I'm Josh Long (@starbuxman), a humble Spring developer advocate at @VMWare, and this is A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), a celebration of the real heroes that drive ecosystems. Hi, Spring fans!

Editor’s note: Some stories are worth coming back to. Originally published in 2024, this behind-the-scenes look at UC admissions is packed with insights for college-bound students, their families and ...

OpenAI is moving beyond the familiar chatbot model with Dots, a new kind of persistent AI agent designed to keep working after an employee closes the chat window — monitoring projects, using software, ...

The merger of Microsoft’s consumer and business Copilot apps lays the groundwork for the upcoming Copilot “Super App” that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has touted to developers and investors. (GeekWire ...

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s one place where it’s been notably absent: the Linux community. Indeed, certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring ...

The Internal Revenue Service has been rolling out live chat applications with customer service representatives and automated chatbots in recent years, but the questionable answers they provide could ...

The IRS is providing a good service to taxpayers with its live chat applications, per a new watchdog report, but there could be problems if the agency doesn’t get a handle on performance measures. The ...

A Treasury watchdog found the IRS expanded taxpayer chat services despite lacking reliable performance data and measures to evaluate service quality and effectiveness. The Treasury Inspector General ...

Some applications on this list require only an API key from an LLM provider such as OpenAI. PrivateGPT runs local LLMs directly on your VPS and requires significantly more RAM — a minimum of 8 GB is ...

OpenAI is developing a desktop application to bring together its ChatGPT chatbot, coding tool and web browser in an effort to keep users engaged in the face of fierce competition from rivals like ...

OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a desktop “superapp,” a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and ...