How to avoid AI in as many places as possible
Tech advice journalist offers a guide for users who want to avoid AI features in apps and operating systems, including disabling AI in Google Search, Chrome, Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Apple Intelligen…
Tech advice journalist offers a guide for users who want to avoid AI features in apps and operating systems, including disabling AI in Google Search, Chrome, Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Apple Intelligen…
A developer named diegosouzapw released a free AI gateway on GitHub that provides a single endpoint for accessing over 231 AI providers, including 50+ free options. The gateway simplifies integration …
GitHub launched the Copilot desktop app to general availability on June 17, featuring parallel agent sessions in isolated git worktrees, a My Work dashboard for supervising multiple agents, and Agent …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argues that AI will enhance software security by enabling defenders to scan all code before production, flipping the traditional attacker-defender imbalance. Coinbase has …
A developer reported that reviewing pull requests was their biggest milestone in June, highlighting the importance of collaboration over code contributions. They also noted the value of human judgment…
ForthWrite founder Curtis Boortz launched an AI email-writing Chrome extension that trains on users' sent mail history to build a personal voice model, distinguishing it from general-purpose tools lik…
A developer argues that manual test cases should be stored as YAML files in version control rather than in SaaS databases. The approach leverages AI for case generation, enables PR-based review via gi…
A developer created a detection system for identifying which AI chat platform a user is on, using URL hostname matching as a primary check and DOM signatures as a fallback. The system covers ChatGPT, …
Ben Codezen recounts his evolving relationship with AI tools from 2022 to 2026, starting with skepticism toward early code predictions in Copilot, then experimenting with ChatGPT and Claude Code, and …
A developer launched 1ShotGen, a tool that transforms rough ideas into structured build prompts for coding agents, aiming to reduce back-and-forth iterations by ensuring the initial prompt contains su…
GitHub Copilot switched to metered AI Credits billing on June 1, 2026, causing some Pro+ users to exhaust their monthly allocation in under two days due to high token consumption from frontier models …
Snap to AI, a new macOS utility, lets users capture screenshots and send them to AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini with a single keystroke. The app offers a 7-day free trial followed by a $9 o…
The Open Memory Protocol (OMP) launches as an open standard for portable, interoperable AI memory across tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, enabling shared user context and eliminating memory sil…
Factory co-founder and CEO Matan Cohen presented the concept of a software factory at the AI Engineer World Fair in San Francisco, defining it as the full autonomous cycle of software development incl…
Enterprise AI coding costs are soaring, with one client reportedly spending $500 million in a month on Claude Code and Uber exhausting its 2026 budget by April. A developer argues that 70-80% of codin…
Builder.io released a set of capabilities—Builder CMS MCP, Builder Agent, and the Builder Platform—designed to eliminate handoffs between marketing and engineering by letting AI agents work directly i…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train …
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code version 1.126 introduces a new security mode that opens untrusted code in Restricted Mode by default, preventing automatic code execution until users manually grant trus…
KaliCart Bridge, a free WooCommerce plugin, makes product catalogs machine-readable for AI shopping agents without requiring an API key or cloud service. It exposes structured REST endpoints and disco…
Voyfai has deployed an autonomous AI agent that detects production issues, writes fixes, and opens pull requests without human initiation. The system operates in five stages from observability to revi…