud now offers bare-metal instances with Nvidia H100 GPUs for AI training and inference and high-performance computing applications. Nvidia L40S GPUs are on the way.

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Shiny R web framework arrives in Wasm

Shinylive R package exports Shiny R apps as Wasm-enabled Shinylive applications that run completely in a web browser.

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Generative AI most important technology ever, Oracle’s Ellison says

Generative AI fundamentally changes how apps will be built and run at Oracle, the company’s CTO and co-founder said.

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Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features

The new generative AI capabilities and the Vector Store are currently in private preview.

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Oracle unveils its API-led generative AI service with Cohere’s LLMs

The new generative AI service, which is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is currently in limited availability.

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Oracle’s Database 23c gets vector search to underpin generative AI use cases

The semantic search capabilities added to the database offering include a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators.

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GitHub woos Bitbucket and Bamboo refugees

Atlassian will end support for Bitbucket Server and Bamboo Server in February 2024, and offers a cloud migration trial program to server product customers.

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JDK 21: The new features in Java 21

Java 21 has arrived in a production release with 15 features including virtual threads, a generational Z garbage collector, and a key encapsulation mechanism API.

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DataStax’s new JSON API targets JavaScript developers

The new API, which will be made available through DataStax’s Stargate, will allow JavaScript developers to leverage Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLM), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects....

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Eclipse enterprise Java gathers steam, MicroProfile slips

Eclipse survey of enterprise Java developers shows Jakarta EE use on the rise, MicroProfile losing ground to Spring, and Kubernetes and microservices to be the top community priorities.

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Kinetica offers its own LLM for SQL queries, citing security, privacy concerns

Kinetica's self-developed large language model, designed to enable SQL queries from natural language prompts in its relational database, targets security-sensitive customers including US government defense organizations.

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Ruby on Rails extends Docker support

Now available in a beta, Rails 7.1 will generate all Dockerfiles needed for deployment, tuned for production use.

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Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs

Having let go of over 250 employees at the end of last year, low-code platform provider Airtable has announced more job cuts in order to make the company “cash flow positive.”

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Salesforce readies AI assistant for CRM

Einstein AI tools due in a fall pilot include a conversational assistant built into every Salesforce app and a studio for building AI-powered apps with custom prompts, skills, and AI models.

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JFrog adds ML model management to devsecops platform

JFrog unveiled a number of new platform capabilities including static application security testing and anti-tampering and compliance checks for software releases.

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JetBrains previews RustRover IDE for Rust development

RustRover combines coding assistance and a built-in toolchain for testing, running, debugging, and analyzing Rust code.

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