In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.

The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.

Apache Geode has been revived after a near shutdown. Geode 2.0 is positioned as a modernization reset, not a minor upgrade.

Red Hat on Tuesday introduced the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, a co-engineered software platform that combines Red Hat AI Enterprise with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to help organizations deploy and ...

AI tool adoption is high and continues to climb. The survey shows most developers are now using AI assistants in their workflow or plan to soon, with daily and weekly use becoming routine. Trust is ...

Citizen development is shifting from LCNC tiles to chat-first building. Many “citizen developers” are moving away from low-code/no-code interfaces and using general-purpose AI chatbots to produce ...

GitHub has launched a new AI-powered application modernization capability designed to simplify and accelerate upgrades and migrations of legacy .NET and Java applications. Leveraging GitHub Copilot's ...

Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 25, introducing new features for its native image technology, while confirming that future development of the platform will shift away from the Java release cycle ...

Artificial intelligence startup Lemony launched a hardware-based device on Wednesday, designed to enable businesses to run generative AI systems on-premises without relying on the cloud. The product, ...

Software observability platform Honeycomb launched a new suite of artificial intelligence-powered products on Thursday, designed to help developers detect performance anomalies, investigate issues ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

About the Author John K. Waters is the editor in chief of a number of Converge360.com sites, with a focus on high-end development, AI and future tech. He's been writing about cutting-edge technologies ...