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Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not…

Microsoft’s Copilot super-app has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like separate tools and more like diff…

The domain name third-party[.]com is being used to serve malware to users — bad news for those following a little too literally online documentation that uses it as a placeholder for any third-party domain. The site is serving a ClickFix lure to Windows machines, which sidesteps existing protection and can effect changes to PowerShell, according to Manifold Security, which discovered the problem.…

It was meant to make life simpler: a secret email address to which developers can send a message and create an issue in their GitLab project. But poor security defaults and a long-lived token embedded in the address mean that anyone who knows the address can potentially modify protected repositories. If project owners publish or leak these addresses, as some have, then they become vulnerable. The…

Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have speculated that this could be as early as October. Kavukcuoglu recently replaced Deep…

A recent piece in Academy of Management Today by Daniel Butcher takes a fresh look at IBM’s pivot to cloud computing , and it’s worth your time. The article walks through IBM’s early exploration of cloud technology in the mid-1990s when competitors like General Magic and Compaq began building business plans around the newly coined term. IBM assigned personnel with experience in enterprise IT serv…

A sixth feature, ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, has been proposed for JDK 28 . Java Development Kit 28 is a non-LTS (Long-Term Support) or “feature release” of standard Java due in March 2027. Ahead-of-time code compilation would improve Java application startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for the application instantly available when the Java Virtual Machine starts, acc…

Teradata is adding a context engine, an execution layer, and reusable agent skills to Tera, its AI-powered workspace for enterprise data and AI tasks, in order to make agentic execution of multistep workflows more efficient. Tera was initially introduced in May as part of Teradata’s Autonomous Knowledge Platform. The new additions are designed to cut unnecessary model and tool calls while preserv…

There’s a new reality emerging for development teams: existing software delivery practices don’t translate cleanly to agentic AI systems . Practices built around deterministic execution paths and well-defined application behaviors are no longer sufficient when the software itself can make decisions about how to accomplish a task. The main difference is that agents exhibit non-deterministic, conte…

Apple has released Swift 6.4, an upgrade to the programming language that brings improvements across the board including core library APIs, builds, debugging, interoperability with other platforms, and performance. Swift 6.4 was announced September 15 . “Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens…

JetBrains on September 22 announced JetBrains Air , an open system of products for managing AI-powered software development workflows across developers, teams, and organizations. JetBrains Air includes products that are available today and others that will be introduced as the system develops, JetBrains said. “For 26 years, we have focused primarily on the individual developer workbench. Now, we …

Enterprises can now buy frontier AI for far less per token after OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices on their newest models on Tuesday. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna with per-token costs half those of their GPT-5.6 predecessors. “These models help distribute the benefits of that intelligence by advancing the frontier on cost efficiency,” OpenAI said in a blog post about the launch . “Impro…

GitHub allows organizations to install GitHub Apps that automate and extend certain functionality on the platform and have access to selected repositories and permissions. But the private keys these applications use to authenticate themselves can remain valid for years unless manually revoked. If leaked, those keys can potentially give attackers administrative control over an organization’s GitHu…

htmx is a simple way to add rich interactivity to web pages without writing JavaScript . On an htmx-powered page, you can imbue buttons, form elements, links, and other controls with behaviors just by adding htmx’s custom attributes. With htmx, you can “wire up” web pages that need “just enough” dynamic functionality with minimal effort. htmx also gives you open-ended control. After you build a p…

You may very well have a big problem and you don’t even know it. Do you have complete control over the dependencies of your application? I’m guessing that you think you do, but then again, you might not. Sure, you can go to your package.json and see all the dependencies. You can even make sure that they are all on the current version, but that might take a lot of work. It’s likely that you are ru…