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Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
TechCrunch – AI reports: OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
The Verge – AI reports: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, Sh…
AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
MIT Technology Review – AI reports: What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies o…
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
MIT Technology Review – AI reports: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to…
Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization
Cloudflare Blog reports: When our AI code reviewer's cost per run doubled, we dug into the token usage to find out why. Learn how we used prompt caching and intelligent model routing to slash our inference bill by 68% while speeding up reviews.
How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code
The GitHub Blog reports: Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context. The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Run Large PlanetScale Queries in Laravel With DB::olap()
Laravel News reports: Laravel's new DB::olap() method runs PlanetScale and Vitess queries in OLAP mode to get past the 100,000 row limit, then switches the connection back. The post Run Large PlanetScale Queries in Laravel With DB::olap() appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter t…
TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever
Hugging Face Blog reports: We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production
NVIDIA Blog reports: At a creative industry event that took place today in Berlin — hosted in collaboration with Adobe, Bertelsmann, NVIDIA and UFA — the latest advancements in intelligent media were on display. Key to the news: the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is collaborating with NVIDIA to e…
Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help
NVIDIA Blog reports: In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI. Huang opened by tracing NVIDIA’s longsta…
Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
TechCrunch – AI reports: The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
The GitHub Blog reports: Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase appeared first on The GitHub Blog.