The AI code wars are heating up

Writing code was a killer app for AI even before anyone was really talking about AI. In the spring of 2021, 18 months before ...
The Information

How a Self-Taught Programmer Became the Father of Claude Code

Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, almost parted ways with Anthropic for good last summer. Instead, he has helped shape ...

OpenAI Launches $100/Month ChatGPT Pro Plan For Heavy Codex Users

OpenAI just launched a cheaper ChatGPT Pro plan priced at $100/month that provides access to all Pro features and 5x more Codex usage than its $20/month Plus plan.
Engadget

Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer

Anthropic announced today that its Claude Code and Claude Cowork tools are being updated to accomplish tasks using your computer. The latest update will see these AI resources become capable of ...
NBC News

Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds

Does money lead to happiness? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Researchers from a coalition of West Coast universities were curious ...
The Conversation

A writing professor’s new task in the age of AI: Teaching students when to struggle

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...
TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...
Defense One

The Army is writing the book on using small drones in a tank formation

As the Army’s Transformation-in-Contact brigades test and help develop new technology, they’re also shaping how soldiers will be trained to use it. At Fort Stewart, Georgia, soldiers in the 3rd ...
ZDNet

I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

Free AI tools Goose and Qwen3-coder may replace a pricey Claude Code plan. Setup is straightforward but requires a powerful local machine. Early tests show promise, though issues remain with accuracy ...
Forbes

4 Reasons Not To Use Generative AI For Writing

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The Conversation

We run writing workshops at a South African university: what we’ve learnt about how students are using AI, and how to help them

Much is being said about the wonders of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is the new frontier. And while it provides amazing possibilities in fields like medicine, academics are debating its ...
Engadget

OpenAI releases Prism, a Claude Code-like app for scientific research

OpenAI is releasing a new app called Prism today, and it hopes it does for science what coding agents like Claude Code and its own Codex platform have done for programming. Prism builds on Crixet, a ...