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McDonald's is testing an AI voice-ordering system called ArchIQ at five U.S. drive-thru locations as part of its new McDonald's NEXT strategy, which CEO Chris Kempczinski unveiled this week to replace…
President Donald Trump has signaled interest in the United States government acquiring ownership stakes in leading artificial intelligence laboratories. The proposal would mark a significant shift in …
A new architectural pattern called the Deterministic Core Architecture provides a transferable design pattern and production reference implementation for AI-augmented applications. The architecture ad…
Lite Agent, a new browser extension, redefines the AI agent by combining chat, page automation, voice input, memory, and encrypted backups into a single tool. The agent clicks buttons, fills forms, an…
Apple's current success remains driven by iPhone sales, with artificial intelligence not yet significantly impacting the company's business, according to Ranjan Roy, cofounder of Margins. Roy said the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced he will introduce the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a one-time 50 percent tax on major AI companies paid in stock to create a federal sovereig…
Thinking Machines Lab released two open-source libraries, `tinker` and `tinker-cookbook`, to help developers and researchers fine-tune large language models. The `tinker` SDK handles distributed train…
The ancient Greek virtue of sophrosyne—sound-mindedness, moderation and self-knowledge—is essential for human flourishing in the age of AI, according to philosopher and researcher Ross Reed. Reed argu…
Two developers, Francis Tran and Elmar Chavez, built ClassifierAI, a prototype Chrome extension that automatically detects AI-generated content on the DEV platform. The extension analyzes an entire ar…
A new study analyzing six large language models on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark found that agent-written tests do not significantly improve issue resolution rates, despite being a common practice.…
President Donald Trump endorsed the concept of the U.S. government taking direct equity stakes in major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, aligning with a proposal from Senator Bernie …
A software engineering manager at a big tech company, who is preparing for future interviews at Google and Meta by practicing LeetCode-style coding problems, questions whether these data structures an…
A developer has identified a critical flaw in LLM-generated code for the Japanese Rokuyo calendar: while the lunar date calculation formula is correct, the underlying lunar date conversion is frequent…
A Java engineer learning TypeScript built a Weather API CLI that retrieves current weather data from the Open-Meteo API using async/await and fetch. The project demonstrates modeling API response shap…
Researchers introduced Tangram, a serving system that enables non-uniform Key-Value cache compression for multi-turn large language model inference. The system uses deterministic budget allocation, he…
OpenAI on February 13, 2026 launched Lockdown Mode, an optional advanced security setting for ChatGPT that deterministically disables tools attackers could use to exfiltrate data through prompt inject…
A developer named Shrijal Shrestha has identified and named "AI-smell," the recognizable residue left by AI-assisted work across writing, design, and code. The developer behind a content pipeline and …
A developer deploying a 70B Llama-3 model on 8x H100s found that scaling from 8k to 32k context windows causes the KV cache to balloon to 10.7 GB per request, forcing memory paging to CPU at 200 concu…
A new tool called Local MCP (LMCP) gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to desktop apps including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Teams, Outlook, and Excel — all running locall…
A developer's AI customer service agent suffered a 30% memory leak rate in production after mock tests failed to simulate a Redis `ConnectionError` during a network hiccup, causing the agent to lose a…