Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers […]
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart & Python weeks before its developer conference
Ahead of Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May, the tech giant has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python, and others, according to reports from impacted employees shared on social media. Google confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch, but not the specific teams, roles, or headcount impacted. “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly […]
Fireworks.ai open source API puts generative AI in reach of any developer
Just about everyone is trying to get a piece of the generative AI action these days. While the majority of the focus remains on the model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, or the bigger companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon, there are in fact, a lot of startups trying to attack the generative […]
X launches top up packs for its developer API
Social network X (formerly Twitter) launched new top-up packs for its developer API program on Tuesday. These paid upgrades will allow developers to fetch roughly 10,000 posts for $ 100 if they hit their existing tier’s limit midway through the month. Last year, Elon Musk curtailed free API access and released new paid tiers with […]
Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost
Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced “AT Protocol Grants,” a new program that will dole out small grants to developers building on its new social networking protocol. Initially, Bluesky said it would release $ 10,000 in grants […]