How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
Wall Street Journal

The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired

Julie Sweet, the chief executive of consulting giant Accenture ACN0.29%increase; green up pointing triangle, recently delivered some tough news: Accenture is “exiting” employees who aren’t getting the ...
Wired

Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Team of Human Workers—to Train Robots

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...
Ars Technica

Closing Windows 11’s Task Manager accidentally opens up more copies of Task Manager

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when the ...
The Conversation

AI chatbots are becoming everyday tools for mundane tasks, use data shows

Jeanne Beatrix Law serves on the OpenAI Educator Council, an uncompensated group of higher education faculty who provide feedback to OpenAI on educational use cases and occasionally tests models for ...
InfoWorld

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14

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 ...
Forbes

90% Of College Students Use AI: Higher Ed Needs AI Fluency Support Now

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Legatt explores the intersection of education, AI, and leadership. The clearest signal yet that artificial intelligence has ...
Pew Research Center

How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on people and society. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,023 adults from ...
Harvard Business Review

The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs

As you’ve probably heard, if not also experienced, AI is reshaping how we work. If you happen to be a senior professional with sufficient reputational capital, status, and a deep social network, you ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Map the Ways Octopuses Use Their Complex Arms, Revealing Preferences for Certain Tasks

Octopuses have eight arms to choose from, but it turns out they might have favorites. In a new study, published in Scientific Reports last week, scientists created a catalog of the animals’ arm ...
The Conversation

Nigeria’s use of soldiers for civilian tasks comes with serious costs – how to prevent this

Sallek Yaks Musa does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...