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Meta released Muse Code on August 5, a terminal coding agent running on Muse Spark 1.2, with a contributor tier priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens, up to 21x cheaper than the sta…
Andrew Yang argues that the US is fundamentally terrible at retraining workers, citing the decline of coal mining as a historical precedent that did not result in a surge of software engineers in Appalachia but rather re…
GPTZero co-founder Alex Cui argues that AI-generated content, or 'AI slop,' will persist despite watermarking efforts, citing that 44% of LinkedIn content is currently AI-generated and could reach 100% by 2031. Cui highl…
A developer proposes a framework called 'Cost of Cognitive Debt' (CCD) to assess risks in agentic AI workflows, distinguishing cognitive debt from technical debt and suggesting that critical business systems should remai…
Global cybersecurity agencies issued an urgent warning about a massive wave of support-themed phishing and credential harvesting campaigns targeting Microsoft and Google users in early 2026, with hackers deploying sophis…
Emmerdale star Lisa Riley, 50, condemned "absolutely horrendous" fake AI-generated posts falsely claiming she is pregnant, sharing the images on Instagram on Monday and asking "How is this allowed." Fellow actors Kym Mar…
Lisa Riley, 50-year-old actress known for playing Mandy Dingle on ITV's Emmerdale, publicly condemned fake AI-generated pregnancy images on Instagram, calling them 'horrendous' and demanding the posts stop. Riley, who ha…
First Horizon CIO Mohan Sankararaman says the old way of transformation is a trap, and he now funds change incrementally like a bank funds risk. Experts including Wanda Wallace of Leadership Forum and Ashish Parmar of St…
DataAnonymiser, a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, lets users redact personal and confidential information from text, PDFs, Office documents, and images before pasting them into AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, o…
Anthropic's Claude now watermarks AI-generated text to comply with European Union transparency rules, while OpenAI and Google add invisible fingerprints to AI-generated images, but Stanford University researcher Joel Bre…
Platform engineering, not prompt engineering, will determine which enterprises win the AI race, according to Tejas Gajjar, a technology executive writing for CIO.com. Gartner and McKinsey research support the view that l…
Junior software engineers are leapfrogging to architect-level thinking in AI-heavy engineering environments, according to LeadDev.com, which warns that apprenticeships need real senior bandwidth to keep pace. The article…
A developer has open-sourced LEO, a system of 41 codified laws, 22 specialist roles, and a file-based memory that stops autonomous AI coding agents from repeatedly breaking the same production defects. The system address…
Cloudflare will begin classifying bot traffic into three purpose-based categories—Search, Agent, and Training—on July 1, 2026, and will block Agent and Training bots by default on ad-supported pages for new domains onboa…
Google won a $10 million bid to purchase 34 years of Spirit Airlines' data, including employee records, time-card data, and email accounts, to improve its AI models, but the Association of Flight Attendants representing …
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley defended the company's automated license-plate recognition cameras, comparing a ban on the technology to 'banning vehicles,' as communities across the U.S. debate privacy concerns. Langle…
South Korea is overhauling rules for technical qualification exams after five candidates were caught using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat between May and June, according to data submitted to the Human Resources Develo…
Microsoft Paint and Photos embed a server-issued 16-byte GUID into AI-generated images, which may be linkable to the user who created them, according to a reverse-engineering analysis by software developer Xusheng Li at …
JetBrains Research launched the JetBrains Research Podcast to explore deep questions about AI and software development, featuring psychologist Cat Hicks and professor Tomáš Petříček. Hicks found that team-level signals o…
A developer's portfolio agent answers questions using only 0.598% of its 1,003 indexed chunks, yet reports answers with the same confidence as if it had read the entire corpus, a flaw the developer says is common in retr…