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As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

Tens of millions of Americans could be entitled to a tax refund from the IRS or an abatement of penalties accrued during the COVID-19 federal disaster period due to a recent federal court decision. In ...

Anthropic just cannot keep a lid on its business. After details of a yet-to-be-announced model were revealed due to the company leaving unpublished drafts of documents and blog posts in a publicly ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

What just happened? Microsoft has announced several changes and enhancements coming to its official app store. The Microsoft Store can now provide additional app usage and health data, and there is a ...

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 ...

Source: Pexels/Anna Shvets Here’s a modern dating dilemma that your grandparents didn’t have to deal with: After a first date, when should you text? The answer isn’t obvious. If you text too soon, you ...

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this eMag, we try to establish agentic AI ...