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By Serdar Yegulalp This month in Python (and elsewhere): Python 3.13's first beta has arrived, with new features you can try out now (yeah!) and others you'll need to compile from source to experiment with (yikes). Layoffs strike Google—yes, again—with internal Python devs among the affected. And, say hello to Streamlit, a library for those who are itching to write web-based Python apps but hate writing for the web. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorldThe best new features and fixes in Python 3.13New JIT compiler! "No-GIL" experiments! Better error messages! Dead batteries have been remov...
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By David Linthicum Guess what? 95% of IT decision-makers say their team has been negatively impacted by the cloud skills gap. If that’s not bad enough news, by 2030, more than 85 million roles could remain vacant because there aren’t enough skilled people to fill them. Of course, these are not new figures. We’ve been hemorrhaging skills for the past 15 years, and the advent of cloud computing—and now the resurgence of AI—has made things worse, thanks to several factors: Just give up?Although this is a challenge for many IT organizations, it’s not unsolvable. The trick is to begin planning well...
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Jan Leike, a prominent researcher — who recently resigned from OpenAI over safety and governance issues — has joined OpenAI competitor, Anthropic. Leike announced his move on X, stating his new focus will be on “scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.” Leike’s departure from OpenAI was one of several recent high-profile exits based on the premise that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat” at the ChatGPT creator. This follows reported disagreements with OpenAI’s leadership over its direction, particularly concerns that the organization...
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By David Linthicum The tech industry is buzzing with talk of cloud repatriation, partly due to some articles I have written here. What frustrates me about this industry is the lack of nuance. People make everything seem like drastic shifts. The last example of this was edge computing. Many articles I read claimed that “the shift is to the edge.” That caused a lot of confusion. Reporters, clients, and students all reached out to ask if the cloud was dead since edge computing now seemed like the way to go. Of course, that never came true, nor does any extreme shift that the analyst and tech pres...
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Back-office ERP systems are gaining strategic importance as organizations seek to digitize and automate business processes, modernize their application stack, migrate to the cloud, and accelerate the speed of business. In its latest MarketScape on worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled large enterprise ERP, IDC says, “The pace of innovation is increasing, and ERP vendors focused on AI, ML, natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, robotics process automation (RPA), and genAI are critical partners to consider for the digital future. This innovation will reset the use of ERP systems for years to co...
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By Peter Wang Since May 2023, the White House, in collaboration with leading AI companies, has been steering towards a comprehensive framework for responsible AI development. While the finalization of this framework is pending, the industry’s attempts at self-regulation are accelerating, primarily to address growing AI security concerns. The shift towards embedding trust and safety into AI tools and models is important progress. However, the real challenge lies in ensuring that these critical discussions don’t happen behind closed doors. For AI to evolve responsibly and inclusively, democratiz...
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By Matt Asay Strap in, the AI revolution has hit overdrive!!! Except, of course, that it hasn’t, and it won’t anytime soon, despite what you’ve read in countless breathless editorials. It’s not that AI isn’t important, or that it doesn’t have the potential to change everything. It is and it does, but it’s simply not going to happen as fast as we think. The reason is people. It’s always people. The hubris of forecastsThe Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims reminds us of this in his latest column. He says that we all fall prey to the “all-too-common error of technological determinism—...
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By Nick Hodges Much of the angst about social media revolves around how they deal with your personal data. They sell your attention to advertisers. They sell your online activity, tendencies, and interests to people who want to sell you products. Personally, this doesn’t bother me, because I prefer ads for things I am interested in over ads for things I will never buy, but your mileage may vary. I get it. I reserve my outrage for something that you may have have given little thought. What really gets me is that we do all the work, but they make all the money. It is said of social media that if...
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By Isaac Sacolick About a decade ago, I was a CIO evaluating a technology solution and I shared our primary requirements with a prospective vendor’s rep. He demoed at least three products from the company’s portfolio. Each tool had its own user experience, development approach, and learning requirements, but all three were needed to solve our business requirements. As CIO, I recognized that different parts of my team would either need to collaborate using these different tools, or I would have to hire more advanced developers capable of mastering them all. I decided not to invest in this techn...
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By Paul Krill Several online news outlets report that Google laid off its entire Python language team. However, Google denied that the layoffs were company-wide when asked about the fate of the team. Reports of the Python team’s dismissal have shown up in Reddit, Hacker News, and social.coop. “Google’s Python team was a small team, most of which were also on the Python steering council or core Python developers,” one commenter said in Hacker News. “These people had decades of experience in Python. Their knowledge and community connections [are] irreplaceable.” Python has become an increasingly...
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