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Epic's new launcher uses AI to outpace Steam
Epic Games has rebuilt its launcher from scratch using AI coding, claiming it starts faster than Steam and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Ars Technica · 1m
Musk Buys Cursor for $60B to Build AI Models
Musk's SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion to train frontier AI models.
Dealroom · 1m
Musk Buys Only 3 Companies With Coding Data
Musk acquires Cursor for $60 billion to build AI models with coding data.
Dealroom · 1m
Developer Builds Free Open-Source Clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Brandon Thomas releases free open-source Office and AutoCAD clones using Rust and AI.
Startup Fortune · 1m
AI coding tools turn engineers into button-pushers
A viral post by a software engineer reveals the dark side of AI coding: workers shipping features without understanding them.
Business Insider · 1m
Task Manager creator builds cross-platform rival
Dave Plummer, who wrote Windows Task Manager in 1996, has used AI to build TMOG, a native app for Mac, Windows and Linux in six weeks.
Engadget · 1m
Blue Cross: AI Hospital Coding Costs $942M
Blue Cross says AI tools added $942M in hospital coding costs over two years
Dallas Express · 1m
Skillsync: portable AI context across coding agents
Move your AI coding sessions between different agents without losing context or starting over.
Skillsync · 1m · 6 views
AMD's new AI coding system cuts costs, keeps data local
AMD Instinct Coder routes developers to on-prem models first, then cloud AI when needed, promising 70% savings.
Futuriom · 2m
GPT-6 is great. It's not AGI
A reviewer spent hours with GPT-6, hit the weekly usage ceiling in an hour, and still found a normal AI model underneath the hype.
PCMAG · 3m
Claude Code's creator answers the slop question
A developer asked Boris Cherny to settle a fight about AI coding. His reply put the burden back on the engineer.
Business Insider · 1m · 5 views
Coding is solved, but the slop isn't
An Earendil researcher tried to measure how sloppy AI-written code really is, and found agents produce twice the mess humans do.
Earendil · 2m · 6 views
RTK saves tokens, not money
A $1,500 benchmark on Terminal-Bench 2.1 shows the most popular AI-cost-cutting tool barely moves the bill, and sometimes raises it.
Quesma · 2m
Astra writes code no human wants to read
Armin Ronacher burned 4 billion tokens on a weekend software factory and got 75k lines of unreadable slop.
Armin Ronacher · 3m