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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. When an AI generates code, it doesn’t know how that code will be used, so you might end up accidentally violating license terms.”

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. “It One example is with document search and summarization.

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Microsoft hit with more litigation accusing it of predatory pricing

CIO Business Intelligence

All UK businesses and organizations that bought licenses for Windows Server via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud may have been overcharged and will be represented in this new ‘opt-out’ collective action,” the law firm statement said. “I The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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Observe links end-user experience with back-end troubleshooting

Network World

Using open-source agents and OpenTelemetry-based software development kits (SDK) to collect data from browsers and mobile applications, Frontend Observability can monitor application performance and collect data that will help IT teams correlate frontend performance problems with backend services, according to Observe.

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Sharply rising IT costs have CIOs threading the needle on innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

But price increases are also a huge driver of spending increases, says Dmytro Romanchenko, CEO of software developer Syndicode. Cloud services, software licenses, hardware everythings creeping up, he says. Vendors are cranking up prices across the board, forcing companies to be sharper with their budgets, he says.

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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

CTOvision

From the perspective of Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and analytics leader Actuate, freemium software is a resource that can really help the enterprise. Remember back when software was simple? Either home-grown or licensed from a vendor who billed you for maintenance at periodic intervals?

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