Alphabet Inc.'s Google said on Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast ...

Programmers will be able to ask Colab AI programming-related questions, and the chatbot will hopefully provide a non-hallucinated answer with instructions and code samples.

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now able to help users with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation.

Treasury's interest in these AI tools comes as its IT workforce has been slimmed under the Trump administration.