An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy." It also left many observers on GitHub skeptical, to say ...

Anthropic has revealed a striking experiment where AI systems worked together to build a complete C compiler almost entirely on their own. Led by researcher Nicholas Carlini, the project shows how far ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Abstract: Field programmable gate array (FPGA) logic synthesis compilers (e.g., Vivado, Iverilog, Yosys, and Quartus) are widely applied in electronic design automation (EDA), such as the development ...

Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck ...

The Solana Policy Institute (SPI) has announced a $500,000 donation to the legal defense funds of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, the developers behind the sanctioned Tornado Cash crypto mixer. The ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Abstract: Domain-specific programming languages such as P4 enable flexible and high-performance packet processing for programming network data planes. However, many P4 programs remain monolithic, ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

LLMs have shown impressive capabilities across various programming tasks, yet their potential for program optimization has not been fully explored. While some recent efforts have used LLMs to enhance ...