This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...

In a new benchmark named Vibe Code Bench, OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 achieved the highest level of accuracy in completing a series of software engineering tasks, narrowly beating rival Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 ...

Despite not even being a year old, the term vibe coding has been named word of the year by Collins English Dictionary, beating other contenders such as ‘bio hacking’ and ‘glaze’. The term was coined ...

Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit is trying to get a grip on the growing mass of uncoordinated artificial intelligence coding agents, launching a new control center known as the Agent HQ. It’s meant to ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

Earlier this year, former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy coined a new term — “vibe coding” — for using artificial intelligence to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts. But the approach ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic. It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five ...