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Portal, a productivity app designed to enhance focus, has introduced a Mac app version.

Upcoming changes to Windows 11 will give users the option to remove the Microsoft News feed from the widgets panel.

The upcoming Microsoft .NET 8 framework will strengthen web app performance by combining server-side and client-side rendering with the Blazor component model. This will involve server-side rendering with Blazor components, streaming rendering, and improved navigation and form handling.

Arc, a job platform for remote software developers, launches HireAI to make recruitment easier.

Opera introduces an innovative AI side panel, Aria, driven by OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its browser. Aria, a web and browser expert, aims to make information searching, text generation, and code creation more accessible. Available in over 180 countries, testers can access Aria by creating an Opera account and downloading the latest version of Opera One or Opera for Android beta.

Microsoft is set to enhance the developer experience on Windows with the introduction of new features like the GitHub Copilot X integration, Dev Home, and Dev Drive.

Microsoft unveils Azure AI Studio, a capability in the Azure OpenAI Service, to help businesses create their AI-powered copilots using OpenAI's machine learning models.

Red Hat introduces Podman Desktop 1.0, a user-friendly, open-source graphical desktop client for managing containers locally and remotely on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Microsoft is integrating its ChatGPT-based Bing experience into Windows 11 with the introduction of the Windows Copilot, simplifying user interactions with Windows settings and providing valuable features like summarizing clipboard content and composing text.

Google unveils Product Studio, a new AI-driven tool that enables merchants to generate custom product imagery with ease.

Adobe integrates generative AI features from Firefly into Photoshop, offering users the ability to extend images, add objects, and remove objects with increased precision through natural language prompts.

GitLab 16 introduces an enterprise-grade, AI-powered DevSecOps platform aimed at bolstering security and expediting software development. The new release integrates AI features alongside security testing, observability, and proactive vulnerability detection. GitLab Dedicated will be released this summer, specifically tailored for organizations in regulated industries.

Google updates its Colab platform with AI-driven coding features, including code completion, natural language-based code generation, and an integrated chatbot. By utilizing Codey models built on PaLM 2, Colab delivers a significant boost to programming speed, quality, and comprehension.

Microsoft reaches TypeScript 5.1's release candidate stage, updating developer features such as return statements, accessor pairs, and JSX element handling, while improving snippet completions, code typing, and documentation parsing.

Microsoft unveils 'Guidance', a next-generation programming language designed to produce natural language responses and simplify programming tasks.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.6 featuring significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while the 17.7 preview further improves productivity with new Git visualization and Blazor WebAssembly features in the development process.

Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have announced an update to target Android 13, along with a smooth transition plan to .NET MAUI, the future of cross-platform development.

Azul Systems unveils Azul Zulu builds of OpenJDK with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) support.

A recent Altman Solon survey shows that generative AI tools are being used by nearly 25% of US tech firms to enhance software development.

The upcoming Python 3.12 release promises significant enhancements to speed, memory efficiency, adaptability, and concurrency. These improvements aim to future-proof the popular dynamic programming language and streamline development.

Nvidia has introduced NeMo Guardrails, an open-source toolkit designed to improve the safety of AI-powered applications that generate text and speech. The toolkit aims to make these apps more accurate, appropriate, on-topic, and secure by allowing developers to create rules using a few lines of code.

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Cruise's Robotaxis now run 24/7 in San Francisco.

Replit, a web-based IDE developer, has raised close to $100 million at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation to further develop its AI-powered code generation tool, Ghostwriter.