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The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

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The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

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Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.

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X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of  turning AI into a business.

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The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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The lawsuit from the states alleges that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.

Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.

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Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a cybersecurity researcher.

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety. That’s why we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to the stage to speak about those very issues.

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Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.

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When people think of legacy modernization, most folks aren't imagining      the target environment will be Java 8. But this was the challenge facing      Nik Malykhin when he needed to run a Java 1.5 codebase on      today's hardware. His early...

The Archaeologist’s Copilot

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate      exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and      Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs      right from the...

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side...

Fragments: July 13

Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences       trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard       tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…

Experiences with local models for coding

Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out       running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that       influence how viable they are for the job. more…

Viability of local models for coding

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat, this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of...

Fragments: July  6

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs      has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query      decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang      Sanjay...

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young.  Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice....

Fragments: June 16

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs.  Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more...

Fragments: June  2

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented...

Fragments: May 27

Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for       coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression       sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…

The test suite as a regression sensor

Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI      agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security      problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi      Ruth Edeokoh share...

The VibeSec Reckoning

Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it  what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at  any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people  without...

Bliki: Vibe Coding

Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more      sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing      better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good      at enforcing rules, but the rules were...

Three more static code analysis sensors

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users,      Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a      coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the      probability of good agent...

Maintainability sensors for coding agents

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under...

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