Microsoft has announced the general availability of TypeScript 7, the first version written in native code, which is about ten times faster than TypeScript 6.0, the last JavaScript-based version. JetB…
Vivienne Ming's book 'Robot-Proof' (Wiley, March 2026, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1394397808) explores how individuals, companies, and societies will respond to AI-driven changes, addressing questions about …
Packt Publishing will release 'Angular Projects, 3rd Ed' by Aristeidis Bampakos in June 2026, a 298-page guide teaching Angular development through 10 real-world enterprise projects, covering signals,…
In an August 5, 2026 opinion piece on I Programmer, author Mike James argues that the question of whether AI can be conscious is meaningless because no Turing test exists for consciousness, unlike int…
JetBrains has made KotlinLLM, its research prototype for delegating runtime logic to a large language model from Kotlin code, open source and public. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin, announced in July, adds …
At the 2026 Posette event, run by Microsoft's Postgres team, experts highlighted integrating Postgres with AI, including building Model Context Protocol servers for safe AI agent queries, and showcase…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models including Gemini Robotics ER2, which acts as the brain for one or more robots, enabling planning, cooperation, whole-body control, adv…
Wren AI, an open-source generative business intelligence engine, provides a portable context layer that teaches AI agents business logic to prevent hallucinated SQL queries. The framework defines five…
Packt Publishing released 'Python Data Analysis, 4th Ed' in June 2026, authored by Avinash Navlan and Cornellius Yudha Wijaya. The 766-page book covers end-to-end data analysis including machine learn…
AI has made previously 'virtually impossible' tasks like bird photo identification nearly trivial, but at the cost of reliability, argues Mike James in a July 2026 I Programmer article. James notes th…
Google's open-source Genkit framework provides a unified model interface and modular building blocks for building full-stack, AI-powered agentic applications, enabling developers to swap or combine mo…
The 5th edition of 'Programming Massively Parallel Processors' by Wen-mei W. Hwu, David B. Kirk, and Izzat El Hajj, published by Morgan Kaufmann, introduces new chapters on filtering, wavefront parall…
Wing Python IDE version 12 has been released with AI improvements including integration of the Claude Code AI coding agent directly into the IDE, a new Claude Code tool, a Tasks tool for planning and …
Microsoft's Pure Virtual C++ 2026 conference, held on July 21, 2026, has released all sessions as a YouTube playlist. Hosted by Mads Kristensen and Sinem Akinci, the event featured five live sessions …
Run Robotics, a Shanghai-based company, unveiled the world's first centaur wheel-leg hybrid robot at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China. The robot combines a horse-li…
Google has released AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent developed by Google DeepMind, on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The tool uses large language models to automatically generate and improve alg…
Wing Python IDE version 12 has been released with a Claude Code tool that integrates Anthropic's Claude Code AI coding agent directly into the IDE, along with a Tasks tool for planning and reviewing A…
Packt Publishing released 'Learn Robotics Programming' by Danny Staple in May 2026, a 740-page guide teaching readers to build and control AI robots using Raspberry Pi and Python. The book covers moto…
DeepSWE, a new benchmarking platform for AI coding agents, achieves clearer separation between frontier models than older benchmarks like SWE-bench by using contamination-free tasks across 91 reposito…
Arthur Samuel, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and computer games, began his career as an electrical engineer before moving into computing. While at the University of Illinois, he developed one o…