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 ...

The Google Bard chatbot now has an update that allows it to generate, debug, and explain code.

It now also features integration with Google's other products and can export code to Colab, the company's cloud-based notebook environment for Python, as well as help users write functions for Sheets.

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