Recent stuff
Google has released ML Drift, an open-source, cross-platform GPU compute engine designed for on-device AI and machine learning inference. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it abstracts the complexities of different GPU hardware and low-level APIs, supporting OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Metal, and WebGPU.
- Mobile
Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit’s codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import time by 21%.
- Development
A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly because AI-generated code increases the workload in later stages of development, particularly code review.
- AI, ML & Data Engineering
Random stuff
GitLab has just announced a fix for a number of important security fixes, including a critical privilege escalation, and strongly recommends that all GitLab installations from version 8.2 onwards be upgraded immediately. InfoQ has spoken with GitLab’s Stan Hu, VP of Engineering.
- Development
Review: iPoe for the iPad/iPhone
As a follow up to this old post of mine about interactive books for the iPhone/iPad, I would like to mention a new entry in the field: iPoe.
A controversial survey by Upwork Research Institute found that while 96% of C-suite leaders expect the use of generative AI tools to increase overall productivity levels, 77% of surveyed employees say they have actually decreased their productivity. In fact, the survey contradicts previous research showing a positive correlation.
- AI, ML & Data Engineering