Python⇒Speed: 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy

One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is a planted key that hands an attacker the developer’s machine. An ancient bug just tripped up the newest tools. Researchers [] This story continues at The Next Web

Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?

By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular programming language.

NYT Mini Crossword Hints and Answers – July 4, 2026

Today's NYT Mini Crossword (July 4, 2026) runs on a 7x7 grid with 13 clues. The hardest entries are BUGONIA, the 2025 Emma Stone film, and AMAZING, where the puzzle's own black squares form the exclamation mark hint. All solutions and hints are here.

GitLab just surveyed 1,500 developers. Here’s why it matters for your codebase.

For the past two years, the conversation about AI-assisted software development has been dominated by speed. A new GitLab survey The post GitLab just surveyed 1,500 developers. Here’s why it matters for your codebase. appeared first on The New Stack.

AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

Snowflake: Take Caution On Overhyped AI Demand (Rating Downgrade)

Snowflake: Take Caution On Overhyped AI Demand (Rating Downgrade)

AI Tools Accelerates Coding, but Not Overall Software Delivery, GitLab Research Finds

GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report highlights an AI Paradox: although 78 of developers say they code faster, overall software delivery has not accelerated due to downstream testing and review bottlenecks and new challenges for enterprise governance and traceability. By Sergio De Simone

China’s LineShine supercomputer tops global rankings with almost 2 quadrillion calculations per second

The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers

1 Massively Undervalued Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock That Could Be Worth More Than SpaceX Within 12 Months

The high-flying IPO could come down to Earth over the next year.

Hud Appoints Shai Alani as VP Marketing to Advance Runtime Intelligence for the AI Coding Era

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated how software is written, enabling engineering teams to generate and ship code at unprecedented speed. But while code creation has evolved rapidly, understanding how that code performs in production remains a persistent challenge. As organizations increasingly rely on AI-assisted development, a new focus is emerging around providing coding agents with []

Genghis AI: Turning tax advisory labour into software

Guest post by Michael Kilarney Co-Founder Genghis AI The 2023 idea of “tax AI” is already archaic. A faster search box is not the future of tax advisory. Finding legislation faster is useful. Finding guidance faster is useful. Finding case law faster is useful. But it is not the prize. The prize is completing complex []

China’s ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom

Researchers at TikTok parent ByteDance have discovered a new scaling law governing how fast artificial intelligence agents can improve by performing real-world tasks, a finding that could help prolong the AI boom just as traditional development methods hit a wall. In a research paper published on Thursday, ByteDance’s Seed AI team revealed that AI agents – autonomous software that executes tasks on a human’s behalf – can double their learning speed every three months by interacting with...

Naver, Daum ramp up AI search race with agent-focused strategies

Naver, Daum ramp up AI search race with agent-focused strategies

Superintelligent AI in space could explain the Fermi Paradox

Superintelligent AI in space could explain the Fermi Paradox

Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last theorem

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused

The Real Reason Your AI Hiring Tool Is Missing Out on Top Talent

AI tools are great at clearing out the muddle of incoming applications—but rigid algorithms are quietly filtering out the untraditional, high-value candidates your business needs.

La inteligencia artificial no despide a nadie: lo hacen idiotas con hojas de cálculo

Hay una forma especialmente torpe de adoptar la inteligencia artificial: sentar a alguien ante un organigrama, enseñarle una demo brillante y pedirle que señale nombres. “Lo que hace este lo puede hacer una inteligencia artificial, lo que hace este también, este otro de aquí sobra”. Es la vieja reducción de costes de siempre, envuelta en

What is AI search optimization? (& why marketers should care)

AI search optimization is the practice of improving brands’ odds of being cited and mentioned by answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The traffic it earns is small but high-intent. Across more than 1,200 publisher and news sites, visitors referred by AI tools signed up at roughly 11 times the rate of search visitors, according to a Microsoft Clarity study.

SpaceX launches Grok 4.5 on same day OpenAI rolls out new model

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI on Wednesday launched Grok 4.5, what it calls its newest and “smartest” artificial intelligence model to date, on the same day as competitor OpenAI rolled out its new ChatGPT model. The newest Grok model is advertised as a coding and engineering model and is now the default model in Grok Build, SpaceXAI’s []

AI helped scientists discover two new superconductors, bringing them closer to a room-temperature breakthrough that could change electronics

Artificial intelligence is now speeding up the discovery of new superconductors. Scientists have identified two new superconducting materials using this advanced approach. This breakthrough brings researchers closer to achieving room-temperature superconductivity. Such a discovery could revolutionize energy transmission and electronics significantly. The international SuperC consortium aims for this goal within the next decade.

SpaceXAI’s New Grok 4.5 Slashes AI Coding Costs by 75 Percent

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI until it was rebranded by SpaceX) has rolled out Grok 4.5 to the public, a new AI model built specifically to handle serious coding and engineering work rather than casual chatbot conversations. Grok 4.5 runs on the company’s new V9 foundation, which packs 1.5 trillion parameters. What does that mean? That’s a [] The post SpaceXAI’s New Grok 4.5 Slashes AI Coding Costs by 75 Percent first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

Lessons learned from visiting an AI-powered store

A novel experiment tested how AI ran a store, and the ability of artificial intelligence to complete more important tasks.

Software-hardware loop fuelling all new AI super cycle

Software-hardware loop fuelling all new AI super cycle

'This is the next jump in technology': World's first sub-1nm chip keeps Moore's Law alive a little longer

'This is the next jump in technology': World's first sub-1nm chip keeps Moore's Law alive a little longer

U.K. Ratings Body Used AI for First Time to Classify HBO Max’s Entire Library

The British Board of Film Classification, the U.K.’s primary ratings body, has revealed that it developed and deployed a bespoke AI tool for the first time to support the classification of HBO Max’s entire catalogue ahead of its U.K. launch earlier this year. In its annual report for 2025, the BBFC said that, using the []

[Catherine Thorbecke] The hottest Gen-Z tech trend?

My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It’s the cool girls making their own “cyberdecks,” — strange, DIY and highly customizable personal computers that explicitly reject AI. They look like props from a cyberpunk movie, usually built on a Raspberry Pi base and spare parts. As one tinkerer, whose “mermaid cyberdeck” videos have drawn tens of millions of views, puts it, “What we should do with cyberdecks is gatekeep them from AI and megacorp.” The c

Google launches new tools to monetise AI mode in Search and YouTube

From AI Overviews to AI mode, Google’s Global Ads Vice President Dan Taylor talked about Smart Search across search engine and YouTube platforms

New Name, New Grok: SpaceXAI Officially Ties Its Brand to the World’s Most Problematic Chatbot

Good luck with that.