PERL,INGRES,PROGRAMMING

  PostgreSQL 18 was released on September 25, boosting a  many great features. If you check out the official release statement you'll find that there's a lot to digest, so we'll focus on just a few key features. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18383-postgresql-18-released-whats-new.html

  Google has released a small, specialized, but powerful model that can run on low resource devices. EmbeddingGemma is a new open embedding model that delivers value for money for its size. Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, it is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with quantization. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18358-google-releases-embeddinggemma-state-of-the-art-on-device-embedding.html

  Google's open source MCP server that allows AI agents to interact with SQL databases. The difference betweenm it and other MCP to SQL servers is that it takes out complexities such as connection pooling, authentication and observability so that the developer can solely focus on implementing the logic of his Agents https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/18364-googles-mcp-toolbox-for-databases.html

  Simply referred to as "LLM Visualization" this web site  with interactive and intuitable graphics explains how an LLM actually works. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18393-visualize-the-inner-workings-of-an-llm.html

  Code-named Apertus, it's open-source and multilingual trained on trillions of tokens. What makes it different? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18352-switzerland-releases-its-own-large-language-model.html

  Who said that Perl can't do AI? And to prove it here's LocalCode, a Perl AI coding agent for local Ollama models. It's 98.5% made of Perl and open source for everyone to examine and use. It's an Agentic wrapper interacting with Ollama local models that provides a number of tools. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/18340-localcode-a-perl-based-ai-coding-agent.html