CNBC says Google plans to unveil AI updates

CNBC says Google plans to unveil AI updates

CNBC reported that Google plans to unveil generative AI updates at the I/O event, its annual developer conference, this week. According to documents seen by CNBC, the company plans to showcase PaLM2, its recent and advanced LLM. 

Software.com releases survey results

A recent Software.com survey revealed that software developers reporting a medium or high burnout decreased by 8% in 2023. Developers identifying poor work-life balance and disruptions as contributing factors to burnout dropped by 12% and 7%, respectively.  GitHub code search GA

GitHub announced the general availability of its new code search and code view for all its users. In December 2021, GitHub disclosed plans to improve code search by indexing all source code, supporting incremental indexing and document deletion, proving fast exact-match and regex queries, and more.  Meta open-sourced ImageBind, an AI model that it says can bind information from six different modalities. According to Meta, ImageBind enables researchers to develop new, holistic systems, such as combining 3D and IMU sensors to design or experience immersive virtual worlds.  Android improved the Google Pay API and introduced a new button view that simplifies integration and allows developers to add the button directly to their XML layout. The new button API is currently in beta, and Android shared a tutorial on how to start using the new button view.  Red Hat released Quarkus 3.0 with an improved Dev UI that is extensible and easier to use with a new look and feel, improvements to RESTEasy Reactive, support for a Redis backend, and more. The Java framework for containers and Kubernetes is based on Jakarta EE10 and is built for Java 17 or higher.  Leaning Technologies released version 3.0 of CheerpJ, its offering to run large-scale, unmodified Java applications and applets on the browser. CheerpJ, which the company claims has over 10,000 users, does not require access to source code, supports advanced Java features, and is based on an unmodified OpenJDK environment.