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The AI code wars are heating up
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the AI coding and vibe-coding booms, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started 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 world knew the word "ChatGPT," Microsoft debuted the very first product of a partnership with a nonprofit called OpenAI: a tool called GitHub Copilot that watched developers as they wrote code and tried to autocomplete snippets and lines for them … Read the full story at The Verge.
SoftBank, others set up new firm to develop high-performance AI
Sam Altman responds to ‘incendiary’ New Yorker article after attack on his home
General AI
Meta transfers top engineers into new AI tooling team
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-transfers-top-engineers-into-new-ai-tooling-team-2026-04-09/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731801 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
3 Cryptocurrencies That AI Assistants Keep Recommending
Bitcoin and Ethereum came out on top, but the third recommendation might surprise you.
CoreWeave Expands Beyond Meta As Anthropic Deal Reshapes AI Growth Story
CoreWeave (NasdaqGS:CRWV) has signed a new multi year cloud infrastructure agreement with Anthropic, expanding beyond its existing hyperscale relationship with Meta. The Anthropic deal adds another major AI model provider to CoreWeave’s customer base and diversifies revenue sources across leading AI companies. For investors looking at NasdaqGS:CRWV, the Anthropic agreement comes on top of an already active year that includes a larger commitment from Meta and fresh debt financing. The stock...
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
D’oh, a deer, an AI deer. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn't faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted text had been sent by an AI companion named Coral, who lives in the body of a baby deer plushie. I texted back an eloquent, "Wait what." "Apparently, her dad worked for the US State Department, so her family moved, like, every single year. The fan theory I saw is why so many of her songs are about feeling like an outsider and not having a place to bel … Read the full story at The Verge.
The New Feudalism: AI Reshaping Power, Labor; Case for Self-Reliant Communities
Article URL: https://plantthevillage.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729407 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
AI Job-pocalypse: 5 million jobs at risk in new automated era
Investing.com -- Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the U.S. labor market at a rapid clip, though early data suggests the transition is more balanced than many bearish forecasts originally assumed.
Is Numble the first AI-proof game?
Article URL: https://medium.com/@shauntrennery/is-numble-the-first-ai-proof-game-b0de302d2ed0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728132 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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[AINews] AI Engineer Europe 2026
Two quiet days in a row let us reflect on the first AIE in London.
DB Explorer 3.0.1 – AI‑First SQL Editor with Schema‑Aware Query Generation
Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/db-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724169 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Meet ‘trendslop,’ the new, AI-fueled scourge of workplace consultants everywhere
Some economists have deemed consultants useless, but AI assistance could just be the old challenge in new clothing.
The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders in an emergency meeting addressing Anthropic’s latest model release.
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt
When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit's TurboTax team had a question: could AI compress a months-long implementation into days without sacrificing accuracy? What they built to do it is less a tax story than a template, a workflow combining commercial AI tools, a proprietary domain-specific language and a custom unit test framework that any domain-constrained development team can learn from. Joy Shaw, director of tax at Intuit, has spent more than 30 years at the company and lived through both the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the OBBB. "There was a lot of noise in the law itself and we were able to pull out the tax implications, narrow it down to the individual tax provisions, narrow it down to our customers," Shaw told VentureBeat. "That kind of distillation was really fast using the tools, and then enabled us to start coding even before we got forms and instr
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
Onix is launching a “Substack of bots,” where digital twins of health and wellness influencers dispense advice 24/7. And maybe hawk their products.
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Hart Research March 8, 2024 opinion poll for NBC News: people hate AI
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20260310175721if_/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984/nbc-news-march-2026-poll-03-08-2024-release-final.pdf?t=1772898915520 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731392 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
AI agent credentials live in the same box as untrusted code. Two new architectures show where the blast radius actually stops
Four separate RSAC 2026 keynotes arrived at the same conclusion without coordinating. Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI. Cisco's Jeetu Patel called for a shift from access control to action control, saying in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that agents behave "more like teenagers, supremely intelligent, but with no fear of consequence." CrowdStrike's George Kurtz identified AI governance as the biggest gap in enterprise technology. Splunk's John Morgan called for an agentic trust and governance model. Four companies. Four stages. One problem. Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Identity and Duo at Cisco, put it bluntly in an exclusive VentureBeat interview at RSAC. "While the concept of zero trust is good, we need to take it a step further," Caulfield said. "It's not just about authenticating once and then letting the agent run wild. It's about continuously verifying and scrutinizing every single action the agent's trying to take, because at
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests in his hands. And at the bottom, there's a disclosure that might spook many illustrators far more: "Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I." Szauder is a mixed-media artist who has been working with collage, video, and generative art processes that predate commercial AI tools for over a decade, and was recently … Read the full story at The Verge.
Claude Code's new Ultraplan feature moves task planning to the cloud
Anthropic's new Ultraplan feature for Claude Code moves task planning to the cloud. Claude works out the plan in the browser while the terminal stays free for other work. The article Claude Code's new Ultraplan feature moves task planning to the cloud appeared first on The Decoder.
Microsoft’s New AI Alliances Reframe Patent, Security And Enterprise Growth Story
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) has launched the Shared AI License Foundation (SAIL), a broad AI patent sharing framework aimed at collaborative foundation model development. The company is also leading Project Glasswing, a joint cybersecurity initiative with other major technology players to secure software supply chains in the age of advanced AI models. Microsoft has expanded its partnership with Publicis Groupe to deploy an end to end, agentic AI driven marketing stack across global operations...
Anthropic temporarily banned OpenClaw’s creator from accessing Claude
This ban took place after Claude's pricing changed for OpenClaw users last week.
Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings
OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.
The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment"
The anonymous operator behind "MJ Rathbun," the AI agent that published a defamatory article about an open-source developer, has come forward, calling it a "social experiment." The article The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment" appeared first on The Decoder.
Robotics
Generalist AI unveils GEN-1 model, claiming breakthrough in real-world robotic task performance
Generalist AI has introduced a new robotics model, GEN-1, which the company says marks a significant step toward general-purpose artificial intelligence for physical tasks. The model is designed as an “embodied foundation model” – a type of AI system that can perceive, reason and act in the physical world – and is trained on large-scale […]
TechCrunch is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it
SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos of humanoid robots, sessions on autonomous driving's software revolution, deep dives into cyber defense and climate tech, and candid conversations about how AI is rewriting the global music and anime industries.
Developer Tools
Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe
The electric car maker hopes to see similar action from the rest of the European Union soon.
Ross Gerber Demands $10K Refund If Tesla's New FSD Doesn't Work 'Unsupervised'—Says Google Has 'Solved' Autonomy With Waymo
Investor Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki said on Wednesday that Tesla Inc. should initiate refunds for customers if the latest version of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system does not work as intended. $10K Refunds In a post on the social media platform X, Gerber weighed in on Tesla’s FSD v14.3 update. “If tesla FSD 14.3 doesn’t work unsupervised… we should all get our $10k back… we’ve waited long enough,” the investor said in the post. The $10,000 Gerber is referring to is the one-time payment Tes