Nous Research has released Hermes Desktop, an open-source AI agent app under the MIT license, now available as a public preview for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The agent operates across platforms inclu…
Tech CEOs are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence for mass layoffs, with Wix cutting 1,000 employees, Block laying off 4,000, and other firms following suit—a pattern MIT professor Paul Oster…
An engineer built PDF Tutor, a local-first desktop application designed for heavy technical documentation, addressing flaws in cloud-dependent AI PDF tools. The open-source ecosystem uses Python and a…
Philadelphia police are monitoring social media posts critical of artificial intelligence data centers, according to a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept. The December 202…
A developer built a 25-agent AI system that simulates the Polish Parliament, generating bills with real legal citations in under two minutes. The system, called Virtual Parliament, uses Hermes agents …
Deno open-sourced Claw Patrol, an agent firewall that intercepts traffic between AI agents and production systems to parse non-HTTP protocols and enforce action-level rules. The gateway extracts wire-…
A developer created ai-org, an open-source fork of OpenCode that integrates AI agents with an org-mode task view and file browser to help organize tasks and life. The project includes a custom templat…
Comedian Ronny Chieng urged Harvard College graduates to "destroy AI" during a Class Day speech, repeatedly shouting "fuck AI" to cheers from the audience. Chieng argued that AI makes "mediocre people…
MIT EECS and CSAIL have launched a seminar series titled "Agentic Coding in Practice," focusing on how AI agents are transforming software engineering, compilers, and programming systems. The series f…
AMD CEO Lisa Su told MIT's 2026 graduating class that the world needs people with purpose, judgment, and courage—not just those who know how to use AI tools. Su emphasized that technology itself will …
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su told MIT's graduating class of 2026 that artificial intelligence is a tool, not a replacement for human workers, emphasizing that "technology itself does not decide what the future…
AISlop, a new open-source command-line tool, now detects "AI code smells" left by coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, analyzing code for issues such as narrative comments, swallowed exceptions,…
A developer has open-sourced an engineer-readable EU AI Act compliance checklist, revealing that most teams misread Article 12's record-keeping requirements. The repository, available on GitHub under …
Comedian Ronny Chieng warned Harvard's Class of 2026 against overreliance on artificial intelligence during Wednesday's Class Day ceremony, urging graduates to preserve creativity and critical thinkin…
A developer built **eywa**, an open-source Go framework for conversational AI agents, after finding no production-ready alternatives in the Go ecosystem. The framework, released under an MIT license, …
A developer has released AI Dashboard Pro, a premium AI dashboard UI template built with clean file separation and offered for free under an MIT license. The template enforces a strict Separation of C…
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found that using AI for just 10 minutes significantly impaired participants' cognitive function and problem-solving abilities. After losing acces…
At least 14 companies, including Angi, Atlassian, and Block, have announced layoffs citing AI-driven efficiency improvements as a primary reason for workforce reductions. A March report from Challenge…
In just a few months, generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have fundamentally reshaped a developer's daily workflow, automating repetitive tasks and reducing code development time by 56…
Massachusetts leaders are pitching the state as a haven for AI talent fleeing California's proposed ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires' assets. Half of the 20 mo…