Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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Google Cloud launches coding AI assistant with Duet AI for Developers

Google Cloud, the cloud division of Google LLC, today announced that generative artificial intelligence assistance is coming to software developers where they do their work, in developer environments and editors, with Duet AI for Developers. The launch of Duet AI for Developers into general availability marks the technology giant’s first push into the AI-powered coding assistant space ...

Google unleashes Gemini Pro for enterprises and developers to build on

Google LLC today said that it’s making its largest and most capable generative artificial intelligence model to date, Gemini, available for developers and enterprises to build their own apps that take advantage of its sophisticated reasoning capabilities and native ability to understand text, code, audio, images and video. Gemini comes in three different sizes: Ultra, Pro ...

Copado opens beta access to enterprise DevOps AI assistant CopadoGPT to all customers

Copado Inc., a DevOps platform for Salesforce and software-as-a-service deployments, today announced that it’s expanding access to its generative artificial intelligence chatbot, CopadoGPT, to all customers in beta mode. Copado said that its AI assistant operates as a “resident expert in all things Copado,” by using an AI model with a decade’s worth of Salesforce experience ...

Atlassian announces wide availability of generative AI capabilities across its products

Atlassian Corp. Plc. said today it’s bringing generative artificial intelligence agents and services online across its flagship collaborative product software line so its customers can get the benefits of conversational access to their organization’s data and quick insights. In April, the company announced the first set of services as part of Atlassian Intelligence, launched in beta ...

Lutra AI launches to make building automated AI workflows easy

A new startup named Lutra AI launched today with a platform aimed at helping users create personal artificial intelligence workflows and automate repetitive tasks without the need for deep technical expertise. Lutra is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Jiquan Ngiam, who previously worked at Google LLC and the online education provider Coursera Inc. He saw ...

Messenger gets end-to-end encryption privacy enabled by default

Meta Platforms Inc. is finally upgrading Messenger to be end-to-end encrypted by default, ending a multiyear journey to make the messaging app secure for its users. The company announced the completion of the project on Wednesday, noting that the upgrade will bring E2EE, as it’s known in short, to all users without them having to select the ...

Coinbase Wallet now allows sending crypto via links on messaging apps or email

Users of Coinbase Wallet, a cryptocurrency wallet developed by the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. that gives users full control of their crypto tokens, said today they can now transfer crypto payments with a link through popular messaging apps, text or email. The objective of the new service is to make it easier for users to ...

Gecko Robotics raises $100M to maintain critical infrastructure with AI-powered robots

Gecko Robotics Inc., the developer of artificial intelligence-powered software and advanced robotics that work to maintain physical infrastructure for energy and defense projects that can be hazardous to humans, announced Tuesday it has raised $100 million in new funding. The initial Series C round raised $73 million for the company last year from Drive Capital ...

JetBrains unleashes AI-powered coding assistant across its developer productivity tools

Professional software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o today announced the release of a new artificial intelligence-powered coding companion called “AI Assistant,” now generally available to users of the company’s independent development editors. The new coding assistant is powered by multiple generative AI models and deeply integrated with the company’s IDEs, which are software applications used by software ...

Web3 firm Thirdweb discloses major vulnerability in common open-source NFT library

Thirdweb, a platform that provides developers with tools to build Web3 apps, disclosed that the company became aware of a security vulnerability in a common open-source library used by major blockchain companies to construct smart contracts for nonfungible tokens. The company revealed Monday that it became aware of the vulnerability in a post on X, ...