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Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX

Arctic will be available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be accessed via Snowflake Cortex for serverless inference or across providers such as AWS, Azure, Nvidia, Perplexity, and Together AI, among others.


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OpenAI ramps up enterprise support with a focus on security, control, and cost

The new features are designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost-effective options.


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Wasmer unveils Python to Wasm compiler

py2wasm draws on Nuitka to convert Python programs to WebAssembly and run them at 3x faster speeds, Wasmer says.


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How RAG completes the generative AI puzzle

Retrieval-augmented generation brings to generative AI the one big thing that was holding it back in the enterprise.


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Intro to Extism: A WebAssembly library for extendable apps and plugins

Extism lets you write WASM extensions for applications written in almost any language. Here's how to use Extism to write extendable programs and plugins.


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5 ways to use JavaScript promises

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code.


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Oracle JDK Mission Control 9 adds dark theme, configurable JVM browser

Tool kit for monitoring, managing, profiling, and troubleshooting Java applications now requires JDK 17 or later to run.


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Java proposal would add exception case to switch

Allowing developers to handle an exception from the selector in switch with a case in the switch block would make switch more usable for pattern matching, the proposal says.


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AWS moves Amazon Bedrock’s AI guardrails, and other features to general availability

The updates include new large language models and a capability to import custom models, which is currently in preview.


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The cloud is not a slam dunk platform for generative AI

With public cloud providers chasing generative AI, it may be a surprise when dollars flow in other directions. Vendors and customers have a lot to consider.


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The dawn of intelligent and automated data orchestration

Enterprise workflows desperately need what iPhone and Android users have enjoyed for years—ready access to files wherever and whenever they’re needed, regardless of where the files are physically located.


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Why we suck at estimating software projects

You can plan, strategize, chunk, fold, spindle, and mutilate a project for countless person-hours, and you still won’t know the difficulties that lay ahead in actually writing the code.


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Focusing on the wrong open source issues

Yes, a tiny number of companies have relicensed their open source code. Let’s worry about actual problems, like security and megacompanies that contribute almost nothing.


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7 innovative ways to use low-code tools and platforms

Low-code platforms aren't just for web forms and simple integrations anymore. Here are seven innovative ways small and large enterprises are stretching the limits of what low-code can do.


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Android 15 reaches beta

The upcoming Android update emphasizes security, productivity, and making apps more widely accessible.