Cloud Computing

OpenAI has announced a new family of models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which it says outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini “across the board.” In conjunction with the launch of the GPT-4.1 family, OpenAI also announced that it is deprecating GPT-4.5 Preview in the API. GPT-4.5 Preview will be…

Back in 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby stated that data was the new oil. Like oil, data isn’t useful in its raw state and must be refined, processed, and distributed to deliver value. Nearly 20 years later, business practices that have grown up around in this analogy include dataops automations…

News stories about cloud services and artificial intelligence are generally predictable. Another generative AI model, another upgraded cloud feature, another boast about “leading the market in innovation.” That’s all well and good, but Google’s announcement at the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference in Las Vegas is not just about AI….

Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write code to package and deploy apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, and eventually other hosts. Instructions…

DeepSeek may have originated in China, but it stopped being Chinese the minute it was released on Hugging Face with an accompanying paper detailing its development. Soon after, a range of developers, including the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), scrambled to replicate DeepSeek’s success but this time as open…

The potential benefits of low-code and no-code development tools include faster application development, lower expenses, and more agility. The technology is not suited to every scenario, however, and in some cases, low- and no-code solutions could be a barrier to productivity. Research firm Grand View Research predicts the global low-code…

Call them pet projects, side projects, or hobby projects, projects pursued outside of one’s regular business activity are especially popular among software developers. After all, these projects serve as an excellent way to learn new skills and technologies or to test fresh concepts and approaches. Whether sparked by a spontaneous…

Microsoft has released its third preview of .NET 10, a planned update to the company’s cross-platform, open-source, application development platform. Among the highlights, .NET 10 Preview 3 introduces an AOT-safe constructor for ValidationContext, more powerful C# language extensions, and Blazor WebAssembly improvements. .NET 10 Preview 3 was unveiled April 10…

Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcements of new AI-powered tools and services aimed at boosting productivity, automating tasks, and…

What is data fabric? Data fabric is a type of architecture that aims to provide unified access to the data stored in various places across your organization. The data fabric concept recognizes that most enterprises aren’t able or willing to consolidate every department’s valuable data into one huge data lake….

Recently I undertook a project to design and validate agentic AI architectures capable of operating autonomously across various public cloud providers. It served as a dry run to ensure I could create these architectures for my clients, test their viability, and refine best practices for multicloud agentic AI deployments.I’ve designed…

Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth itPython’s malleability and dynamism make it powerful, but also very hard to speed up. Here’s a look at some of the ways developers are working to make Python faster from within. Understand Python’s…

Once just a chatbot, xAI’s Grok 3 large language model family is now available in a beta version via an API, enabling developers to integrate Grok 3 into custom applications. The company is offering two new LLMS, one with deep domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, law, and science, and a…

AI models are advancing at a dizzying clip, with builders boasting ever more impressive performance with each iteration. But how do the various models really stack up? And how can IT buyers truly know that vendors are being forthcoming with their results? The Geoffrey Hinton-founded Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence…

Google is previewing Firebase Studio, a cloud-based agentic development environment designed to build, test, deploy, and run AI applications. Introduced April 9, Firebase Studio fuses tools such as the Project IDX cloud IDE, the Genkit framework for AI applications, and Gemini in Firebase, an AI-powered collaborative assistant, into a unified,…