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Findings from a new study by Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, appear to poke major holes in the notion that AI firms, and specifically OpenAI, will eventually become profitable. The research paper written by Jaime Sevilla, Hannah Petrovic and Anson Ho, suggests that while running an AI model may generate enough revenue to cover its own R&D costs, any profit is outweighed by the cost of …

Microsoft has launched a public preview of GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++. The company had previewed C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot in December. Both previews are available via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ helps developers upgrade C++ projects to newer MSVC Build Tools versions. The public preview was announced January 27. …

Prompt engineering is the process of crafting inputs, or prompts, to a generative AI system that lead to the system producing better outputs. That sounds simple on the surface, but because LLMs and other gen AI tools are complex, nondeterministic “ black box ” systems, it’s a devilishly tricky process that involves trial and error and a certain degree of guesswork — and that’s before you even con…

Suse has unveiled a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment tool, with the intention of helping customers understand the gaps in their compliance with the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Launched January 29, the tool is a web-based, self-service discovery platform designed to evaluate an organization’s cloud infrastructure against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. The assessment provid…

Brotli is one of the most widely used but least-known compression formats ever devised, long incorporated into all major browsers and web content delivery networks (CDNs). Despite that, it isn’t yet used in the creation and display of PDF documents, which since version 1.2 in 1996 have relied on the FlateDecode filter also used to compress .zip and .png files. That is about to change, though, wit…

Apiiro has launched Guardian Agent, an AI agent that helps prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code by rewriting developer prompts into secure prompts, according to the company. Introduced January 28 , Guardian Agent is now in a private preview stage . Describing the technology as introducing a fundamentally new paradigm for securing software in the era of AI-driven …

Angular is a cohesive, all-in-one reactive framework for web development. It is one of the larger reactive frameworks, focused on being a single architectural system that handles all your web development needs under one idiom. While Angular was long criticized for being heavyweight as compared to React , many of those issues were addressed in Angular 19 . Modern Angular is built around the Signal…

“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Abraham Maslow, 1966 Microservices provide many benefits for building business services, such as independent tools, technologies, languages, release cycles, and full control over your dependencies. However, microservices aren’t the solution for every problem. As Mr. Maslow observed, if we limit ou…

For years, CSOs have worried about their IT infrastructure being used for unauthorized cryptomining. Now, say researchers, they’d better start worrying about crooks hijacking and reselling access to exposed corporate AI infrastructure. In a report released Wednesday , researchers at Pillar Security say they have discovered campaigns at scale going after exposed large language model (LLM) and MCP …

LiteRT , Google’s “modern” on-device inference framework evolved from TensorFlow Lite (TFLite), has introduced advanced acceleration capabilities, based on a ”next-generation GPU engine” called ML Drift . Google said that this milestone, announced January 28 , solidifies LiteRT as a universal on-device framework and represents a significant leap over its predecessor, TFLite. LiteRT delivers 1.4x …

Teradata has expanded the agent-building capabilities it launched last year into a full-blown toolkit, which it says will help enterprises address the challenge of moving AI agents beyond pilots into production-grade deployments. Branded as Enterprise AgentStack , the expanded toolkit layers AgentEngine and AgentOps onto Teradata’s existing Agent Builder , which includes a user interface for buil…

PyPy , an alternative runtime for Python , uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython , the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has often come at the cost of compatibility with the rest of the Python ecosystem, particularly C extensions. And while those issues are improving, the PyPy runtime itself often lags in keeping up to…

When the automobile was first invented, many looked like—and were indeed called—horseless carriages. Early websites for newspapers were laid out just like the paper versions. They still are to some extent. Our computers have “desktops” and “files”—just like an office from the 1950s. It is even said that the width of our railroad tracks is a direct result of the width between the wheels of a Roman…

Google has added an Agentic Vision capability to its Gemini 3 Flash model, which the company said combines visual reasoning with code execution to ground answers in visual evidence. The capability fundamentally changes how AI models process images, according to Google. Introduced January 27 , Agentic Vision is available via the Gemini API in the Google AI Studio development tool and Vertex AI in …

Userware has released OpenSilver 3.3, an update to the open-source framework for building cross-platform applications using C# and XAML. OpenSilver 3.3 lets Blazor components for web development run directly inside XAML applications, streamlining the process of running these components. Userware unveiled OpenSilver 3.3 on January 27. OpenSilver SDKs for Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Visual Studio…