Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On: Testing Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code on Text-to-Website Generation

All three editors successfully generated and extended a multi-page static website from identical natural-language prompts. Cursor emphasized production-oriented polish and executed large redesigns and ...
Wired

How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...
Business Wire

Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and ...
Morningstar

CodeRabbit’s “State of AI vs Human Code Generation” Report Finds That AI-Written Code Produces ~ 1.7x More Issues Than Human Code

CodeRabbit’s “State of AI vs Human Code Generation” Report Finds That AI-Written Code Produces ~ 1.7x More Issues Than Human Code Review of AI-coauthored PRs and human-only PRs finds AI-Generated PRs ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5 ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...
collider

This Controversial ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Episode Is Hated by Everyone — Even the Cast

Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) looks over combat weapon as Geordi La Forge (Levar Burton) looks on in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Code of Honor." Image via Paramount Television There’s ...
The New York Times

Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations. Gen X How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations.
Semiconductor Engineering

Balancing Leakage Reduction with Correctness Preservation in RTL Code Generation (Univ. of Central Florida)

A new technical paper titled “CircuitGuard: Mitigating LLM Memorization in RTL Code Generation Against IP Leakage” was published by researchers at University of Central Florida. “Large Language Models ...