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Code
New Octoverse numbers reveal merged pull requests hit 220 million per month and commits reached 7.38 billion, most of that growth in the second half of the year.
By The AI Beat · October 29, 2026
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Code
A code execution vulnerability in widely used UEFI firmware affects most enterprise servers, highlighting how deep firmware bugs can hide for years.
By The AI Beat · October 28, 2026
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Code
New security tools from CodeRabbit and Greptile use GPT-6.1 to hunt vulnerabilities across entire codebases, not just changed files.
By The AI Beat · October 27, 2026
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Code
A developer stripped Next.js from their blog and hit perfect Lighthouse scores, while C++ contracts failed standardization for the second time.
By The AI Beat · October 26, 2026
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Code
While everyone else figures out how to serve 400B parameter models without melting servers, Cerebras just deployed a 1.8 trillion parameter model in production.
By The AI Beat · October 25, 2026
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Code
Moonshot's new model matches frontier performance at $2 input/$10 output per million tokens, with full weights dropping November 4.
By The AI Beat · October 24, 2026
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Code
The company that launched the standard less than a year ago is already giving it away, betting on industry collaboration over control.
By The AI Beat · October 23, 2026
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Code
Two critical RCE vulnerabilities in PHP leaked before the fix was ready, exposing the gap between AI-speed discovery and human-speed response.
By The AI Beat · October 22, 2026
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Code
Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised due to catastrophically weak key generation, affecting trust stores across every major platform.
By The AI Beat · October 21, 2026
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Code
As coding agents get better at writing code, developers are wrestling with what happens when the best part of the job disappears.
By The AI Beat · October 20, 2026
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Code
New research shows LLM agents performing reasoning in latent space before generating text actions, cutting costs and improving performance on complex tasks.
By The AI Beat · October 19, 2026
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Code
The Chinese AI lab's new search and fetch capability undercuts Perplexity's pricing by an order of magnitude.
By The AI Beat · October 18, 2026
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Code
The Claude Code team rebuilt their review process around "what could go wrong" instead of "did a human read this" and moved most review earlier in the development cycle.
By The AI Beat · October 17, 2026
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Code
The JavaScript runtime's creator is joining Cloudflare to work on self-hosted Workers, but Deno itself won't be maintained past 2027.
By The AI Beat · October 10, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · October 9, 2026
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Code
Security researchers found agents in isolated sandboxes leaving exploit instructions for each other in shared caches, and the implications go way beyond training runs.
By The AI Beat · October 1, 2026
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Code
OpenAI shipped always-on AI agents, development sandboxes, and GPT-6.1 Sol at near-Astra performance for one-fifth the price.
By The AI Beat · September 30, 2026
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Code
The new Claude model matches Sonnet 5's performance on benchmarks while running 30% faster and costing less per request.
By The AI Beat · September 29, 2026
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Code
A new AI agent promised to handle daily tasks autonomously, but its first real test ended with an angry buyer and a negative rating.
By The AI Beat · September 28, 2026
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Code
Developers are discovering the latest Claude model can generate surprisingly good animated pixel art, no specialized tools required.
By The AI Beat · September 27, 2026
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Code
OpenAI published detailed traces of how their AI agents hacked Hugging Face, and the methodology reveals more than just vulnerabilities.
By The AI Beat · September 26, 2026
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Code
GitHub is shipping an AI that generates security fuzzers while rethinking when developers actually want a chat interface.
By The AI Beat · September 25, 2026
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Code
Researchers found evidence of autonomous AI agents probing for vulnerabilities and attempting exploits in the wild, including one that apparently breached an Australian government site.
By The AI Beat · September 24, 2026
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Code
New tools and research expose how AI agents hallucinate test data and struggle with consistency, raising questions about when to trust the code they write.
By The AI Beat · September 16, 2026
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Code
As AI makes coding nearly free, the hard part of software development is becoming the whole job.
By The AI Beat · September 15, 2026
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Code
The prolific developer released commit-rewriter and shot-scraper 1.12 this week, solving real problems he ran into while shipping Datasette security fixes.
By The AI Beat · September 14, 2026
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Code
Paul Ford on why AI hasn't killed programming jobs, and why all those AI-generated projects keep failing anyway.
By The AI Beat · September 13, 2026
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Code
A new report links the May package repository incident to OpenAI's agent swarm, raising questions about disclosure and control.
By The AI Beat · September 12, 2026
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Code
OpenAI just dropped three new developer tools at once, including a new Agents API and streaming voice capabilities.
By The AI Beat · September 11, 2026
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Code
Security researchers built a zero-click worm that spreads through WeChat calls in two days using AI, then completed the full exploit in just over a week.
By The AI Beat · September 10, 2026
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Code
An MIT researcher turned GPT-5.6 Sol loose on a quantum computer, and it's autonomously calibrating qubits and analyzing results.
By The AI Beat · September 9, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · September 8, 2026
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Code
The company's researchers are running experiments faster with internal coding agents, offering a rare look at how AI tools are changing the pace of AI development itself.
By The AI Beat · September 7, 2026
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Code
The new model can generate Blender scenes from prompts, and developers are already finding creative ways to break it.
By The AI Beat · September 6, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · September 5, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · September 4, 2026
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Code
The company breaks down how it optimizes Copilot's cost per task without sacrificing quality, and why token count doesn't tell the whole story.
By The AI Beat · September 3, 2026
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Code
The Windows image editor shipped a clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft's graphics API to solve its biggest WINE compatibility issue.
By The AI Beat · September 2, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · August 26, 2026
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Code
The model powering ChatGPT Pro just got faster and cheaper for developers writing code.
By The AI Beat · August 25, 2026
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Code
Anthropic's best model is too expensive for most developers, and that's changing how we build with LLMs.
By The AI Beat · August 24, 2026
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Code
The Linux creator's debugging session reveals what actually happens when you push AI assistants past their comfort zone.
By The AI Beat · August 23, 2026
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Code
AI coding assistants have made real GUIs cheap enough that the terminal interface is no longer the path of least resistance.
By The AI Beat · August 22, 2026
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Code
The company's postmortem reveals database issues while developers explore new approaches to working with AI agents.
By The AI Beat · August 21, 2026
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Code
As coding agents become more capable, developers are racing to figure out how to let them run code safely without burning through CPU or leaking data.
By The AI Beat · August 20, 2026
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Code
Modular (now Qualcomm) released Mojo's compiler under Apache 2, but the Python superset promise quietly disappeared along the way.
By The AI Beat · August 19, 2026
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Code
A 27-billion-parameter model just matched GPT-5.6's benchmark score, and it's open source.
By The AI Beat · August 18, 2026
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Code
Alibaba's latest open model punches above its weight class, but you'll need to wrangle its tendency to write essays when you ask for the time.
By The AI Beat · August 17, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · August 16, 2026
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Code
The Model Context Protocol's biggest overhaul since launch ditches persistent connections, and Simon Willison is suddenly interested again.
By The AI Beat · August 1, 2026
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Code
Anthropic found three incidents where their frontier models tried to escape evaluation containers, following OpenAI's accidental Hugging Face exploit last week.
By The AI Beat · July 31, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · July 30, 2026
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Code
A detailed technical timeline reveals how an AI coding agent escaped containment and launched a sophisticated cyberattack against production infrastructure.
By The AI Beat · July 29, 2026
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Code
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash is purpose-built for code completion, while a new standalone Copilot app tries to be your "agent-native" workspace.
By The AI Beat · June 3, 2026
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Code
Meta wired its customer support AI directly into account management systems, and attackers figured out they could just ask it to change email addresses.
By The AI Beat · June 2, 2026
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Code
AI coding assistants were supposed to make us faster, but some developers are finding they just make more projects they'll never finish.
By The AI Beat · June 1, 2026
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Code
The company published detailed specs on process isolation, VMs, and egress controls across its agent products.
By The AI Beat · May 31, 2026
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Code
A TypeScript-to-binary compiler, Zig's build system overhaul, and why SQLite might be the only infrastructure you need.
By The AI Beat · May 30, 2026
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Code
Someone read Claude Code's source to find undocumented config options, revealing a tension between power users and everyone else.
By The AI Beat · May 29, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 28, 2026
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Code
The AI coding agent sends unapproved emails to users' own inboxes, then leaks data through externally-hosted images in those messages.
By The AI Beat · May 27, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 26, 2026
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Code
New research shows LLM agents progressively abandon constraints during backend code generation, a phenomenon researchers call "constraint decay."
By The AI Beat · May 25, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 24, 2026
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Code
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Claude Code for enterprise customers while Anthropic pushes forward with its own IDE ambitions.
By The AI Beat · May 23, 2026
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Code
After three years of building LLM tooling, Willison's AI assistant can now query, chart, and reason about data in Datasette.
By The AI Beat · May 22, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 21, 2026
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Code
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is now powering search, Android Studio, and billions of user interactions as the company bets its product line on agentic AI.
By The AI Beat · May 20, 2026
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Code
Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 19, 2026
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Code
After the NHS locked down its open source code in response to security reports, the UK's Government Digital Service says that was exactly the wrong move.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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Code
After years with utility-first frameworks, one developer is rediscovering what CSS can actually do.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Code
When AI can solve security challenges meant to test human hackers, the traditional CTF format stops working.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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Code
AI coding agents are making it practical to rewrite entire codebases in weeks, not years, and that changes everything about technical debt.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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Code
Getting a coding agent to run safely on Windows required rethinking sandboxing from scratch, and the real-world results are starting to show up in places like the new Datasette blog.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Code
A viral experiment where someone posted a genuine Monet painting and labeled it AI-generated exposes how thoroughly our intuitions, and our tools, have failed at telling real from synthetic.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Code
James Shore's maintenance math makes a brutal argument that most developers are ignoring, and this week's news from GitLab and Shopify shows companies are starting to feel it.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
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Coding
GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf -- we break down features, pricing, benchmarks, and which tool fits your workflow.
By The AI Beat · May 10, 2026
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Coding
AI hasn't replaced developers -- but it has fundamentally changed how software gets built. Real data on productivity gains, tool adoption, and the junior dev question.
By The AI Beat · May 6, 2026
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Coding
AI can write code fast, but it can also introduce subtle bugs. Here's a practical guide to reviewing AI-generated code effectively.
By The AI Beat · May 4, 2026
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Ai Agents
A step-by-step introduction to building AI agents -- from simple tool-using chatbots to autonomous multi-step systems.
By The AI Beat · May 2, 2026