IBM warns AI boom squeezing software budgets

IBM said it had "faltered" in keeping pace with a ⁠shift in ⁠corporate spending from software to data-centre infrastructure ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...

This $185 pocket computer with a keyboard is a brilliant idea, and we're hoping it ships

PocketMage is a $185 crowdfunded pocket computer with an e-paper display, physical keyboard, and distraction-free tools.
Tech Times

Claude Code Removes Enterprise Opt-In: Auto Mode Now Default on Major Cloud Platforms

Claude Code auto mode enterprise governance changed Friday: v2.1.207 removes the opt-in flag for Amazon Bedrock, Google ...
CNET

Meta Introduces a Big New AI Model for the Agentic Age

Meta on Thursday announced the next version of its multimodal Spark AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, calling it a significant ...
Computer Weekly

Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code

Last year, Unum partnered with Amazon Web Services and Pegasystems, which provides a low-code platform to Fortune 500 companies to automate their business processes, in a project to re-engineer Unum’s ...
Communications of the ACM

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how ...
the-decoder

Google's NotebookLM now runs its own cloud computer with code execution and agent-based research

Google has overhauled NotebookLM. The AI research tool now runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash and Google's coding tool Antigravity. Each notebook gets its own cloud computer that can write and run code, with ...
Associated Press

New AP Stylebook features expanded artificial intelligence chapter

The Associated Press today released the 58th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook, the must-have reference for writers, editors, students and professionals. It is the definitive resource for ...
Business Insider

Claude Code creator says 22-year-old CS grads should found startups: 'It's the golden age'

Anthropic's Boris Cherny has a simple message for the 22-year-old computer science graduates looking to figure out what's next. "If you want to work at a company, you can totally still do that — there ...
The Verge

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

The new model ‘excels’ at tasks like writing and debugging code and doing work across different tools. The new model ‘excels’ at tasks like writing and debugging code and doing work across different ...