Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, shares insights from her research on AI’s integration in software development. Despite high AI usage among developers, productivity levels have plateaued at 10%. Tacho emphasizes the importance of addressing organizational challenges for effective AI implementation and highlights improved onboarding processes as a key benefit.

This article explores the tension between traditional control theory and modern deep learning in robotics. It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches, advocating for hybrid models that integrate physical laws with machine learning to enhance reliability and understanding in robotic systems.

This article explores the intersection of identity surveillance and technology, detailing how OpenAI, the US government, and Persona leverage facial recognition and database systems to monitor individuals. The findings, derived from public sources, reveal unsettling insights into privacy breaches and governmental oversight in citizen identification processes.

Step 3.5 Flash is an advanced open-source model focusing on efficient reasoning and agentic capabilities. With a unique sparse architecture, it excels in coding and complex tasks, providing rapid responses while ensuring data privacy for local use. Its advanced tool integration enhances real-world application and performance across various benchmarks.

As Europe navigates the complexities of AI adoption, this study analyzes its impact on productivity and employment across over 12,000 firms. Findings indicate a 4% increase in labor productivity with AI integration, while highlighting disparities in adoption rates among different economies and firm sizes.

Stoolap, an embedded SQL database in Rust, now offers a Node.js driver for seamless integration with JavaScript and TypeScript. A benchmark comparison shows Stoolap significantly outpacing SQLite in complex queries, driven by features like MVCC, cost-based optimization, and parallel execution, while still acknowledging SQLite's strengths in simple operations.

For nearly two decades, the US has supported a global Internet Freedom initiative, funding technologies to circumvent government censorship. However, recent budget cuts threaten these efforts, endangering internet access and freedoms worldwide, particularly in authoritarian regions like Iran and China, where citizens rely on such resources for communication.

In a landscape saturated with AI-generated content, identifying and correcting its common pitfalls is crucial. This article outlines 12 red flags of AI writing, providing practical solutions to enhance clarity and authenticity in your work. Readers will gain insights to refine both AI-generated and human-written content.

When your Elixir app needs Python's advanced tools, bridging the two can be done easily with Oban. This article explores "Badge Forge," a micro app that generates conference badges using Python's WeasyPrint. Learn how to seamlessly exchange jobs and print badges through a collaborative workflow.

As AI transforms software engineering, the future may depend more on verifying code rather than generating it. This article explores the emerging importance of refuting AI outputs, highlighting that knowledge is determined by survival through scrutiny. It suggests that effective engineers will prioritize evaluating code's viability over mere volume.

This study examines how users interact with AI agents like Claude Code, focusing on the autonomy granted to them and how usage patterns evolve with experience. Key findings reveal that users increasingly allow agents to operate independently while enhancing the need for oversight, particularly in sensitive areas like software engineering and healthcare.

Gemini 3.1 Pro, the latest in the Gemini series, enhances capabilities for handling complex multimodal tasks. This advanced model excels in reasoning and safety, with ongoing updates to its performance and mitigation strategies. It is designed for a variety of applications and actively addresses known limitations.

This article presents FedGraph-AGI, an innovative framework that enhances cross-border insider threat detection in government financial schemes. By integrating Artificial General Intelligence with federated graph learning, it addresses privacy issues and improves accuracy in analyzing complex threats, making significant strides in secure intelligence sharing across jurisdictions.

This article introduces Corecraft, a novel environment in Surge AI's EnterpriseGym suite aimed at training AI agents in realistic customer support scenarios. The study shows that agents trained in this high-fidelity setting can improve their performance significantly, demonstrating the importance of environment quality for developing generalizable AI capabilities.

This article presents Instruction-Tool Retrieval (ITR), a novel approach designed to streamline Large Language Model operations by minimizing system instructions and tool usage per step. Results indicate significant improvements in efficiency, reducing costs and errors while enhancing the performance of long-running autonomous agents.