AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

Gigasoft Solves AI’s Biggest Charting Code Problem: Hallucinated Property Names

ProEssentials v10 introduces pe_query.py, the only charting AI tool that validates code against the compiled DLL binary ...
Fast Company

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...
CNBC

Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs

Figma and Anthropic are partnering on AI coding tools that integrate Claude Code. Software stocks have sold off as AI tools threaten to upend the industry. Figma reports earnings Wednesday. The stock ...
PC Gamer

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Gaming Industry An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake 'iGaming and sports betting analyst' briefly hit Metacritic AI Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an ...
Mashable

Spotify said AI has been doing the heavy lifting for its coding since December

According to the music streaming platform Spotify and its co-CEO Gustav Söderström, the company's best developers "have not written a single line of code since December.” Yet Spotify continues to roll ...
moneycontrol.com

Writing code will no longer be the goal as AI reshapes tech jobs, says Infosys' Nandan Nilekani

Infosys cofounder and chairman Nandan Nilekani said the rapid pace of AI development has created a widening gap between the capability of the technology and the ability of enterprises to deploy it. AI ...
Ars Technica

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has ...
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 ...
Business Insider

Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work. He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months. Several ...
The Atlantic

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...