Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a preview for its agentic artificial intelligence software development assistant Q Developer for Microsoft Corp.’s open-source code repository GitHub. Millions ...

Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...

The age of generative artificial intelligence assistants has arrived, and they are becoming capable of performing more complex task every day. And last week, Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ:AMZN) made its ...

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...

Code tools have broadened. Software application development code assistants in the decade before now worked at the level of what we could call smart autocomplete tools. Developers would tap into ...

Generative AI isn’t just a technological leap — it’s a transformative force reshaping the way software is developed and deployed. At the forefront of this revolution is Deepak Singh, vice president of ...

The company blog explains that Amazon Q is “the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.” ...

Generative AI virtual assistant Amazon Q was unveiled by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in 2023. Image: AWS A threat actor managed to insert a data-wiping prompt into Amazon’s AI coding assistant Q in July, ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension is reportedly vulnerable to stealthy prompt injection attacks using invisible Unicode Tag characters. According to the author of the “Embrace The Red” blog, ...

A hacker managed to insert destructive system commands into Amazon’s Visual Studio Code extension used for accessing its AI-powered coding assistant, Q, which was later distributed to users through an ...